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...Laden and Omar, who early last week was thought to be hiding with bin Laden. Military officials believe the two men later split up, communicating via human messengers and walkie-talkies. The implosion of Taliban-held territory left both men with few places to run outside of southeastern Afghanistan, and intelligence sources told TIME they believed friction between the two would lead one of them to make a fateful blunder that gave away their locations. "The confidence level is fairly high," a senior U.S. official told TIME. "We've got a pretty good handle on generally where [bin Laden...
...Laden and Omar, who early last week was thought to be hiding with bin Laden. Military officials believe the two men later split up, communicating via human messengers and walkie- talkies. The implosion of Taliban-held territory left both men with few places to run outside of southeastern Afghanistan, and intelligence sources told Time they believed friction between the two would lead one of them to make a fateful blunder that gave away their locations. "The confidence level is fairly high," a senior U.S. official told Time. "We've got a pretty good handle on generally where [bin Laden...
...past two years, Jeff Roberts, 53, spent virtually every weekend away from his wife Doris, also 53. Not for sales trips, not for hunting with the boys and certainly not for anything illicit. Jeff has been caring for his 86-year-old parents at their nearby home in southeastern Ohio. After his mother had a stroke in 1999, the family hired a five-day-a-week live-in caretaker for her and her husband, a dialysis patient who had lost one leg. (He died last June.) When the care worker took off on Friday nights, Jeff stepped...
...every Afghan welcomed the Taliban, product of the deeply conservative southeastern region, powered by Pashtun pride. Equally toughened ethnic minorities and religious dissenters loosely linked in the Northern Alliance fought them, especially for control of the cities, the capital and the non-Pashtun north. To this day, the Taliban rules only 90% of Afghan territory and is still engaged in fierce fighting to capture the rest. So far, however, the alliance's often feuding units do not have the numbers, the ethnic backing or the political skill to constitute a serious opposition...
Many congregations found that maintaining a vibrant education and outreach program depended on getting people to come to church in the first place. And that in turn depended on the message delivered each Sunday. "Cultural competition" is part of the challenge, argues Paige Patterson, president of the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. "People are highly stimulated by entertainment of a thousand different varieties, so if they go to church and are bored or at least not challenged, they're thinking, 'Why go to church...