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...agents and other law enforcers have contacted or visited dozens of the 600 truck-driving schools across the U.S. and are seeking enrollment records going back as far as 1994. Some have asked for records of only students with Middle Eastern names or students who paid in cash, received haz-mat permits or abruptly quit their training. Some agents have shown pictures of the 19 hijackers to determine if they attended classes. Others have asked for lists of student names to be checked against the Federal Government's terrorist watch lists...
...Back on the outskirts of Kandahar, the Taliban is stopping families at gunpoint and turning them back from the road to Pakistan. Muammer Zahir, a twentysomething truck driver, was able to dodge the checkpoint. "What will the Americans attack?" he asks. "Our houses are already destroyed by years of fighting." U.N. officials say the Taliban is still letting some women and children head toward the frontier?but only after the men traveling in the party are forcibly conscripted. Relief officials have coined a new word to describe these poor Afghans: the "internally stuck." And nobody wants to be stuck...
...hired a taxi to take us to Kabul. After two days of inquiries, we learned that fighting around Bamiyan had stopped a month before and we would be the first foreign visitors since the Buddhas were destroyed. Ten hours north in the back of a truck brought us to a stop where a group of Taliban fighters escorted us to a stone-and-mud compound. In each corner stood a militiaman armed with a locally made AK-47 assault rifle and guarding piles of ammunition and missiles loosely stacked against a wall. We sat on the ground and tensely drank...
...largely flat circuit through layered rice and tobacco fields, along steep riverbanks and past villages set in the rolling, verdant landscape. This is true Marlboro Country. The red and white murals of cigarette packs painted on the sides of drying towers show where farmers dream of sending their truck-wheel-sized leaves. Tobacco may be a pernicious business, but here at its roots, as villagers strip plants and carry off stacks of leaves on their heads, it retains a barefoot innocence...
...embassy attack, Belgian police raided his apartment and found automatic weapons and documents related to the assault. The search of a nearby restaurant turned up bomb-making materials. "It?s still unknown exactly how the attack was to be carried out - as a suicide bombing or planted in a truck," the French official says. "But Belgian colleagues tell us that under interrogation, Trabelsi admitted a plan to use chemicals capable of creating large clouds of toxic...