Word: khademudin
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...capital could witness a rather more prosaic light show: the beams of four-wheel-drive pickup trucks, each of them loaded with Taliban fighters. They were moving toward the Northern Alliance's positions--not to fight but to find shelter. "The closer they are to us," said Khademudin, commander of the village, "the more secure they feel." On Friday at the Taloqan front, 150 miles farther north, where exhausted, poorly equipped Northern Alliance fighters took heavy casualties when they lost their city last year, one local commander sipped tea, munched cashew nuts and complained about the Americans. "They have...
...capital could witness a rather more prosaic light show: the beams of four-wheel-drive pickup trucks, each of them loaded with Taliban fighters. They were moving toward the Northern Alliance's positions?not to fight but to find shelter. "The closer they are to us," said Khademudin, commander of the village, "the more secure they feel." On Friday at the Taloqan front, 150 miles farther north, where exhausted, poorly equipped Northern Alliance fighters took heavy casualties when they lost their city last year, one local commander sipped tea, munched cashew nuts and complained about the Americans. "They have...
...along the Kabul front, Taliban fighters repeat the same line with apparent conviction: they are fighting for two great champions of Islam--Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden. During a radio exchange on a front west of Kabul, a local Taliban commander told Khademudin, his childhood playmate and now the enemy commander in the area, that "bin Laden is a guest of Afghanistan who has sacrificed much for the country." Khan Jan recalls a recent radio address by Mullah Omar. "If we die, that is fine," the mullah said, "but we will never give him up." A Northern Alliance security...