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...drew up plans to have Delta Force members swoop into Afghanistan and grab bin Laden. But the warriors were never given the go-ahead; the Clinton Administration did not order an American retaliation for the attack. "We didn't do diddly," gripes a counterterrorism official. "We didn't even blow up a baby-milk factory." In fact, despite strong suspicion that bin Laden was behind the attack in Yemen, the CIA and FBI had not officially concluded that he was, and would be unable to do so before Clinton left office. That made it politically impossible for Clinton to strike...
...weeks before Rabbani's death, Musharraf's government had started to come to the same conclusion: the Pakistanis were no longer able to moderate Taliban behavior. To worldwide condemnation, the Taliban had announced its intention to blow up the 1,700-year-old stone statues of the Buddha in the Bamiyan Valley. Musharraf dispatched his right-hand man, Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider, to plead with Mullah Omar for the Buddhas to be saved. The Taliban's Foreign Minister and its ambassador to Pakistan, says a Pakistani official close to the talks, were in favor of saving the Buddhas. But Mullah...
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...less money." She doesn't recommend, however, that most women make their hair straight: "Most people don't look that great with no body and no texture and no movement in their hair." Sounds as if we should aspire to look more like Ozzy Osbourne than Gwyneth (who blow-dries her hair...
...DIED. PRINCE AHMED BIN SALMAN, 43, nephew of Saudi Arabia's King Fahd and a publishing and horse-racing magnate who owned War Emblem, this year's Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner; of a heart attack; in Riyadh. In a double blow to the royal family, Prince Sultan bin Faisal, 41, a cousin of Bin Salman's, was killed in a car crash on the way to the funeral...