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...fighters--the much-loathed Sudanese, Egyptian, Saudi and Chechen graduates of al-Qaeda's terrorist camps-- and many more are now at the mercy of both their rebel conquerors and Taliban turncoats. Pakistani volunteers who made it to the border claimed their former comrades beat and fleeced them. Mahsud Khan, 25, told Time that Taliban troops robbed him at gunpoint as they fled the Alliance advance. "A few minutes earlier, we were in the same trench," he said. "We went there to help them, and they looted...
...their last urban strongholds in Kandahar and Jalalabad, headed, no doubt, for the hills where they'll hope to reprise the mujahedeen guerrilla tradition. But reports suggest much of the post-Taliban south is now being carved up among various local Pashtun commanders. Fighters loyal to Arif Khan, a local tribal leader, are said to hold Kandahar's airport. One Yunus Khalis has claimed Jalalabad and the Pakistani border town of Torkham. And so on. With the Taliban gone, most local warlords who once fought on their side have mutinied, and are now staking their claim in a post-Taliban...
...deaths of the three young men shocked their families. In Crawley, an industrial town 33 miles south of London, the mother of Yasir Khan, 28, insisted her son had gone to Pakistan for humanitarian work. In Luton, 34 miles north of London, the parents of computer-engineering student Afzal Munir and taxi driver Aftab Manzoor, both 25, weren't aware the two had joined up. Both lived with their parents in modest suburban houses in this quiet town that is home to 22,000 Muslims...
...business reporter ripped open a hand-delivered envelope he assumed to be a press release. Then he panicked. "There is powder," he cried, recoiling and flinging the letter onto his desk. "It has powder!" The paper's management sent the letter for tests at Karachi's respected Aga Khan University Hospital, but reporters and other staff continued to work in the newsroom. Last week, the hospital report came back: the letter tested positive for the presence of anthrax spores...
...Noted "Each Afghan has a rifle in his home, and each Afghan's home is his bunker." Amir Khan Muttaqi, Taliban spokesman, claiming his countrymen are ready for a ground...