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...bulk of Taliban conscripts who survived the war shaved, took off their black turbans and faded into the background. At the same time, only four of the top 50 Taliban commanders surrendered or were captured; those four are now held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Taliban leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, has not been found, and is most probably hiding in Uruzgan province, shielded by true believers. But while the new government in Kabul has struggled to maintain order, Afghan officials and Western diplomats agree: the Taliban is virtually incapable of staging a comeback. Though hardly free from fear, the people...
Your report "One Man's Story," on revelations by al-Qaeda terrorist Omar al-Faruq [AL-QAEDA, Sept. 23], noted that he was subjected to three months of "psychological interrogation tactics." That phrase is nothing but a euphemism for plain old torture. I fully appreciate that these terrorists are extremely tough characters and that an element of torture may be necessary to get them to spill the beans. But the U.S.'s democratic system may be harmed by something far more perilous than acts of terrorism: the worm of deceit. The preservation of democracy may require the use of wicked...
...Libya, Sadek Al Nassami, Abu Sallam, Abu Umaiya and Abul Abbas of Yemen, Abul Ashem of Algeria and Hassan Adam of Sudan?were involved in militant arms training at a madrasah in the capital run by a Saudi-backed charity, al-Haramain. In September, Indonesia's al-Qaeda supersnitch Omar al-Faruq told the CIA that al-Haramain was the foundation used to channel bin Laden's money to him from the Middle East. An American expert in the region concurs that branches of the ultraconservative foundation have funded terrorism around the world?a fact that earned two al-Haramain...
...Meanwhile, the wholly unexpected results in Kashmir were a cause for optimism as a family dynasty crumbled?and a rare ray of hope shone from its rubble. The dynasty was that of Omar Abdullah,a fresh-faced 32 year old whose grandfather and father have controlled Kashmiri politics since India got its independence. Omar was supposed to rejuvenate the clan's National Conference party; if it won the election, he would have become the state's chief minister. When votes were tallied at a local convention hall (named after his grandfather) in Omar's intended constituency of Gandherbal last Thursday...
...Omar's disappointment, however, was probably the best news out of the embattled region in ages?and a possible breakthrough in the Kashmir Gordian knot. Kashmiris embraced the democratic process as a means of somehow going forward: turnout was 44%, compared to the pointedly apathetic participation in 1996 elections. They trusted India's vow that the polls wouldn't be rigged (as they have been in the past) and India came through. That's an amazing show of mutual good faith following 13 years of anti-Indian militancy and more than 36,000 lives lost. Militant groups attacked polling stations...