Word: antiaircraft
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...back of a brightly colored pickup; two Americans sat in the cabin, and another team of special forces followed them. As the truck splashed around a muddy bend, Sabur told TIME, "al-Qaeda opened fire on us with something big." In a mud-brick hut was hidden an antiaircraft gun or mortar. Munitions ripped through the cabin. Sabur took shrapnel in his leg. The convoy returned fire and called in air support. Three helicopters thundered up the canyon, blasting away at enemy positions. A few days later, another Afghan from the convoy showed a TIME reporter the truck, lying...
...back of a brightly colored pickup; two Americans sat in the cabin, and another team of special forces followed them. As the truck splashed around a muddy bend, Sabur told TIME, "al-Qaeda opened fire on us with something big." In a mud-brick hut was hidden an antiaircraft gun or mortar. Munitions ripped through the cabin. Sabur took shrapnel in his leg. The convoy returned fire and called in air support. Three helicopters thundered up the canyon, blasting away at enemy positions. A few days later, another Afghan from the convoy showed a TIME reporter the truck, lying...
...closer we got to Kandahar, the more damage was visible: armored personnel carriers, tanks, antiaircraft guns--all destroyed. Jeeps by the side of the road had either crashed or been smashed apart. Bodies were lying beside the road; even more were off in the field by a wall. We were told that they were Arabs fighting on the side of the Taliban against the tribal forces trying to wrest control of the airport. No more...
...attack helicopters. So far, the Pentagon has demurred, but AH-64 Apache choppers are already suspected to be in the region, with A-10s on the way. If U.S. gunships take to the skies above Kabul, the Taliban will likely raid what is left of their stash of 250 antiaircraft Stinger missiles?arms sent to the mujahedin in the mid-'80s by the CIA?to try to shoot the Americans down...
...attack helicopters. So far, the Pentagon has demurred, but AH-64 Apache choppers are already suspected to be in the region, with A-10s on the way. If U.S. gunships take to the skies above Kabul, the Taliban will likely raid what is left of their stash of 250 antiaircraft Stinger missiles--arms sent to the mujahedin in the mid-'80s by the cia--to try to shoot the Americans down...