Word: khans
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...America might have had among the ordinary Afghans it hopes to convert. The Taliban, like the Iraqis and Serbs before them, have exaggerated civilian casualties while helping create more of them by positioning artillery near mosques and schools--erecting human shields and daring the U.S. to hit them. Daud Khan, 28, a refugee coming out of Kandahar, the Taliban stronghold, told TIME that the regime's forces have moved into residential quarters of the city, occupied houses and put antiaircraft guns on the roofs. Another 45 camouflaged truckloads of weapons have been moved into the mountains...
...Pakistan many analysts say the U.S. went into combat too soon, without first blanketing Urdu-language media outlets with the American case for intervention. Instead, since Sept. 11, thousands of impressionable Pakistani militants have volunteered to fight with the Taliban. "We don't understand politics," says Janzeb Khan, an unemployed 25-year-old in Peshawar. "We just see what is happening in Afghanistan, and we know it is right for every Muslim to join them in this war." It's no wonder that a senior Administration official greeted news of the U.S.-British propaganda machine with fatalism...
...where they got the bacteria. New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was furious at the FBI field office last week because it did not inform him for nearly a week after it learned about a suspicious letter received by NBC News. And agents who arrested two men, Ayub Ali Khan and Mohamed Azmath, in connection with the investigation may have overlooked intriguing evidence. The Wall Street Journal reported finding a 1995 issue of TIME in the men's Jersey City, N.J., apartment last week. The TIME cover story was about the Sarin gas attack on a Tokyo subway. Also found...
Many armies have marched into AFGHANISTAN, including those led by Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan. But probably none were so bold as the Soviet Army, which took Kabul in a "lightning invasion" late in 1979. Taking the rest of the country would prove more problematic...
...Just about everyone was taken off guard, only a few hours before the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan began, when Musharraf smoothly purged three key generals who had engineered the October 1999 coup that brought him to power. He replaced the vice chief of staff with Lieut. General Muhammad Yusuf Khan, a moderate general whose friends call him "Joe." He kicked upstairs to a ceremonial post a key corps commander considered sympathetic to the ideological extreme. He replenished the upper ranks with loyal officers more ready to side with the Taliban's enemies...