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...simply remind you that Afghanistan is far from over, and may not be for some time yet. Still, with President Bush dangling hints that Saddam Hussein will face the consequences if he doesn't allow arms inspectors back in and U.S. officials starting to mention the likes of Sudan, Yemen and Somalia, it's clear the administration is considering its next step...
...before, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld had offhandedly mentioned that bin Laden may have tried to sneak out of the country?possibly in a helicopter flying close to the ground and possibly into the tribal areas of Pakistan, from which he could head for a new home in Somalia, Sudan or Yemen. "They could go down one of the valleys and not be detected," Rumsfeld said. "It's not a bottle that you can cork...
...would punish anyone who gave sanctuary to bin Laden. Pakistani officials and American ground troops tightened their surveillance of refugees flowing out of Afghanistan. On Saturday, Pakistani guards at the Chaman border detained three Arab women and their two children trying to cross into Pakistan. The three women, from Yemen, claimed that their Arab husbands had been killed in the U.S. bombing as they fled south from Kabul. A TIME correspondent at the scene said the women wore black burkas of an expensive Saudi design and were interrogated about possible links to al-Qaeda and bin Laden...
...pedophiles, who marry poor young girls from the provinces, use and then abandon them. In 2000 the Iranian Parliament voted to raise the minimum age for girls to 14, but this year, a legislative oversight body dominated by traditional clerics vetoed the move. An attempt by conservatives to abolish Yemen's legal minimum age of 15 for girls failed, but local experts say it is rarely enforced anyway. (The onset of puberty is considered an appropriate time for a marriage to be consummated...
...from those days as enthusiastic but gentle and shy. The Saudis first began to be worried about bin Laden in 1990, after he returned home from Afghanistan still hungry for more jihad. Soon after, according to Turki, bin Laden began taking veterans of the Afghan war to North Yemen to fight the Marxist regime in the Republic of South Yemen. "North Yemen is an arms market. You can buy a weapon anywhere. He had to be stopped," says Turki. "The kingdom said, 'You have done your best to help the mujahedin in Afghanistan. Leave it at that...