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...Sherzai, the warlord who has retaken control of Kandahar, told reporters Wednesday that seven Taliban leaders had surrendered their weapons and vehicles to Sherzai and sworn loyalty to him. The governor then sent them home to their villages. The next day, Sherzai's men claimed Turabi was the only Talib to surrender. A day later, no one had surrendered--but six (Turabi and five low-level officials) were said to have approached Sherzai and asked for amnesty, which he refused. But he promised not to pursue them as long as they left a forwarding address. They agreed...
...commanders like Sherzai, who owes his position to American cash and the squad of Green Berets that has chaperoned him around for two months. But Sherzai and the other warlords running Afghanistan need the support of the locals too. "Gul Agha will be thinking of the future," a former Talib told TIME. "When America goes, he will still be here." Sherzai was no doubt thinking of the future when he let Turabi slip over the border...
Omar is not really a Mullah. He prefers to be called a talib (student), because his religious studies were interrupted by the Soviet invasion in 1979. As a mujahed, he earned a reputation as a marksman, but the conflict cost him his right eye. After the Soviets pulled out and Afghanistan descended into civil war, he lived simply as a village clergyman until, he claims, he had a dream in which the Prophet Muhammad revealed that he, Omar, should lead the country out of lawlessness and immorality. He and a few dozen other clerics became the foundation of the Taliban...
...jihad. Some have returned to their villages pleading for mercy; others tried to slip unnoticed across the Pakistani border. "It's very easy," says Khair Ullah, a resident of the border town of Bajaur. "You remove your black turban and trim your beard, and nobody says you are a Talib...
...jihad. Some have returned to their villages pleading for mercy; others tried to slip unnoticed across the Pakistani border. "It's very easy," says Khair Ullah, a resident of the border town of Bajaur. "You remove your black turban and trim your beard, and nobody says you are a Talib...