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Even with the secret police watching, there are always recruiters circling around the madrasahs. An Islamist militant told TIME that teenage volunteers who want to enlist these days in the Taliban are taken first in small groups to Pakistan's lawless tribal lands, where they are given a scant few weeks of weapons training and are assigned to hit U.S. targets inside Afghanistan. Because they are so inexperienced, martyrdom is only a few weeks away; these youngsters are usually the first to be killed...
Sept. 11 forced military minds to take another look at their assumptions. No longer were the chief threats to the U.S. other states with giant armies. Now the enemy was stateless organizations with secret, unseen soldiers living in lawless lands overseas or possibly even living right at home among us. Tanks and submarines weren't much use in either theater. It was a new kind of war, Bush said. Within a few months, the Bush team developed a novel strategy that held that the U.S. could no longer wait to be attacked but would have to root out terrorists wherever...
...country often requires no papers at all. "It's impossible to control," says Khalid Pashtoon, spokesman for Kandahar Governor Gul Agha Sherzai. It's also the Taliban's gateway to revenge. Following their ouster from Afghanistan, most Taliban leaders found sanctuary among fellow ethnic Pashtuns in Pakistan's lawless Baluchistan and North-West Frontier Province (N.W.F.P.) regions. Pakistani authorities have arrested nearly 500 suspected al-Qaeda members, but Karzai, among others, has charged that the U.S.'s avowed ally has shown little inclination to apprehend top-level Taliban, even when provided addresses where they could be found...
...consulate bombing were also less than impressed by such techniques, according to a Western diplomat. A police officer admits that at first his men were also afraid of the extremists, who had informers inside the police force. They were also well equipped, he says, with guns smuggled across the lawless frontier with Afghanistan and money from Arab donors. "We have over 800 madrasahs in Karachi, and many of them are nurseries for terrorism," the officer claims...
...Lawless, her dual duties as Miss Arizona and mental health advocate are more than a full-time job; as a result, she’s taken the year off at Arizona State University law school. She says she makes a whopping 400-500 public appearances during a year, and spends “eight hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year” on various facets of her position. Lawless serves as spokesperson for numerous organizations, including the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) and the Not My Kid Organization, which she describes as a small...