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...were at first thought to be friendly. Then Roberts was seen trying to flee. About three hours after the first incident, two more Chinooks set off from Bagram on a dual mission: to rescue Roberts and to insert more troops at Ginger. One of the choppers took heavy machine-gun fire. It shuddered and spiraled toward the ground but managed to crash-land less than a mile from the place the first pair had come under attack. As the troops clambered out of the wrecked MH-47, they were ambushed. Hagenbeck ordered AC-130 gunships to the battle to provide...
...back of a brightly colored pickup; two Americans sat in the cabin, and another team of special forces followed them. As the truck splashed around a muddy bend, Sabur told TIME, "al-Qaeda opened fire on us with something big." In a mud-brick hut was hidden an antiaircraft gun or mortar. Munitions ripped through the cabin. Sabur took shrapnel in his leg. The convoy returned fire and called in air support. Three helicopters thundered up the canyon, blasting away at enemy positions. A few days later, another Afghan from the convoy showed a TIME reporter the truck, lying...
...Israelis also continued their policy of targeting Palestinian security forces and activists they link to the violence. Last week in the Gaza Strip, the Israelis killed a Palestinian general, the highest-ranking Palestinian Authority victim of an Israeli gun in this conflict. But the hits sometimes go wrong. Israeli soldiers tried to kill Hussein Abu Kweik, a Hamas activist in Ramallah. But when they shot up his car, Abu Kweik wasn't in it; his wife was. She died, along with her three children. Like Arafat, Sharon is unable to control all his people. Last Tuesday seven children...
...cheat on them, songs about rodeo cowboys, songs about people running into their high school girlfriends and thanking God that they didn’t marry them. There are songs for Republicans, like the rousing “American Honky-Tonk Bar Association” (It represents the hardhat, gun rack, achin’-back over-taxed, flag-wavin’, fun-lovin’ crowd!), and there are songs for Democrats, like the treacly “We Shall Be Free” (When the last thing we notice is the color of skin / And the first thing...