Word: medusa
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...Increased Taliban activity in the area means patrols are more dangerous - IEDs have been placed on roads and mortar attacks are becoming more common - and essential support resources, such as helicopters, have been monopolized by Operation Medusa, NATO's main thrust against the Taliban in nearby Kandahar. That leaves troops at Maizan spending more time confined to base...
...Jaap de Hoop Scheffer last week asked member states to send another 2,500 troops to take on the rising insurgency. McLaughlin would love to have more troops in Zabul, but he says the province is still not understaffed. "Is Zabul going to change a little because of Operation Medusa? Yes. But it makes sense to take a risk in Zabul in order to make our point in Kandahar." Lt. Col Daniel Petrescu, who heads Task Force Calugareni in Qalat, adds that "where Kandahar goes, goes Afghanistan. So by stabilizing Kandahar, we will solve more problems here in Zabul...
...while Operation Medusa rolls on, back at FOB Maizan, the U.S. and Romanian troops struggle to fill the time between mortar attacks with chores, video games, books, and of course, learning to play the fiddle...
...took his cue from the short, sexy Versace dresses celebrities like Madonna favored, and Stella McCartney studded jackets in a Versace-like fashion. At Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs reinvented Versace's fall 1993 cowboy collection with fringed and studded minidresses complete with a witty version of the house's Medusa logo...
Myth has it that Morocco's Atlas Mountains were formed when the hero Perseus turned the eponymous Titan to stone by forcing him to look at the head of Medusa the Gorgon. A visit to the town of Ouarzazate, on the mountains' edge and 400 km outside Marrakech, might lead to you to believe that Atlas survived and that the giant is now amassing a collection of supersized toys. Roman amphitheaters, Tibetan temples and Egyptian sphinxes tower over the arid terrain, left behind at the appropriately named Atlas Studios by crews working on films including Kingdom of Heaven, Kundun...