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...yards away, a teenager carrying an AK-47 rifle was firing at someone in a nearby street. There were some other gunmen taking positions at what appeared to be some sort of government building. The street was filled with the smell of cordite...
...Tonight, the occasional burst of gunfire still rings out in the city, but order is fast returning. Alliance soldiers patrol the streets and monitor traffic at checkpoints. AK-47s slung over their shoulders and sacks of RPG rockets in the back of their high-powered pickup trucks. But in a country that has been at war for more than two decades, armed fighters are merely part of the scenery...
...along the mountain trails of Uruzgan. On Thursday, Karzai and his men blasted their way clear of a Taliban ambush--after calling in U.S. helicopters, according to a Taliban spokesman. (The Pentagon said U.S. aircraft were sent to help.) The Taliban also claims it seized an airdrop of 600 AK-47 rifles meant for Karzai. The regime insisted that he had been "under siege" and was airlifted out of Afghanistan on Saturday. But in a call later that day to his family in Quetta, Karzai said he was safe and still in Afghanistan...
...midnight we had tired of the roof. Khademudin seemed relieved, and announced he would drive back with us. On the way back down, this time thank God with the headlights on, we caught a rabbit in our beams. Khdemudin moved unexpectedly fast, grabbing his AK 47 and bounding out of the minivan, gun cocked. I watched with interest, wondering how much would be left of a bunny shot at close range with an assault rifle. It escaped...
...third, some Taliban emerged from a hidden position to their right. "A group of Taliban popped up on our right - six, eight of them," says Levon Sevunts, a journalist for the Montreal Gazette who survived the encounter. "They opened fire on the APC from the right - rifle fire, AK...