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Above all, al-Qaeda apparently can still accumulate its most important resource, which comes not in plastic rectangles but on two legs. Al-Qaeda, says a new report by the RAND organization, depends for its future operations on its "ability to gather new recruits." In some towns of northern Pakistan, where hundreds of young men followed their religious leaders into Afghanistan like lambs to the slaughter, there is resentment toward the jihadists. But worldwide, according to analysts, al-Qaeda doesn't seem to have had trouble finding fresh blood. Notwithstanding the success of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan...
...thunderbolts at Saddam from a United Nations podium last week, the Iraqi leader's troops were busy firing live ammo at U.S. planes. "They shoot at us every day," Captain Patrick Driscoll said last week, hours after his F-15 dodged ground fire from Iraqi forces while flying over northern Iraq. "You can't let your guard down for a minute...
...people were killed, including Interior Minister Emil Boga, and more than 150 were injured. MIDDLE EAST Revenge in hot and cold blood Two suicide bombings marked an end to more than six weeks of relative peace. In the first incident, a man killed himself and a policeman near the northern town of Umm al-Fahm. The next day a man exploded his payload on a Tel Aviv bus, killing six people and wounding more than 50. Hours later, Israeli troops blasted Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Ramallah headquarters. The army destroyed nearly every building in the sprawling compound...
...Muramza, 24, fought the Northern Alliance in and around Kabul. Asked who his commander was, he points to a heavy-breathing bear of a man, who angrily responds, "Why did you tell them that?" Several Tanali men are being held at Sheberghan prison in the north, and several more died in the fighting in Mazar-i-Sharif. One who made it home is Nurzai, 24, who straggles by, carrying a blanket full of long grass over his shoulder, food for the sheep he tends. He says he was captured in Kunduz and, like thousands of other prisoners, stuffed into...
...Taliban assassin believed responsible for the murders of three opponents to the fundamentalist movement in Quetta in Pakistan in the mid-1990s. A veteran of the Kunduz and Takhar fronts during the Taliban's civil war with the United Front, Rehman was captured last year by the forces of northern warlord General Rashid Dostum. He was released earlier this year, most likely after his family paid the almost $900 ransom that was demanded to free each of the Taliban captives. Rahman returned to his village but soon after moved south to Kandahar. There he "used all his efforts to join...