Word: saif
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...Northern Alliance, however, and their picture of the Taliban is more sobering. These people--intelligence officers, security officials and spies--do not think the Taliban resistance in Kabul will collapse at the first U.S. salvo. A Northern Alliance fighter who has viewed the Taliban up close is Saif, a tense, nervy man in his 30s who is a spy for one of the alliance commanders. When he was interviewed last week, he had just spent 10 days or so in Kabul assessing Taliban strength...
...Taliban has at least 4,000 hardened fighters in the city, Saif says. Their commander is Mullah Obaidullah, the Defense Minister. Obaidullah is a formidable adversary, says Mohammed Aref, chief of staff of a regiment on the front line facing Kabul. Officials and soldiers on this side who are in contact with the Taliban--spies, escapees or front-line officers who sometimes talk to their opponents by radio--say their enemy's morale is higher than Northern Alliance spokesmen would like to believe. The Taliban reaction to the attacks in the U.S. was a mixture of jubilation and fatalism, Northern...
...More needs to be done,” said Harvard Islamic Society President Saif Shah Mohammed ’02. “Civil society in America and the rest of the world should step up its efforts at alleviating the suffering of these innocent people...
...Saif I. Shah Mohammed ’02, president of the Harvard Islamic Society (HIS), sent an e-mail out to HIS members after the harassment warning students to be careful...
...Saif may have summed it up when he said Im hopeful, Im fearful. To him, the President of HIS and suddenly a spokesperson for the Muslim community at Harvard, he hopes that any coming conflict would be a war to reunderstand our values...