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...hour before Basement Jaxx were scheduled to drop a sonic bomb of seismic proportions on the Boston massive, I was finding such a thing increasingly unlikely. The atmosphere was a let-down—instead of a noisy club filling to capacity, I found several handfuls of bored people idly listening to the horrid strain of Latin-lite fusion muzak filtering through the sound system. It was another half hour before the lights finally dimmed...
...Although there are no reliable numbers, it is not numbers but images that give "collateral damage" incidents their power to affect the course of war: the young Vietnamese girl, her skin burned away by napalm, running down a street; the corpses of Iraqi women killed in a bomb shelter; bodies strewn around a Yugoslav passenger train struck by a NATO rocket, and so on. Already Al Jezeera, the only TV network with a bureau in Kabul, is carrying images of the broken bodies of civilian casualties. And on the Internet, ordinary citizens are able to see the latest photographs posted...
...PLOT Bomb the American embassy in Paris and (in possibly linked conspiracies) other targets in Europe...
...real for Americans, it is no less so for Afghans, even though those who live in that Texas-size country have been fighting the Soviets or one another for more than 20 years. The bombing was "a normal thing for us," said Mohammed Hashim, 23, who was in the Interior Ministry in the wrecked capital of Kabul at the time of the first attacks. "The women and children went out into the street. In Kabul there's no safe place to hide from bombs anyway." That's why some got out of town; October is the time of the grape...
...they remain stuck in their trenches, waiting impatiently for the U.S. to heavily bomb the front-line Taliban assets?tanks, artillery and troop positions?that stand between the alliance and Kabul. Without U.S. air strikes to soften Taliban positions, the estimated 5,000 alliance troops north of the capital may not be strong enough to break through. "They're simply not ready for any big ground attack," notes a Western analyst who has made extensive visits to the front in the past two weeks. But the attack could come just the same...