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...vehicles of the Northern Alliance's Guards Brigade rolled forward from their advance position 28 miles north of Kabul. It was last Monday afternoon, before the capital fell, and the crews were tensed for a barrage of enemy fire. But none came, so they pushed on faster, rumbling down narrow lanes in thick clouds of dust before turning onto the Old Road and heading south toward Kabul. This was once agricultural land, but now the landscape was lunar and blitzed: the remaining trees were shredded and the fields were pocked with the 10-ft.-deep footprints...
...Pentagon suggested that bin Laden was desperately trying to avoid his fate. He burrowed into the country's most remote terrain, sheltered by a small band of bodyguards willing to die in his defense. Pakistani intelligence sources told TIME that al-Qaeda survivors were likely to lodge themselves in narrow canyons among the summits, near dried riverbeds shielded from American pilots by boulders and shadows. Some U.S. officials fretted that bin Laden might fake his death...
...psychological hobbling of women that is akin to Chinese foot binding. It's also life threatening. Try negotiating a busy Kabul street--around donkey carts, careening buses and the Taliban roaring by in Datsun pickups--when your hearing is muffled and your vision is reduced to a narrow mesh grid...
...Crimson made the game interesting for parts of the third period, scoring two goals within a four-minute span to narrow the Terrier advantage to two goals...
...forces to fall back. Sitting astride his dark bay pony, he radioed for the cavalry. By the next night, after "very fierce" fighting, the Alliance broke through. A local uprising against the Taliban sent the regime's men running from the district capital, Shulgarah. The treacherous Shulgarah Pass?a narrow ravine 14 miles southwest of Mazar where the Alliance had expected to be ambushed by enemy gunners?had been abandoned by Taliban troops before the Alliance arrived...