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One reason is a popular recognition of the method's efficiency. Something like $1,000 buys a smart bomb that goes where the Israelis are, knows when to abort a mission and is far harder to spot than a booby-trapped briefcase. Notes Israeli Internal Security Minister Uzi Landau: "A...
If Omar ever returns, he might find things have changed a bit around the house. First of all, about 40 U.S. special forces have moved in. You won't find them testing the Supreme Leader's mattress. They've set up a forest of radio antennas, and they prowl around...
The bazaar is open. Streetside shashlik stores send plumes of the thick smoke of lamb fat into the air, and yellow taxis ply their trade. The Alliance leader Ustad Mohammed Atta has become the unofficial mayor of Mazar, sitting cross-legged on the floor of his new home, receiving a...
Everything is relative, though, and in the Taliban's case, moderate doesn't mean enlightened--or powerful. For the most part, all Taliban members still support the idea of a pure Islamic state, though some are willing to allow slightly fewer restrictions on women's education and travel, as well...
Sitting cross-legged over a breakfast of flat bread and kebab in the upper room of a tea shop, Ghulam Rabbani watches his troops in the bazaar below. Amid a throng of locals in the northeastern Afghan town of Baharak, scores of his Northern Alliance soldiers are making last-minute...