Word: commandeering
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...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 targets here were multiplying, and our command-and-control facilities were shutting down one by one. For a President who likes his facts straight and his decisions clean, the advice...
Peabody's current management says it wants a deal that is fair to all parties. To achieve that, however, Palmer says, "we need help from Congress and the White House." In both places, Peabody should be able to command a respectful hearing. It contributed $250,000 to the Republican National Committee during the 1999-2000 campaign, and Engelhardt gave $100,000 to the Bush-Cheney Inaugural fund...
...bombers that each dropped 25,000 lbs. of ordnance on Taliban positions. For Northern Alliance fighters scanning the sky from the Taloqan front in the far north to Jabal Saraj, near Kabul, those massive clouds of smoke, dust and debris could mean only one thing: the long-awaited American command to take the fight to the Taliban had at last arrived. "Finally the U.S. is doing something useful," said Mamor Hassan, a commander near the Taloqan front. "We have been waiting so long for this to happen. It is our dream come true." The Alliance is still bogged down outside...
...Islamic Group (gia), a terrorist organization active throughout Europe. The camps in Afghanistan play a vital role. Whatever network they may originally have been aligned with, visitors to the camps meet men from other groups, forge relationships and acquire the stature of soldiers in a holy war. The high command of the group includes bin Laden, al-Zawahiri and Abu Zubaydah, a Saudi-born Palestinian who was identified in an American court case in July as the organizer of the camps and who investigators believe may be al-Qaeda's director of international operations...
...Since September 11, Pickard has joined Mueller every morning at dawn as the director prepares to brief Attorney General John Ashcroft and President Bush. For the rest of the day and into the evening, Pickard presides over the FBI's Special Investigations and Operations Center, the crisis command center staffed by representatives of the bureau and 32 other federal agencies...