Government Lacks Evidence Lindh Killed Americans
Doubtful That Accused Taliban Supporter Trained with Al Qaeda

The federal government acknowledged today that it has no evidence that John Walker Lindh, the American captured with Taliban fighters, ever killed or shot at any U.S. citizen, including the CIA officer who was slain in a prison uprising shortly after interviewing him.
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Islam Anti-Islam

Basically, the struggle–if one’s being utterly straightforward and cynical–has been between the Taliban and the Northern Alliance regarding who runs the drug trade through which part of the world. The Taliban–until the United States paid them some hundreds of millions of dollars to stop in 2000–used to smuggle drugs out of Pakistan, through Peshawar and Karachi to come to Europe. The Northern Alliance drug trade came through the Russian mafia, Central Asia–Kosovo was the big base, and from there it went all over Europe. With the defeat of the Taliban, the Northern Alliance people are openly laughing. "We’ve now got the monopoly on the drug trade." The Russian mafia will be having a field day. Pakistani heroin traffickers are going to lose a lot of money now.
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