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...five low-level officials) were said to have approached Sherzai and asked for amnesty, which he refused. But he promised not to pursue them as long as they left a forwarding address. They agreed and, it was said, even offered to gather intelligence on the whereabouts of Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden...
...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...
...necessary to fight fire with fire and to fight reason with reason. So when Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban leader, stated, "The real matter is the extinction of America, and God willing, it will fall to the ground," I was amazed that some Americans still proposed that an in-depth analysis of U.S. foreign policy was the way to change the contemptuous feelings of these fanatics. Wake up! The countries that resent our foreign policy should stop accepting U.S. financial aid. MARISSA DAVIDSON Covington...
...there a reward for the capture of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar? No one seems quite sure. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced on Dec. 13 that Washington planned to offer $10 million for Omar's capture, to go along with the $25 million dangled for nabbing Osama bin Laden. But Rumsfeld didn't consult ahead of time with the State Department--which runs the rewards program and decides which evildoers warrant a price tag on their head--and a reward had not been approved. It still hasn't. "You just can't create these rewards on your own," says...
AFGHANISTAN First U.S. Death Sergeant 1st Class Nathan Ross Chapman, 31, became the first U.S. soldier to die in the anti-terror campaign when he was hit by small-arms fire in the Khost area during a mission to coordinate tribal leaders. Taliban chief Mullah Mohammad Omar continued to elude capture, but the head of al-Qaeda's terrorist training camps, Ibn Al-Shayk al-Libi, was in the custody of U.S. Marines at the Kandahar airport...