Word: forte
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...this is all happening inside the fort? Yeah, it's all inside the fort...
...Saturday, 800 Taliban soldiers surrendered to the forces of Gen. Rashid Dostum, a leading commander of the Northern Alliance. But on Sunday, the prisoners decided to rebel, grabbing weapons from an armory at the local fort. At least two Americans were trapped in the fort when it happened and at least one is dead. American and British forces have now joined in trying to quell the attack. Perry is on the scene and provided these details via satellite phone to TIME Newsdesk editor John Flowers as the fighting raged...
...What do you mean by "running the show?" Well, the Americans and the British are coordinating air strikes from their positions inside the fort on another part of the fort. And they're also directing the commanders inside when to tell their men to attack...
...American forces and the British forces are coordinating air strikes. There's a group of six who are coordinating the air strikes. Those are the guys I was with. And then there are another six or seven who are fighting the Taliban on the southwest side of the fort. The Taliban are holed off in a pocket on the southwest side. The bomb spotters are on the southeast side, on the roof of a two-story building...
...reason they're here is that earlier when the Taliban grabbed some guns and started fighting, there were two Americans inside the fort: one of whom was disarmed and killed - he was called Mike - and another one was also in trouble; he was out of ammunition, he had managed to sort of hold off the Taliban with his pistol but he was out of ammunition when the main body of American and British people arrived. There's no word on his fate yet. But the Americans were mounting a rescue operation...