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Before the attendees even settled in their seats, host Pir Sayed Ahmed Gailani, a spiritual leader who has positioned himself close to deposed King Zahir Shah, sought backing for his plan to set up an interim supreme council headed by the former monarch. Under Gailani's plan, after the Taliban fell, a council chaired by the King would assume power, backed by a U.N. security force from Muslim countries. The council would call a loya jirga, the traditional representative political gathering, to write a constitution acceptable to all ethnic groups within the framework of Islamic law. Speaker after speaker embraced...
...that many chieftains from inside Afghanistan braved Taliban wrath to come. Nowhere sat a member of the Northern Alliance. Nor did a single so-called moderate Taliban attend. From Kabul, Taliban spokesmen jeered that the gathering was a bunch of self-seekers out to pocket American dollars. Even Zahir Shah, who stood to benefit most, inexplicably failed to send a personal representative. And the maneuvering in Peshawar ignores a harsh reality. When you ask four Afghan refugees who should rule their country, you get four different answers. Ghulan Sarwar, 50, favors the King. Mahmood Ayub, 25, says only the Taliban...
...London has detained and questioned a number of Sept. 11 suspects, including Lotfi Raissi, an Algerian alleged to have helped train the suicide pilots in the attacks. And last week Yasser al-Siri, whose bookstore and website are well known in London, was charged with conspiracy to murder Ahmed Shah Massoud, the leader of the anti-Taliban Afghan Northern Alliance. Massoud died after assassins bombed his headquarters on Sept...
...important way, their defense is correct. We have no reason to believe that, when properly interpreted, Islam’s teachings are consistent with acts of terrorism. I am no expert in Islamic theology, and so when the entire American Muslim community assures me—as Saif I. Shah Mohammed ’02 and Zayed M. Yasin ’02, writing recently in The Crimson, so passionately assured me—that anybody who reads the Koran in context would condemn the killing of innocent people, I believe them...
...Saudi crown prince wrote to President George W. Bush last week, offering a revealing glimpse of the Saudi sentiment. “Those governments that don’t feel the pulse of the people and respond to it will suffer the fate of the Shah of Iran...