Word: caveness
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...then there is--apart from the skinning alive--Afghanistan's most frightening contribution to modern warfare: the cave. Afghanistan's limestone cliffs are honeycombed with them, many with multiple entrances and all of them capable of being booby-trapped. Pentagon officials are convinced that bin Laden and his top associates are holed up in caves and that they might move to a different one every day. Some are big enough to be seen in satellite images, and the Air Force has already targeted them. EGBU-28 bunker-buster bombs can drill like masonry bits through 20 ft. of stone before...
...Until American commandos actually capture or kill their prized prey, guessing where bin Laden has made his cave or whether the U.S. will find it will remain a fool's game. But the arrival of ground forces on the scene has at least returned some clarity of purpose to a campaign that was starting to get lost in the fog. For now, discussions on less immediate matters--like what shape a post-Taliban government should take or whether states such as Iraq and Syria should be targeted for their past complicity in international terrorism--will be held behind curtains. Domestic...
...women at waiting impatiently at Johnston Gate. Always a popular pick-up point, Johnston Gate was filled a mass of people standing against the cast-iron gate, lined up like convicts getting mug shots. A male in a tight t-shirt with extremely large muscles held a girl cave-man style over his shoulder. When she dismounted and boarded the shuttle, her friend advised her. “It isn’t cool. He’s your prefect...
...through the Qatar-based Al Jezeera network to whom the fugitive terrorist has until now granted exclusive access. Bin Laden's answers will be taped on video - no doubt with all the standard props such as the camouflage flak jacket, the Kalashnikov propped up against the wall and the "cave" backdrop - and forwarded to Atlanta via Al Jezeera...
...rains down hellfire on Afghanistan and prepares its meanest fighters to go in and terminate bin Laden, he is holding long-distance press conferences. It certainly raises questions about the idea that the Al Qaeda leader is on the run, or under fire, or skulking in a cave somewhere in the war zone. After all, granting an interview, even through an intermediary, massively raises the risk of exposing bin Laden's whereabouts to the satellites, drones and spies of the U.S. At face value, it's the action not of a desperate fugitive, but of a man supremely confident...