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...high command of the U.S. military, that was enough to elicit a few sighs of relief. The U.S. had yearned for a battlefield victory in Afghanistan that would vindicate five weeks of aerial attacks, bolster confidence in the Pentagon's strategy and puncture some of the Taliban's swelling resolve before winter sets in. While the Alliance's siege of Mazar may not have satisfied all those aims, it did give the U.S. campaign a welcome adrenaline jolt. And its significance ran deeper: in its quick betrayals and shifting tempo, primitive clashes and unanticipated results, the battle for Mazar...
...hugely expensive, long overdue, crucial information systems upgrade, code-named Trilogy. The FBI computers have to be engineered talk to each other and to INS, Customs and State computers to make sure no more terrorists get through the visa system. Problem is, with first-rate IT people able to command their own prices, even in this economy, why would anybody go to work on old-school government gear for peanuts...
...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...
...last week it was a little hard to tell where one front stopped and the other started. President Bush was in the Oval Office Wednesday afternoon being briefed on the bombing campaign: we were running out of targets in Afghanistan and struggling to take out the Taliban's command-and-control capabilities. But the same could not be said for the war at home. With each new anthrax report, the U.S. targets were multiplying, and its command-and-control facilities were shutting down one by one. For a President who likes his facts straight and his decisions clean, the advice...
...weeks ago, Gen. Charles Holland, head of the U.S. Special Operations Command, met with a dozen new U.S. ambassadors at Ft. Bragg, N.C. When you get to your posts, "don?t be surprised if you see us coming," Holland warned. The command has secret contingency plans to sneak special operations forces into any trouble spot in the world, complete with infiltration routes, drop zones, intelligence contacts and assault points. About 20 Army Green Berets, Navy SEALs and military counter-terror operatives have already been dispatched to the Philippines to advise its army in guerrilla warfare against the Abu Sayyef group...