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...sure we're going to catch Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar this year." BRYAN HILFERTY, U.S. military spokesman, making a prediction as the Army readies a spring offensive to search...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Feb. 9, 2004 | 2/9/2004 | See Source »

...sure we're going to catch Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar this year." Bryan Hilferty, U.S. military spokesman, making a bold prediction, as the Army readies a spring offensive in search...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 2/2/2004 | See Source »

...says. After landing a menial job, the girl is taken to the men-only prayer ritual, where each lad is instructed in the proper washing of the male genitals. Her deceit is discovered when she has her first menstrual period, and she is married off to an old mullah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bright Hope In A Sad Land | 1/26/2004 | See Source »

Just hours earlier, U.S. forces made a similar blunder, killing six other children along with two adults, members of a village family in neighboring Paktia province. That raid was supposed to take out a powerful clergyman named Mullah Jalani, who was accused by the Pentagon of operating training camps for mujahedin, hiding a sizable arsenal inside his stockade and firing at U.S. troops with what officials call a "crew-served machine gun." But many question why Jalani had been targeted. Just two days before, he had been drinking tea and cracking jokes with the pro-U.S. governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Way Off The Mark | 12/22/2003 | See Source »

...children and promise full investigations of the circumstances. But that doesn't address the larger problem of how to gather intelligence accurate enough to target wanted terrorists and minimize innocent deaths. A senior U.S. intelligence official concedes that the problem is unsolved: Hekmatyar, bin Laden and former Taliban leader Mullah Omar are all still at large. "The results speak for themselves," the official says. And the job may only get harder. In his videotape, Hekmatyar warns his followers not to use sat phones, seeking to deny the Americans even their advantage from overhead. --With reporting by Timothy J. Burger/Washington, Ghulam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Way Off The Mark | 12/22/2003 | See Source »

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