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...list of Taliban demands has been a guarantee that the lives of Supreme Leader Mullah Omar and the other commanders be spared. Their conduit has been a respected Soviet war veteran, Wakil Samat Noorzai, living in Spin Boldak, near the Pakistani border, who flatly informed the Taliban leadership that he didn't have the clout to enforce such a promise. Soon after, Omar urged his men to fight to the death. Negotiations for the peaceful handover of Kandahar's eastern borderlands to supporters of exiled King Mohammed Zaher Shah fell apart, and Taliban resumed control of the area. On Friday...
...Afghanistan has shown just how effective U.S. air power can be when used in conjunction with indigenous proxy forces against a hated regime. If the U.S. invests enough in the Iraqi opposition and then mercilessly bombs the regime's forces, Saddam can be swept out of power like Mullah Omar...
...villages below. "They can defect, change their mind and go back," Rumsfeld said. "It is not possible to answer the question as to the circumstance of the Taliban." But their divisions are scattered, their hard-core fighters are few?Pakistani sources say 2,000 members, at most, of Omar's 50,000-strong force are still active near Kandahar?and the regime has been drained of the financial and military resources that once sustained it. "Guerrilla warfare will be all that they can do," says an Air Force general. "I doubt they can mount a counteroffensive." Even if the Taliban...
...Army Rangers in Somalia in 1993, the embassy bombings in Africa in 1998 and the Sept. 11 airline attacks, Atef was responsible for more than 5,000 deaths. American commanders said his elimination may cripple al-Qaeda's terror-making machine. "He's not bin Laden or Omar," says an Air Force officer. "He's not John or Paul; he's George or Ringo...
...plus a Eurasian lead singer and a flamboyantly gay keyboardist, played by Edwin R. Sumun. The band's bassist, Yati, is a young Malay woman torn between her love for Harry and his Western ways and her conservative, highly religious family. Yati, played with glowing conviction by Ellie Suriaty Omar, carries much of the film...