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...same token, with the total collapse of the Taliban, everything has changed. Omar has lost his robe. The Arab street is silent. The joy is gone. And recruitment? The Pakistani mullahs who after Sept. 11 had urged hapless young men to join the Taliban in fighting America and now have to answer to bereaved parents are facing ostracism and disgrace. Al-Qaeda agents roaming the madrasahs of Pakistan and the poorer neighborhoods of the Arab world will have a much harder sell. The syllogism of invincibility that sustained Islamic fanaticism is shattered...
...every five years. RETIREMENT ANNOUNCED. Of DICK ARMEY, 65, the House of Representatives Republican majority leader since 1995; in Washington, D.C. Armey, extolled by fellow Texan George W. Bush for his tax-cutting agenda, will step down after completing his term in January 2003. AWARDED. SHAHNAZ BOKHARI, 45, a Pakistani psychologist and publisher, the Weimar's Human Rights Prize for sheltering and tending to victims of domestic violence; in Weimar, Germany. Bokhari, outspoken about women's rights, is seeking to abolish the Pakistani tradition of condemning to death women who commit adultery. DIED. LARRY COSTELLO, 70, a five-time...
...Those commanders are believed to have received money from the U.S., but there was no evidence of that in the field. Soldiers who until recently lived in Pakistani refugee camps braved the freezing mountain winds with only wool shawls, fought their way up sixty degree slopes in open toed sandals and haven't been paid ever. That leaves the U.S. to do the searching, but the hundred or so special operatives in the area simply can not cover enough ground...
...Instead, bin Laden divides the world into believers and non-believers, that is, Muslims and infidels. He believes Islam needs to be purified and turned back a thousand years. He has identified himself and his followers as adoring death. He told a Pakistani interviewer after 9/11: "We love death. The U.S. loves life. That is the big difference between...
...Indian and Pakistani media were dominated by their governments' standoff over last week's terrorist attack on the parliament in New Delhi. The Pakistani Daily Dawn is filled with reports of mounting tension along the borders, Pakistan denying complicity in the attacks and China expressing undying support for Islamabad. But a bold op-ed in the same paper demands that Pakistan extricate itself from all direct involvement in Kashmir and take a strong stand against terrorism there. "A war of national liberation is essentially based on a premise of morality. Random killings of innocents in Kashmir - by our so-called...