Word: kabul
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...last week, the plumes billowed thick and black in long, ragged lines-calling cards of the B-52 bombers that each dropped 25,000 lbs. of ordnance on Taliban positions. For Northern Alliance fighters scanning the sky from the Taloqan front in the far north to Jabal Saraj, near Kabul, those massive clouds of smoke, dust and debris could mean only one thing: the long-awaited American command to take the fight to the Taliban had at last arrived. "Finally the U.S. is doing something useful," said Mamor Hassan, a commander near the Taloqan front. "We have been waiting...
...Cabinet have already warned that this will be a long and complex battle. But already dissenting voices are becoming ever louder, touting this conflict as a reprise of the disastrous Vietnam War. The American public is far too intelligent to accept that dropping bombs on Kabul will rid the world of the forces of terrorism, and it should be treated with more respect. To retain public confidence in our efforts, the Administration should remind Americans of the specific aims of the U.S.-led campaign in Afghanistan, and show why our actions are designed to achieve them...
...familiar Muslim apologists insist are unrepresentative of mainstream Islam—there is a dearth of institutional voices condemning the fallacies of fanaticism. And yet such condemnations are precisely what is needed. The principled Muslim leaders of the West can do nothing to sway public opinion in Kabul or Karachi, Khartoum or Cairo. Absent a coordinated, concerted and continuous effort on the part of the Middle East’s clerics and political leaders to explicitly condemn terrorism in all its forms as fundamentally incompatible with the teachings of the Prophet, terrorists will continue to rise from Middle Eastern soil...
...Going In Oct. 29, 2001 ----------------- The Fear Factor Oct. 22, 2001 ----------------- Facing the Fury Oct. 15, 2001 ----------------- How Real Is the Threat? Oct. 8, 2001 ----------------- Life on the Home Front Oct. 1, 2001 ----------------- One Nation, Indivisible Sept. 24, 2001 ----------------- Day of Infamy Sept. 14, 2001 PHOTO ESSAYS Kabul Unveiled Taliban on the Run More Photos >>> MORE STORIES Where's OBL: Letter from Tora Bora Anthrax: Where the Investigation Stands TIME/CNN POLL: Americans Standing By Bush's War More Stories...
...Going In Oct. 29, 2001 ----------------- The Fear Factor Oct. 22, 2001 ----------------- Facing the Fury Oct. 15, 2001 ----------------- How Real Is the Threat? Oct. 8, 2001 ----------------- Life on the Home Front Oct. 1, 2001 ----------------- One Nation, Indivisible Sept. 24, 2001 ----------------- Day of Infamy Sept. 14, 2001 PHOTO ESSAYS Kabul Unveiled Taliban on the Run More Photos >>> MORE STORIES Where's OBL: Letter from Tora Bora Anthrax: Where the Investigation Stands TIME/CNN POLL: Americans Standing By Bush's War More Stories...