Before the War Begins....
Preparations for a US attack have heated things up in Kabul. Afghanistan's border towns are flooded with refugees. The US feels it has got support from enough countries to go ahead with tough action, albeit sometimes through dubious barter deals. TEMPO reports from the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
September 25, 2001
One morning, the Peshawar air was suddenly full of the sound of airplanes. "Has the war started?" asked one reporter. Together with colleagues TEMPO journalist Ahmad Taufik left his inn and watched the sky, full of planes.
"Maybe it is a Pakistan warplane training," said a member of staff at the inn.
Peshawar is stifling and crowded. In the last few days, the Taleban shot down a warplane in northern Afghanistan. In Washington, the Pentagon has
...