Bin Laden S Imprint
Moreover, says Gouttierre, who has lived in Afghanistan for more than 10 years at different times, first as a Peace Corps volunteer, then with the United Nations peacekeeping mission to Afghanistan, where he reported on both bin Laden and the Taliban, Al Qaeda is now the most capable force among known Islamic terrorist groups. Most others are riven by internal conflicts or else have been heavily infiltrated. Indeed, the group provides much of the military muscle now being deployed by Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders in their ceaseless civil war against the opposition forces in the northern part of the country....