Steve Coll
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259 appearances
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 2 Sep
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thinking that if they broke up this node, they would break some of the financing resources that a lot of these groups, including the very loose network that had carried out the World Trade Center bombing, uh relied upon.
He has history, obviously, in Pakistan and Afghanistan, but a lot of things have changed.
So remember, this is 1995, 1996.
This is in the middle of the 1990s Afghanistan Civil War.
The people he knew in the Mujahideen are on the outs by by and large.
The Taliban have risen out of Kandahar, they've swept by the spring of 95, they've taken Herat, they're marching on Kabul.
But a couple of
Of the groups that he used to know from the good old days of fighting the Soviets are still independent of the Taliban, control Jalalabad.
So when he starts thinking about where could I go if I get kicked out of Sudan, he can't fly into Kabul.
He can't fly back to Kandahar, which was his base in the good old days, because that is now controlled by the Taliban, who he hasn't, he's never met.
He doesn't know who they are or how they are.
how they think of him.
must think that they're his kind of guy.
Guys, though.
He will, but he doesn't have a phone number and they don't use phones.
So uh but yes.
He doesn't have a lot of choices.
I I don't know that he explored going back to Pakistan at that time.
He ultimately obviously seeks refuge there.
But what develops is that the Americans put pressure on the Sudanese government, which is now sort of attempting to establish political legitimacy.
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