Word: pashtu
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...Services Intelligence agency, or ISI, a tough outfit that has racked up a formidable reputation as a state within a state. With more than 40,000 officers and staff whose headquarters are in a drab military compound in Islamabad, the ISI puts tentacles deep into Afghanistan through thousands of Pashtu-speaking Pakistanis and hundreds of free-lance Afghan spies lured with money and sanctuary for their families. As a godfather to the Taliban, which it has financed, supplied, advised and fought alongside, the ISI has intimate contacts with the very heart of the terror network...
...Number of new translators fluent in Arabic, Farsi or Pashtu the FBI hopes to hire over the next month...
...dozen" troops at a time. The soldiers, most likely Army Delta Force and Green Beret commandos, hide in foxholes and caves during the day, emerging at dusk to scour the Afghan moonscape for evidence of their quarry. Some of the commandos are believed to speak the predominant local languages, Pashtu and Dari. Their goal, says a Pentagon official, is to "get bin Laden--not get bogged down...
...dozen" troops at a time. The soldiers, most likely Army Delta Force and Green Beret commandos, hide in foxholes and caves during the day, emerging at dusk to scour the Afghan moonscape for evidence of their quarry. Some of the commandos are believed to speak the predominant local languages, Pashtu and Dari. Their goal, says a Pentagon official, is to "get bin Laden--not get bogged down...
...militia that dubbed itself the Taliban, Pashtu for Islamic students, emerged in 1994 from the rural southern hinterlands of Afghanistan, under the guidance of the reclusive onetime village preacher Mullah Mohammed Omar. Fed by recruits from conservative religious schools across the border in Pakistan attended by destitute refugees from the 1979-89 war against the Soviet invasion, the Taliban won military and political support from Pakistan. It rose to power by promising peace and order for a country ravaged by corruption and civil war and the prospect of re-establishing traditional majority-Pashtun dominance...