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...mood at the Pentagon is more upbeat than it has been for three weeks, suggesting they're hearing plenty of good news from their people on the ground. Similarly, while U.S. intelligence officials monitoring the offensive can't say conclusively that Mazar-i-Sharif will fall soon, they confirm that the Northern Alliance has the tactical momentum at the moment, and that some of its forces are within 8 miles of the city. "The Taliban had very bad days yesterday and today," a U.S. official told TIME on Thursday. "The Northern Alliance is closing in and is making very good...
...ANTHRAX? Several different lab tests can detect the presence of anthrax, but no single screen can give a definitive diagnosis. Culturing a sample (from the nose, for instance) and growing the bacteria is the most conclusive way to confirm anthrax, but this can take several days. Using antibodies that stick to bacterial proteins found in the blood is another less time-consuming...
...disappearance of a truck loaded with chemicals helped confirm fears among many investigators that the next wave of terror could come not from deadly germs but from a simple truck carrying explosives or some other kind of deadly goo. Why fiddle with bacteria when you can simply drive a tanker full of gasoline into a building...
...such as university compounds and mosques. Despite relatively light bombing (compared, say, with the Kosovo campaign) Afghanistan has already seen its fair share of "collateral damage" incidents. But without much by way of Western media on the ground in the target zone, many of the reports are difficult to confirm. Still, we know from Western aid workers in the country that a Red Cross facility was hit in Kabul, and a hospital and a mosque in Herat. And unconfirmed reports suggest significant civilian casualties in villages around Kandahar...
...Swift, the search hasn’t been without controversy. Earlier this year, former GOP party chair and millionaire James Rappaport announced that he would seek the lieutenant governorship against the wishes of Swift, who would prefer to choose her own running mate for the Republican convention to confirm...