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...Green Beret Sergeant Nathan Ross Chapman became the first U.S. serviceman to die from enemy fire during the three-month campaign. (In all, five Americans have died in Afghanistan.) Chapman, a 12-year-veteran communications specialist from San Antonio, Texas, was killed by small-arms fire Friday during an ambush near Khost, a city a few miles from the Pakistani border, near where U.S. warplanes had attacked an al-Qaeda training camp earlier in the week. A cia officer was wounded in the same ambush...
...command, a member of the Army Special Forces was killed by small arms fire near Khowst, in eastern Afghanistan. The soldier's name has not yet been released. There is no word of other military casualties, but a CIA officer was also wounded in what observers are calling an "ambush." He is expected to survive...
...slipped inside southern Afghanistan, heading first to his ancestral village of Karz, near Kandahar. From there he set off to the mountains of Oruzgan province, recruiting tribal elders to join an anti-Taliban coalition. It was not long before the Taliban got on his trail. He escaped ambush and certain death by calling in U.S. forces to rescue him by helicopter. The U.S. says it whisked him out of the country; he insists he never left--perhaps concerned about being seen as too close to the U.S. Since then, Karzai has been back in the mountains, while his Pashtun recruitment...
...something of an enigma. Karzai gives interviews by sat-phone from "somewhere in Oruzgan province" claiming that he's amassed 5,000 men and is marching southwards through the mountains to Kandahar. It may be true that Karzai once was in Oruzgan - he was rescued from a Taliban ambush six weeks back by U.S. choppers - but there are some doubts that he's still there. One reliable Pakistani tribal elder told TIME that Karzai is making his sat-phone broadcasts from a secluded house in Toba Achakzai, a village on the safe side of the Pakistan-Afghan border - and several...
...killed Atef, al-Qaeda's military chief. Atef had intimate ties to bin Laden through his daughter's marriage to bin Laden's son and was seen as the cold-blooded strategist charged with carrying out bin Laden's deadly visions. As the mastermind of the ambush of the Army Rangers in Somalia in 1993, the embassy bombings in Africa in 1998 and the Sept. 11 airline attacks, Atef was responsible for more than 5,000 deaths. American commanders said his elimination may cripple al-Qaeda's terror-making machine. "He's not bin Laden or Omar," says...