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...rocket-propelled grenades and battlefield combat. He even allegedly met Osama bin Laden. But when one of bin Laden's lieutenants asked Lindh if he wanted to leave Afghanistan and conduct operations against the U.S., Lindh declined, preferring the front lines of the Taliban's war with the Northern Alliance. A few weeks later, Lindh heard about the events of Sept. 11 on the radio. "According to [Lindh]," an FBI affidavit says, "it was his and his comrades' understanding at the time that bin Laden had ordered the attacks and that additional attacks would follow." That didn't seem...
...squatting at her feet jump up, dart under the two pink strips that provide the only light in the bar, run upstairs and return breathlessly clutching gambling counters. "What the customers paid," explains Mama San. In the three months since she was brought to this backstreet brothel in the northern Thai town of Mae Sai, Lek has collected eight white chips and four blues - a total of $59.50. Tip has done better: 20 whites, 10 blues and four reds make $163. "Not a bad little earner," says Mama...
...Iran has been accused of arming and funding forces loyal to its longtime client Ismail Khan in the western city of Herat, who are challenging the authorities in Kabul. Rival warlords have squared off around Kandahar. The Northern Alliance itself remains divided among various factions, and most of southern Afghanistan's major towns were simply taken over by coalitions of local warlords, many of whom continue to seek to expand their fiefdoms at the expense of their rivals. Into the mix throw thousands of Taliban and al-Qaeda holdouts (including most of their senior leadership) still roaming the hills...
...something the U.S. can do alone. Iraq is not the Taliban, in the sense that it has air defenses and a massive, well-equipped standing army, and is not dependent on military support from any of its neighbors. Also, there is no battle-hardened proxy force equivalent to the Northern Alliance to fight the ground war - the Pentagon remains skeptical of the strategic and tactical significance of the various opposition groups arrayed against Saddam's regime, and none of the European and Arab allies who fought alongside the U.S. during the Gulf War have shown any enthusiasm...
...LANKA Peace Moves Journalists had their first glimpse of life behind rebel-held lines as the Tamil Tiger leadership allowed a visit to the Vanni region and the government lifted a seven-year economic blockade on the northern territory. The arrival of trucks carrying food, medicines and other goods was seen as a key step in the revival of Norwegian-led truce talks between the government and separatist Tamil Tiger rebels...