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Gone to Ground Anticipating U.S. strikes, Taliban leader Mohammed Omar has reportedly left his headquarters in Kandahar and joined Taliban fighters in their mountain retreats...
...future of Kabul's despotic clerics. And though much of the gossip about what is happening in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan--mass defections of soldiers, for instance--is just gossip, there are signs of weakness, hints that the tight core of men around Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar are at the very least anxious about what may be coming their way. Their announcement on Saturday morning, for instance, that they would consider releasing eight Christian missionaries held on charges of spreading religious doctrine, seemed to some a slight tremble of nerves. "If [the U.S.] stops issuing threats," a Taliban communique...
...courage in Afghanistan's bloody history, there is a corresponding one of betrayal, with loyalties that shift like the desert sands. That shift is beginning against the Taliban's leadership. Fissures are appearing in the Taliban ranks between hard-liners and so-called moderates, who privately believe that Mohammed Omar's refusal to hand over terrorist Osama bin Laden is akin to mass suicide. Says Ahmed Rashid, a Pakistani author and expert on the Taliban movement: "The U.S. threat is helping to divide the Taliban." Rashid says the Taliban's "fellow travelers," the tribal leaders who don't share...
...Omar is also responding to this revolt with stealth. He dispatched secret police with instructions to arrest any outsiders or chieftains flashing sudden wealth, according to a source in eastern Afghanistan. Jalaluddin Haqqani, a popular Taliban commander-in-chief in Khost, held a rally warning the local tribesmen not to join the King. His forces wore shrouds, indicating they were prepared to die fighting the monarch's supporters...
...dozen targets, including the airport in Khandahar, originally built by the United States as a way-station for international flights but now the headquarters of the Taliban air force. Reports from Pakistan said that smoke was billowing from the home of the Taliban's supreme leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, following a missile attack. One report had explosions coming from the area of Farmada, a reported bin Laden training camp nine miles from that city. Attacks were also reported in the cities of Jalalabad and Mazer-e-Sharif...