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...Before defecting, Khidhir Hamza, Saddam's longtime top bombmaker, identified more than 400 nuclear sites in Iraq. U.N. inspections would need an army to detect this expansive covert program. In that case, why not the real thing? The only inspectors I'd ever trust to disarm Iraq are the 101st Airborne Division...
...people that the circumspect London Times in 1980 judged her to be probably the most popular royal personage of all time. Britons were inclined to believe that her resplendent smile would never fade. Despite failing health, she managed to greet thousands of well-wishers outside her home on her 101st birthday celebration last August with a raised glass of champagne. Only seven weeks ago, although grief stricken and looking frail, she insisted on attending the funeral of her 71-year-old daughter, Princess Margaret. Last Saturday afternoon, her job well done, the Queen Mother died in her sleep at Royal...
...engagements each month until she was midway into her 80s. She was patron or president of more than 300 organizations. And in recent years, she kept up an amazing public and private schedule for a person her age: she attended a performance of the Royal Ballet on her 101st birthday, reveling as the orchestra played and audience sang "Happy Birthday." In the last weeks of her life, she even hosted a small party on the occasion of the Cheltenham races at her Windsor residence...
...frigid air. They were on their way from Bagram air base, north of Kabul, to Shah-i-Kot and the most intense battle so far of the Afghan war. A force that would eventually grow to more than 1,000 Americans, drawn mainly from the 10th Mountain and 101st Airborne divisions, together with Afghan militias and about 200 special forces from allied nations, was engaged with perhaps 1,000 al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters--four times as many enemy men as the U.S. had expected. The battlefield spread over 70 sq. mi., at altitudes that ranged from...
...Shah-i-Kot, the U.S. elected to create its own ring of steel, using the U.S. Tenth Mountain Division, the 101st Airborne and an assortment of special forces units sent by European NATO allies, Canada and Australia to cut off lines of retreat. That gave the U.S. a more committed fighting force on the ground, and when the Afghans folded under fire on the western approaches to Shah-i-Kot, U.S. commanders moved their own men into the breach. An operation in which Afghan forces were to have been supported by the U.S. quickly turned into a U.S. operation supported...