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...weeks U.S. forces had been watching as Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters gathered south of Kabul. Code-named Operation Anaconda, the battle plan aimed at this force was a hammer-and-anvil strategy. Friendly Afghans, assisted by U.S. special forces, would flush the enemy from the north and northwest toward three exits of the Shah-i-Kot valley, where American troops waited. To the south, battle positions Heather and Ginger were divided by a hill christened the Whale, while to the east, battle position Eve guarded escape routes over the high mountains to Pakistan. But after two days of fierce...
...weeks U.S. forces had been watching as Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters gathered south of Kabul. Code-named Operation Anaconda, the battle plan aimed at this force was a hammer-and-anvil strategy. Friendly Afghans, assisted by U.S. special forces, would flush the enemy from the north and northwest toward three exits of the Shah-i-Kot valley, where American troops waited. To the south, battle positions Heather and Ginger were divided by a hill christened the Whale, while to the east, battle position Eve guarded escape routes over the high mountains to Pakistan. But after two days of fierce...
...French government balked at opening its household electricity market to foreign competition. French officials in Brussels cited the recent California energy crisis and the Enron scandal as evidence of the perils of opening up the sector to privatization. Strange then that the French national electricity company EDF, flush with cash from its virtual domestic monopoly, has been snapping up energy utilities in countries where the market has already been opened...
...lustful desires, complicated by his secret sympathy for the Good Men. We watch as a yearning for the priest grows in both Lizier and her mother, and see the resulting resentment. We witness the struggles of the Inquisitor as he tries to remain firm in his duty to flush out heresy, even in the midst of doubts that what he is doing is right...
CHECHNYA Fatal Clashes Emboldened by the international war on terrorism, Russian forces have increased their attacks on Chechen rebels. In a three-day battle close to the capital Grozny, Russian officials claimed that 84 rebels were killed. During the Russians' attempt to flush out insurgents from the mountainous area around Tsotsin-Yurt, the rebels countered that 40 soldiers died in fighting while they had lost only eight...