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...casualties suffered by Afghan civilians caught in American bombing raids. The issue became more acute last week with reports that as many as 100 villagers had been killed during U.S. air strikes two weeks ago in the province of Paktia. The Pentagon says the Paktian village of Niazi Qala harbored Taliban ammunition dumps. But visitors to the village after the attacks say leaders from the province had asked Afghanistan's interim leader, Hamid Karzai, to prevail upon the U.S. to stop bombing in Paktia. A convoy of tribal leaders from the area was attacked by American warplanes...
Your report on how U.S. forces helped put down a Taliban prisoner-of-war revolt, "Inside the Battle at Qala-i-Jangi," was riveting [TIME EXCLUSIVE, Dec. 10]. Alex Perry's account of the sounds, the smells, the terror and the tragedy inside the Qala-i-Jangi fortress was brilliant, as was his description of the final moments of the ill-fated CIA interrogation of the prisoners. The photographs and graphics highlighted the incisive reporting. Perry has left the competition in the Afghan dust. PATRICK J. SLOYAN Paeonian Springs...
...strangest culture clash of the war in Afghanistan took place on a bright Sunday morning in late November. In the Qala-i-Jangi prison fortress, a few miles west of Mazar-i-Sharif, CIA agent Johnny ("Mike") Spann was sorting through 300 surrendered Taliban soldiers in an attempt to determine which of them were al-Qaeda members. Dressed in blue jeans, with an AK-47 strapped across the back of his black sweater, Spann passed through several rows of Taliban before crouching in front of a prisoner who had been separated from the rest, a mass of tangled hair...
Past Issues Person of the Year Dec. 31, 2001 ----------------- Inside Tora Bora Dec. 24, 2001 ----------------- The Manhunt Dec. 17, 2001 ----------------- Qala-i-Jangi Dec. 10, 2001 ----------------- Unveiled at Last Dec. 3, 2001 ----------------- Hunting bin Laden Nov. 26, 2001 ----------------- First Blood Nov. 19, 2001 ----------------- Al-Qaeda's Reach Nov. 12, 2001 ----------------- War On Two Fronts Nov. 5, 2001 ----------------- The Fear Factor Oct. 29, 2001 ----------------- The War on Terror Oct. 22, 2001 ----------------- Facing the Fury Oct. 15, 2001 ----------------- Preparing for Battle Oct. 8, 2001 ----------------- Target: Bin Laden Oct. 1, 2001 ----------------- America United Sept. 24, 2001 ----------------- Day of Infamy Sept...
...worth at the time of the scam was $700 million and he allegedly stole as much as $400 million in charges from 1993 to 1999. He faces up to three years in prison. CAPTURED. JOHN PHILIP WALKER LINDH, 20, an American who was among 80 Taliban survivors of the Qala-i-Jangi prison revolt; in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan. Lindh, who gave his name as Abdul Hamid, converted to Islam at 16 and traveled to northern Pakistan via Yemen to study Arabic and the Koran, where his divorced parents had lost touch with him. He faces possible charges of treason...