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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...
...talking. Zacarias Moussaoui, for example, was arrested in August on immigration charges after he expressed interest in learning how to maneuver but not land planes. It turns out that French officials have long believed Moussaoui was connected to terrorist groups. The FBI would also like more information from Ayub Khan and Mohammed Azmath, who were arrested in Fort Worth, Texas, on Sept. 12 with hair dye and thousands of dollars in cash in their possession. They had taken a train from St. Louis and were traveling on phony Indian passports. Last week the FBI told the New York Times that...
...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...
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...