Word: mazar
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...late December, word went around that Dadullah was in Balkh, 25 kilometers to the west of Mazar: the CIA and hundreds of Alliance soldiers descended on the town and searched every house. "The soldiers just use it as an excuse to take whatever they wanted," said the agent, "They stole everything and even raped some of the women." In mid-February there was another report that Dadullah was in Sancharak, the tiny village in the mountains to the south of Mazar. Alliance commander Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, confident that Dadullah was as good as caught, was rash enough to announce...
...command of northern Afghanistan who refused to surrender alongside his superior, Mullah Fazil, at Kunduz in November. He has been hiding out ever since, surrounded by ten bodyguards, moving from house to house and sending the Alliance and CIA on occasional high speed chases across the desert around Mazar. "He only drinks bottled Pepsi from the shops and lives almost entirely on cakes and bread." says one Alliance agent. "If he eats with a family in their home, he always swaps his plate with the one given to the head of the house. He only moves at night...
...Efforts continue to pinpoint al Qaeda members: Mazar-e-Sharif intelligence chief Mohammed Anwar said the population has been warned that anyone caught harboring al Qaeda operatives will be considered a terrorist themselves; 610 agents send him information from hundreds of miles around as well as checkpoints strung across every major road. The CIA has also set up groups in every major city across the nation, he says: in addition to the intelligence officers he works with, there are agents working on propaganda to convince Afghans that Americans are in their country to help. "The mission is to take apart...
...successes are few and far between. Besides Abdullah, just two other Arab al Qaeda members have been captured. Abdullah was the first to be found. Acting on a report from one of his spies that Abdullah was hiding out in Khulshalabad, a hamlet to the west of Mazar with his wife, son and daughter, Anwar paid a visit. He told the people the Americans were intent on hunting down every al Qaeda member. "If you don't give him up the Americans will bomb you," he told them, "They aren't just going to go away." Abdullah surrendered within...
...conquering Taliban. Now it is clear from the testimony of witnesses and officials of the new government that the ruling clerics systematically abducted women from the Tajik, Uzbek, Hazara and other ethnic minorities they defeated. Stolen women were a reward for victorious battle. And in the cities of Kabul, Mazar-i-Sharif, Jalalabad and Khost, women victims tell of being forced to wed Taliban soldiers and Pakistani and Arab fighters of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network, who later abandoned them. These marriages were tantamount to legalized rape. "They sold these girls," says Ahmad Jan, the Kabul police chief...