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...Other residents of the biggest city in eastern Afghanistan share their concern. Ajmal Khan, a young university graduate, said he moved his family of eight from Jalalabad to his native Kama district a few days after the bombing began on October 7. But, he said, his mother, sisters and brothers felt unsafe even in rural Kama. So the family eventually decided to head for Pakistan. A tough journey through mountainous terrain had enabled them to illegally enter Pakistan, and set up a new home in Peshawar...
...opponents by radio--say their enemy's morale is higher than Northern Alliance spokesmen would like to believe. The Taliban reaction to the attacks in the U.S. was a mixture of jubilation and fatalism, Northern Alliance officials say. "At last we have f____d the Americans" were the words Khan Jan recalled hearing. This mood was replaced briefly, in Kabul at least, by panic at the first talk of anticipated U.S. strikes. Then after four days or so, Northern Alliance intelligence officials say, the Taliban recovered its composure and returned to the task of defending the city...
...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 official offered a similar assessment: "Mullah Omar is simple and brave. He is convinced he is right, and he believes that...
...Farras Khan Shinwari starts work early, before the sun has risen over the red plains of Karkhla, 15 km east of Peshawar in northwest Pakistan. After a meager breakfast of tea and dry nan with his brothers, he starts sprinkling water on the mound of red clay they will mix and form into bricks. All around him on the plain, hundreds of illegal Afghan migrants squat barefoot in the clay, forming bricks with their hands for less than a dollar a day. Even the pittance they get here is more than they could make at home in Afghanistan. Farras will...
...plagued by superpower struggles and their own tribal and ethnic feuds, reduced to fleeing to neighboring countries to do menial work for a beggar's wage. Afghans are on their knees, and only international aid can help them back to their feet. "There is nothing in Afghanistan," says Ibrahim Khan Shinwari, Farras' father, who brought his family from the village of Battan in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province two years ago to make bricks for the GI Brick Co., owned by a relatively well-off businessman from nearby Hayatabad. "We are waiting to go back, if conditions get better...