"Osama bin Laden and the Taliban received threats of possible American military strikes against them two months before the terrorist assaults on New York and Washington, which were allegedly masterminded by the Saudi-born fundamentalist, a Guardian investigation has established. "
In an underground shopping arcade, Homuyor Jan was serving customers in his Kabul antique jewellery shop and holding back his tears. "We've had 25 years of this. First the communists, then civil war and now Bin Laden. Of course, if there is proof against him, he should be given up. It is the will of our entire nation that he should be given up."
Afghan women hovered in his shop, murmuring approval. "We don't want our whole country burned for a bunch of terrorists. The message to the whole world community is that missiles would not solve anything. You would only be hitting the people who have nowhere left to go."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,554914,00.html
"Village councils take decisions, every household is well armed, and Pashtun leaders live in fortified compounds, often defended by anti-aircraft guns and heavy artillery."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4 261728,00.html
"Darra Adam Khel is perhaps the only town in the world entirely devoted to the manufacture of weapons. Its narrow, dusty streets are lined with small wooden booths where soot-faced boys sit by hand-pumped furnaces and old grinding wheels."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4 262802,00.html
Slashdot Mirror
There is a lot more infomation on the history of this troubled region here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/
Can I mention that the IRA have received considerable amounts of money and other support from groups in... you guessed it.. the USA.
And that the US government funded and aided the Taliban when it suited them.
The world is a complex place isn't it, Virginia?
And how about this from my favourite news site:
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"Osama bin Laden and the Taliban received threats of possible American military strikes against them two months before the terrorist assaults on New York and Washington, which were allegedly masterminded by the Saudi-born fundamentalist, a Guardian investigation has established. "
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,427
No, but you are.
In an underground shopping arcade, Homuyor Jan was serving customers in his Kabul antique jewellery shop and holding back his tears. "We've had 25 years of this. First the communists, then civil war and now Bin Laden. Of course, if there is proof against him, he should be given up. It is the will of our entire nation that he should be given up." Afghan women hovered in his shop, murmuring approval. "We don't want our whole country burned for a bunch of terrorists. The message to the whole world community is that missiles would not solve anything. You would only be hitting the people who have nowhere left to go." http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284 ,554914,00.html
"Village councils take decisions, every household is well armed, and Pashtun leaders live in fortified compounds, often defended by anti-aircraft guns and heavy artillery." http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4 261728,00.html
"Darra Adam Khel is perhaps the only town in the world entirely devoted to the manufacture of weapons. Its narrow, dusty streets are lined with small wooden booths where soot-faced boys sit by hand-pumped furnaces and old grinding wheels."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4 262802,00.html