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...ground around and the skies above him. Sources tell TIME that U.S. special forces have been moving in and out of Afghanistan for three years now looking for bin Laden. Recently, the activity has been stepped up. But they face the challenge of capturing a man who knows the terrain, has dozens of hideouts and is surrounded by loyal followers. It takes five years of training to make a Delta Force operative, and of all the tactical missions it practices, this is among the most difficult: launching into hostile territory hundreds of miles from any support and hunting...
During the past two weeks, military and intelligence sources tell TIME, the U.S. has ratcheted up its commandos' role inside Afghanistan, hunting both for bin Laden and for information that will aid an explosive strike against al-Qaeda, his terror network. Inserted deep into the mountainous terrain, the teams have been working various parts of the country, usually at night. A handful of pilotless drone airplanes backs them up, working the skies over the country, looking for hints--a small convoy kicking up dust, for example--of bin Laden or his allies. And though most of the fighters...
...that war. Though U.S. intelligence has tracked him since 1995, it was not until 1998, following the al-Qaeda bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa that year, that President Clinton authorized an all-out hunt. Since then, U.S. special-ops forces have been working Afghanistan's hilly terrain, traveling in small bands. The U.S. commando presence inside Afghanistan, a Pentagon official said, is "sporadic" and "very small"--they generally move in groups of less than half a dozen--and even big raids won't involve more than "several dozen" troops at a time. The soldiers, most likely Army Delta...
...country would provide a daunting challenge for any U.S. ground troops. A captivating land of high mountains, deep valleys and wide plains, Afghanistan is, in all its dimensions, made for guerrilla warfare. It's a place where knowledge of the terrain is the most important weapon any army can have...
...More than half of the nation's 17-year-olds have had sexual intercourse, according to a 1999 study by the Alan Guttmacher Institute. And young couples are living together in far greater numbers than their boomer parents did before marriage. As families navigate this sensitive and often embarrassing terrain--neither child nor parent relishes the thought of the other having sex--David Treadway, a family therapist in Weston, Mass., notes approvingly that "people are trying to make judgments not based on moral systems but out of care and concern for their...