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...they generally move in groups of less than half a dozen--and even big raids won't involve more than "several dozen" troops at a time. The soldiers, most likely Army Delta Force and Green Beret commandos, hide in foxholes and caves during the day, emerging at dusk to scour the Afghan moonscape for evidence of their quarry. Some of the commandos are believed to speak the predominant local languages, Pashtu and Dari. Their goal, says a Pentagon official, is to "get bin Laden--not get bogged down...
...they generally move in groups of less than half a dozen--and even big raids won't involve more than "several dozen" troops at a time. The soldiers, most likely Army Delta Force and Green Beret commandos, hide in foxholes and caves during the day, emerging at dusk to scour the Afghan moonscape for evidence of their quarry. Some of the commandos are believed to speak the predominant local languages, Pashtu and Dari. Their goal, says a Pentagon official, is to "get bin Laden--not get bogged down...
...role in the megahit Friends, he is finally shedding his pretty-boy image, playing a gang boss in a tough port town. But it was the face that got him into acting, of course. On his way to and from school, reps for advertising and modeling agencies, who scour the streets for fresh faces, repeatedly handed him their business cards. His parents disapproved, urging him to concentrate on his studies. But he phoned one of the agencies and ended up doing a soap commercial. "Only my body was shown," he says. An agent later suggested he try movies...
Takenaka is largely keeping his plans from the Japanese press for now, but he tells me he is looking to adopt a three-step approach: scour nonperforming loans from bank books quickly, increase Japanese growth by opening closed industries to competition and cap government spending with a limit that will bulge upward only in an emergency...
Back in the heyday of the Cold War, American intelligence officers used to scour May Day pictures in Pravda to gain clues about Russia's leaders and the general state of our arch-enemy. By analyzing these pictures, they learned who was in control, how healthy they were, how good the Russian economy was, and other useful tidbits. Watching President George W. Bush's speech last Wednesday, anybody could have learned the same things about our country, even without moles in the FBI. They would have seen that our country is in good shape, though we possess some...