| A mullah who harbored Al Qaeda terrorists at his compound outside Kunduz and was believed to be an adviser to Central Asia's largest terrorist group, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, has slipped from Northern Alliance detention and into the Afghan landscape. The alliance had been gathering evidence against the mullah, Qari Akka, and hoped to try him on charges of promoting instability and violence inside Afghanistan. Instead, it has been forced to resort to searching cars leaving Kunduz with hopes of finding the cleric under a stack of blankets or perhaps in someone's trunk. |