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To: John Hunt who wrote (11850)	12/16/2001 10:40:45 AM
From: Captain Jack	Respond to of 27666

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To: John Hunt who wrote (11850)	12/16/2001 10:40:45 AM
From: Captain Jack	Respond to of 27666

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To: John Hunt who wrote (11850)	12/16/2001 10:40:45 AM
From: Captain Jack	Respond to of 27666

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To: John Hunt who wrote (11850)	12/17/2001 5:49:11 AM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27666

Deal-Making Let Many Leaders of Taliban Escape [ KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 16 -- The Taliban has been driven from power, but almost all its top leaders remain at large, in many cases through battlefield deals that exchanged the peaceful surrender of territory for the safety of the defeated commander. Nine days after the fall of the movement's last stronghold, the city of Kandahar, Taliban leader Mohammad Omar is still on the loose, as are his army chief of staff, intelligence chief, and defense and interior ministers. Many of the Islamic militants in the Taliban have melted back into sympathetic communities in Afghanistan or escaped to neighboring Pakistan, according to Afghan and Pakistani intelligence sources. U.S. officials directing the war are adamant that the Taliban, like al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, should not remain free. But the feelings are more ambivalent among some of the United States' Afghan allies, who are now taking over a country where, by tradition, battles are often settled through deals. In the south, ancient tribal bonds appear to have helped foster lenient treatment for Taliban leaders. The groups fighting the Taliban are primarily from Pashtun tribes, as are most of the Taliban fighters. In the north, the deal-making was between different ethnic groups and was aimed at giving anti-Taliban forces a victory without the loss of men. "Unbelievably, not one top cabinet minister of Mullah Omar was killed, arrested or defected to opposition forces during the two-month-long, nonstop bombing," noted a senior Pakistani security official. ] Continued at link washingtonpost.com