Word: bora
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Washington parlance had involved small numbers of U.S. special forces on the ground directing awesome U.S. air power and Afghan proxy infantry. That model proved effective in putting the Taliban to flight from Afghanistan's major cities. It was less successful in last December's standoff at Tora Bora, where thousands of al Qaeda-linked fighters appear to have escaped what had been presented as a ring of steel...
...even its intensity. (After a week of fighting, U.S. and French planes were still bombing enemy positions relentlessly.) Privately, in the Pentagon, a conviction is growing that the battle may be a climactic moment in the war. Before Christmas, in the ridges and caves of Tora Bora, the Americans had let their Afghan proxies do most of the fighting on the ground. As a result, hundreds?perhaps thousands?of al-Qaeda fighters escaped to fight another day. In Shah-i-Kot the brunt of the dirty work has been borne by Americans. After a week of fighting, a military source...
When some 2,000 al-Qaeda fighters appeared to slip the dragnet at Tora Bora last December, the American forces learned a valuable lesson: If you want to get things done in Afghanistan, do them yourself. That's why when it traced a group of some 500 suspected bin Laden loyalists to a cave network in the Shahi Kot mountain range in Paktia province, the U.S. last weekend sent 1,000 of its own men - together with 200 special forces troops from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Denmark and Norway - to take a leading role in the ground offensive. Although...
...Carlsberg Cup, a tournament generally more impressive for copious refreshments than any sporting achievements. So it was that the Hong Kong side, a group of expats and locals even fans describe as "total no-hopers," took on a Chinese World Cup squad whose recent form earned coach Bora Milutinovic the nickname "the miracle worker." It's true more than half China's top players and Milutinovic stayed home. But it's also true that 240 million Chinese television viewers, and probably a few soccer-crazy apparatchiks, never foresaw such a late-game loss of face. China...
...about Enron and its White House ties will lose interest after the next big bombing raid. If Bush has his way, investigating the Administration's links to Enron or challenging his plans for mending the economy will seem as unpatriotic as questioning the choice of bombing targets in Tora Bora...