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...eyes have a wariness, a veil of fear. It's as if the person is standing at the edge of a fogbank, knowing that in time it will engulf him and there is no chance of outrunning it. I used to see my father's eyes simultaneously plead and hold firm. It would happen when a sentence broke off because he couldn't remember how to finish it. Or when he would say, "I have this condition--I keep forgetting things." He was on a high wire, balancing on courage, with the dark waters of fear below...
...same conclusion: the Pakistanis were no longer able to moderate Taliban behavior. To worldwide condemnation, the Taliban had announced its intention to blow up the 1,700-year-old stone statues of the Buddha in the Bamiyan Valley. Musharraf dispatched his right-hand man, Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider, to plead with Mullah Omar for the Buddhas to be saved. The Taliban's Foreign Minister and its ambassador to Pakistan, says a Pakistani official close to the talks, were in favor of saving the Buddhas. But Mullah Omar, says a member of the Pakistani delegation, listened to what Haider...
PLEA ENTERED. By ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI, 34, who previously tried to plead guilty to conspiring in the Sept. 11 attacks; of not guilty; in Alexandria, Va. Moussaoui changed his mind after the judge informed him the plea meant confessing to detailed involvement in the attacks, which he denies...
What does John Walker Lindh's plea bargain - in which the America Taliban plead guilty to two of the 10 charges brought against him by the U.S. government, a deal that brings up to 20 years in prison without parole - mean for other American citizens accused of links to the Taliban and al-Qaeda...
...Laughs] I'll plead the Fifth...