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...tailed by Taliban operatives who captured him on Oct. 21 and, after hours of interrogation, shot him and two of his comrades. Six of Haq's men are still under arrest, along with 20 other supporters--dousing U.S. and Pakistani hopes of an uprising among the country's Pashtun tribesmen. Haq's execution, says a foreign diplomat in Islamabad, "will make any tribal chieftain hesitate before turning against the Taliban." Ahmadullah couldn't hide his glee. In a satellite-telephone interview with a Peshawar journalist, he exulted, "Anyone who tries to enter Afghanistan will meet the same fate as Abdul...
...threat is aimed at another pro-Western Afghan, Hamad Karzai, a supporter of exiled King Mohammed Zahir Shah. Karzai has been on the run in Afghanistan for weeks, dodging Taliban bullets in the Uruzgan mountains north of Kandahar. Urbane, well educated and hailing from an aristocratic Pashtun family, Karzai is Washington's best--and perhaps only--chance to win over the southern tribes. If he can stay alive...
...countries, many as a result of intelligence the CIA fed to foreign agencies. Operatives have even been trying to penetrate the Russian mafia for leads on chemical or biological agents that bin Laden has been trying to buy from it. Agents have also been trying to entice Pashtun warlords to turn against the Taliban with offers of cash. But they have had limited success. One reason: drug trafficking in the region has driven up bribe prices, and many are not impressed by agency offers...
...guard had entered the city. Initial reports suggested the Alliance had simply sent in a policing force to prevent an outbreak of chaos in the vacuum left by the Taliban's departure - Washington has repeatedly urged the Alliance to keep its forces out of Kabul, to avoid antagonizing the Pashtun Afghans who predominate in the south and their key regional ally, Pakistan. The Alliance ostensibly remains committed to allowing a U.N.-mandated international force to assume control over the capital, although some factions will certainly be tempted to make the best of the opportunity to seize power presented...
...despite suffering heavy losses in various battles in the north, the Taliban appear to have retreated from Kabul rather than having been routed. That leaves the rump of the movement now heading for its Pashtun heartland, where the political-military equation is somewhat reversed - while the Northern Alliance was on home ground clearing the Taliban out of the north (and even, to some extent, Kabul itself), the south may be beyond its reach. The Alliance is composed primarily of ethnic Uzbeks, Tajiks and Hazaras, and is viewed with hostility even among anti-Taliban Pashtuns...