Word: mujahidin
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...that twisted its way through mountain ridges that seem to overlap as they rise toward the White Mountains. As Tuesday afternoon waned and it was clear that the Al Qaeda fighters had accepted the cease-fire, the area took the appearance of an archeological dig. Across one ridge 20 mujahidin fighters scratched at the ground with sticks looking for fragments of U.S. bombs, which they loaded into a huge cooking pot and carried to a pickup truck. One fighter handed me a rubber jug with a strap. "Al Qaeda," he said with a nod. Arabs drink water too. Another fighter...
...victory they were celebrating came with relative ease - one mujahidin fighter died and seven Al Qaeda fighters, according to commanders. Gul Karim led a group of about 30 fighters, including Crazy, in the Monday assault on the caves and a cluster of mud-earth houses nearby. The first thing he did was raise the enemy on a walkie-talkie. "He said they don't want to fight us, that we all are Muslims. They said leave us the Americans and we will fight them." It had no effect. "Our troops had orders to attack," he says. His soldiers, most...
...worked. The mujahidin shoved far enough into the craggy Tora Bora landscape on Monday and Tuesday to drive the last Al Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan so deep into the mountains that they're offering to surrender. Small-arms fire crackled through Tuesday morning, but by afternoon the caves were secure, both sides had declared a cease-fire and the attackers were combing the area that once seemed unassailable for war booty. One of three top commanders, Haji Zaman, spoke with an Arab leader by wireless. "He said don't fight, we want to surrender," says Zaman. He ordered them...
...slope. The effect was of walking through a deep cavern open to the sky. I walked down the passage, stepping over two rows of sandbags that blocked my way, and came to a three-foot opening. I ducked into the mouth and dared go no further. Not even the mujahidin would follow, and several were making "boom" noises and gesturing about flying body parts. Everybody expected booby traps or mines...
...Tuesday morning nearly all the Arabs had followed to higher ground, where they fired mortars and machine guns at the advancing mujahidin. Three fighters on a strategic ridge held off the advance for much of the morning before a volley of small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades blew them apart. Two were later dragged to a command post and dumped on the ground for mujahidin fighters to gawk at. One was so mangled that his torso faced the sky and his legs faced the ground...