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...precedent for the future," implying it might help protect captured U.S. soldiers. In Afghanistan, the U.S. renewed missile strikes on suspected al-Qaeda targets while heavy snow left thousands of villages without access to food or medical aid. At least five people died when an avalanche blocked the Salang Tunnel. Faction leaders met to resolve security problems, while Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf pledged to help the country's reconstruction...
...medical profession have done likewise. Some of Vichai's critics question the science behind the pills. Others question the company he keeps: his principal backer is Salang Bunnag, an ex-police general who was forced to resign from the force in 1998 after members of a drug gang that publicly surrendered tohim were taken off and, minutes later, shot dead. Vichai says Salang believed in his cure when the medical establishment ignored...
...drug. All he says is that it contains magnesium, calcium and "non-living chemical matter." He claims the active ingredient is similar in molecular structure to the HIV virus and teaches antibodies the secret to fighting the real virus. Aldar Bourinbaiar, an American scientist who is connected to Salang's foundation, claims that within 15 days many patients start putting on weight and their sores begin to heal; over six months the viral load drops and the CD-8 interceptor cells, which protect the body's immune system, start rallying. "We know the drug replaces infected cells with healthy ones...
...patients over six months. But after three months, Vichai claimed that the patients had all wandered off and could not be traced. The health authorities stopped the tests in mid-June. Their verdict: inconclusive. That hasn't deterred the pharmacist and the ex-police chief, however. On June 2, Salang organized a free handout of V-1 at a Bangkok soccer stadium. It was a spectacle right out of a medieval plague tableau: hollow-eyed and ravaged by the disease, more than 4,000 AIDS sufferers limped onto the field or were carried on stretchers to receive a week...
...Kabul, a man named Naser. Zai was in the forefront of the Taliban troops who swept into Kabul on Sept. 27 and pushed the armies of Ahmad Shah Massoud, the former government's army commander, into the hills surrounding the capital. Zai was captured Oct. 13 near the Salang Pass, the high-water mark of the Taliban effort to drive Massoud's forces from the region. The campaign turned disastrous when Massoud retreated until the Taliban had stretched their lines dangerously thin. Then the Lion of Panjshir turned and abruptly struck at their flanks, a tactic he had used many...