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...station in Kabul, which found they had been used to call numbers linked to suspected terrorists in Turkey, the Balkans and Western Europe. "It was an incredibly sophisticated network," says the official. In March U.S. troops searching a suspected terrorist hideout in Oruzgan province after a firefight found opium with an estimated street value of $15 million...
Tillman died on Apr. 22 near Spera, Afghanistan, about 25 miles from the nearest U.S. base at Khost. Few details were released about the firefight, which the American military says lasted about 15 minutes. All the Army will say is that Tillman went to the aid of members of his team who were ambushed and died fighting “without regard for his personal safety...
...Unpredictable Hero Hooray for Johnny Depp! I read every word of your story about "Hollywood's most unusual star" [March 22]. In Platoon, which was shot in the Philippines, Depp played a small but moving role as a Vietnamese-speaking G.I. who perishes in a firefight. Many of us fortysomethings, who were yuppies during the Philippines' turbulent 1980s, grew up watching the young Depp. We admired him for being rebellious, idealistic and nonconformist yet totally committed to his craft. Even back then, Depp had something special. Raul H. Dado Vientiane, Laos...
...Tashkent last week, but you'd never know it from the local media. The attacks were swift and bloody, and scattered across the city, from the Chorsu market near the center to the outer suburbs. Their impact was heightened by the government's near-total news blackout. The biggest firefight took place in the Yalangach district, about 3 km from Uzbek President Islam Karimov's residence. Government officials claim 20 terrorists were cornered and quickly blew themselves up, but locals say the guerrillas were fewer in number, and resisted the police for over six hours until they were killed...
...There is a dispute between Kerry and Gardner about what happened next. Kerry insists that the engagement was over when the boats pulled out. ?We didn?t leave until the mission was over and all the boats headed out together,? says Kerry. He claims that only after the firefight was over-and enemy fire had been supressed-did he order PCF-44 to head back to a primitive base at Dong Tam so Gardner could receive medical attention from the U.S. Army?s Third Surgical Division, based in a makeshift hospital there. But Gardner asserts that Kerry was simply fleeing...