Word: desertion
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...were looking to disappear, the Afghan province of Helmand would be the place to do it. Hundreds of miles of desert, hills and mountains are interrupted only by the occasional huddle of mud-brick houses. The remote village of Musa Qal'eh in Helmand is still Taliban country. When Kandahar fell last month, as many as 1,500 Taliban fighters and their leaders are thought to have passed through the village. One of them may have been Mullah Mohammed Omar, the former ruler of Afghanistan and America's second-most-wanted...
...terrorism shouldn't be dismissed because of his personality; unlike other countries in Europe, France isn't a terrorist haven. Says a former colleague: "Whatever attention Bruguiere may get now has to be measured against the days, weeks and months he went unnoticed in the desert...
...back in the U.S. it was hard to tell that anything had changed. Pictures of errant missiles and bombed-out civilian targets were starting to fill the airwaves, and the Pentagon could respond only with black-and-white shots of craters being blown in the desert. Making it worse were Afghan opposition leaders who mocked the U.S. bombing as useless. Republicans on the Hill were pressing the White House for action. Murmurs about a "quagmire" and references to Vietnam were growing. The lead story in the Sunday New York Times on Oct. 28 said it all: ALLIES PREPARING...
...Jewish immigrant, raised on the Lower East Side, quickly out of school and into the showbiz fringe as a singing waiter. Their music came from honing a natural talent with years of study; his songwriting gift was a freak of nature. No wonder he fretted that this knack would desert him; its origin was as much a mystery as its longevity...
...came home, and told everyone no, I didn't go off to war. I told them what a great adventure I'd had, rumbling through the desert in a Humvee, soldiering alongside French and German, Greek and Italian, Kuwaiti and Egyptian, practicing for the next international war effort even as it brewed in actuality not too far away. I told everyone I wouldn't have minded going all the way, for six months and for real, and they all looked me with you're-crazy smiles. Some of them even said I was brave, just for wanting...