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...Reported by Hannah Beech/Khoja Bahauddin, Anthony Davis/Jabal-us-Seraj, Michael Fathers/Islamabad, Terry McCarthy/ Dasht-i-Qaleh, Alex Perry/Termez and Mark Thompson and Douglas Waller/ Washington
...week acknowledged that the U.S. has air-dropped guns and horse feed to Alliance forces. Meanwhile, U.S. Green Berets slipped into rebel-held territory and worked to prepare the Alliance's factions for a coordinated assault on Mazar. "Obviously, we needed help," said General Muhibullah, a senior commander in Dasht-i-Qaleh. "It was very effective for us when the U.S. advisers came to Mazar...
...even think of mounting an offensive. That's not to say an Alliance breakthrough is impossible, especially if American strikes against the Taliban pick up. But even the most confident Alliance soldiers say it won't happen soon. "War is in our blood," says Safaullah, a fighter in Dasht-i-Qala. "We'll fight for centuries if we have...
...even think of mounting an offensive. That's not to say an Alliance breakthrough is impossible, especially if American strikes against the Taliban pick up. But even the most confident Alliance soldiers say it won't happen soon. "War is in our blood," says Safaullah, a fighter in Dasht-i-Qala. "We'll fight for centuries if we have...
...lines of blue lights etched the outlines of the remote landing strip. Suddenly flames illuminated the night sky, then gradually flickered out. On the powdery sands of Dasht-e-Kavir, Iran's Great Salt Desert, lay the burned-out hulk of a lumbering U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft. Nearby rested the scorched skeleton of a U.S. Navy RH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter. And in the wreckage were the burned bodies of eight American military air crewmen...