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To: maceng2 who wrote (12656)	12/4/2001 3:03:17 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<"Like many people, I did not become a Talib by choice," he explained. "In early 1998 I was working as an accountant here in Quetta when I heard that my grandfather - who was 85 - had been arrested by the Taliban in Kandahar and was being badly beaten. They would only release him if he provided a member of his family as a conscript, so I had to go." Mr Hassani at first was impressed by the Taliban. "It had been a crazy situation after the Russians left, the country was divided by warring groups all fighting each other. In Kandahar warlords were selling everything, kidnapping young girls and boys, robbing people, and the Taliban seemed like good people who brought law and order." So he became a Taliban "volunteer", assigned to the secret police. > Conscription! And what an enthusiastic convert he was. They tortured his grandfather [85] and he was all in favour? This story does not ring true. I think there is more than a little embroidery. Mqurice