Word: snared
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...reconnect and are rebuffed. Also, he adds, "those who think, 'Well, you've got bald and bloated,' tend not to write in." Not all reunion stories have a happy ending. The very thing that can make a match--the feeling that you already know each other--can be a snare, as Lisa Liken, 42, a Southern California drama teacher, found when she was e-mailed by a high school boyfriend living abroad. On a month-long trip home, he began living with her and proposed. They carried on a long-distance romance for two years. "Because I knew him from...
...Afghan proxies has been, inevitably, one of convenience rather than of principle. The shared goal was breaking the Taliban's grip on power and putting to flight the al Qaeda volunteers who had helped keep it in place - while the Afghan warlords have expressed commitment to help America snare its quarry in order to stay on the right side of the superpower that facilitated their victory, such verbal commitment has meant relatively little on the ground. Even the new prime minister, Hamid Karzai, appeared ready six weeks ago to simply let Mullah Omar fade into obscurity, before the Americans twisted...
...Complicated as it will certainly be, the future has already begun. British marines took control of Bagram airport north of Kabul Thursday, to pave the way for humanitarian flights - and also military deployments to expand efforts to snare Osama bin Laden and the rest of al Qaeda's leadership cadre. There was no word Friday on their whereabouts, but plenty of speculation - including Iranian reports that he may have already slipped into Pakistan. U.S. special forces are roaming the south, engaging in firefights with retreating Taliban fighters and gathering intelligence on the possible whereabouts of their leaders. And local Pashtun...
ROMESH RATNESAR got back from 18 months in London writing for TIME's international edition just in time to write last week's cover story on the ground war. He has combat duty again this week, writing on the battle in Afghanistan and the strategy to snare bin Laden. Talk to him Wednesday...
...their destinations), boarding aircraft and leaping out in Afghanistan. While a group of commandos seized a dry-lake airstrip some 100 miles southwest of Kandahar, other troops headed to Kandahar itself in pursuit of Omar and one of his command centers. The special forces didn't manage to snare Omar, but Pentagon officials said U.S. troops gathered valuable intelligence and destroyed a small-weapons stockpile at the airfield...