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...June 1998, King Fahd dispatched Turki to Kandahar to meet with Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar. His instructions were to "ask him to hand over bin Laden." Turki argued that bin Laden was endangering Afghanistan's greater interests. Mullah Omar "agreed in principle," Turki says...
...very hysterical, high-pitched, screaming, gesticulating. I just stood up and said, 'I'm not going to hear any more of this.' I told him, 'What you are doing is going to bring harm to Afghanistan.'" Just as Turki never grasped the full dangers attached to bin Laden, Mullah Omar seems to have made the same mistake...
...deadly rivalry has been running since the 16th century between two main Pashtun tribes, the Durranis and the Ghilzais. The events since Sept. 11 have changed little. The Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar is a Ghilzai, and so are most of his top commanders. The ex-monarch's supporters are all Durranis...
...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...