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...quite a summer camp. According to the FBI, young master Lindh took courses in rocket-propelled grenades and battlefield combat. He even allegedly met Osama bin Laden. But when one of bin Laden's lieutenants asked Lindh if he wanted to leave Afghanistan and conduct operations against the U.S., Lindh declined, preferring the front lines of the Taliban's war with the Northern Alliance. A few weeks later, Lindh heard about the events of Sept. 11 on the radio. "According to [Lindh]," an FBI affidavit says, "it was his and his comrades' understanding at the time that bin Laden...
...still night in Kabul, two weeks ago, Marine guards in full combat gear at the U.S. embassy were startled by the whoosh of a fireball exploding underneath wintry trees at the far end of the diplomatic compound. The resident bomb-disposal expert decided to wait until dawn before venturing out of the fortified embassy to investigate. That's what makes him an expert. The explosion was only a decoy. The real killer was a land mine that was invisible in the dark but was spotted in the daylight half buried. Says Corporal Matthew Roberson of the Marine antiterrorist unit...
...Qaeda hideouts that turned out to be Taliban ammunition dumps. The invaders killed 15 Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters, took 27 prisoners and, with the help of an AC-130 gunship, destroyed the ammunition. According to one account of the battle, the two sides engaged in hand-to-hand combat amid the shooting. "The fact that so many died shows us they're still willing to put up quite a fight," says a Pentagon official. The "nests" the Green Berets attacked were just two of many the U.S. is watching across Afghanistan. "You're going to see more attacks like...
...lonely," says Garner. "She's an overachiever who works to the best of her abilities but can't believe she is in a position of not wanting to be a spy anymore." The producers don't saddle her with a stint in special ops to try to explain her combat chops. She's an athletic collegiate who fights because sometimes, in her job, she has to. And she wins, which, after all, is no more preposterous than a millionaire who dresses like a bat to fight crime...
...have long accused Britain, with its strong civil-rights groups and traditions of free speech, of harboring Algerian terrorist suspects. The French are experienced in Algerian extremism, having contended with the brutal campaigns of organizations like the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) and the breakaway Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (SGPC) - both founded after the cancellation of 1992 elections by the Algerian government when it became clear the fundamentalist Islamic Salvation Front was poised...