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...cover of Christopher Hitchens’s latest book finds the author pictured, dapper in a rumpled olive trench coat and five o’clock shadow, brandishing a cigarette and gazing at us with obstinate skepticism. By posing as the craggy dissident, as if slumped in the corner of some dim café, the British-born journalist and author evidently seeks to cast himself as a morose rebel from the outset. The mission of Letters to a Young Contrarian, the latest addition to a career carved in stubborn public controversy, fits in nicely with this conceit: the seasoned revolutionary...
...Sunday afternoon a group of journalists went up to the Northern Alliance frontline and watched as the NA fired more tank shells and mortars at a second and third line of trenches behind the first. Just as the sun was setting the tank commander, General Bashir, judged that the Taliban had all cleared out and said he was going forward in an armored personnel carrier to examine the trench lines. About half a dozen journalists asked if they could go, Bashir said yes, and they jumped on board a Armored Personnel Carrier with him and about 6 soldiers. As there...
...passed the first two trench lines without incident, but as it reached the third, some Taliban emerged from a hidden position to their right. "A group of Taliban popped up on our right - six, eight of them," says Levon Sevunts, a journalist for the Montreal Gazette who survived the encounter. "They opened fire on the APC from the right - rifle fire...
...says Shukrullah, 12, who strolls the mountainous streets of Farkhar with a loaded, unlocked Kalashnikov. For these youngsters, it doesn't matter that most soldiers have not received their $25 monthly salary for three months. "This is a very good life," says baby-faced teenager Safaullah, sitting in a trench in Dast-e-Qale. "I can eat good rice, play chess with my friends and fire many interesting weapons...
...action may be shifting south. Late last week both sides mobilized in preparation for a trench battle for control of the air base at Bagram--the front north of Kabul. "We will advance to the gates of Kabul within two weeks," predicts a senior rebel officer. Sources told Time that the Alliance, which is outnumbered 2 to 1 by Taliban forces around Kabul, has asked for close air support from American attack helicopters. So far, the Pentagon has demurred, but AH-64 Apache choppers are already suspected to be in the region, with...