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...government in Kabul is likely find itself under mounting pressure from its own constituents to restrain U.S. air strikes - Taliban and al Qaeda holdouts will have almost certainly sought shelter amid the civilian population precisely to raise the political costs of continuing to attack them from the air. But Afghanistan's new rulers won't stand in the way of the nation that has facilitated every step of their victory over the Taliban, even if that means absorbing the pain of continued air strikes. Karzai has emphasized that the U.S. is welcome to wage war on his territory until...
...from which most of the Taliban were also drawn. In some of those parts, bin Laden could count on a warm welcome. In Pakistan's Dabori Valley last week, where bin Laden stayed briefly after he was kicked out of Sudan in 1996, villagers say they would give him shelter as a fellow Muslim, even if they would urge him to leave. They say that a wounded al-Qaeda fighter turned up last week and was given food and money. "People did not inform the authorities," says Hasan Mehmood, who lives in the village of Naryab. "This Arab left...
...biggest American ground operation so far. A convoy carried 200 Marines from their base at Kandahar airport to a deserted al-Qaeda training camp in southern Afghanistan. With the Marines providing cover, Afghan fighters rifled through the compound's 14 structures, which were believed to have provided shelter for Mullah Omar some time in the past three weeks. Thirty hours later the Marines returned to base, though not with the treasure trove of documents and computer hard drives they had hoped...
...Christmas season was not made any brighter by the release of a survey from the U.S. Conference of Mayors showing that the demand for homeless shelter has spiked 13% since last December. The report confirms a subtle change in the complexion of the homeless population. In contrast to the usual conception of the homeless as hardcore unemployed, 1 in 5 residents of shelters now holds a full- or part-time job. These people--waiters, security guards, laborers and other low-paid workers--once earned enough to pay their rent but are now squeezed between high housing costs and stagnant wages...
...After the crocodile cruise, we take a walk along a waterlogged trail to Nourlangie, an Aboriginal rock shelter dating back 20,000 years, which has several examples of rock art. At the main site the paintings focus on the legend of Namarrgon, or the Lightning Man, the fellow responsible for the storm about to break over our heads. Considering their antiquity, the images are surprisingly clear. We soon learn why. In 1964 a number of the figures were renewed by a respected Aboriginal artist known as Barramundi Charlie who, our guide Rick tells us, painted over older, similar figures...