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Defected Taliban soldiers ponder their fate and that of their country.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
QUETTA, Pakistan _ The three Taliban fighters broke and ran after 12 days of withering U.S. bombings that left bodies strewn all around them, after another Taliban unit defending Kabul switched sides and turned its guns on them.
They ran into Kabul but found the city abandoned by Taliban fighters. They ran all the way to Kandahar in southern Afghanistan but found the Taliban's spiritual capital a demoralized nest of fears and defeatist rumors.
So they defected, stealing a truck, laying down their guns and heading for neighboring Pakistan, where two are now ready to join anti-Taliban forces and the third says he would fight again for the Taliban.
They ponder what has happened to their country and what will happen to them. What would they say now to Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar or to the Americans bombing Afghanistan since Omar refused to surrender the alleged mastermind behind the Sept. 11 terror attacks?
"I would tell him that for one, Osama bin Laden, you destroyed a whole country," said Hajatullah, 36, a squat blanket-shop owner who first fled Afghanistan in 1989, settling in Quetta, before returning to Afghanistan to fight the Americans.
"The Taliban should have handed over Osama," said Amir Hamza, ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Defected Taliban soldiers ponder their fate and that of their...