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Time for Plan B. The first major ground battle, near Mazar-i-Sharif, took place last Monday, when hundreds of Northern Alliance troops serving under two commanders, Uzbek warlord Rashid Dostum and Tajik general Mullah Ustad Mohammed Atta, swept toward the city and the 20,000 entrenched Taliban troops protecting it. The Alliance forces advanced to within 12 miles of Mazar, but a fierce Taliban counterattack led to savage street battles; Alliance forces managed to hold their front line but failed to advance much further. It's unlikely that the Alliance will march on Mazar anytime soon. The Taliban...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Rules Of Engagement | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

...told him that they had gone; the boat had sunk," Rokaya says, her voice utterly expressionless. "He cried out and said he couldn't bear to live if they were dead. Then he let go of the wood and was swept under the water by another wave. I never saw him again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shipwrecked | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

...needed and could walk into the Oval Office any time he wanted?"I have the President's ear," he said?he also said flat out that he didn't have "technical operational authority" to do much of anything. In his private briefings with lawmakers from both parties, "nobody was swept off their feet," a Democratic lawmaker told TIME. "He was asked what his first priority was, and there was a 60-second silence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Homeland Insecurity | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

NUSSEIBEH: This certainly hasn?t helped us. It?s been a blow to us in the sense that it totally swept away the international community?s interest in our case. If anything, it unfortunately made it possible for many people to try to connect terrorism with the Palestinian cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Palestinian with a Plan | 10/29/2001 | See Source »

...Time for Plan B. The first major ground battle, near Mazar-i-Sharif, took place last Monday, when hundreds of Northern Alliance troops serving under two commanders, Uzbek warlord Rashid Dostum and Tajik general Mullah Ustad Mohammed Atta, swept toward the city and the 20,000 entrenched Taliban troops protecting it. The Alliance forces advanced to within 12 miles of Mazar, but a fierce Taliban counterattack led to savage street battles; Alliance forces managed to hold their front line but failed to advance much further. It's unlikely that the Alliance will march on Mazar anytime soon. The Taliban...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Rules of Engagement | 10/28/2001 | See Source »

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