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With 40 other soldiers and their 80-lb. rucksacks crammed into the rear of a Chinook helicopter--a space designed for 33--Randel Perez barely had room to breathe. As they thundered through the darkness toward the Shah-i-Kot Valley in eastern Afghanistan, the dim cabin lights cast pink and purple shadows on Perez and his fellow infantrymen from the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division. Some chattered about the fight to come, while others managed to catch a last-minute nap. Perez was far away, hugging a baby he had never met. It was early March...
...helicopter dropped into the southern end of the steep-sided valley, its rear ramp opening as it drew closer to the snow-patched ground. Perez knew that he had to let go of the baby. "I had to zone him out," he says. "The mission became the only thing on my mind." That's Perez--plainspoken and shaven-headed, a fireplug who wanted so badly to lead troops in combat that he had bailed out of the Army supply corps two years earlier and joined the frontline infantry. Before this day was over, he'd lead more troops through more...
Perez's army career wasn't supposed to turn out like this. A child of Texas' Rio Grande Valley and the grandson of four Mexican immigrants, Perez had seen a stint in the Army--safely in the rear--as his ticket to college. When he enlisted in 1991, his father Ramiro had a warning for the recruiter: "If he ends up in the infantry," he said, only half-joking, "I'll break your legs." So Perez became a supply soldier, responsible for making sure the men on the front lines got their beans, bullets and boots...
...Qaeda may have lost its rear bases in Afghanistan and its leaders may be on the run, but it has plenty of cash. That's the bad news from a draft United Nations report on terrorist funding due to be released Thursday. The draft report notes that despite 144 U.N. member states having frozen some $112 million in suspected al-Qaeda assets since September 11, the terror network continues to enjoy access to tens of millions of dollars in secretly managed investments - estimated to be worth somewhere between $30 million and $300 million. Al Qaeda's coffers have always been...
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