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...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...
...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...
...When she’s not reading crumbling 19th century labor newspapers in the sub-basement of Littauer for her thesis, she’s writing about contemporary inequalities at Harvard and beyond. In her column, “Harvard On My Mind” she attacks injustices from Mazar-e-Sharif to Mass Hall. Her column will run on alternate Fridays...
...What little we do know of him is vague and open to myriad interpretations. We first learned of his existence back in November, when he was discovered fighting alongside the Taliban at Mazar-i-Sharif. The first images were of a shockingly thin young man, filthy and disoriented. A few days later, he was immortalized on that videotape - pumped full of morphine, in pain, but well pleased with his choice to join the Taliban and above all, remarkably composed...
...Walker was captured by U.S. forces in November, after allegedly taking part in a prison uprising in Mazar-i-sharif. He has since been held on a military ship in the Arabian...