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...Allies are on the trail. This morning, a convoy of U.S. commandos and British Special Forces in 4x4s sped off into the desert south of Kandahar airport. On the horizon appeared a mud-walled fortress. Inside was an Al Qaeda training camp, with firing ranges, an underground bunker and a main headquarters. It was an early target for Cruise missiles, but the commandos were scouring the bombed-out camouflaged buildings for any leads...
...fellow commanders to a hasty meeting as Alliance fighters converged on the dusty square outside, readying their pickups and rocket launchers for battle. A small unit of American special forces arrived, and their commander slipped inside. A few minutes later, the Alliance chiefs jumped into their jeeps and sped across the desert, trailed by 5,000 troops. Dostum scrambled up an ancient mud mound and raised his binoculars: on the horizon a thin line of black dots showed where the Taliban was waiting...
...Within 20 min., the casualties and walking wounded were loaded into seven jeeps and minibuses, which sped off to the U.S. base. Nine men were airlifted out. Nik Mohammed, 24, an Alliance soldier on the northeast tower at the time of the strike, said he helped pull three uniformed soldiers he believed to be Americans from the rubble of the collapsed wall and claimed that two of them were dead. On Tuesday the Pentagon said that there had been no military deaths but that five U.S. service members had been seriously injured and had been evacuated to Landstuhl Regional Medical...
...pass on third-and-5 from midfield, punter Adam Kingston trotted onto the field as Harvard lined up to punt. But it was sophomore linebacker Dante Balestracci, not Kingston, who took the snap. Dashing to the right, Balestracci gained the first down, then lateralled the ball to Kingston, who sped 36 yards to the Yale eight-yard line...
...pass on third-and-5 from midfield, punter Adam Kingston trotted onto the field as Harvard lined up to punt. But it was sophomore linebacker Dante Balestracci, not Kingston, who took the snap. Dashing to the right, Balestracci gained the first down, then lateralled the ball to Kingston, who sped 36 yards to the Yale eight-yard line...