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...injured two G.I.s. A former Taliban governor, Mullah Abdul Salam Rocketi, told TIME he is trying to persuade former comrades to give up their guns, but some are determined to keep fighting. "The Taliban have their backs to the wall," he said, "and they're still dangerous." --By Tim McGirk...
...beginning all over again. Says human-rights activist Rehman: "The freed men will now be thirsting for revenge against Mai and her family." Unbowed, Mai intends to keep teaching at the schoolhouse she built. The larger lessons of her traumatic experience, however, seem to have gone unlearned. - By Tim McGirk Lessons in Law BRITAIN A 16-year-old Muslim schoolgirl won the right to wear the all-enveloping jilbab in class, with London's Court of Appeal ruling that a ban on the garment by her school in central England was an infringement of the European Convention on Human Rights...
...town who knows the value of $25 million and can figure out how to reach us safely," says Kirk. He points out that the lure of a $30 million reward led to the capture and killing in Iraq of Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay. --By Tim McGirk...
...survived at least three attempts on his life. A Pakistani military court last month sentenced a soldier to death for his involvement in the Dec. 14 plot, and Musharraf's military-controlled regime is expected to investigate whether insiders were involved in Ahmad's escape. --By Adam Zagorin, Tim McGirk and Ghulam Hasnain
...PAKISTAN/AFGHANISTAN Fragile Allies By Tim McGirk | Islamabad...