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...aims of this campaign have been no big secret--decapitate the Taliban, eliminate al-Qaeda's terror apparatus and seize Osama bin Laden. Administration insiders call the strategy "Taliban plinking" (echoing the "tank plinking" of the Gulf War): special forces plan to pick off one individual at a time, starting with Mullah Omar and working down the command chain of Taliban leaders protecting bin Laden. The first wave of lightning special-ops strikes was, as much as anything else, a psychological weapon designed to boost American spirits and faith in the government, silence suspicions that the public might go wobbly...
...civilian side, targets would include the apparatus of internal and external security, the defense and interior ministries, police outposts, those sorts of things. It's about doing anything possible from the air to pry loose the Taliban's fingers from the levers of power - anything that facilitates them policing the population is something the U.S. would want to hit, if it wants to topple the Taliban. And that's what they've said they want...
...cardio room overlooking the already-impressive lap and therapeutic pools, the whirring of the shiny new apparatus may be heard daily. Multitudes of students, ranging from earnest freshmen to seasoned law schoolers, arrive armed with their Discmen, class sourcebooks and magazines of choice, ready to hop on any of the new Precor ellipticycles, treadmills, stationary bicycles, rowing machines or Stairmasters. The smell of sweat, the chorus of heavy breathing and the clatter of the occasional falling Walkman, all make for a tense atmosphere, as do the inevitable lines one encounters for a turn on the equipment...
...themselves a pipe. After the war, the cigarette quickly evolved into a dainty feminine article to be held aloft by society ladies during two-cheeked kisses and a brooding device for suave anti-social heroes. The early incarnation of the cell phone was an unsexy anvil-sized apparatus for doctors and moguls. Now the base has expanded to include gabby soccer moms, malcontent teenagers and, well, just about everybody...
...deal both with Afghan refugees and with drug runners who have been fighting a low-level war with Iranian border guards. Iran itself has a history of sponsoring terrorism in the Middle East, and although its intelligence ministry is under the control of reformist President Mohammed Khatami, the security apparatus is not. But the government condemned last week's attacks in the U.S. (it was silent after the African embassy bombings in 1998). Says a senior Administration official: "The U.S. and Iran obviously have something of a common enemy in the Taliban," while another confirms that there are "openings...