Word: southwesterner
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...restaurant will serve traditional pub fare as well as southwestern cuisine...
Atta is keeping his prisoners locked in a former cotton warehouse on the southwestern outskirts of Mazar. There, the Pakistanis tell a uniform tale of deception. Mullahs in Pakistan told them Americans were fighting against brother Muslims in Afghanistan and that it was their duty to join the jihad. "The mullahs cheated us," says Saeed Hanif Mohammed, 60, a member of the fundamentalist Pakistani militia Harkat-ul-Mujahideen. "A lot of people died, but we couldn't care about them--we had to save ourselves." He pauses. "I just want to go home." The Northern Alliance guards say barefoot Mohammed...
...resident of the small town of Oxford, in southwestern Connecticut, Lundgren was virtually housebound, a fact that has authorities extremely puzzled as to how she might have come in contact with the bacteria. Lundgren's local post office has tested negative for the spores, and relatives report the elderly woman rarely left her home except occasionally when her niece would drive her to church...
...goggles and breathing devices, to operate in this underground labyrinth, and U.S. bombers have pounded the network. But U.S. troops could face fearsome resistance once they actually venture down there. A former mujahedin commander based in Kandahar told TIME that one possible target would be a mountain complex in southwestern Afghanistan, built by bin Laden as an al-Qaeda base because of its proximity to the Pakistani border. The camp is nestled in a canyon lined with gunners--reportedly Sudanese--who are fiercely loyal to bin Laden. "The Americans are crazy to go in there," says the Afghan...
...don’t have the right subunit that goes with it,” says David L. Garbers, a professor at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center...