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...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 1,800 of those...
...Omar is captured, what do we do with him? The U.S. has made it clear to the interim Afghan government that if Omar is apprehended, he must be turned over to American authorities. But how he would be brought to justice is a question the White House has still not decided. Sources at the Pentagon say that in all likelihood he would be selected by President Bush to face a military tribunal. But where that proceeding would occur and under what ground rules remain to be hammered out. He would probably spend some time in custody at sea aboard...
...Army General Tommy Franks, chief of U.S. Central Command. "We've been pretty honest about that. We've said he is either dead or alive, and he is either inside Afghanistan or he isn't." While some leaders of the new Afghan government believe bin Laden is hiding with Omar near Baghran, American officials are skeptical. They believe that if he survived the bombing of the Tora Bora caves, he is most likely to be in hiding on one side or the other of the Afghan border with Pakistan...
...American ground operation so far. A convoy carried 200 Marines from their base at Kandahar airport to a deserted al-Qaeda training camp in southern Afghanistan. With the Marines providing cover, Afghan fighters rifled through the compound's 14 structures, which were believed to have provided shelter for Mullah Omar some time in the past three weeks. Thirty hours later the Marines returned to base, though not with the treasure trove of documents and computer hard drives they had hoped...
...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...