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...America began the week with the news that a successful commando raid at Kandahar had opened a new phase of the war. More Special Forces operations were expected to strike at the Taliban's command capability, while the Northern Alliance was encouraged to recapture the northern city of Mazari al-Sharif and lay siege to Kabul. By week's end, however, U.S. officials were considerably more downbeat, trying to lower public expectations and prepare Americans for a long and potentially messy war. The Taliban was proving more tenacious than expected, U.S. commanders said. And what they didn...
Islamic militants in Pakistan vowed to raid a Pakistani air base being used by the U.S. for missions in Afganistan. The militants have been aching to bust up some...
...this merchant is also a friend of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar. "Before it might have been possible for America to negotiate with Mullah Omar over Osama bin Laden - but not now," he says. "Mullah Omar watched his son dying in a Kandahar hospital after a U.S. bombing raid. These things are not so easily forgiven...
...Ignoring Tuesday's calls from Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell for a withdrawal of Israeli troops from Palestinian Authority-controlled areas, Sharon issued a polite "only when we're ready to" reply. Then he launched another raid on a West Bank village near Ramallah, in which 10 Palestinians were reportedly killed...
After a $130,000 renovation, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Franklin L. Ford moved in with his wife and two sons. Ford lived there until 1969, when he resigned after the police raid on University Hall. His replacement, John T. Dunlop, was quite fond of his current house in Belmont and announced that he had no desire to use live in Elmwood...