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...Afghanistan for the war in Iraq--including members of the elite Joint Task Force 121, which helped track down Saddam Hussein--will be reinserted for the offensive. While the U.S. pushes east along a broad front, Pakistani forces will push west, flooding the tribal areas in what Lieut. General David Barno, commander of U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan, calls a "hammer and anvil" strategy. "The idea is to come up with O.B.L. in the bargain," says a senior military official. "They are not going to say that's the goal, but it's the goal...
...front of the door and crash through like a well-practiced SWAT team. The house is empty, but police find a cache of stolen machine parts. Though the killers remain free, Salman is impressed. "The police are doing a good job now," he says. An officer on the scene, Lieut. Nasser Hamoud Ali, speaks confidently of tracking down the men. "We will find them," he says, as he loads up a Nissan pickup with the recovered goods. "We know the killers and the people know them, so it will be easy." It may not be easy to maintain such bravado...
...American forces truly getting any closer to finding Osama bin Laden? Two weeks ago, Lieut. Colonel Bryan Hilferty, U.S. military spokesman in Afghanistan, raised hopes when he boldly announced he was "sure" bin Laden would be captured by the end of the year. His statement also prompted the inevitable speculation during an election year that the Bush Administration was somehow trying to orchestrate an October surprise: namely, the capture of the terrorist mastermind just before voters go to the polls in November...
...American forces truly getting any closer to finding Osama bin Laden? Two weeks ago, Lieut. Colonel Bryan Hilferty, U.S. military spokesman in Afghanistan, raised hopes when he boldly announced he was "sure" bin Laden would be captured by the end of the year. His statement also prompted the inevitable speculation during an election year that the Bush Administration was somehow trying to orchestrate an October surprise: namely, the capture of the terrorist mastermind just before voters go to the polls in November...
...Joseph Conrad and the set designers of Raiders of the Lost Ark ever curated a museum, the result might be something like Oxford's Pitt Rivers, tel: (44-1865) 270927. Founded in 1884 by Lieut. General Pitt Rivers - Britain's first Inspector of Ancient Monuments - the Pitt Rivers Museum houses tens of thousands of anthropological artifacts in an atmosphere redolent with Victorian eccentricity...