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Military Campaign Outruns Political
Monday, October 15, 2001
By Michael R. Gordon / The New York Times

U.S. making no progress toward a replacement for Taliban, analysts say

WASHINGTON -- The New York Times
One week after the bombs started falling on Afghanistan, the U.S. military campaign has run ahead of Washington's political strategy to install a new regime in Kabul.

American and British forces have attacked al-Qaida's terrorist
camps, knocked out the Taliban's surface-to-air missiles, blasted its air force, pummeled its command posts and, according to one intelligence report, come close to killing its supreme leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, missing him by a matter of minutes.

But while the United States has pursued Osama bin Laden and tried to neutralize the Taliban that shelters him, the behind-the-scenes effort to organize a regime that would replace the Taliban has made no discernible progress.
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