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Prince Turki al Faisal of Saudi Arabia knows Afghanistan well. He helped direct Saudi aid to anti-Soviet fighters in their war against Moscow. And since 1998, as head of the Saudi intelligence service, he's made a number of attempts to negotiate a deal to get Osama bin Laden out of Afghanistan. He failed. Still, Turki believes the current American method of trying to extract bin Laden is ill-advised...
...Somebody ought to tell the President that the phrase "those who are not with us are against us" was the signature slogan of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union under Stalin in the 1930s. But it's not simply the unfortunate historical associations that pose the problem; it's the very idea that countries either fall into lockstep with the U.S. or else they're with the bad guys. The typical response in the developing world to the U.S. war on terror has run along these lines: harsh condemnation of bin Laden and unreserved solidarity with...
...Blair speak of a post-Taliban government that would represent all tribes and ethnic groups. If it is to be a government of all, let's hear a lot more about Afghanistan's women, who have borne a terrible burden during the Taliban's medieval rule. Under the former, Soviet-dominated regime, they were well educated and played important roles as physicians and teachers. Today the nation's women are the brightest and best hope for democracy. TIM SYMONDS Lamberhurst, England...
...plans were sent further into disarray on Friday when Abdul Haq, a heroic mujahedin commander who lost his right foot fighting Soviet occupation in the 1980s, was captured by the Taliban and hanged in Azra, south of Kabul. Haq had entered Afghanistan to drum up support for a multiethnic government among his own people, the Pashtun of the south, but was captured as he tried to escape on horseback under cover of U.S. air strikes. Haq had feared that the bombing campaign would jeopardize his efforts to win support from Pashtuns - the Northern Alliance is mainly supported by ethnic Uzbeks...
...this war the easy way, the fate of Abdul Haq should serve as a powerful antidote. Few knew how to fight in the rugged Afghan steppes and summits better than Haq, a legendary mujahedin guerrilla who lost his right foot to a land mine while helping rout the Soviets. He left Afghanistan during the post-Soviet power struggle and renounced politics after his wife and son were murdered in his Peshawar, Pakistan, home. But he recently returned to the Afghan frontier, hoping to enlist defectors and warlords in an anti-Taliban southern alliance. Because he was Pashtun--the dominant tribe...