Word: shrapnel
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...hundred yards away and sounding like a car decelerating in high gear. The spotters lay flat. Alliance commanders and soldiers crouched against the door leading to the roof. The missile hit at 4:05 p.m. For a split second, as the concussive sound waves radiated outward, lungs emptied. Shrapnel whistled by. Then Alliance soldiers burst into applause. A U.S. soldier picked up a fallen piece of metal. "Souvenir," he said, grinning. Six more strikes followed before the British SAS commander re-established contact with Dave, still penned in with the TV crews. The SAS soldier told the Alliance commander that...
...approach road to what in better times was the base of the Afghan army's 40th Division in the northeast of the country does not inspire confidence. To our left is a row of farmhouse walls scarred by shrapnel and bullets. To our right, in the fading light, an empty expanse of ground stretches to Taliban positions 600 m distant. Both sides of the road are heavily mined. The road itself is totally exposed. "We're in a salient out here," says Allah Mahmad, who defends the ruins ahead. "We've got Talibs and Arabs to the left flank...
...Khrum, nestled in the Torghar Mountain range about 20 miles Jalalabad, was in ruins after suffering direct hits recently. The unexploded bomb and bomb and missile shrapnel littering the destroyed village were clear indications of an air attack. The stench of death hung in the air as corpses of cattle and goats lay unburied. Over two dozen fresh graves were visible in Khrum...
...Kandahar, put down his Koran to act. Like so many saints and tyrants before him, Omar says he discovered his destiny in a dream: God was calling him to save his country from the warlords. He had already given his right eye as a young mujahedin to Soviet shrapnel. Now, according to Taliban lore, he gathered together 30 like-minded men to avenge the abduction and rape of two young women; the guilty warlord was captured and killed. A movement was born, in the rare words of Omar, as "a simple band of dedicated youths determined to establish the laws...
...resilient people. From broken glass and steel shrapnel, a renewed spirit springs forth. American pride, whose presence lay submerged beneath the complications of identity politics, now quickly emerges as the mantra du jour...