Word: escapees
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Soon after, about a dozen U.S. Special Forces and British Special Air Service troops arrived to coordinate Northern Alliance fire and U.S. air strikes to provide cover for those remaining inside the fort. Six of the Special Forces soldiers took up position in the northeast corner of the compound to...
Inside Afghanistan, swelling ranks of humiliated Taliban commanders fell over themselves offering to give up bin Laden. "People are telling on Al-Qaeda's hideouts," said a diplomat in Pakistan. "They're being systematically annihilated." A Pakistani army officer told TIME that the military and intelligence commands there enlisted former...
But Rumsfeld may have been inviting bin Laden to make a run for it, knowing well that the escape hatches were slamming shut. American patrol planes watched the borders. Pakistan warned its tribal chieftains that it would punish anyone who gave sanctuary to bin Laden. Pakistani officials and American ground...
With most of the country now in anti-Taliban hands, the U.S. bombers have a fast-dwindling set of targets. The only Taliban lines left to pound last weekend were in Kunduz, the last government garrison in the north, and in Kandahar. Last week the Taliban was on the verge...
? later set off controlled explosions at a deserted farmhouse near Leeds. Police said the Real I.R.A., which opposes a Northern Ireland cease-fire, were the main suspects in recent attacks in Birmingham and West London. PAKISTAN A Miracle Rescue for Afghan Aid Workers Eight aid workers arrested by the Taliban...