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...After my eyes adjusted I saw a chamber of about eight square feet and high enough for a tall man to stand in. The floor was dirt and rubble, but there were signs of habitation. It contained two empty white boxes decorated with palm trees and the words, "Sherjah Dates." Scattered on the floor were a few green metal boxes of ammunition with Russian writing on them, and a canister about the size of an unexploded cluster bomb but the wrong color - red instead of yellow. Another cave next to it was about the same size and filled with ammunition...
...Taliban before crouching in front of a prisoner who had been separated from the rest, a mass of tangled hair and tattered clothes once named John Walker. "What's your name?" Spann asked. There was no response. "Hey," he said, snapping his fingers twice in front of Walker's dirt-caked face. "Who brought you here? Wake up! Who brought you here? How did you get here? Hello...
...Dynegy got into the Enron deal for three reasons. The first - that Enron stock was dirt cheap - went sour when Enron's stock continued to slide even faster than Dynegy's, but the renegotiations looked likely to rectify that. The other two were about structure - Dynegy wanted to take over as the energy-trading honcho by folding its own trading operation into Enron's powerhouse, and it wanted to beef up its real energy-production assets by acquiring Enron subsidiary Northern Natural Gas, a pipeline network that runs from the upper Midwest down to Texas...
...remaining inside the fort. Six of the Special Forces soldiers took up position in the northeast corner of the compound to act as spotters for the air strikes, while the rest exchanged fire with the Taliban from outside the compound. The remaining trapped American managed to escape over the dirt walls of the fort overnight, while the soldiers who had come to his assistance remained in position...
...bomb blasted dust and debris hundreds of meters into the air and created a hole in the fort's 60-feet high dirt walls "big enough to drive two or three tanks through," says Perry, who witnessed the attack. The explosion flipped over a Northern Alliance tank, trapping the two soldiers inside, and buried the Americans under rubble. According to eyewitnesses, two American soldiers were killed in the incident. Nik Mohammed, a 24-year-old Northern Alliance soldier, told Perry that he had helped carry one injured and two dead Americans out of the fort. The soldiers were identified...