Word: zurmat
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After the fall of the Taliban, about 500 renegade fighters, together with Arabs and other foreigners and their families--around 2,000 people, according to some estimates--holed up in the town of Zurmat. About three weeks ago, local chieftains got wind of a possible U.S. strike and went to the al-Qaeda fighters with an open Koran, pleading with them to leave--and offering them about $10,000 to do so. Then the al-Qaeda men appeared in the village with their wives and children, all wearing funeral shrouds, according to Din Mohammad Darwish, a local radio technician. They...
Amazingly, the companies at the south of the valley did not suffer an American fatality that first day. Things went less well in the northwest, where a force of Afghans led by General Ziahuddin, accompanied by American special forces, was to enter the valley from Zurmat. Abdul Sabur, a young Afghan, had signed on with the Americans for $200 a month, plus a mountain parka, a new Kalashnikov assault rifle and the promise of meat at least once a day. The risks seemed worth it; Sabur's own commander had not paid him for months...
...After the fall of the Taliban, about 500 renegade fighters, together with Arabs and other foreigners and their families?around 2,000 people, according to some estimates?holed up in the town of Zurmat. About three weeks ago, local chieftains got wind of a possible U.S. strike and went to the al-Qaeda fighters with an open Koran, pleading with them to leave?and offering them about $10,000 to do so. Then the al-Qaeda men appeared in the village with their wives and children, all wearing funeral shrouds, according to Din Mohammad Darwish, a local radio technician. They...
...Amazingly, the companies at the south of the valley did not suffer an American fatality that first day. Things went less well in the northwest, where a force of Afghans led by General Ziahuddin, accompanied by American special forces, was to enter the valley from Zurmat. Abdul Sabur, a young Afghan, had signed on with the Americans for $200 a month, plus a mountain parka, a new Kalashnikov assault rifle and the promise of meat at least once a day. The risks seemed worth it; Sabur's own commander had not paid him for months...
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