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ALEX PERRY, our New Delhi bureau chief, who reported on the battle of Qala-i-Jangi in late November, returned to Mazar-i-Sharif two weeks ago, only to be called eastward to Kabul to help cover the fighting near Gardez...
...loose. Efforts to apprehend al-Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan have slowed, as thousands have bought safe refuge in the hamlets and villages of the Afghan countryside. "The mission is to take al-Qaeda apart piece by piece," says Mohammed Anwar, the head of intelligence in Mazar-i-Sharif. "But it's very difficult work." CIA, FBI and military intelligence officials have spent eight weeks interviewing the 300 detainees in Cuba for information on the whereabouts of the al-Qaeda leadership, but defense sources told TIME that any prisoners now in U.S. custody know little, if anything, about bin Laden...
...Efforts continue to pinpoint al Qaeda members: Mazar-e-Sharif intelligence chief Mohammed Anwar said the population has been warned that anyone caught harboring al Qaeda operatives will be considered a terrorist themselves; 610 agents send him information from hundreds of miles around as well as checkpoints strung across every major road. The CIA has also set up groups in every major city across the nation, he says: in addition to the intelligence officers he works with, there are agents working on propaganda to convince Afghans that Americans are in their country to help. "The mission is to take apart...
...clear from the testimony of witnesses and officials of the new government that the ruling clerics systematically abducted women from the Tajik, Uzbek, Hazara and other ethnic minorities they defeated. Stolen women were a reward for victorious battle. And in the cities of Kabul, Mazar-i-Sharif, Jalalabad and Khost, women victims tell of being forced to wed Taliban soldiers and Pakistani and Arab fighters of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network, who later abandoned them. These marriages were tantamount to legalized rape. "They sold these girls," says Ahmad Jan, the Kabul police chief. "The girls were dishonored...
...reading crumbling 19th century labor newspapers in the sub-basement of Littauer for her thesis, she’s writing about contemporary inequalities at Harvard and beyond. In her column, “Harvard On My Mind” she attacks injustices from Mazar-e-Sharif to Mass Hall. Her column will run on alternate Fridays...