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摘要

Is the war in Afghanistan finished? Afghan commanders on the ground seem to think so. Tora Bora, al-Qaeda's last redoubt in the eastern mountains, has been smashed by more than 200 American bombs, and groups of battered prisoners have been humiliatingly paraded by their Afghan captors. Colin Powell, America's secretary of state, is well content, telling NBC last weekend that "we've destroyed al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, and we have ended the role of Afghanistan as a haven for terrorist activity." As a token of victory, the Stars and Stripes flew again over the American embassy in Kabul, reopened after almost 12 years.