Word: mullah
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...Iraq, hostilities in Afghanistan are heating up. In the past three weeks, two special - forces men were killed in an ambush, three Afghan soldiers had their throats slit at a lonely checkpoint, and an international aid worker was gunned down in Uruzgan province. A former top Taliban chief, Mullah Dadullah, told the BBC in a phone interview that the warrior clerics were coming out of hiding to renew their war against Afghan leader Hamid Karzai and the U.S.-led coalition backing him up. Dadullah claimed the clerics are taking orders directly from Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban leader...
...Bagram, 50 kilometers away. In southern Afghanistan, 600 troops backed by choppers and fighter planes began a second week of scouring villages and mountain caves for rebels. Soldiers have taken nine men into custody and captured a large cache of weapons, but prize targets?such as ex-Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar and ex-Prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar?continue to elude them. Meanwhile, they're facing increasingly ferocious sniper fire, ambushes in the field and more-frequent rocket attacks on their bases. (Soldiers aren't the only targets: the Red Cross suspended operations in the country after...
...find Saddam Hussein? Considering how strenuously the Bush Administration has tried to personalize the war - Colin Powell mentioned Saddam 72 times in one presentation to the U.N. - it would be a political blow, particularly after the escape in Afghanistan of Osama bin Laden and Mullah Mohammed Omar. Says Senator John McCain: "It could be an embarrassment, just like bin Laden...
What's more, there are signs that the Taliban's former leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, may be flexing his muscles again. Zubair, a close aide of Omar's, tells TIME the fugitive Taliban leader is "alive, and starting to communicate by messengers with his fighters." If true, this is the first sign that Omar may be trying to regain control over his scattered fighters, most of whom fled to Pakistan. --By Tim McGirk
...emotions of the Arab masses, articulating their angriest aspirations, stirring their most vituperative violence by his press and radio, and plotting to subvert rulers everywhere, Nasser had achieved his pinnacle. This vigorous and magnetic figure, who wears Western-style sports clothes but kneels toward Mecca with the strictest mullah, had burst into history at precisely the moment when the impact of the modern West unsettled the ancient Islamic ethos of the East. With the Western gifts of radio and press, with the Eastern habits of intrigue and assassination, he had become the most feared and most loved...