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...made it home is Nurzai, 24, who straggles by, carrying a blanket full of long grass over his shoulder, food for the sheep he tends. He says he was captured in Kunduz and, like thousands of other prisoners, stuffed into a shipping container and ferried to Sheberghan by troops loyal to warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum. Hundreds died in the heat inside those metal boxes. Shown pictures of the prisoners, Nurzai names three he recognizes. "I was an innocent," he says, claiming he had been conscripted into the Taliban army months earlier. But moments later he admits he volunteered for service...
...disagree with the admissions office’s decision, and we have concerns about its implementation. Nevertheless, the Crimson Key Society will remain one of the University’s most loyal supporters. As such, we will continue to give tours to campus visitors through the Information and Marshal’s Offices and volunteer during Freshman Week, Parents’ Weekends, Arts First and Commencement. We have always looked for additional ways to augment our service to the Harvard community, and we will use this unique moment in our history to explore those opportunities...
...Karzai suggests the work of a coordinated network. Karzai said Rahman was "definitely a member of al-Qaeda." But government authorities believe that Osama bin Laden's decimated forces in Afghanistan are not acting alone. Afghan intelligence officials say al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters have forged links with guerrillas loyal to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the ruthless former Prime Minister who fled Afghanistan after the Taliban seized power in 1996. Afghan and Western officials believe that since slipping back into the country from Iran early this year, Hekmatyar has sent aides to meet with Taliban and al-Qaeda operatives in the eastern...
...greasy "Oil of" moniker, created early buzz about its Daily Facials cleansing cloths by handing out samples at subway and bus stations and airports filled with sweaty commuters. The cosmetics division helped build demand by rolling out Tiny Tries, which are small, low-risk samples that cost its loyal teenage customers just over...
...administration hawks such as Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld had long warned that reviving the inspection regime could prove a dangerous distraction to the Administration's efforts to get rid of the regime in Baghdad. Yet without going the UN route first, even the loyal Tony Blair might not have been able to sustain his support for a war in the face of overwhelming domestic opposition...