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Currently ranked No. 8 in the country, the Harvard sophomore wrestler won the 149-pound weight class at this weekend’s Cliff Keen Invitational in Las Vegas...
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...Monday morning, a detachment from the U.S. 10th Mountain Division arrived from Uzbekistan. Perhaps in order to prepare the way for an assault by the 10th Mountain, the Americans inside the fort called in an air strike to pound the Taliban position shortly before 11a.m. - with disastrous results. Perry reports that a massive bomb, later identified by officials as a U.S. JDAM smart bomb, missed the Taliban position by around 600 feet, detonating barely 30 feet from the Northern alliance position and almost on top of the spotters who had called in the strike...
...With most of the country now in anti-Taliban hands, the U.S. bombers have a fast-dwindling set of targets. The only Taliban lines left to pound last weekend were in Kunduz, the last government garrison in the north, and in Kandahar. Last week the Taliban was on the verge of quitting both cities, but defiant Taliban cadres made their stands. In the north, the estimated 6,000 Taliban troops who retreated to Kunduz from the decimated fronts at Mazar-i-Sharif and Taloqan had their supply lines and escape routes cut off. They had two options: surrender...
...Taliban run? These holy warriors say that they can't wait to soar from the battlefield straight to paradise, a garden of fountains and beautiful women who are not wearing burqas. But once those 15,000 pound "Daisy-Cutter" bombs started falling, exploding in a lethal fuel-air mixture that kills everything in a 600-yard radius, it doesn't mater how fanatical you are, or how gorgeous you believe the women are who waiting for you in paradise. Every instinct of survival kicks in, and you run. The only difference between the Afghans and the Pakistani and Arab guest...