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...lightly armed aides slipped into Taliban territory to persuade fighters to rise up against the regime. But informers trailed him. For two days the Taliban staked out the home where Haq was staying. Early Friday morning Taliban troops surrounded him on three sides. Cut off in the Khyber Pass, Haq placed a call on his satellite phone to his nephew in Pakistan; word of Haq's distress soon reached the CIA. As Haq tried to escape on horseback, the U.S. sent an unmanned Predator surveillance plane to shoot a Hellfire missile at his pursuers. It missed. Soon after the Taliban...
...That's why some got out of town; October is the time of the grape and melon harvest in Afghanistan, so trucks laden with fruit lumbered for 24 hours down the road from Kabul to the markets in the Pakistani border town of Peshawar. In Jalalabad, just up the Khyber Pass from Peshawar, 60% of the population is thought to have fled to the relative safety of mountain villages or across the border into Pakistan. By the weekend there were reports that civilians?how many was a matter of wild dispute?had keen killed in a strike on the eastern...
...must get its eyes and ears down to ground level. It might start the search in the mud-brick city of Peshawar, Pakistan, hard by the Afghan border at the foot of the Khyber Pass. This is where the terrorists meet, form cells and deploy--and where access to the closed world of the Taliban begins. Bin Laden's foot soldiers regularly slip through the walled enclaves and jostling bazaars to recruit jihadis or send out instructions. Taliban fighters float through to spy and resupply. Every Afghan faction has its representative in some dim house. Intelligence agents linger...
...june 15, 2001 when we decided to enter Afghanistan through the Khyber Pass in Pakistan. An hour after crossing the border we came to Jalalabad, where we found a guest house and decided to explore the market. The presence of a Canadian, a 27-year-old Japanese and a 50-year-old clean-shaven Korean soon attracted a large gathering. Within minutes, the Taliban police appeared and began beating the crowd away with whips. We were confined to our room until morning, when we were told to leave town immediately...
...Arriving in Kabul at dawn, we thanked our driver for not selling us out, said goodbye, and found a fresh car to take us to the border. After an uneventful drive back up the Khyber Pass, we were dropped off near the border only to be surrounded by Afghan civilians and mugged by one of them. We ran the last kilometer with our packs. I told a Taliban immigration official we had been robbed, and he demanded I show him the culprit. We found the man, and he was promptly and violently beaten in front of me and escorted...