Word: battlefield
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...than 1,000 Americans, drawn mainly from the 10th Mountain and 101st Airborne divisions, together with Afghan militias and about 200 special forces from allied nations, was engaged with perhaps 1,000 al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters--four times as many enemy men as the U.S. had expected. The battlefield spread over 70 sq. mi., at altitudes that ranged from 8,000 to 12,000 ft. and temperatures that dipped at night to 15 [degrees...
...avowed free trader, to impose steel tariffs to protect Rust Belt jobs--and votes.) The same goes for impartiality, he says, since the parties are fighting for control of both the House and the Senate this November. "We would be making a mistake if we simply stepped off the battlefield when a lot is at stake and when a lot of people have rallied around one candidate who had become the presumptive favorite," Rove told TIME. "We've got a big road to climb, and we need to get behind somebody...
Arafat called his "battlefield leadership," the men who run Fatah's part in the Palestinian uprising, to his Ramallah office the next day. According to sources who were present, he told the Fatah leaders that he wanted no more suicide bombings inside Israel because they harm the image of the Palestinians internationally and harden the will of Israelis against him. Angrily, Arafat told the group that the people who carried out the Jerusalem operation were "collaborators serving the strategy of Sharon to show that every Palestinian is a terrorist." He then interrupted the meeting to call an ultra-Orthodox rabbi...
...flying Iraq missions from Prince Sultan Airforce Base. There has also been disagreement over the use of the Combined Air Operations Center, or CAOC, a new U.S.-built underground facility equipped with satellite receivers, computers and secret communications that enable commanders to direct a major war with real-time battlefield feedback. The Saudis allowed CAOC's use during the Afghan war, but have, so far, refused to give a green light for its use in an invasion of Iraq...
...performance of the Afghan forces initially deployed. Question marks over the reliability of local Pashtun militias were underscored by the Afghan government's decision midway through the battle to reinforce the allied contingent with 1,000 ethnic Tajik fighters from the Northern Alliance. But despite their solid battlefield performance, the Tajiks' presence has fueled ethnic resentment among the locals, even those fighting alongside the U.S. Pro-government Pashtun commanders in nearby Gardez have called for the Tajiks to be withdrawn, some saying their men would rather have the Taliban and al-Qaeda on their turf than the Northern Alliance...