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Black mourning banners still wave across the steep gorges, pockmarked villages and invisible redoubts that make up the thin sliver of Afghanistan not conquered by the Taliban. They honor the "Lion of Panjshir," Ahmed Shah Massoud, revered commander of the anti-Taliban forces, assassinated two days before the attacks on the U.S. Yet the loose collection of Northern Alliance fighters now calling themselves the United Front, who have doggedly held their narrowing ground for five years, are filled with high hope. American bombs are coming. America will help them win the victory they couldn't win themselves...
...determining a future government. Rather than Rabbani - whose tenure is remembered as an era of corruption and vicious civil war in which tens of thousands of civilians were killed as rival factions battled for control of the capital - the West has enlisted the help of the former king, Zahir Shah, who has been living in the suburbs of Rome since being deposed in a 1973 coup. Western strategy appears to have combined a sharp increase in aid to the United Front with the matchmaking of a political alliance between them and the king. Intense negotiations last weekend produced a "Supreme...
...militants from dozens of Middle Eastern countries aspiring to change secular regimes into Taliban-style states but are revolutionaries from Uzbekistan and Uighur separatists from China as well. U.S. officials believe that bin Laden masterminded the Sept. 9 assassination of the leading military commander of the Northern Alliance, Ahmed Shah Massoud, the Taliban's chief rival for national power. In return, bin Laden and the militants are guaranteed sanctuary, plus room to set up camps to train their supporters and help to recruit fresh talent...
...Jersey City, N.J., was home to Omar Abdel-Rahman when he masterminded the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Two weeks ago in Texas, feds arrested two men witnesses say worshiped at the mosque. Ayub Ali-Khan--believed to be a trained pilot whose real name is Gul Mohammed Shah--and Mohammed Azmath were on a flight from Newark to San Antonio when the attacks began. After landing in St. Louis, they hopped a train, only to be arrested in Fort Worth with box cutters and $5,000 in their...
...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...