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...public about threats within U.S. borders. Even the military is setting up a new bureaucracy, the U.S. Northern Command, dedicated to defending the homeland. By Oct. 1 the military hopes to put a four-star general in charge of a standing domestic military force devoted to flying combat air patrols, guarding the borders and responding to attacks on U.S. soil...
...same time the 101st Airborne is pressing down from the north, while the enemy?s retreat is blocked by the 10th Mountain Platoon and Special Forces to the east and south. But near Dara the bombs are still falling on the near side of the mountains, meaning the Afghan combat group here still has some way to go. "My next rotation to the front is in three days and I'll be up there for about 24 hours, even after that I'm not sure we will have reached Shah-i-Kot," says a junior Afghan commander. He says...
...being the commander - the man quietly placing and arranging American combat boots on the ground in Afghanistan with a mission to herd, trap and finish off thousands of hardened Al-Qaeda fighters - Army Gen. Tommy Franks is TIME.com's Person of the Week. You just don't see him much...
...Franks started out in 1967 as a second lieutenant out of Artillery Officer Candidate School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma; he got his first combat experience as an artillery officer in Vietnam, where he was wounded three times. Now, as the commander in chief of Central Command, Franks is in charge of U.S. military operations for 25 nations in Africa, Central Asia and the Middle East - including Afghanistan, where Franks told TIME, "we have a lot of snow or a lot of sand, and on some days we have both...
Second, Daschle’s concern that we’re somehow forgetting about al Qaeda is similarly misguided. Right now, 160 U.S. Special Forces troops are training local soldiers in the Basilan island jungle of the Philippines to combat a Muslim rebel group—Abu Sayyaf—that has kidnapped an American missionary couple. Abu Sayyaf is part of the Southeast Asian wing of al Qaeda. By disabling Abu Sayyaf’s training camps and eradicating their power base in the southern Philippines, U.S. troops are preventing the growth of al Qaeda in the Pacific...