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...interrogation wasn't going well. "Why are you here?" asked one of the Americans. "What are you doing in Afghanistan?" When the question was translated, Mullah Abdullah snorted and, gesticulated with his open palm to the American, and retorted, "Why are you here...
...American ignored his prisoner's demand. "How many are you? How many others are you in touch with?" Mullah Abdullah wouldn't answer. Sighing he beamed up at his questioners and said, "I'm not telling you anything. I'm not afraid of dying...
...After Robert Byrd broke the ice in a hearing Wednesday by questioning the war's price tag, Majority Leader Tom Daschle told reporters Thursday that the U.S. must add two more prisoners to its X-Ray pen - Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden - "or we will have failed." Trent Lott, through his spokesman, was very upset; Bush, through his, played it cooler, with Ari Fleischer drily informing reporters Thursday that "individuals are free to focus on any one person if they think that's the best way to conduct foreign policy. That's a different approach than the president...
...ignored a potentially useful Taliban informant? Mullah Haji Abdul Samat Khaksar, the second highest-ranking Taliban official in U.S. custody, has been waiting months for the CIA to talk to him. The former deputy interior minister of the Taliban says he has valuable information to share with U.S. intelligence--and claims he may be able to help locate former Taliban leader Mullah Omar. (Khaksar's brother-in-law is a top aide to Omar and may be on the run with the fleeing leader.) But until TIME alerted the U.S. military in Kabul in late January of Khaksar's desire...
...made the ex-Taliban frantic want to see the Americans. Five times he sent letters to the U.S. embassy compound in Kabul, he says, offering to meet the diplomats. Khaksar said he was ready to pass on information that might lead to the capture of the fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Omar and to some al-Qaeda hideouts in Afghanistan. But he waited days, weeks, months and nobody contacted him. It's possible that his letters never got to CIA agents inside the embassy. Security at the US embassy compound is on a war alert, with snipers on the roofs...