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...slip the dragnet at Tora Bora last December, the American forces learned a valuable lesson: If you want to get things done in Afghanistan, do them yourself. That's why when it traced a group of some 500 suspected bin Laden loyalists to a cave network in the Shahi Kot mountain range in Paktia province, the U.S. last weekend sent 1,000 of its own men - together with 200 special forces troops from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Denmark and Norway - to take a leading role in the ground offensive. Although the soldiers were accompanied by a similar number of anti...
...White House has long prepared the American people for U.S. casualties in Afghanistan, and these latest ones are likely only to stiffen domestic resolve to complete the war there. But the clashes in the Shahi Kot range are a sharp reminder of how much remains to be done, the perils that continue to face the U.S. mission - and the limits of technology's ability to make waging war safe for Americans...
...trail of the missing Shomali women leads to Jalalabad, not far from the Pakistan border. There, according to eyewitnesses, the women were penned up inside Sar Shahi camp in the desert. The more desirable among them were selected and taken away. Some were trucked to Peshawar with the apparent complicity of Pakistani border guards. Others were taken to Khost, where bin Laden had several training camps. The al-Qaeda Arabs had a hard time finding voluntary brides among the Afghan women, but they did have money. One Arab in Khost spent $10,000 on a teenage Afghan beauty, says Ahmad...
...eyewitness to the murders, Rajiv Shahi, son-in-law of Birendra's brother, went before the press last week to tell what he saw. TIME has contacted two other survivors who corroborate nearly every detail of Rajiv's story: that Crown Prince Dipendra entered the suite of rooms and cold-bloodedly gunned down his parents, brother, sister and five other relatives. The other witnesses are both uncles of Dipendra. Ravi, a widower, was married to a daughter of the late King Tribhuvan. Maheshwar Kumar Singh, 66, is married to another daughter of Tribhuvan. None of the three witnesses...
...those unwilling to put up with pseudo-meat, seek out higher quality and real ingredients at Sage's Market on Brattle St. Break away from boring frozen options and pick up creative alternatives like Wolfgang Puck's Designer Pizza TM and Taj Gourmet TM Vegetable Korma and Shahi Paneer. Of course these fine options come at a price--the Puck's pizza costs a whopping $5.49. But, hey, sometimes you just gotta splurge...