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...raid by Green Berets--acting, unusually in this war, without the aid of local militias--on two suspected al-Qaeda hideouts that turned out to be Taliban ammunition dumps. The invaders killed 15 Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters, took 27 prisoners and, with the help of an AC-130 gunship, destroyed the ammunition. According to one account of the battle, the two sides engaged in hand-to-hand combat amid the shooting. "The fact that so many died shows us they're still willing to put up quite a fight," says a Pentagon official. The "nests" the Green Berets attacked...
...turf. Shevchenko was shattered. "The door of the World Cup is closed to me," he said later. Football fans around the world mourned with Shevchenko, for they will be deprived of the chance of seeing football's most prolific striker?73 goals in 104 games for Italian giants AC Milan in the world's meanest league?performing on its greatest stage...
...more than a decade, the giant forward has been the only source of good news for his countrymen in Liberia, a nation gutted by civil war. Weah singlehandedly dragged the national team from footballing obscurity, often bankrolling the entire squad with his earnings from such marquee clubs as AC Milan, Chelsea and Olympique Marseille. But Liberia fell one agonizing point short of qualification, and the 1995 World Footballer of the Year knows that, at 35, he won't get another chance. "If I don't play in the World Cup, it wasn't meant to be," he said just before...
...night-vision goggles. "There's going to be quite a show." The soldier used a reporter's satellite phone to call his wife and tell her he might be on the TV news that night--"Tape it all day, will you? O.K. Love you, babe." At midnight an American AC-130 gunship began lazily circling Qala-i-Jangi. It flew five times over the same spot, spraying the southern end of the fort with a golden stream of fire. Later a massive ball of flame lifted up from the fort, kicking off a fireworks display as mortar rounds and ammunition...
...strike back with guerrilla ambushes or die trying. So for now, at least, America's campaign against al-Qaeda and the Taliban will still be authored largely from the air. The U.S. plans to send another 50 to 70 warplanes to a base in Tajikistan. The number of AC-130 gunships, used to hover over targets and destroy them with devastating firepower, is rising from six to nine...