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Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul and Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef were both held by the U.S. at Guantánamo. Both were senior Taliban commanders, and both say they were subjected to solitary confinement, sleep deprivation, countless interrogations and beatings. But when they were released back home in their native Afghanistan, the two men's paths diverged radically...
...Seared by the humiliations of Guantánamo, Rasoul immediately rejoined the Taliban insurgency, bent on revenge. Better known by his nom de guerre, Mullah Abdullah Zakir, he is now believed by Afghan and NATO intelligence officers to be the Taliban's new field commander, responsible for a string of bombings and ambushes in southern Afghanistan over the past year that have killed dozens of NATO troops (and which killed more than 30 people in a series of bombings in Kandahar over the weekend). He is believed to have assumed overall responsibility for Taliban military operations from the movement...
...Peaceful Continent In a bitter irony, it is one of modern Europe's most cherished convictions - that the force of arms rarely settles political disputes for long - that inhibits it from being a more powerful player. European nations have sent thousands of young men and women to fight the Taliban, but the memory of the 20th century means European public opinion seems unwilling to commit to the war in Afghanistan for the long haul. On Feb. 20, the Dutch coalition government collapsed because of a dispute over when to end the country's deployment. The German government faces enormous domestic...
...conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction, conspiracy to commit murder in a foreign country and providing material support to al-Qaeda. The 25-year-old Afghan-born U.S. permanent resident--he attended high school in New York City--traveled to Pakistan in 2008, intending to fight alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan. Instead he ended up at a Pakistani al-Qaeda training camp for several months, then moved to Colorado, where he plotted the attack. On Sept. 10, 2009, he arrived in New York in a rented car carrying bombmaking materials but retreated when he realized he was under surveillance...
...also giving weapons and training to "friendly" tribes so they can keep militants out of their territories. The drawback: some critics argue that if a tribe again becomes disillusioned with Islamabad - and it wouldn't be the first time - these militias will simply swell the ranks of the Pakistani Taliban, taking their new guns with them...