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...believed, Mira, like the rest of the world, is only beginning to discover the truth about her husband. On June 5 government agents arrested al-Faruq at a mosque in nearby Bogor. Three days later, Indonesian authorities deported al-Faruq to the U.S.-held air base in Bagram, Afghanistan, where CIA investigators have been interrogating suspected members of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist organization. But al-Faruq was no ordinary operative...
...Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan. But this time, unlike the fight nearly three months before in Tora Bora, Americans would not rely on Afghans to supply the combat troops. Perez and most of the other members of Task Force Rakkasan had flown in from the Soviet-era air base at Bagram, an hour away. Intelligence reports at the base, just outside Kabul, had hinted that Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Omar might even be holed up in the sullen, beautiful valley. Perez liked the sound of that...
...Army agreed. On March 18 in Bagram, Army General Tommy Franks, who runs the war as head of the U.S. Central Command, awarded Perez the Bronze Star for valor. Franks declared Operation Anaconda "an unqualified and absolute success," despite claims by some Afghan allies that most of the enemy got away during the 11 days of fighting. Perez and his men dismiss the charge. After the initial fire fight, they returned to the Shah-i-Kot for another week of combat--hunting down al-Qaeda in their most secure redoubt and, they say, killing hundreds of the enemy while losing...
...than six sites.) American sources claim--and Afghan sources deny--that the plane was targeted by antiaircraft fire from inside the compound where a wedding celebration was under way. "Personnel on the AC-130 felt that the weapons were tracking them," said Colonel Roger King, a Pentagon spokesman at Bagram air base, north of Kabul. So the gunship--a flying arsenal loaded with machine guns and a 105-mm howitzer--fired on the compound. Subsequent comments by U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld did little to soften the blow. "There cannot be the use of that kind of firepower...
...town of Arthington, 25 km away, and said they killed more than 120 rebels in towns farther north. The U.N. condemned rebel attempts to take power by force, calling for dialogue and international aid for 44,000 civilians displaced by the fighting. AFGHANISTAN Operation Condor British troops based at Bagram airbase were called into combat for the first time after Australian special forces came under attack in eastern Paktia province. Backed by U.S. airpower, around 1,000 troops swung into action against suspected Taliban fighters close to the border with Pakistan. But there seemed no end to mishaps...