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Afghanistan
Betrayed by Bin Laden
Mullah Saraju Din sits on the bare floor of a freezing, broken-down hotel room in the town of Bara in Pakistan's Khyber Agency, not far from the Afghanistan border, lamenting his movement's past mistakes. "We sacrificed our pure Islamic government for the sake of one unimportant man: Osama bin Laden," he says. Din, 35, is one of an increasing number of young Taliban fighters who blame the destruction of Mullah Mohammed Omar's radical Islamist government on bin Laden's refusal to give himself up, which led to the Taliban's collapse in November 2001. "Osama should have left the country when he saw that America's sword was ...