Word: battlefield
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...Afghanistan began nine weeks ago on a battlefield the size of Texas, and if all goes according to plan, it will end in a high, narrow valley smaller than the city of Austin. After weeks of playing Where's Osama?, military officials believe they have overheard bin Laden on handheld radio in the White Mountains, giving orders to his dwindling al-Qaeda forces, now estimated at just 300 to 1,000 men. If bin Laden is in Tora Bora, he and his soldiers are trapped in a box: snow-covered peaks loom on two sides, Afghan and American soldiers await...
...Qaeda is finished," crowed Afghan commander Hazrat Ali from his battlefield perch below the caves on Friday afternoon. "They are surrounded." American military leaders were more cautious. "'Surrounded' probably is not a terribly good word," said General Tommy R. Franks, the regional commander of American forces. "But the view of the opposition leaders on the ground is that this al-Qaeda force is contained in that area...
Read his gripping account, and see a photo essay of the battlefield by Russian photographer Oleg Nikishin, who was the first photographer on the scene, at time.com/perry...
...rosters have been culled from CIA and Defense intelligence briefs, battlefield reports, local newspapers, spies, rumors. Every day the intelligence bloodhounds search for fresh clues on where these leaders might be and vacuum up electronic and human after-battle reports to see if they can cross another name off. But so far, the scorecard is all too blank. Pentagon list keepers say only three of the 20 men on the al-Qaeda list are thought to be dead; perhaps 12 of those on the Taliban list have been killed or wounded or have defected. On Saturday came word that...
...stuck in Trenton, and his presence meant that a battlefield rifle was orbiting the terminal. Last Thanksgiving I was confident that no one could sneak a fully-loaded five-foot rifle through the metal detectors and into the terminal, but this Thanksgiving he had one slung over his shoulder. And if a grumpy business traveler should hurry through a security checkpoint, I could only wonder whether everyone in the vicinity would have to duck when he pointed his M-16 in threat...