Iran's foreign minister, Kamal Kharazi, says it is the "demand of the Islamic world" that America stop bombing the Taliban during Ramadan. Indonesia's President Megawati Sukarnoputri echoes the point. Our Afghan allies, however, disagree, CNN reports, quoting Haron Amin, the Northern Alliance's Washington spokesman: "The Taliban will be dislodged, Amin added, only if the United States continues its air operations through the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which begins in mid-November. The Taliban have used Ramadan in previous domestic conflicts to their advantage, he said, and a halt in air raids would only give their forces time to regroup." (JAMES TARANTO WSJ BEST OF THE WEB TODAY)
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