Word: bunkered
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...attack on Chagatai ridge begins at 3:20 p.m. local time on Saturday, when General Moammar Hassan of the Northern Alliance shouts into his radio, "Advance forwards. We are ready to start the war now." Twenty yards to the left of the command bunker where he stands, a T-55 tank opens up with its main gun, and the assault is on. Northern Alliance artillery shells and 82-mm mortars whiz overhead as a 50-cal. gun pops individual rounds at Taliban front lines, 1,000 yds. away across a small dip in the rolling brown hills...
...hunters stalked their prey from the sky and in the shadows, armed with instruments of death and waiting for Osama bin Laden to reveal himself. Above the gnarled ridges outside the besieged cities of Jalalabad and Kandahar, U.S. warplanes unloaded laser-guided Maverick missiles and 5,000-lb. bunker busters to collapse limestone redoubts and bury anyone taking cover inside. Members of the U.S. Army's clandestine 800-man Delta Force tracked likely bin Laden hideouts, equipped with night-vision goggles and stun grenades, in case they had to creep inside the mountains, and laser pointers, in the hope that...
...them to make a fateful blunder that gave away their locations. "The confidence level is fairly high," a senior U.S. official told Time. "We've got a pretty good handle on generally where [bin Laden] is." American warplanes were dispatched to help finish the job. EGBU-28 bunker busters burrowed through yards of limestone, and AGM-65 Maverick missiles homed in on cave openings, destroying the labyrinths and their inhabitants...
...Noted "Each Afghan has a rifle in his home, and each Afghan's home is his bunker." Amir Khan Muttaqi, Taliban spokesman, claiming his countrymen are ready for a ground...
...also moved to expand the presence of its special forces inside Afghanistan with a view to improving the targeting of air strikes and the capabilities of the Northern Alliance and other opposition forces. Assisted by Russian intelligence, the U.S. has also been dropping "bunker-buster" bombs on suspected cave complexes used by the Taliban and al-Qaeda, in the hope of getting a lucky break against the command structures of both groups...