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According to U.S. intelligence, chasing the Taliban and al-Qaeda will likely draw special-forces commandos into combat in the warrens of fortified underground tunnels and facilities scattered all over Afghanistan, from the Taliban strongholds Kandahar and Kabul in the east to Herat, near the country's western border with Iran. Many of the tunnels and bunkers were dug during the Afghan war with the Soviet Union but have been upgraded since a U.S. cruise-missile strike against al-Qaeda in 1998. U.S. soldiers have the military technology, such as night-vision goggles and breathing devices, to operate in this...
...representatives claim that the regime's leaders are alive and well, evidence suggests that American military power has both the Taliban and al-Qaeda on the run. Early last week the Pentagon deployed the AC-130 flying howitzers for a withering cannon assault on Taliban targets in and around Kandahar in southern Afghanistan. Pentagon planners have sliced the country into "engagement zones" near Kabul and Kandahar, green-lighting U.S. pilots to attack any military targets in those designated "kill boxes" at any time of the day. In Kandahar last week the headquarters of the regime were deserted; locals said Taliban...
Even before Saturday's reported blitz against Omar, the Taliban's supreme leader had hit the road. American officials privately confirmed reports that a Predator drone armed with Hellfire missiles had earlier missed Omar's convoy by minutes. In Kandahar local residents said U.S. missiles demolished part of his house. Since then, he has bounced from one mountain hideout to the next. Abdul Salam Zaeef, the Taliban's ambassador to Pakistan, indicated that it took him two days to travel from Quetta, just across the border, to Omar's hideaway. But inconvenience has not demoralized the Taliban chief, Zaeef told...
...victory in this war will require steadfast hearts and steely stomachs. Patience remains America's most potent weapon in its fight against reckless foes unafraid of their own obliteration. In Kandahar last Thursday, on the eve of U.S. ground attacks there, the local mood brimmed with contempt for the Taliban and their terrorist guests and with anticipation that their hold may soon disintegrate. "Taliban and [Afghan] Arabs are fools," said Abdul Ghafoor, 45, a Kandahar resident. "Fools don't think when they burn themselves." If so, they had better watch out, because the fire has started...
...most part, all Taliban members still support the idea of a pure Islamic state, though some are willing to allow slightly fewer restrictions on women's education and travel, as well as on the treatment of minorities. Mullah Mohammad Hasan Rahmani, the soft-spoken, one-legged Governor of Kandahar, and military commander Ibrahim Baloch signal their brand of open-mindedness by giving TV interviews or meeting with female journalists...