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...That's OK with me. I was across the border at last, heading towards Kandahar. At a roadblock were two authentic Taliban with AK-47s. In a land where all men are obliged by law (and a good beating) to grow a beard two fists long, you can tell the Taliban by their turbans, which are white or a more sinister black. These guys had festooned their rifle straps with ribbons of cassette tape, banned music confiscated from passing cars and buses...
...traffic goes both ways. On the road to Kandahar, teenagers from as far away as Karachi are flocking to join the fight against America. "Why do you want to enter this hell?" warned a Taliban soldier at a roadblock. Who knows? Because of religious conviction? Because it's home? Or because, like young men before them for a thousand years, the youths felt, at the prospect of war, a summoning up of the blood. There'll be plenty of that before we're through...
...COLOMBIA Highway Kidnap Consuelo Araujo, a former culture minister and the wife of Colombia's attorney-general, was kidnapped at a roadblock near Valledupar, 675 km north of Bogotá, along with 10 traveling companions. Police suspect that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, which demands huge ransoms to help finance its insurgency, was responsible...
This past weekends Harvard Mens water polo contests were a further testament to this teams methodical ascension to prominence on the national polo stage. Though the 17th ranked Crimson met a familiar roadblock in the 13th ranked Minutemen of UMass, Harvard notched two convincing victories over league foes, Boston College...
...Macedonian Slavs feel cheated by NATO. "At first they were calling [the N.L.A.] murderers and terrorists," he says. "Now they're sending their highest emissaries to discuss voluntarily giving up their weapons." Nowhere is that sense of betrayal stronger, perhaps, than among the couple dozen Macedonian Slavs manning a roadblock on the road from Skopje north to the border with Kosovo - the main line of ground communication for NATO's operations in the Serb province. Macedonian Slavs make up the majority of the estimated 64,000 people displaced from villages in majority ethnic Albanian regions now controlled by the N.L.A...