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Even with the ISI helping the U.S. against al-Qaeda, conditions in the tribal territory favor the terrorists. There are few roads into the terrain's soaring mountains. Gripes a Pakistani official: "If we get a lead, it takes four days to send an agent up into the villages, and by then the suspect's gone." That problem should be solved this June after Pakistan takes delivery of a fleet of U.S. helicopters and airplanes for border surveillance. Even still, tribesmen remain hostile to the U.S. presence. After the antiterrorist forces raided a seminary in Miramshah, shops closed and mullahs...
...sizable wine list, for example, has a playful informality, with whites and reds divided by personality rather than type or terrain. Bottles of Pinot Blanc and Chardonnay turn up in the “Mid Weight, Refined But Lively” section, which could easily double for an appealing personal ad, while “Rustic, Spicy and Earthy” (too PSLM for me) houses Shiraz and Carmignano. Though leaning heavily on Italy, the cute categories are a veritable United Nations, with Argentina, Turkey and even Massachusetts fielding delegations...
...Even with the ISI helping the U.S. against al-Qaeda, conditions in the tribal territory favor the terrorists. There are few roads into the terrain's soaring mountains. Gripes a Pakistani official: "If we get a lead, it takes four days to send an agent up into the villages, and by then the suspect's gone." That problem should be solved this June after Pakistan takes delivery of a fleet of U.S. helicopters and airplanes for border surveillance. Even still, tribesmen remain hostile to the U.S. presence. After the antiterrorist forces raided a seminary in Miramshah, shops closed and mullahs...
...weren't supposed to be in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. They were, after all, fugitive Taliban from Afghanistan, enemies of Pakistan's ally, the U.S., and would have had to cross fearsome terrain and fortified checkpoints to get to Peshawar. Yet there they were, happy to explain their latest doings, disguised only by a switch of turbans from Taliban black to stripes. "Until now, we've been lying low," one told TIME's Rahimullah Yusufzai late last week. The Taliban, the two say, are regrouping in small, heavily armed bands along the border and launching attacks on U.S. forces...
...shoot down at least 30 aircraft for each loss of their own (in 1982 they scored 80-0 against the Syrians). The Israeli army's 11 armored divisions would be outnumbered, but Israeli armored columns are trained to move significantly faster than their enemies, to outmaneuver them if the terrain allows, while their gunnery--100% the product of female instructors--is thought to be far superior...