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...days later, another Afghan from the convoy showed a TIME reporter the truck, lying on its side in a ditch. "When we'd finished," he said, "all the Arabs were dead." So were three Afghans and one American. Army Chief Warrant Officer Stanley Harriman, 34, based in Fort Bragg, N.C., who had been in the cabin of Sabur's truck, was flown to Bagram, where he received last rites...
...days later, another Afghan from the convoy showed a TIME reporter the truck, lying on its side in a ditch. "When we'd finished," he said, "all the Arabs were dead." So were three Afghans and one American. Army Chief Warrant Officer Stanley Harriman, 34, based in Fort Bragg, N.C., who had been in the cabin of Sabur's truck, was flown to Bagram, where he received last rites...
...Franks started out in 1967 as a second lieutenant out of Artillery Officer Candidate School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma; he got his first combat experience as an artillery officer in Vietnam, where he was wounded three times. Now, as the commander in chief of Central Command, Franks is in charge of U.S. military operations for 25 nations in Africa, Central Asia and the Middle East - including Afghanistan, where Franks told TIME, "we have a lot of snow or a lot of sand, and on some days we have both...
...military casualties in a decade hasn't come close to derailing public support for the fight they died in - is the attitude of men like Tommy Franks. Franks has mostly steered clear of the news media and stuck to the inside of his war room at CENTCOM headquarters at Fort MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, letting Rumsfeld be his front man and press-jouster...
...collisions were too much for Van Beusekom, who was pulled from the game after Sweet’s goal. Junior Sarah Ahlquist held the fort for the remainder of the period, but was subject to similar pressure in the third...