Ahmed Rashid September 11, 2001 News and Media War on Terrorism

"Law and order was breaking down in Kabul yesterday as Taliban soldiers and poverty-stricken civilians carried out armed daylight robberies and looted houses left empty by people who have fled." Daily Telegraph, UK.

• Aid groups quit Kabul in fear of US attacks - "More than 100 UN and aid workers left news and media september 11, 2001 Kabul and four other cities in an airlift news and media september 11, 2001 organised by the UN in Pakistan." From Lahore. news and media september 11, 2001 Daily Telegraph, UK.
• Pakistan faces dilemma after backing Bush - "A senior Pakistani official said: \\'This is a moment of ahmed rashid reckoning for Pakistan. It has to decide whether it wants ahmed rashid to be part of the international community or to go ahmed rashid it alone with all the risks involved of becoming a ahmed rashid pariah state.'" Daily Telegra
• Musharraf must decide which side he is on - "For the past two years Gen Musharraf has ahmed rashid walked a fine line; trying to stem the ahmed rashid growing street power of Islamic fundamentalists who have ahmed rashid been the bulwark of the army\\'s long-term strategy ahmed rashid to carry on guerrilla war in Kashmir and ahmed rashid support for the Talib
• Pakistanis fail to win handover of bin Laden - "Although the hard core of the Taliban army is still holding together and has successfully fought off a week-long offensive by the anti-Taliban United Front, the Taliban administration is imploding in many parts of the country and senior officials ar
• Taliban dissidents may defect to exiled king - "Hundreds of Taliban commanders, mullahs and tribal leaders september 11, 2001 ahmed rashid are ready to defect to the former King september 11, 2001 ahmed rashid Zahir Shah who has issued an appeal for september 11, 2001 ahmed rashid a national uprising against the regime." From Lahore. september 11, 2001 ahmed rashid Daily Telegraph, UK.
• Pakistan, the Taliban and the US - The demands, the trade-offs, the impacts, the backlash and Afghanistan\'s future. The Nation, USA.
• Pakistan intelligence services failing to weaken Taliban - The strategies of Pakistan\'s Interservices Intelligence (ISI). Daily Telegraph, UK.
• Security concerns mount in Afghanistan as country enters critical reconstruction phase - Despite the presence of ISAF (International Security Assistance Force), more news and media is needed for the country\'s reconstruction. Eurasianet.org
• Arab militants flee Kabul as tension rises - "\\'Bin Laden may have used the murder of september 11, 2001 ahmed rashid Massoud as a means to win support with september 11, 2001 ahmed rashid the Taliban at the precise moment he knew september 11, 2001 ahmed rashid he would need that support most, because he september 11, 2001 ahmed rashid [bin Laden] was also planning the bombings in september 11, 2001 ahmed rashid the US,' said a Western diplomat. 'But
• Bin Laden seen as the prime suspect - "For months Washington has been promising a new ahmed rashid Afghanistan news and media policy, combining incentives and pressures on the ahmed rashid Taliban, bin news and media Laden and Pakistan, the Taliban\\'s main ahmed rashid backer. Yet the news and media Bush administration has delayed its ahmed rashid review and has taken news and media a hands-off att
• Silk Road mined and blocked by rebel tribesmen - Criticisms from Pakistani officials of the continued bombardment ahmed rashid of Afghanistan which is showing few results, and ahmed rashid criticisms from the US of Pakistan\\'s inability to ahmed rashid mobilise defectors among the Taliban. Philip Smucker in ahmed rashid Peshawar and Ahmed Rashid in Islama
• Brahimi Tour Seeks to Ease Regional Rivalries, Promote Post-Taliban Afghan Government - Report on Lakhdar Brahimis meetings with a broad september 11, 2001 september 11, 2001 range of anti-Taliban Afghan commanders, NGO representatives and september 11, 2001 september 11, 2001 women\\'s group leaders, aiming at building support for september 11, 2001 september 11, 2001 a new broad-based government. EurasiaNet.org
• Wealthy businessman who controls thousands of Arab militants - About Osama bin Laden and Al\'Qaeda. Daily Telegraph, UK.
• Tribal mix is the key, not military might - "Experts believe that breaking up the Taliban infrastructure ahmed rashid depends, in large measure, on offering a credible ahmed rashid plan to install a new government that can ahmed rashid win legitimacy across a country that has been ahmed rashid torn apart by war for more than two ahmed rashid decades."
• Militants from 20 nations ready to fight for Taliban - "With widespread defections depleting the Taliban forces, Mullah news and media september 11, 2001 Omar has become increasingly dependent on these foreign news and media september 11, 2001 fighters. In turn, they know they have nowhere news and media september 11, 2001 to go, because if they return to their news and media september 11, 2001 own countries they will be executed."
• Taliban in Key Defeat as Rebels Turn to Ex-King - "UN, US and EU diplomats are also in news and media ahmed rashid Rome to persuade the former king and the news and media ahmed rashid United Front to come to an agreement covering news and media ahmed rashid military strategy and the composition of the post-Taliban news and media ahmed rashid government." From Lahore. Daily Telegraph, UK.
• Afghan resistance chief hurt by camera bomb - "Massoud was giving an interview in his office to a september 11, 2001 group of Arab journalists who had arrived from Kabul. When september 11, 2001 they started filming, the camera exploded." From Lahore. Daily Telegraph, september 11, 2001 UK.
• Anarchy as Taliban lose control - "Law and order was breaking down in Kabul ahmed rashid yesterday news and media as Taliban soldiers and poverty-stricken civilians carried ahmed rashid out armed news and media daylight robberies and looted houses left ahmed rashid empty by people news and media who have fled." Daily Telegraph, ahmed rashid UK.
• US 'lacks knowledge to launch land war' - "The lack of intelligence stems from Washington\\'s decision effectively to ignore developments in Afghanistan from 1989 after Moscow withdrew its forces." From Lahore. Daily Telegraph, UK.
• Former king's loyalists try to stir rebellion - Two prominent Afghan Pathan commanders have gone to southern Afghanistan september 11, 2001 to raise a rebellion against the Taliban. Daily Telegraph, UK.
• Al'Qaeda 'has network of sleepers across North America' - About the supporters, recruits, training, financing, communication and september 11, 2001 news and media network organization. Daily Telegraph, UK.
• 'Optimistic' talks with former king - "Delicate negotiations on a post-Taliban regime were under way yesterday news and media as Afghanistan\\'s former king, pro-Western guerrilla leaders and American congressmen news and media began talks in Rome." Bruce Johnston in Rome and Ahmed news and media Rashid in Lahore. Daily Telegrap
• Pressure Builds on Anti-Terrorism Alliance - Pashtun commanders Abdul Haq and Hamid Karzai have news and media entered southern Afghanistan from Pakistan to raise a news and media rebellion against the Taliban, in an attempt to news and media balance the power of the Northern Alliance, which news and media is made up of mainly Tajiks and Uzbeks. news and media Eurasianet.o
• Britain may be swamped with cheap heroin - "The world faces a new flood of Afghan heroin at throwaway prices as local drug dealers and the Taliban rapidly dispose of their stocks because of the threat of war and the need to raise money. Prices of opium, the raw material for heroin, have falle
• Interview with Lakhdar Brahimi - Interview with the UN\\'s Special Representative for Afghanistan, news and media Lakhdar Brahimi, about the results of his six news and media days of talks in Islamabad. EurasiaNet.org.
• Taliban executes rebel on mission for peace - The execution of Abdul Haq close to the eastern city september 11, 2001 of Jalalabad. In Islamabad. Daily Telegraph, UK.
• US demands use of Pakistani air space - "Washington\\'s requests are believed to include permission for news and media the use of Pakistani air space for the news and media bombing of bin Laden\\'s camps, the immediate halting news and media of Pakistani fuel and supplies to the Taliban, news and media the closure of Pakistan's borders with Afghanistan
• Hardliners stand beside bin Laden - "Equally significant has been the growing rift between news and media ahmed rashid the hardliners who surround Mullah Omar in Kandahar news and media ahmed rashid and the moderates who form the government in news and media ahmed rashid Kabul and have had to deal with the news and media ahmed rashid international community and the growing humanitarian crisis in
• US seeks approval of Teheran regime - "Iran will not join the US-led multinational coalition even though september 11, 2001 it loathes the Taliban. But Washington is anxious to make september 11, 2001 sure that Iran will raise no objections to its planned september 11, 2001 military action, and it wishes to reassure Teheran that it september 11, 2001 has no aggr
• Ground troops facing guerrilla war danger - "Following last night\\'s air strikes, two vast battlefields will emerge, news and media one in the north and the other in the centre news and media of the country, as the Taliban struggle to retain their news and media hold on power." From Lahore. Daily Telegraph, UK.
• AsiaSource Interview with Ahmed Rashid - By Nermeen Shaikh. Discussion of the current situation in the news and media area, including the role of Pakistan and the impact of news and media the US war in Afghanistan.
• Musharraf 'must act to limit support for Islamists' - "If Pakistan can get economic relief, Gen Musharraf news and media can point out the benefits of his alliance news and media with the West. But if the American military news and media campaign extends to months, which is likely, the news and media danger of the Islamic parties being able to news and media rally greater supp
• Urgent need for new leaders in Kabul - "US military might and strategy is being dwarfed news and media by the much more urgent task for the news and media Western alliance - to help form a new news and media government in Kabul." Daily Telegraph, UK.
• The Taliban: First, the War - "Since last year the United States government has ahmed rashid been ahmed rashid building an international alliance to strangle the ahmed rashid Taliban leadership ahmed rashid in Afghanistan, eliminate the threat of ahmed rashid resident terrorist Osama ahmed rashid bin Laden and put pressure ahmed rashid on Pakistan to halt ahmed rashid support for t
• Afghanistan: Hitting Kabul - "The U.S. is angry and ready to retaliate against terrorists. september 11, 2001 All eyes now turn to Afghanistan." From Lahore. Far Eastern september 11, 2001 Economic Review, Hong Kong.
• A warm and charismatic man with little desire for power - Eulogy for the murdered Abdul Haq, whom Ahmed ahmed rashid Rashid september 11, 2001 knew for over 20 years. Daily Telegraph, ahmed rashid UK.
• Taliban leaders send families to safety - Those involved include Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil, the Taliban foreign minister. In Islamabad. Daily Telegraph, UK.
• CIA tries to recruit native speakers by email - "One reason why the American military attack on ahmed rashid bin news and media Laden is being delayed is because the ahmed rashid US army news and media does not have a single person ahmed rashid in its ranks news and media who speaks Pashto, the language ahmed rashid of the Taliban." From news and media Lahore. Daily Telegraph, UK.
• Talk to outsiders and you'll die, say Taliban - "The international community has virtually isolated the Taliban regime: Saudi ahmed rashid Arabia cut off diplomatic relations with Kabul yesterday. However, the ahmed rashid Taliban are also trying to isolate themselves, so that US ahmed rashid forces do not gain defence intelligence.&qu
• Pakistan frustrated by lack of clear US lead - Washington\\'s unwillingness to provide arms and money to news and media the anti-Taliban Pathan forces in southern Afghanistan who news and media want to start an uprising. Daily Telegraph, UK.
• Top International Officials Comment on Afghanistan's Security Challenges - Ahmed Rashid\\'s interviews with the UN Secretary General\\'s news and media news and media Special Representative to Afghanistan Lakhdar Brahimi, and Major news and media news and media General Sir John McColl, the head of the news and media news and media International Security Assistance Force. Eurasianet.org.
• Nuclear test sanctions unlikely to be eased - "Western intelligence officials have long been concerned that ahmed rashid fundamentalist forces might seize power in Pakistan and ahmed rashid gain control of its nuclear arsenal. This now ahmed rashid seems a real possibility." By Ahmed Rashid in ahmed rashid Islamabad and Rahul Bedi in New Del
• Alliance prisoners of war executed - Five men, including two Northern Alliance commanders, were news and media september 11, 2001 publicly hanged in Mazar-i-Sharif. Julius Strauss in Faizabad news and media september 11, 2001 and Ahmed Rashid in Lahore. Daily Telegraph, UK.
• All of a sudden, women are in the picture - After seven years of rule, characterised by an news and media ahmed rashid almost complete indifference to the welfare of the news and media ahmed rashid vast majority of the population, the Taliban has news and media ahmed rashid suddenly discovered concern for civilian victims of US news and media ahmed rashid bombing raids. Daily Telegraph, UK.
• Afghanistan resistance leader feared dead in blast - "Front spokesmen denied that he had died and accused the Taliban, the wanted Saudi terrorist Osama bin Laden and Pakistan of planning the assassination attempt." From Lahore. Daily Telegraph, UK.
• Islamabad lays down law on post-Taliban regime - "Pakistan\\'s Interservices Intelligence (ISI), which until two weeks news and media september 11, 2001 ago was backing the Taliban, is now rapidly news and media september 11, 2001 trying to put together a new alliance from news and media september 11, 2001 among Taliban defectors, other Pathan radicals and intellectuals, news and media september 11, 2001 which would still include few
• One-eyed tyrant of the Taliban who remains invisible to his subjects - History of Mullah Omar and his friendship with ahmed rashid Osama news and media bin Laden. From Lahore. Daily Telegraph, UK.

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