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...Jangi fortress to the southeast, Tajik leader Atta Mohammed and Hazara chief Haji Mohammed Mohaqiq set themselves up in palatial villas in their own quarters of the city. In public all three insist their convenient alliance is holding as they empty Mazar of armed men and set up a joint security force...
...Southern commands. These regional commanders in chief are called CINCs. Although CINCs have been around since World War II, there's never been such a high-ranking officer in charge of defending the U.S. It's likely that the mission will be assigned to either the Norfolk-based Joint Forces Command, which oversees 80% of U.S. forces based inside the U.S., or NORAD, based in Colorado Springs, Colo. The homeland-defense commander would support, not supplant, the new White House Office of Homeland Security run by Tom Ridge, with all those problematic details on who outranks whom still...
...been guarding U.S. airports and key bridges, ports and dams. But these forces are being commanded by very different parts of the military: the airplanes are controlled by the North American Aerospace Defense Command, and ports are being looked after by both the Coast Guard and the Pentagon's Joint Forces Command. The National Guard troops, meanwhile, are guarded by the nation's Governors. In other words, it's a bureaucratic mess, if not a logistical...
...expected to approve the new CINC early next year, and Pentagon officials believe the change will be permanent. "The good news is that most of the elements to be successful are already there," says General Jim Jones, who as commandant of the Marine Corps is a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "It's more about reorganizing than it is about increasing troop levels by tens of thousands of people." It's one more way that American Airlines Flight 77--which crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11--has shaken the Defense Department...
...water or ammunition left. Their only food was horsemeat from Dostum's cavalry. A fighter who had escaped during the night was caught by local residents and hanged from a tree. Alliance forces were so confident of victory that at one frontline position, three shared a powerful joint of hashish. Others tucked into peanut butter and jelly from the American food drops. At 10 a.m. a group of 17 special-operations and SAS men returned to the gatekeeper's house. Harley-Davidson was there, along with Dave, who was wearing a black shalwar kameez (the traditional Afghan pants and long...