Word: kandahar
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...words of Centcom chief Tommy Franks, more room to "focus on the alligators"?the high command of the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Last Tuesday, armed with fresh intelligence reports on the whereabouts of key Taliban and al-Qaeda figures, the Pentagon began attacking buildings in Kabul and Kandahar in which they were believed to be hiding. At least one strike nailed its target: on Friday, Rumsfeld said he had seen "authoritative reports" that the U.S. had killed Atef, al-Qaeda's military chief. Atef had intimate ties to bin Laden through his daughter's marriage to bin Laden...
TIME.com: Hundreds of Marines have landed near Kandahar and more are on their way. What is their mission...
...Does that mean taking towns such as Kandahar away from the Taliban will still be left to local forces...
...Secretary Rumsfeld says, we'll know where he is when we've got him. And the U.S. has had sufficient capability in the area for some time that if the military knew where bin Laden was, they could get him in two hours. Having a Marine base near Kandahar shortens the timeline required to get hundreds of men to his location if it becomes known...
...Kandahar province, not all women wear burqas. The Kuchi nomad women never do. They are fiercely independent, usually wreathed in silver necklaces and dressed in spangling embroidery, and they stare boldly back from atop their camels when you cross them on the roads. It's their custom to go unveiled, and because the Taliban Vice and Virtue Police usually stay in the towns, and the Kuchis have ferocious dogs and even more ferocious husbands, these nomad women are left alone...