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Pakistan's public promise to help the U.S. has scared off its Afghan sources. The Taliban pressed Islamabad to call its diplomatic officials home for "safety" reasons, and other Pakistani informants are no longer allowed to move freely around Afghanistan. The Taliban destroyed satellite phones, and the Afghan ambassador in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ears to the Ground | 10/15/2001 | See Source »

That and a U.S. retreat. Bin Laden has repeatedly described Americans as easily scared into submission. He cites the pullout of U.S. troops from Beirut after a 1983 truck bombing there killed 241 Marines, and the withdrawal from Somalia after 18 U.S. soldiers died there. He plainly thinks a large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Osama's Endgame | 10/15/2001 | See Source »

In response to Rosenblatt's essay, I offer this thought. The "Age of Irony" was captured brilliantly on Seinfeld, the funniest sitcom of the '90s. The last episode, so disliked by the show's many fans, featured jail terms for the four principal characters--a telling indictment of their ineffable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 15, 2001 | 10/15/2001 | See Source »

The manager, Syed Aamir, said he liked Americans. He served us tea and lunch, and then drove us into Quetta in his own jeep, even though the police were scared to let us go. On the road into town, we crashed through barricades of smoldering tires, and swerved around boulders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Osama Is a Rock Star | 10/12/2001 | See Source »

The manager, Syed Aamir, said he liked Americans. He served us tea and lunch, and then drove us into Quetta in his own jeep, even though the police were scared to let us go. On the road into town, we crashed through barricades of smoldering tires, and swerved around boulders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Osama Is a Rock Star | 10/11/2001 | See Source »

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