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...agents, the hunt for the anthrax perpetrators meant the bureau had to reduce its effort to track the Sept. 11 clues--and, in the process, perhaps reducing its chances of uncovering and preventing the next attack. "Every day is Groundhog Day," sighed an overtaxed investigator whose morning begins before dawn. "By 9 a.m. I'm brain dead and we're just starting." On Friday Ridge disclosed that the strains of anthrax bacteria sent to Florida, New York and Washington were "indistinguishable," which suggested a concerted attack by a disciplined network. So did the origin of the envelopes: Trenton...
...surprisingly, the Taliban has a different story. A Taliban soldier, Abdu Rahman, 30, told TIME that two combat helicopters arrived before dawn Saturday in the desert 10 miles east of Kandahar. As one hovered overhead, a few commandos poured out of the second gunship. Hundreds of Taliban fighters, who had responded to the earsplitting whir of the choppers, were crouching in the darkness. "We were ordered to wait until the Americans came closer. But nobody listened. We were all firing," Rahman says. The American forces "flew off like sparrows...
...over in Pakistan, the daily Dawn was less concerned with invitations to Washington than with how long General Musharraf will be around to accept one: "A number of difficult decisions were forced on him in the last few days. Any of these could easily go wrong and in the process not only destabilize his government but also have drastic consequences for the country and the region?There is little doubt that had he not responded to the American demand for cooperation in the manner that he did, the consequences for Pakistan could have been far worse than the specter...
...attack, there will be a memorial service. To prepare, Vieira has plans to blanket the area with mental-health counselors, stationing teams in tents near the service and also at the nearby Sheraton hotel to provide support for families. Therapy tents near the Pentagon? It's the dawn of a new era. "We're more sensitive now," says Vieira. "America is more sensitive...
...Arriving in Kabul at dawn, we thanked our driver for not selling us out, said goodbye, and found a fresh car to take us to the border. After an uneventful drive back up the Khyber Pass, we were dropped off near the border only to be surrounded by Afghan civilians and mugged by one of them. We ran the last kilometer with our packs. I told a Taliban immigration official we had been robbed, and he demanded I show him the culprit. We found the man, and he was promptly and violently beaten in front of me and escorted...