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...Last week the hush was shattered by the blasts of hundreds of American bombs, the rattle of Kalashnikovs and the roar of tanks and pickup trucks carrying about 1,000 anti-Taliban soldiers into the Tora Bora cave complex to deliver a final reckoning to Osama bin Laden. The Afghans crept through the valleys and into the caves in the wake of U.S. air strikes, hoping to nab enemy militants as they tried to scramble to higher ground...
...Taliban, for Osama bin Laden and his dwindling legion of 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...
...that, the principal U.S. goal of snaring bin Laden in Tora Bora was shrouded in a fog of conflicting reports about whether he was even there. A brother of Hazrat Ali, one of the warlords chasing bin Laden in Tora Bora, said Friday that "one of our soldiers saw Osama yesterday," riding on horseback with four bodyguards after visiting his troops. Yet Ali's brother-in-law says, "We don't have any confirmed information about Osama, but his son is still in the caves...
Three years later, Osama bin Laden has done more to change the situation for women in Afghanistan than any hundreds of thousands of blue fabric squares. With America’s war on terror in Afghanistan and its defeat of the Taliban regime, the world must grasp this unique opportunity to dramatically ameliorate conditions for Afghani women...
...Naqibullah. The Bush administration insists that the Taliban leader be punished for harboring terrorists, and not be allowed to remain in southern Afghanistan. More immediately, the U.S. would dearly love to talk to the Taliban leader about the whereabouts of his erstwhile guest (and alleged father-in-law) Osama bin Laden. But it remains to be seen whether the U.S. position is shared by Karzai...