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...battle might never have happened if not for a gruesome stroke of luck. On Jan. 27, U.S. troops and their Afghan allies were conducting random checks outside the city of Spin Boldak, a smuggler's haven near the Pakistani border, when a motorcyclist and his passenger roared past a checkpoint. The Americans and Afghans gave chase down a potholed road stretching across a broad mesa dotted with camels. During the pursuit, the turbaned man on the back of the motorcycle reached under his shawl for a grenade but fumbled it, blowing off his own legs. His comrade, Abdul Ghani, surrendered...
...assaults, such as lobbing a single wildly aimed mortar round and then hightailing it over the mountains. These strikes typically caused more nuisance than harm. Ghani's confession, however, suggested that for the first time anti-U.S. forces were creeping back from their hideouts across the Pakistani border and regrouping in large numbers. Their aim is to pour heavy fire on the Americans, forcing them to retreat from their isolated bases...
...They were eating a lot better than we were." Strategically, the base was perfectly located for attacks against American troops. It lies within striking range of several special-forces camps and a large U.S. air base in Kandahar. As an added advantage, it was just 40 kilometers from the Pakistani border, close enough for a quick getaway?and to receive orders from two key Taliban commanders, Mullah Bradar and Mullah Abdul Razzak, who Afghan intelligence sources say are hiding in the Pakistani cities of Chaman and Quetta...
...were fellow travelers on the jihad circuit, having fought together in Kashmir and Afghanistan. Bukhari ran a boot camp for Kashmiri volunteers inside Afghanistan?a camp that intelligence sources say was used to train members of al-Qaeda. In his Kashmir activities, Bukhari was also known, and abetted, by Pakistani intelligence services?a connection that worries U.S. officials looking into Pearl's death...
...Journalists aren't resting any easier, even though Pearl's convicted abductors are behind bars. In December, the Karachi bureau of the Associated Press news agency was contacted by an unknown militant group and promised?much in the way that Pearl had been?some "exclusive material." A.P.'s Pakistani reporter met with a go-between who blindfolded and drove him to Karachi's outskirts. There the car was met by an Arab who drew off the reporter's blindfold and swore at the go-between: "What is this? You promised me a foreign journalist!" Eventually, the Pakistani journalist was allowed...