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...caves. Afghan officials say many of these rebels are sneaking in from the Pakistani borderlands, which are off limits for U.S. troops. In early March, American soldiers chased suspected Taliban and al - Qaeda fighters across the border and met resistance from the Pakistani Frontier Corps. After one Pakistani militiaman was shot dead, the U.S. troops were ordered back to Afghanistan, according to an Islamabad antiterrorist official.- By Tim McGirk Dire Straight THE MEDITERRANEAN As terror concerns increased with the hostilities in Iraq, the 13-km-wide Strait of Gibraltar south of Spain got a new security system. NATO began quietly...
...Republican cause was collapsing and then, as World War II raged, on to North Africa, Sicily, the Italian mainland and - most traumatically - to Omaha Beach and the slaughter of the D-Day invasion. It was in Spain that Capa took his best-known photo, which purported to show a militiaman a split second after he'd been fatally shot. Debate over its authenticity still rages. The "truth" of the photo, says Kershaw, is in its representation of a symbolic death. "The Falling Soldier, authentic or fake, is ultimately a record of Capa's political bias and idealism," he writes, adding...
...Hamdullah, an anti-Taliban militiaman was woken at 2am for his shift on guard duty that day. Around him all was still, the compound asleep. Helicopters buzzed overhead, but that didn't much perturb the sentry - their sound had filled Uruzgan's night sky for the past two weeks. Then came an explosion, "not like any that I have heard before, not a rocket or a grenade", he says. He could make out only a strange vehicle, and a dot of red light that disappeared as quickly as it had appeared. He rushed back to alert the others, before diving...
...month before and we would be the first foreign visitors since the Buddhas were destroyed. Ten hours north in the back of a truck brought us to a stop where a group of Taliban fighters escorted us to a stone-and-mud compound. In each corner stood a militiaman armed with a locally made AK-47 assault rifle and guarding piles of ammunition and missiles loosely stacked against a wall. We sat on the ground and tensely drank tea with our hosts. The mood lightened as more Taliban members arrived, hugging and slapping their comrades and welcoming us as guests...
...after the first shootings, rebels attack army camps at Waripora Magam and Zachaldar in Kupwara. Five soldiers, members of the 21 and 24 Rashtriya Rifles, are killed and 13 more wounded. The Lashkar-i-Tayyaba admits carrying out the assaults, which it says were the work of a lone militiaman. Their man, it adds, although intending to die, was unscathed in both. By the end of the day, the death toll across Kashmir is up to a reported 42. A spokesman for the Indian Border Security Force says it would have been a lot higher but for the arrest...