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...them with his pistol, but he's holed up in the north side with no ammo." As a hurried discussion of tactics began, Harley-Davidson went back to his radio. Then he cut in: "Shit. Let's stop f___ing around and get in there." Pointing to the sky, he added, "Tell those guys to stop scratching their balls...
...confused splinter of our population, and they persuade nobody. The people of Afghanistan will benefit from our having been there. Can one consider American efforts to provide humanitarian aid and question that our intentions are just? Can one see children suddenly free to fly kites in the sky over Kabul and doubt there was something satanic in the oppressors we expelled...
...often at photographs of him and sung along to Jo's favorite Frank Sinatra and Neil Young tunes. Isabel, 14 months, is too young to understand, but Amanda knows that her daddy is in heaven with her grandfather. Every night she goes to a window, looks up at the sky and has private conversations with the dead...
...hunters stalked their prey from the sky and in the shadows, armed with instruments of death and waiting for Osama bin Laden to reveal himself. Above the gnarled ridges outside the besieged cities of Jalalabad and Kandahar, U.S. warplanes unloaded laser-guided Maverick missiles and 5,000-lb. bunker busters to collapse limestone redoubts and bury anyone taking cover inside. Members of the U.S. Army's clandestine 800-man Delta Force tracked likely bin Laden hideouts, equipped with night-vision goggles and stun grenades, in case they had to creep inside the mountains, and laser pointers, in the hope that...
...hard to believe that women who are hidden under a burqa retain a sense of style, but they do. This year's trendy color for burqas is a pale sky blue. A few years back it was a coppery brown. The fashion center for burqas -the Paris, if you will, of Afghanistan - is Herat. Afghan women rave about the delicacy of its embroidery, the exquisite pleating which gives the burqa a shimmering, watery feel but which takes hours to iron...