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...your article "Inside Tora Bora," you stated that "the Afghans might be useful proxies for some jobs but were perhaps not quite professional enough to finish" the war against the Taliban [THE MANHUNT, Dec. 24]. That remark was offensive and belittling toward those Afghan soldiers who in the past weeks have shed their blood in battle after battle in their homeland. Most of America's ground forces have seen relatively little action during that time, while the "not quite professional" Afghan troops have cleared out the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Such insensitivity to others and a tendency to self-aggrandizement...
...have my doubts that "The Last Days of the Taliban" are truly upon us, although I wish it were so [THE MANHUNT, Dec. 17]. It is apparent that America is involved in a long and tedious war. During Vietnam, the media made it seem as if the U.S. were winning the war, but that was not the case. History repeats itself. If we jump the gun and think we have won a victory over terrorism, will we not arrive at the same result as in Vietnam? We must push our arrogance aside and maintain our focus. S. KYLE PAULY Manitowoc...
...After weeks of fast triumphs, the war has drifted into a frustrating endgame, a double manhunt for Omar and Osama. Every day seems to bring a new theory about bin Laden's whereabouts. Is he dead in a Tora Bora cave? Hiding out along one side or the other of the Afghan border with Pakistan? Safe in Chechnya, Iran or even Saudi Arabia? The Pentagon has tabled plans to send additional U.S. troops to hunt in the mountains of Tora Bora. And there was never a chance that Pakistan would want the U.S. to deploy the troops necessary to seal...
...there was no champagne in the allies' high command. Anti-Taliban forces in Kandahar led by Hamid Karzai, the interim Prime Minister of Afghanistan, failed to capture Omar. That left the U.S. and its allies embroiled in a two-front manhunt for the Taliban chief and his even more high-profile Saudi guest. "We simply don't know right now where Omar is," the U.S. Central Command chief, General Tommy Franks, said Friday. A Kandahar eyewitness told TIME that early in the week Omar was spotted heading into the hills around Argandhab, west of Kandahar, with five bodyguards...
...dilemma for the Pentagon is that until it beefs up the 2,000-strong American ground force and authorizes it to take control of the manhunt, the U.S. military can only cajole the Afghan forces to do what it wants. In eastern Afghanistan, the U.S. has plied one bin Laden hunter, Haji Zaman, with $100 for each of his soldiers. The $25 million bounty promised to the warlord who captures bin Laden has created a dash for the Saudi's throat between Zaman and two rival commanders, Hazrat Ali and Haji Qadir. U.S. officials treated claims of bin Laden sightings...