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...more trouble than they had bargained for. At battle position Ginger, Grippe found hundreds of enemy fighters waiting. "They came at us with mortars, RPGs, and light and heavy machine guns," he told TIME. "From a blocking mission, it turned into a reconnaissance force on an al-Qaeda stronghold." Grippe radioed to base for reinforcements and was told that none could get through the hail of fire. He was ordered to hold out until after dark, when evacuation would be possible. It was still only 7 a.m. Grippe's team spent the day fighting off Taliban and al-Qaeda incursions...
...Mansoor's mountain stronghold appears to have been a magnet for Taliban die-hards and al-Qaeda fighters, a number of whom made their way to Shahi Kot - some with the families in tow - to avoid capture by the U.S. and its allies. That had caused consternation among local tribal leaders already made edgy by a bloody, unrelated power struggle between rival warlords. Shortly before the battle at Shahi Kot began, Mansoor had reportedly been negotiating terms for his surrender with tribal elders sent by Taj Mohammed Wardak, the new governor of Paktia, the province where Shahi Kot is located...
Calling prosperous, well-scrubbed Hamburg a catastrophe may strike many as an exaggeration, but then Schill, 43, has forged his political career by squeezing the crime problem for all it's worth. He calls Hamburg the "German stronghold of crime," an image that shot around the world when it was discovered that some of the Sept. 11 hijackers had plotted in the city. Schill made two campaign promises in last year's city elections: to cut crime by half in his first 100 days in office and to increase the police force by 2,000 officers. The judge, whose party...
Ever since disgruntled citizens of Schwyz, Uri and Unterwalden swore their nation's founding oath of confederation in 1291, Switzerland has reveled in remaining an Alpine stronghold, happily cut off from political and economic turmoil in the world's lower realms. Fear of weakening the country's vaunted neutrality, independence and grass-roots democracy has kept Switzerland out of nato, the European Union and almost every other political alliance dreamed up by the world's multilateralists. That could change this weekend, when voters decide whether the country should finally join an organization it has hosted for 55 years: the United...
...situation is shaping up in post-Taliban Afghanistan, where rival clans have begun to try to use the U.S. military for their own ends. The U.S. military admitted this week that it had killed and captured the wrong people when it struck what it believed to be a Taliban stronghold in the town of Uruzgan three weeks ago. U.S. commanders were forced to apologize and offer financial compensation...