Word: dara
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...small stretch of pine trees at Dara, a village near Gardez, Special Forces and Afghan allies hunker down on a frontline. Al-Qaeda?s forward positions lie across a few hundred feet of rocky ground, in the first of the mountains of Shah-I-Kot. The sky is filled with light snow and the drone of U.S. strike aircraft pounding the white capped peaks above. Occasionally, the jagged walls of rock rumble with explosions, and belch plumes of black smoke. Within hours the ground attack will recommence. Led by U.S. soldiers, these bedraggled Afghan fighting men in dirty shalwar kameez...
...DARA Neighborhoods (Atlantic) The cornetist-guitarist-vocalist makes music that doesn't just grow on you; it grows around you, locking you in an inescapable embrace, like an oak tree that's knotted around a fence. Once his magical blend of jazz and blues gets hold of the listener, there's no escape--and no wanting to leave. Dara, who has played sideman to jazz greats, has become a master...
...Dara Neighborhoods (Atlantic) The cornetist-guitarist-vocalist makes music that doesn't just grow on you; it grows around you, locking you in an inescapable embrace, like an oak tree that's knotted around a fence. Once his magical blend of jazz and blues gets hold of the listener, there's no escape - and no wanting to leave. Dara, who has played sideman to jazz greats, has become a master...
...other vantage point of Tob Dara, we were told later, ITN's Julian Manion proclaimed loudly to his editors that he was in serious danger broadcasting from the roof of the mosque. The biggest danger was the roof collapsing. And a radio correspondent who slipped into a local house to file reported getting half stoned on second hand fumes from marijuana being consumed by the residents. On the way back from Sinjeddarah our hopes of a relatively full night's sleep were dashed when the car broke down. We dozed fitfully until something picked...
...reason, how- ever, is a valid one. "This scene had to be disturbing to watch," he says over celebratory champagne. "It's seen through the eyes of Jan Dara?who is witnessing a sex act between his stepmother and his step-sister/wife? so it's got to be shocking." The girls look more dismayed than liberated, like they've just had frustrating...