Word: afghanistan
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...massive casualties on both sides. "And even if they capture it, there?s no guarantee that they?ll be able to hold it," says Meier. The Chechens, after all, are traditionally a guerrilla force, and they?re at their best fighting against a lumbering army of occupation. Sound like Afghanistan all over again? "Actually," says Meier, "it sounds like Chechnya all over again...
...plate. But, says Meier, later in the day it emerged that the "bomb" was merely a pile of sacks of sugar. The bombs that are falling in Chechnya, however, are all too real ?- and Moscow may be on the verge of lurching back into its worst military debacle since Afghanistan...
Equally striking is the way the public's view of the Spetsnaz has changed. Ten years ago, the special forces were regarded as the country's secret weapon, the men who had overthrown the President of Afghanistan in his own palace and would strike deep inside Western Europe if a new world war broke out. This has changed. The most popular video in Russia last year was Schizophrenia. An unremittingly bleak portrayal of modern Russia, it tells the story of a Spetsnaz-type officer who is framed by the security police and then forced to assassinate a banker planning...
...Hadi Eidarous, 42, and Adel Mohamed Abdul Almagid Bary, 39, who are accused of transmitting faxes claiming responsibility for the blast, bring the total number of suspects in the attack currently in custody to eight, with a further six still at large. Bin Laden himself is currently based in Afghanistan, under the protection of the ruling Taliban militia...
...million bounty on his head and applied sanctions against his hosts, but accused superterrorist Osama bin Laden may be outspending Washington. Afghanistan?s rulers on Wednesday pooh-poohed the sanctions announced by President Clinton Tuesday to pressure them into ceasing their support for the Bin Laden network. And Bin Laden could well be in a position to handsomely compensate his hosts for some of their losses. While U.S. trade with Afghanistan amounted to little more than $28 million last year, Bin Laden is reported by the AP to have recently taken delivery of as much as $50 million in donations...