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...fact that man dubbed "the evil one" by President Bush remains at large is deeply frustrating to Washington, denying America a bit of closure over the September 11 attacks. And while Mullah Omar's capture may be of limited military and political significance, it remains an almost embarrassing failure given the priority it has been accorded. After all, the one-eyed "commander of the faithful" is no slick cosmopolitan terrorist trained in the dark arts of conspiracy. He's simply a deluded peasant mystic who, having lost the key pillars of his power - military support from Pakistan and al Qaeda...
...elders were spared further agonizing over whether to hand over a 14-year-old boy accused of killing American Sergeant Nathan Roy Chapman last week when it emerged Monday that the boy had escaped. The previous week, Afghan militiamen had claimed to be closing in on fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Omar in Helmand province, but then the one-eyed cleric simply vanished. A month earlier at Tora Bora, local fighters claimed to have surrounded Osama bin Laden and some 2,000 of his henchmen in the cave complex, but by the time the last grotto fell, some...
...have expressed commitment to help America snare its quarry in order to stay on the right side of the superpower that facilitated their victory, such verbal commitment has meant relatively little on the ground. Even the new prime minister, Hamid Karzai, appeared ready six weeks ago to simply let Mullah Omar fade into obscurity, before the Americans twisted his arm into promising to arrest the fugitive Taliban leader...
...trading rituals rather than in pitched battles. Even though they no longer control any significant territory, the Taliban's thousands of fighters may remain an asset prized by various warlords in their continuing turf battles for control over southern Afghanistan. And such calculations may be hindering the hunt for Mullah Omar...
...that India halt its soldiers at their assembly points instead of transporting them to the front lines; late last week New Delhi announced it would do just that. For Washington, which still needs Pakistan's assistance in hunting down al-Qaeda's Osama bin Laden and the Taliban's Mullah Mohammed Omar, the stakes are enormous. "A war between India and Pakistan would make the conflict in Afghanistan an afterthought," says Hathaway. "You could kiss goodbye any hopes for capturing Osama bin Laden...