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...invades Iraq but can't 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
...blow came with the arrest last fall of the group's leader, Mullah Krekar, while he was passing through the Netherlands en route to Norway, where he is applying for asylum. Krekar, a Marxist turned cleric whose real name is Najmuddin Faraj and who fought the Soviets in Afghanistan, flatly denies that his group has ties to al-Qaeda or Saddam. "I never had links with Saddam's family, government, party--not in the past, not now, not inside Iraq or outside," he told the BBC last week in Oslo. Ultimately, Kurdish officials are less impressed with the group...
...against American troops. It lies within striking range of several special-forces camps and a large U.S. air base in Kandahar. As an added advantage, it was just 40 kilometers from the Pakistani border, close enough for a quick getaway?and to receive orders from two key Taliban commanders, Mullah Bradar and Mullah Abdul Razzak, who Afghan intelligence sources say are hiding in the Pakistani cities of Chaman and Quetta...
...road is the best way to learn about northern Vietnam, but the Minsk Club of Hanoi can probably teach a thing or two about obsession. Its website (dissidentx.com/minsk/network.html) catalogs sightings of the club's favorite bike around the world: Cuba; Turkey; Norway; even Afghanistan, where Taliban leader Mullah Omar is rumored to have escaped a U.S. bombing raid on the back of a Minsk, known locally as the "Kabul tank." When a Minsk Moto-Velo Zavod company director visited Hanoi in 1999, club members welcomed the bemused businessman with banners, cheers, chilled vodka and a 40-motorcycle escort from...