Word: zaeef
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...road. American officials privately confirmed reports that a Predator drone armed with Hellfire missiles had earlier missed Omar's convoy by minutes. In Kandahar local residents said U.S. missiles demolished part of his house. Since then, he has bounced from one mountain hideout to the next. Abdul Salam Zaeef, the Taliban's ambassador to Pakistan, indicated that it took him two days to travel from Quetta, just across the border, to Omar's hideaway. But inconvenience has not demoralized the Taliban chief, Zaeef told TIME: "He and the Taliban fighters are excited...
...called "friendly troops." By the week's end a U.S. spokesman announced that a small number of special forces were already on the ground in southern Afghanistan. The Taliban defiantly announced that they are ready and eager to avenge the air raids, and their envoy to Pakistan, Abdul Salam Zaeef, said they would not hand over bin Laden...
...Kabul is bracing to pay the price for that hospitality. "Will America send rockets and bombs to hit Afghanistan?" some residents asked anxiously. In Islamabad, the Taliban ambassador to Pakistan issued a warning. "If any regional or neighboring country helps the U.S. attack us," Abdul Salam Zaeef told reporters, "it would draw us into a reprisal...