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...TIME, checking his night-vision goggles. "There's going to be quite a show." The soldier used a reporter's satellite phone to call his wife and tell her he might be on the TV news that night--"Tape it all day, will you? O.K. Love you, babe." At midnight an American AC-130 gunship began lazily circling Qala-i-Jangi. It flew five times over the same spot, spraying the southern end of the fort with a golden stream of fire. Later a massive ball of flame lifted up from the fort, kicking off a fireworks display as mortar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Battle at Qala-I-Jangi | 12/1/2001 | See Source »

True confirmed reports that Wiley, who was last seen at the hotel around midnight, had consumed alcohol that night, but said there is no current evidence that he was inebriated prior to his disappearance...

Author: By Jenifer L. Steinhardt and Elisabeth S. Theodore, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Wiley Investigation Focuses on Suicide | 11/29/2001 | See Source »

True confirmed reports that Wiley, who was last seen at the hotel around midnight, had consumed alcohol that night, but said there is no current evidence that he was inebriated prior to his disappearance...

Author: By Jenifer L. Steinhardt and Elisabeth S. Theodore, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: With No New Leads, Police Say Suicide Most Likely Explanation for Missing Wiley | 11/29/2001 | See Source »

Wiley, 57, was last seen in Memphis at the annual meeting of the Scientific Advisory Board of the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital just after midnight on Friday, Nov. 16. His car was found with a full fuel tank and the key in the ignition on a bridge over the Mississippi River at 4 a.m. that morning...

Author: By Ravi Agrawal, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Colleagues: Wiley Unlikely Target For Bioterrorists | 11/26/2001 | See Source »

...four rival commanders failed to coordinate their attacks. In the north, the Alliance's loose-knit guerrilla bands are plagued by ethnic infighting, inexperience and customary drug use. The preferred narcotic is a potent, pungent hashish that is smoked by Alliance and Taliban soldiers alike from dinner until midnight. Alliance soldiers say they make up for their lack of Western-style military discipline with versatility. "We can do everything," says Fazel, a tank commander in the Farkhar district. "But we don't do anything very well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Afghan Way of War | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

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