Word: nik
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...feet high dirt walls "big enough to drive two or three tanks through," says Perry, who witnessed the attack. The explosion flipped over a Northern Alliance tank, trapping the two soldiers inside, and buried the Americans under rubble. According to eyewitnesses, two American soldiers were killed in the incident. Nik Mohammed, a 24-year-old Northern Alliance soldier, told Perry that he had helped carry one injured and two dead Americans out of the fort. The soldiers were identified by their uniforms as belonging to the Special Forces unit that had been in the fort for the past 24 hours...
...avoid the Harvard Republican Club labeling me some particularly disturbed peace-nik, let me say now that I am all for retribution and punishment for the individuals and countries responsible for Sept. 11th. Anyone deluded enough to think his interests are sufficiently different from those of the United States to justify what happened this month will find just how fierce our nation can be, and rightly so. If Afghanistan and bin Laden are behind this attack, we should bring merciless, unceasing ruin to their lives and to their land. At the same time, our allies in the region are often...