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...terror, Bush famously vowed, will take many years and span the globe. Already it has put American troops in harm's way in Afghanistan?and now the southern Philippines, where last week an American MH-47 Chinook helicopter went down in the shark-infested waters between southern Negros and northern Mindanao after ferrying soldiers and supplies to fight on the small island of Basilan. As of last weekend, three crew members' bodies had been recovered and seven more were unaccounted for. That this second front in the war on terror has turned costly was to be expected...
...unmarked Chinook helicopters with machine guns mounted on their noses circle low over the valley and land at the airport. The soldiers in them are unhappy to see journalists; their colleagues are obviously chagrined that the local guard at the perimeter of the airport had cheerfully beckoned us in. The troops are holding a secret training session. The sas commander, a young man from the north of England with shaggy red hair, suggests that the airstrip is too dangerous for us, and offers, insincerely, to drop by for a chat later. His American counterparts make a brief appearance later...
...scale back air strikes: doing so could help contain anti-American unrest in Pakistan, a war aim that will become vital as the thrust of the campaign shifts to ground operations by special forces. U.S. commandos staging from bases in Pakistani territory have already faced mortal danger. When two Chinook helicopters landed at the Panjgur airport in southern Pakistan after retrieving a downed U.S. chopper, aviation sources tell TIME, they were met with a swarm of bullets from pro-Taliban, Pakistani irregulars who were guarding the airport. The Chinooks returned fire for several minutes before roaring off. The ambush...
...scale back air strikes: doing so could help contain anti-American unrest in Pakistan, a war aim that will become vital as the thrust of the campaign shifts to ground operations by special forces. U.S. commandos staging from bases in Pakistani territory have already faced mortal danger. When two Chinook helicopters landed at the Panjgur airport in southern Pakistan after retrieving a downed U.S. chopper, aviation sources tell TIME, they were met with a swarm of bullets from pro-Taliban, Pakistani irregulars who were guarding the airport. The Chinooks returned fire for several minutes before roaring off. The ambush...
...test ranged from pop culture—“Which of the following words appears on the first two of Sisqo’s albums?”—to esoteric trivia—“What type of natural phenomenon is a chinook...