Word: mullah
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...time that the foreign media had been allowed to set foot in Taliban-ruled parts of Afghanistan since the current conflict began. Their primary purpose in allowing the two-day visit was to the show to the world the civilian casualties caused by the U.S. air strikes. But Governor Mullah Abdul Kabir, considered number three in the Taliban hierarchy after supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar and Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund, agreed to the reporters' request to visit the Jalalabad airport, a frequent target of U.S. fighter planes and Tomahawk cruise missiles. His decision was surprising because the airport is also...
...journalists were taken to a part of the airfield where a radar station had been hit by a cruise missile and turned into ashes. In an interview with TIME, Mullah Kabir explained that he wanted the journalists to visit both military and civilian targets and compare the damage. "After visiting the airport and the Khrum village where about 200 innocent people were killed, you can judge that we have suffered more civilian than military losses," he argued...
...appears, at least for now, to have persuaded the Northern Alliance not to march on Kabul before agreement is reached on a broad-based unity government. And progress is slow. Pakistan, meanwhile, is working overtime to persuade the Taliban to ditch its leader, Mullah Omar, and his close comrade Osama bin Laden, and to join a broadly-based government. Pakistani officials reportedly held meetings in Islamabad with Taliban foreign minister Mullah Mutawakil even as Secretary of State Colin Powell was visiting the city on Tuesday, and its efforts to salvage an "acceptable" Taliban minus the Al Qaeda connection are likely...
...know the face of Mullah Mohammed Omar, the 42-year-old chieftain of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban. The fuzzy photo of him is one of the few known to exist. Omar avoids the camera?not because of vanity (he is half blind, having lost the use of one eye in combat in the 1980s) nor because he wants to hide in the shadows. It's because Islam proscribes representative artwork, and Omar includes photographs in that concept. Religion is Omar's obsessive core, as I learned in my many interviews with him in Kandahar, the Taliban's hometown and Omar...
...reprisal for two attacks that killed five Israelis. Sharon infuriated Washington with an accusation that the U.S. was seeking to appease Arab states to gain support for its international coalition. President Bush earlier appeared to endorse the notion of an independent Palestinian state. building international pressure, Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar offered to release British journalist Yvonne Ridley, who was arrested for entering the country illegally. The Taliban also offered the freedom of eight international aid workers, held since the beginning of August on charges of promoting Christianity, if the U.S. were to "stop issuing threats." RUSSIA Plane Mystery Prosecutors...