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Rabat, 25 miles from Kabul By the standards of this soporific war, the front line at Rabat was quite lively this week. A rocket exploded in front of the trenches as we approached, sending up an impressive cloud of gray dust, and a few bullets from a Taliban position 500 or so meters away whistled lazily through the air. The Taliban do this about 5:30 every evening, a local commander said...
MISSILES Surface-to-air Stingers, SA-7 Grails and Scud-Bs artillery Truck-mounted rocket launchers, antiaircraft guns, howitzers and automatic grenade launchers
WEAPONS Assault rifles, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades...
WEAPONS Assault rifles, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades...
...moved steadily toward launching an assault on Afghan territory, Taliban soldiers armed with AKs trundled antiquated rocket launchers into position, while citizens fled to the barren countryside or the Pakistani frontier. No one was sure where the world's most wanted man, Osama bin Laden, might be: in a fortified network of caves tunneling under the eastern mountains, "riding off on a horse," as newspapers in Pakistan reported, or even alone...