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...night tells a different story. Once the sun sets, residents scurry inside their high-walled houses as gunfire resounds across the city until dawn. Few people venture out of their neighborhoods, divided into Atta, Dostum and Mohaqiq ghettos. Two men were killed one night when a patrol of Atta's soldiers clashed with a group of Mohaqiq's men stealing a car. The same night Hazaras hijacked a taxi and beat up the driver. "It's just like it was before the Taliban were here," said the injured...
...Rumsfeld may have been inviting bin Laden to make a run for it, knowing well that the escape hatches were slamming shut. American patrol planes watched the borders. Pakistan warned its tribal chieftains that it would punish anyone who gave sanctuary to bin Laden. Pakistani officials and American ground troops tightened their surveillance of refugees flowing out of Afghanistan. On Saturday, Pakistani guards at the Chaman border detained three Arab women and their two children trying to cross into Pakistan. The three women, from Yemen, claimed that their Arab husbands had been killed in the U.S. bombing as they fled...
...refugee camps, it's the women more than the men who do the talking. The men are stoic in their grief, while the women keen. At a camp near Spin Boldak, on the road between the Pakistani border town and Kandahar, few Taliban were on patrol and the burqas were off. Most women wore shawls, and they revealed their faces, often decorated with tattoos on the chin and forehead, when they were speaking of how they escaped Kandahar during the bombing raids, or trekked for 15 days to reach a road when they were fleeing Uzbek troops advancing on their...
...terrorism prosecutor's fantasy. In the meantime, Ashcroft must win the approval of Congress for his less radical proposals. Some will not be controversial. It makes sense to split the Immigration and Naturalization Service so that border protection and immigrant services are independent. That will allow the border patrol to focus all its attention on keeping shady characters out. No one will argue against updating the Justice Department's computer system, which is so bad that many employees work from ancient terminals that can't access the Internet. Even the focus on counterterrorism began before Sept...
...Rumsfeld may have been inviting bin Laden to make a run for it, knowing well that the escape hatches were slamming shut. American patrol planes watched the borders. Pakistan warned its tribal chieftains that it would punish anyone who gave sanctuary to bin Laden. Pakistani officials and American ground troops tightened their surveillance of refugees flowing out of Afghanistan. On Saturday, Pakistani guards at the Chaman border detained three Arab women and their two children trying to cross into Pakistan. The three women, from Yemen, claimed that their Arab husbands had been killed in the U.S. bombing as they fled...