Word: talib
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...cigarette even though he'd told me he didn't smoke. Inhaling deeply, he seemed calm, now. "They have gone, the Talibans out," he said with a sigh. A few checkpoints later, we were at the border post at Torkham. All that stood between me and safety was four Talibs with guns. I tried to enter Pakistan, telling them I am a Pakistani. The words caused commotion. One Talib grabbed me from the neck. Another grabbed my left wrist. The third put his hands on my chest, forcing me back to Afghanistan...
...more ideologically-motivated Pakistani, Arab and Chechen volunteers to fight and die - some of them reportedly after surrendering. Indeed, Western audiences may wince a little as firsthand tales from the battle front paint many of the proxy warriors of the Northern Alliance as no less brutal than their Talib enemies. But in Afghanistan, neither locals nor foreigners have ever fought by the Queensberry rules...
...gathering darkness, we stand staring out toward Talib lines. Save for the occasional crump of a mortar or burst of tracer fire the front is quiet. Then toward 7 p.m. the evening exodus begins. Since the start of U.S. air strikes against targets in Kabul, there has been a nightly parade of vehicles from the city. On what they call the New Road, in front of the base, convoys of trucks, pickups and armored vehicles cross a low pass, their headlights visible as they head toward villages behind the Bagram front...
...that it is impossible to “judge the worst of the present by the best of the past.” Like most people, however, he is not optimistic that many hip-hop fans will ever fully embrace innovative artists such as Mos Def, Lauryn Hill and Talib Kweli. Neither is he optimistic that there will be many more artists like them...
...victory in a major city in the north, like Mazar-I-Sharif, will provoke a total collapse of Taliban forces. The soft core Taliban fighters - mujahideen who defected in 1996 to protect either regional or personal interests - will break away, while the supply lines of the hard core Talib will be shattered. Once the north has been secured, the Alliance will move on Kabul. They will push as far as the edge of the city, however, but will not enter, in deference to the terrible memories of chaos and pillage in 1992 when they last captured the city. Instead...