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...secret police of the former Afghan communist regime--working alongside Muslim clerics in nearly every Afghan village. And it has no monolithic central headquarters that can be taken out with a missile. "The Taliban's command-and-control center," says a foreign diplomat, "is two mullahs sitting on a rug with a radio transmitter...
...brushed aside the dust on the Afghan rug on which we sat. The weave was exquisite. (After six weeks in carpetland you start noticing these things.) Oh, yes - this merchant is also a friend of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar. "Before it might have been possible for America to negotiate with Mullah Omar over Osama bin Laden - but not now," he says. "Mullah Omar watched his son dying in a Kandahar hospital after a U.S. bombing raid. These things are not so easily forgiven...
...secure for every person the right to a free public education. Unz’s proposal would undermine this education at a time when bilingual students are already facing dismally high failure rates on the state’s high-stakes MCAS exam. Voters should not allow the rug to be slipped out from under the feet of those who are just learning to stand...
...every few minutes, "are you happy?" "Yes," I would nod. The man would beam back, "I am very happy." As night fell, I found myself holding a commander's two-way radio and talking to other leaders in the area, which elicited howls of delight from my hosts. A rug was placed on the floor and we ate dinner with some commanders. The Taliban's larder is far superior to any other in Afghanistan and we gorged ourselves on several different types of mutton curry scooped up with nan. After the lower ranks were fed, we were shown...
...informal Islamic banking network that has operated for generations in Asia and the Middle East. Hawala, Hindi for "in trust," links brokers around the world who advance funds to depositors on a handshake and, sometimes, a password. In remote areas, a broker may have little more than a rug and a phone. In larger cities, including some in the U.S., brokers often operate from the back of a store. With no wire transfers, balance sheets or financial statements, hawala leaves no trail for law enforcement to follow. It's like the Mob, says William Wechsler, a former National Security Council...