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...largely to minimize U.S. casualties. But New Year's Day saw the biggest American ground operation so far. A convoy carried 200 Marines from their base at Kandahar airport to a deserted al-Qaeda training camp in southern Afghanistan. With the Marines providing cover, Afghan fighters rifled through the compound's 14 structures, which were believed to have provided shelter for Mullah Omar some time in the past three weeks. Thirty hours later the Marines returned to base, though not with the treasure trove of documents and computer hard drives they had hoped...
...Year started with some old business in the U.S. war on terror - continuing the hunt for Taliban leaders and Osama bin Laden. Today, a contingent of 200 U.S. Marines conducted a 30-hour expedition to search a former compound of Taliban leader Mullah Omar in the Baghran area. The Marines were looking for anything that could lead the U.S. to Omar, who is believed to still be hiding somewhere in the Baghran area north of Kandahar...
...Russians had found impenetrable during their disastrous occupation of Afghanistan, was the perfect place to wage war but a rotten place to raise a family. There were no "facilities," bin Laden complained to his host, the warlord of the nearby city of Jalalabad. Bin Laden later moved into a compound in Jalalabad that had internal plumbing...
...pollution might not just be causing a gradual rise in the earth's temperature but could also lead to "large, abrupt, and unwelcome" climate change. So it was a particularly good week for DaimlerChrysler to introduce a new fuel-efficient minivan called the Natrium. It runs on a common compound called sodium borohydride. A chemical reaction inside the engine produces hydrogen to power the car's fuel cell, leaving behind not carbon dioxide (the primary culprit in global warming) but borax, a standard ingredient in many household soaps...
...Even with the Taliban gone, bin Laden has the right connections to disappear. His fairy godfather in the Tora Bora region is a warlord named Younis Khalis, who invited him to Afghanistan in 1996 after even Sudan didn't want him. Khalis lives in an adobe compound a short distance from Jalalabad on the road to Tora Bora. He was close with the Taliban, which used his land as a parking lot for its tanks - more than a dozen of them were blown apart by US missiles and now lie wrecked on Khalis's land. Khalis himself...