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...evaluate at least some of their negative coverage of the U.S. The quickest change has appeared in stories about the military: Arab and Muslim journalists can no longer claim that the U.S. lacks the strength and resolve to beat the Taliban. Historical parallels to the failed British and Russian campaigns in Afghanistan have vanished. Anti-U.S. rhetoric has particularly dulled in Pakistan, where a columnist for the Karachi News International wrote last week that "the unraveling of the self-styled Islamic State [Afghanistan], the only one of its kind in the Muslim world, took only seven weeks. The fabric...
Read his gripping account, and see a photo essay of the battlefield by Russian photographer Oleg Nikishin, who was the first photographer on the scene, at time.com/perry...
...Taliban moved into a decisive phase as the U.S. stepped up air attacks and deployed around 1,000 ground troops to close in on Kandahar and the underground bunkers possibly sheltering al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. As U.S. Marines went into combat for the first time and a Russian Emergencies Ministry team flew into the capital, the cia confirmed that one of its agents was among those killed during a three-day revolt by Taliban prisoners at a compound near Mazar-i-Sharif. Human-rights groups called for an inquiry into the 500 or so deaths, some of them...
...Russian commentators are taking great pleasure in the sudden shift from values the West once championed as inviolable, such as support for an impartial media and abhorrence of detention without trial, to a somewhat bleaker, more Russian perspective...
Many ordinary Russians retain their deep ambivalence toward the U.S. A few days after Sept. 11, the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion, a prominent polling organization, asked Russians whether they agreed with the statement that the U.S. had "got its just deserts"; 35% agreed. The next week the pollsters repeated their question - 50% now supported the statement...