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...Qaeda operatives to escape to other countries - they should, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld said bluntly, "either be killed or taken prisoner." Dostum had taken the captives to his fortress, announcing that he would hand them over to the United Nations after processing. Exactly how he planned to do this was unclear, since there is currently no UN security presence in Afghanistan...
...Dostum's intentions were unclear, his security arrangements proved catastrophic. Even before the revolt began, two senior Northern Alliance commanders were killed in the fortress on Saturday night by a hand grenade detonated by a Taliban prisoner. But the conflagration that killed most of the prisoners began on Sunday morning, triggered - according to an emerging consensus among news reports - when prisoners set upon two CIA operatives sent to interrogate them in the hope of weeding out Al Qaeda members. One of these men, Johnny "Mike" Spann, was reportedly beaten to death; the other escaped to a far corner...
...said Wakil Mir Agha, a local leader from a suburb near Kabul International Airport, he was on the roof of his house and heard Taliban soldiers saying Qarabagh had fallen. Soon after, he reported, they fled the city, joining some 8,000 Taliban and radical fighters. It was unclear whether the retreat had been ordered or was a result of panic. Said Jawed Hussein, 21, a Pakistani captured by the Alliance: "Everybody was running to save his own skin." Or driving. Abandoning tanks and heavy weapons, they stole an estimated 800 cars for their getaway. Destinations varied: some headed toward...
...officials tell TIME that agents have been gathering material from these sites and expect a windfall of intelligence. But it was not until late Friday, four days after the Taliban fled Kabul, that the houses were sealed off with new locks. It was unclear by whom. Until then, Afghan neighbors report, there was no sign of anyone but journalists and looters visiting the houses, hauling away the very treasures--hard drives, manuals, videotapes, lists of recruits--for which U.S. officials have been scouring the earth. If anything was left by the time U.S. agents got into the act, the government...
...arrest, it will be largely thanks to James Fitzgerald of the FBI Academy's Behavioral Analysis Unit, a longtime student of such grandiose murderers. They're almost invariably male, says Fitzgerald, and they're always filled with anger. In this case, the rage is directed, for reasons still unclear, at Tom Brokaw, Tom Daschle and someone at the New York Post. "They represent something to him," says Fitzgerald. "Whatever agenda he's operating under, these people meant something to him." Indeed, the FBI is hoping the mailer might have spoken contemptuously of them to an acquaintance who will recall...