----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter K." <peterk at enteract.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 5:59 PM Subject: Re: al-Qaeda and Taliban
> Januzzi:
> >The Taliban of Afghanistan could be judged as fellow
extremists, but they
> >are Deobandi, not Wahabbi. Nor is the supposed Wahabbi
influence among the
> >Afghan Arabs very well documented or understood. In fact, since
9-11 we seem
> >to have learned nothing at all about them, though I suppose US
bombs have
> >killed tens of thousands of them by now.
>
> Hah, you spoke too soon! From today' New York Times:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/17/international/asia/17DOCU.html
>
> "The oath, found in a house in Kabul used by a Pakistani
Islamist group, was part of an extensive
> paper record that fleeing Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters left
behind last fall at sites across
> Afghanistan. Reporters for The New York Times collected over
5,000 pages of documents from abandoned
> safe houses and training camps destroyed by bombs.
> It is a rare collection, the raw, unmediated stuff
of the jihadis' lives. Individually,
> the documents are shards - as mundane as a grocery list and as
chilling as notes for the proper
> positioning of a truck bomb. But taken together, they tell a
rich inside story of the network of
> radical Islamic groups that Osama bin Laden helped assemble in
Afghanistan. "
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So the NYT would rather go over Al Qaeda diaries and ops manuals than find out how many people have been killed thus far by 'enduring freedom.' Golly.
Ian