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When U.S. officials at Guantanamo Bay reviewed a list of prisoners in March, they decided to send Abdullah Mesud home. Although the 29-year-old Pakistani had been arrested in northern Afghanistan while fighting for the Taliban, he was hobbled by an artificial leg and judged to be a low security risk, according to Pakistani officials who supervised his release...
...still a difficult journey. To help secure Afghanistan against a new Taliban offensive aimed at sabotaging the elections, the U.S. is flying in 1,100 more troops to join the 15,000 already in the country. The Taliban, which ruled Afghanistan for nearly six years before the U.S. toppled the regime after 9/11, has made a campaign promise. "We will hit the election offices and the candidates, and anyone who gets in our way will die," spokesman Abdul Latif Hakimi told TIME by satellite telephone from an undisclosed location. At the same time, any victory that smells too much...
...decisively, Karzai needs support from his Pashtuns, many of whom are facing the threat of marauding Taliban and alQaeda fighters. It is a measure of the desperation of Karzai's supporters that a pro-Taliban tribal chieftain, Naim Kochi, was released two weeks ago from American custody in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where he had been held for having truck with renegade anti-U.S. commander Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Kochi was sprung because he could deliver more than 55,000 votes from his Ahmedzai tribe, according to an influential tribesman involved in the negotiations. But after his two years in Gitmo...
...crackling sat phone, Taliban spokesman Hakimi was heard ordering his men to turn off their motorcycle engines. He could have been speaking from a mountain road or a town in neighboring Pakistan, where many of the Taliban gather in the fundamentalist religious schools called madrasahs before crossing the border to try to kill U.S. soldiers. "Elections aren't part of Afghan culture. Anyway, it is fixed so the American puppet Karzai will win," he says. Afghan intelligence officials in the southern city of Kandahar say more than 2,000 Taliban fighters are roaming the desert outskirts of the city. Says...
Karzai's Campaign To become Afghanistan's first elected President, he must placate warlords and pacify the Taliban...