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...From the start, the administration warned that the war on terrorism would have no obvious endgame. But liquidating bin Laden and his top al-Qaeda henchmen has always been the principal objective of the campaign. The war's chief salesman, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, reiterated on Friday that the U.S. has no territorial designs on a land whose terrain and people sent two empires packing in recent centuries. Once the U.S. decapitates al-Qaeda, the bulk of the American military force will pull out of Afghanistan. "All we need," an Air Force colonel told TIME Thursday, "is for someone...
...haze of conflicting reports had settled over the situation. The Taliban's envoy to Pakistan said bin Laden had left Afghanistan with his family?and then promptly took the story back. Pentagon officials considered a bin Laden escape unlikely but not absolutely impossible. A few days before, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld had offhandedly mentioned that bin Laden may have tried to sneak out of the country?possibly in a helicopter flying close to the ground and possibly into the tribal areas of Pakistan, from which he could head for a new home in Somalia, Sudan or Yemen. "They could go down...
...Rumsfeld may have been inviting bin Laden to make a run for it, knowing well that the escape hatches were slamming shut. American patrol planes watched the borders. Pakistan warned its tribal chieftains that it would punish anyone who gave sanctuary to bin Laden. Pakistani officials and American ground troops tightened their surveillance of refugees flowing out of Afghanistan. On Saturday, Pakistani guards at the Chaman border detained three Arab women and their two children trying to cross into Pakistan. The three women, from Yemen, claimed that their Arab husbands had been killed in the U.S. bombing as they fled...
...allied forces, hazards still lurk around every corner. On Friday, for the first TIME, Rumsfeld confirmed that American special-ops troops?whose role has largely been to coordinate Alliance advances and guide U.S. bombers to their targets?are now killing Taliban guerrillas and al-Qaeda operatives. "They've gone into places and met resistance and dealt with it," he said. The number of U.S. special-ops soldiers on the ground in Afghanistan rose to 300, with hundreds more headed in to hunt down the remnants of the al-Qaeda brass. Members of Britain's Elite Special Air Service regiment...
...Amnesiac are still there, but Thom Yorke's tenor is allowed to soar above rather than fight through them, revealing melodies in unexpected places. This set also includes the lovely True Love Waits, with its aching, Sarah McLachlan-esque chorus, "Just don't leave." What's next? A cuddly Rumsfeld...