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...Week 5 therefore opened with more fearsome bombing raids on Taliban frontlines, including the reported use on Sunday of two 15,000-pound fuel-air "daisy cutter" bombs - the largest known conventional explosive, which ignites the air and incinerates everything in a 600-yard radius. The Pentagon claimed its air attacks have killed a "substantial number" of Taliban troops, and Rear-Admiral John Stufflebeem reported Monday that Taliban forces are pinned down by bombing and have been unable to return fire against its opponents for several days. He also claimed that al Qaeda's "known infrastructure" had been destroyed...
...look as dramatic as a new special forces raid or a "daisy cutter" bomb falling on the Taliban lines, but Ross's deployment may prove equally important in winning the war on terrorism. Beating al-Qaeda depends in large part on the active cooperation of Arab and Muslim allies, because only when bin Laden is isolated in the Arab and Muslim world does he become ineffective. Ross is only one small part of the puzzle, of course - in recent days the Bush administration has dispatched Condoleeza Rice and Donald Rumsfeld to buck up U.S. allies, named an ambassador...
...Bombing raids continue, now for the first time using 15,000 lb. fuel-air "Daisy Cutter" bombs U.S. says a "substantial" number of Taliban soldiers have been killed, and extensive damage done to Taliban equipment Northern Alliance maintains its offensive at Mazar-i-Sharif, with mixed results Germany will commit 3,900 troops in support roles to the U.S. mission...
Something as small as a box cutter tore the World Trade Center from our skyline, yet the terrorist threats will only get smaller still--germs, molecules, split atoms--and become the more menacing for it. Americans' greatest undoing, however, will be the gargantuan steps taken by our government to fight these almost imperceptible dangers. In the name of protecting freedom, we'll watch our civil liberties diminish to near nothing. And what good is fighting for freedom if the freedom's gone? MICHAEL J.E. HANSON Sioux Falls...
...slew of British fans including the likes of Kate Moss and Thom Yorke. With a look more Welcome Back Kotter than laundry-hamper New Wave and a refreshing fuck-you nonchalance, the Strokes serve as a more-than-welcome respite from the onslaught of top-40 politically-correct cookie-cutter boy bands aimed at the screaming pre-teen...