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...been bolstered by a cache of documents and computer discs found in Abu Zubaydah's lair in central Pakistan. If intelligence from the Abu Zubaydah raid has added to the U.S. evidence that bin Laden is hiding in the borderlands, Musharraf's decision may get tougher yet. --By Tim McGirk...
...Reported by Mike Billips/Jacksonville, Tim McGirk and Michael Ware/Gardez, Alex Perry/Bagram, Sean Scully/Los Angeles, Mark Thompson/Washington and Rahimullah Yusufzai/Peshawar
...McGirk. With reporting by Mark Thompson/Washington and Michael Ware/Kandahar
...MCGIRK HAS BEEN FOLLOWING THE CAREER OF AFGHAN LEADER HAMID KARZAI FOR MONTHS AND RECENTLY SPENT A WEEK WITH HIM. He doesn't strike you as the typical thuggish warrior chieftain. He is too courtly, too intellectual. But when he was in exile in Pakistan, Hamid Karzai had an intensity that attracted all kinds of Afghans to his salons. I remember sitting at a Karzai banquet with an Afghan former communist general, a Kunduz tribal elder and a wizened chess master. Karzai listened to them as equals, and they in turn were inspired by his quiet determination. Then...
...McGirk...