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...Laden and his top lieutenants are in the region, the known commanders are ripe enough targets. They include Ibrahim Haqqani, whose brother, a Taliban leader sought by the U.S., is thought to be hiding in Pakistan; Latif Mansour, the former Taliban Minister for Agriculture; and Saifur Rahman Mansoor, Latif's nephew, a former Taliban military commander in his early...
...bodies or counted them. But the more important question may be their identities. It was initially believed that the enemy force numbered no more than 500, and comprised fewer than 100 al-Qaeda personnel who had joined up with local fighters loyal to unrepentant Taliban commander Saifur Rahman Mansoor in his home base. Later, U.S. commanders were talking about an al-Qaeda force numbering more than 1,000. Reports from the battlefield certainly confirm the presence of a substantial number of Chechen, Uzbek and Arab fighters, but many of those wounded and captured by the allies were Afghans...
...young Mansoor has become a legend in the region. His supporters claim he has said he would prefer to die fighting than live under U.S. occupation. The son of a famed mujahedin who was killed by a car bomb in 1993, he seems to have tried to make a deal with Wardak to surrender his forces when an American attack became imminent. But local feuds got in the way; Mansoor led his troops into the mountains, where they had already made preparations. Wardak says that in the tiny villages that cling to the slopes, al-Qaeda fighters had been buying...
...Laden and his top lieutenants are in the region, the known commanders are ripe enough targets. They include Ibrahim Haqqani, whose brother, a Taliban leader sought by the U.S., is thought to be hiding in Pakistan; Latif Mansour, the former Taliban Minister for Agriculture; and Saifur Rahman Mansoor, Latif's nephew, a former Taliban military commander in his early...
...attack Mansoor expected finally came on Saturday morning, March 2, after being postponed for 48 hours because of bad weather. At Bagram, Colonel Frank Wiercinski told his men that this would be a "defining moment" in their lives. Echoing the motto of the 10th Mountain Division, he said, "This is your climb to glory." The helicopters took off and flew south. The division, heading for battle position Eve, attacked the villages of Sarkhankhel, Marzak and Babakul, taking al-Qaeda by surprise. "The bad guys were drinking tea when we arrived," says Hagenbeck. "Our snipers," says one soldier, "whacked a whole...