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...three options for running commandos into Afghanistan. It can use the bases in Pakistan or Uzbekistan; it can establish a temporary camp in Afghanistan; or it can use the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk, now loading up in Oman, as a base for the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, the Army's commando chopper unit. The first is politically sensitive; nobody's eager to do the second; so even though forces may use Pakistani bases for refueling and emergencies, the Kitty Hawk, sailing in the Arabian Sea, is likely to be the primary base of sustained special operations...
...Taliban has at least 4,000 hardened fighters in the city, Saif says. Their commander is Mullah Obaidullah, the Defense Minister. Obaidullah is a formidable adversary, says Mohammed Aref, chief of staff of a regiment on the front line facing Kabul. Officials and soldiers on this side who are in contact with the Taliban--spies, escapees or front-line officers who sometimes talk to their opponents by radio--say their enemy's morale is higher than Northern Alliance spokesmen would like to believe. The Taliban reaction to the attacks in the U.S. was a mixture of jubilation and fatalism, Northern...
Instead of logging time on the field for the three-time defending Ivy champions, Costello endured an intensive rehabilitation regiment. After having surgery in November, Costello couldn’t resume workouts for several months, and at the conclusion of the school year she returned home to Southern California determined to return to top form...
Just as hard to soothe, though for different reasons, were the people one step away from the disaster--the tens of thousands of relatives of people missing or killed. At Manhattan's 69th Regiment Armory, family members waited in lines for hours to scan lists of victims treated at emergency rooms or identified as dead, looking for a familiar name. When they found nothing--as most did--they filled out a seven-page form describing the missing person with details that included hair color, length of fingernails and even earrings and shoes. Some brought strands of hair plucked from loved...
...might be easier to believe the Twin Towers had been knocked to the ground if people at the 69th Regiment Armory were crying, if they were clinging to one another in tight bunches, filling the gaping auditorium with sobs. But they aren't. Assembled in the hall are thousands of the walking wounded--the hollow-eyed mothers, lovers, brothers of people who went to work two days ago and disappeared. They answer police officers' questions, they hand over dental records, they describe the meaning of obscure tattoos, they feel sick, they tear up, they pick at ham sandwiches. But only...