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...Oman, as a base for the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, the Army's commando chopper unit. The first is politically sensitive; nobody's eager to do the second; so even though forces may use Pakistani bases for refueling and emergencies, the Kitty Hawk, sailing in the Arabian Sea, is likely to be the primary base of sustained special operations...
...Floating Fortress TIME photographer Barry Iverson spent a week shooting the men and women aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise, located somewhere in the Arabian Sea (for security reasons, the Navy won't say where), as they prepared jets, weapons and themselves for the strikes against Afghanistan. time.com/enterprise...
...Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdel Aziz al Saud, who is sixth on the Forbes list of the world's richest people and has some $16 billion invested in such American companies as Citigroup ($9.65 billion), News Corp. ($1.1 billion), Apple ($314 million) and TIME's parent company, AOL Time Warner ($932 million), is known as one of the most ardent Arab supporters of the U.S. "It is my personal duty," he said before leaving Saudi Arabia for a trip to New York City, "to show my alliance and show the real face of the Arab, Islam...
...their persuasive power and politics becomes a sideshow, when soldiers must hit the ground and fight and everyone else braces for something terrible. This war turned last Thursday night. Throughout the day, combat helicopters had carried U.S. special-operations troops ashore from the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk, anchored in the Arabian Sea off the southern coast of Pakistan. The forces choppered over miles of desert terrain to an airstrip at Dalbandin, close to Pakistan's secret underground nuclear-test site and just south of the Afghan border. There they prepared to be delivered into Taliban-controlled territory in Afghanistan to begin...
...Mark Thompson: No. As the Pentagon said in response to those reports, there's nothing new there. U.S. ground troops have been in and out of Afghanistan for a considerable period of time. Now that the U.S.S. Kittyhawk is in place in the Arabian Sea, we've begun ferrying in small numbers of U.S. special forces to do in southern Afghanistan to do what we've been doing in northern Afghanistan for weeks - liaison with local anti-Taliban forces, trying to turn their knowledge into our intelligence regarding potential targets, potential political splits and the whereabouts of al-Qaeda...