World News 08-11-2001 who: Taliban what: To send suicide squads to seek and destroy US and Northern Alliance targets where: Afghanistan when: This week snippet: "Teams of militants have allegedly been granted permission to strap explosives to their bodies and vehicles to launch potentially devastating attacks against enemy forces," says The Guardian. Elsewhere, The Independent says there will be a "disaster of tremendous proportions" after US planes bombed a hydro-electric power station in southern Afghanistan and The Mirror claims that "Taliban soldiers are raping and killing villagers in revenge for the US bombings". [... more]

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