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...lieutenants, Tora Bora is the last sanctuary. The Taliban's barbaric and medieval rule unraveled for good last week as the regime's soldiers fled from Kandahar, their last stronghold. Some skulked back to their home villages with the idea of starting new lives. Others, like Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban's supreme leader, went missing. As a fresh power struggle raged in Kandahar and a new Afghan government prepared to take over in Kabul, the black turbans and medieval strictures of Taliban rule began to seem like a bad dream...
...there was no champagne in the allies' high command. Anti-Taliban forces in Kandahar led by Hamid Karzai, the interim Prime Minister of Afghanistan, failed to capture Omar. That left the U.S. and its allies embroiled in a two-front manhunt for the Taliban chief and his even more high-profile Saudi guest. "We simply don't know right now where Omar is," the U.S. Central Command chief, General Tommy Franks, said Friday. A Kandahar eyewitness told TIME that early in the week Omar was spotted heading into the hills around Argandhab, west of Kandahar, with five bodyguards...
...agents believe that Binalshibh, a.k.a. Ramzi Omar, is a dedicated terrorist who planned to join his Hamburg roommates Mohammed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi and their frequent companion Ziad Al Jarrah as the 20th hijacker in the September 11 terror attacks. Binalshibh had registered at the Florida Flight Training Center, attended by Jarrah but was denied a visa because the State Department feared a poor Yemeni would remain in the U.S. illegally. (Atta, a middle class Egyptian with a good command of English, had no problem obtaining visas, nor did the other hijackers - 15 Saudis, two UAE citizens...
...leaders into a future political arrangement. Also, he can't afford to alienate the Pashtuns, or wider Afghan constituencies, by appearing to simply do the bidding of the U.S., which is not overwhelmingly popular even among anti-Taliban elements. Karzai pointedly told the BBC he had not discussed Mullah Omar's fate with Washington, insisting "this is an Afghan question." Still, Karzai?s political survival will also depend on his ability to deliver on promises to rebuild Afghanistan, and he can?t afford to fall out with the U.S. and the donor community...
...Afghan leader told CNN Thursday that amnesty had been extended to "common Taliban," but Mullah Omar would have to make an "explicitly clear" renunciation of terrorism or "he will not be safe." To the BBC he said Mullah Omar would be granted the same amnesty as his men if he renounced terrorism and dissociated himself from al Qaeda. And in an interview with the AP, Karzai when asked whether Mullah Omar would be arrested in line with U.S. demands said, "Those are the details that we still have to work out. I'm not saying anything right now.'' Then...