Word: commandeering
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...attack on Chagatai ridge begins at 3:20 p.m. local time on Saturday, when General Moammar Hassan of the Northern Alliance shouts into his radio, "Advance forwards. We are ready to start the war now." Twenty yards to the left of the command bunker where he stands, a T-55 tank opens up with its main gun, and the assault is on. Northern Alliance artillery shells and 82-mm mortars whiz overhead as a 50-cal. gun pops individual rounds at Taliban front lines, 1,000 yds. away across a small dip in the rolling brown hills...
...today the attack begins slowly. Hassan shouts into his radio, "Where are the soldiers? I ordered them to attack. Advance now." On the radio he gives out bombing coordinates, and two U.S. fighter jets appear overhead. Three hundred yards to the left of Hassan's position is another command post, where one of Hassan's officers says the American team is based. It cannot be seen from Hassan's position, but over the radio, Alliance commanders ask the Americans to give coordinates to the jets circling overhead...
...Last week U.S. warplanes strafed lines of fleeing Taliban soldiers, but even those ripe targets soon withered. That gave U.S. pilots, in the words of Centcom chief Tommy Franks, more room to "focus on the alligators"--the high command of the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Last Tuesday, armed with fresh intelligence reports on the whereabouts of key Taliban and al-Qaeda figures, the Pentagon began attacking buildings in Kabul and Kandahar in which they were believed to be hiding. At least one strike nailed its target: on Friday, Rumsfeld said he had seen "authoritative reports" that the U.S. had killed...
...shooting we had seen was between the Khalis group and Taliban fighters who were still unaware of the decision of their high command. And the Khalis group also wanted to give the impression to the people that they are taking over the city, not that it was being given to them on a platter. Street vendors were running for shelter, and ours was the only car still moving...