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...Sama'ana Owdeh stares at the infrared screen linked to Termite's rooftop surveillance camera. He directs the camera at one cinder-block house, then another. His eyes twitch with tension and concentration. "You see them?" he barks to the men at their guns. Another grenade explodes, louder and nearer, and this time a machine gun fires too--at the post. "That's very close!" Owdeh shouts. The Israeli machine guns open up a brief, deafening volley. But their target has retreated. In the nervous silence, a soldier speaks up. "It's quiet, too quiet." The Israelis know this...
...took out my passport and gave it to a Pakistani guard standing within reach. I wanted to get nearer to him, but the Talibs forced me back. I explained that I was a journalist, but they kept staring at me. I told them I would stay put, in an attempt to pacify them. But when the Taliban's attention was drawn to some incoming refugees, a Pakistani border guard winked and asked me to come...
...this week a U.S. Defense Department spokeswoman acknowledged that several bombs had gone astray, hitting an old people?s home and residential areas of Kabul. According to the Taliban, 100 people died in the raids. Still the forces ranged against Osama bin Laden were no nearer to finding the elusive terrorist leader. Britain?s Prime Minister Tony Blair admitted in a newspaper interview, "I have always thought it unlikely that he will turn up in a court one day." U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld conceded that it was proving "very difficult" to find bin Laden and that the Taliban were...
...Easy: international politics. To conduct the war in Afghanistan, Washington needs allies in the region. Bombers can fly from Diego Garcia and aircraft carriers, but the helicopters vital for close-in work?to say nothing of the soldiers who will do it?generally need bases nearer to the action. So far, the U.S. has made more headway than expected; last week Washington signed a forces agreement with Uzbekistan allowing for the long-term stationing of American troops and aircraft in the Central Asian country. Khanabad, an air base 125 miles north of the Afghan border, has become the staging-post...
...meaning of their lives being fulfilled by an act of extreme violence. U.S. diplomats have reported this sense of public outrage about American policy in the region for many years. It is evident that it has been particularly strong in all Arab countries, more evident as you get nearer to ground zero of the problems: the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem...