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Washington may not be able to find Osama bin Laden on the ground in Afghanistan, but it was able, last weekend, to ambush him on the airwaves. Soon after Qatar's al-Jezeera TV broadcast the latest propaganda tirade from the Saudi terrorist on Saturday, the channel's pan-Arab audience was treated to a surprise live American rebuttal - delivered, like bin Laden's own rant, in fluent Arabic. The U.S. had introduced a new "secret weapon" to the propaganda war: Christopher Ross, former U.S. ambassador to Syria and State Department counter-terrorism coordinator, brought out of mothballs...
...Chinook helicopters landed at the Panjgur airport in southern Pakistan after retrieving a downed U.S. chopper, aviation sources tell TIME, they were met with a swarm of bullets from pro-Taliban, Pakistani irregulars who were guarding the airport. The Chinooks returned fire for several minutes before roaring off. The ambush was extinguished by Pakistani military forces...
...Chinook helicopters landed at the Panjgur airport in southern Pakistan after retrieving a downed U.S. chopper, aviation sources tell TIME, they were met with a swarm of bullets from pro-Taliban, Pakistani irregulars who were guarding the airport. The Chinooks returned fire for several minutes before roaring off. The ambush was extinguished by Pakistani military forces...
...already has. Mark Chisholm, a Reuters cameraman, was ambushed last year by rebel soldiers while covering the civil war in Sierra Leone. Two fellow journalists were killed instantly, but he and a Reuters photographer escaped. "Nothing could have prevented the ambush from happening," says Chisholm. "But afterwards, I wrapped my shot hand with my shirt so as not to leave a blood trail for the rebels. I ran away in a zigzag, I hid behind a log and then when help came, I emerged slowly, so as not to unnecessarily startle the government soldiers who could have mistaken...
Which makes the rollicking ambush on the pell-mell opening track, “Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee,” a tale at once foreboding (“Two big bags of dead man’s bones”) and sublimely ridiculous (“Said Tweedley Dee to Tweedly Dum, ‘Your presence is obnoxious to me’” ). Far from being dead, this sounds a lot like “Subterranean Homesick Blues”-era Dylan, not least in the rambunctious and rock-steady band Dylan has assembled around...