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...moved steadily toward launching an assault on Afghan territory, Taliban soldiers armed with AKs trundled antiquated rocket launchers into position, while citizens fled to the barren countryside or the Pakistani frontier. No one was sure where the world's most wanted man, Osama bin Laden, might be: in a fortified network of caves tunneling under the eastern mountains, "riding off on a horse," as newspapers in Pakistan reported, or even alone...
...chance to confront its nuclear rival more conventionally on the ground. So the U.S. armed and financed a proxy army. The band of mujahedin, or holy warriors, that the U.S. backed came not just from the fractious, ethnically diverse Afghan tribes but also from cadres of Muslim volunteers--including Osama bin Laden--who saw resistance against the Soviets as a God-ordered defense of Islam. And they won, sending the utterly demoralized Soviet army home...
Stalled at the gates of Kabul, the Taliban found an enthusiastic new benefactor. Osama bin Laden, who had spent some of his family fortune to finance the anti-Soviet mujahedin, needed a new home after Sudan succumbed to U.S. blandishments to kick him out. In exchange for a haven in Afghanistan's switchback valleys and rugged passes, bin Laden offered the Taliban money and fighters. Afghan and Western sources say he gave $3 million that helped push the Taliban into control of the capital and the country in September 1996. It was, according to intelligence reports, one of the last...
TIME.com To read the 1999 TIME interview with Osama bin Laden, go to time.com/binladen
Before the U.S. military has fired its first $1 million missile at Osama bin Laden, the high price of America's new war is already starting to add up. Last week was the worst since the Great Depression for the Dow Jones industrial average, which lost almost 1,400 points, or 14%, in five frantic trading days, erasing nearly $1.4 trillion in investor wealth--at least 10 times the property damage caused by the terror attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The nation's airlines announced that they are sending more than 80,000 workers to join...