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The men of camp blessing know they are bait. They dangle far from the formidable, heavily fortified perimeters of other U.S. bases in Afghanistan. Instead of the hundreds or thousands of troops that are in the large encampments, there are only a dozen Green Berets from what is known as...
But the Green Berets know they still have plenty of persuading to do. One night, the residents of Nangalam turned off the lights in their homes just before a rocket attack on the U.S. camp. "Someone knew those rockets were coming," says a commando, who cannot be named, like almost...
Before the U.S. could begin to help Haiti rebuild its ravaged democracy last week, it first had to remove a raving demagogue. Not President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who had already resigned on Feb. 29 and flown to asylum in Africa. Now the headache was Guy Philippe, whose rebel army had...
So far, the peacekeepers are encountering little opposition, although 3,000 angry Aristide supporters demonstrated in front of the U.S. and French embassies last Friday. As Marines on foot and in humvees entered the capital's devastated neighborhood of La Saline, navigating the still smoking street barricades and bloodstained market...
A New Order As Haiti dissolves into chaos, the U.S. Marines move in to defang the man who ousted Aristide 56