Word: tora
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...Afghanistan was an operation that was initially run by the CIA but gradually became a more traditional Centcom show. Franks didn't exactly wow the White House at first. Bush and Rumsfeld were impatient with the war's progress; the U.S. let bin Laden get away at Tora Bora, and a year later the search for the remnants of the Taliban continues. Franks had been set to retire in mid-2002, and if the Bush team had wanted to change generals, it could easily have done so. But Bush asked Franks to stay on duty for another year because...
...divorced now," says Captain Mark--or your life seems to be no deterrent. Nor is the lack of public recognition, although one 5th-grouper did achieve fame of sorts last year when a picture of him in Afghanistan was used on the packaging of a new doll called Tora Bora Ted, available online. If these soldiers have their way, the Baghdad Mark action figure will be on shelves this spring. --With reporting by Simon Robinson/Kuwait City
...slogan was: 'No voice should be louder than the battle for Palestine.' That permeated the language of discourse of all dictators in the Arab world - Palestine first and then we'll get down to business. These issues were often used as delaying tactics." While jailed in Cairo's notorious Tora Prison, Ibrahim interviewed inmates who were convicted Muslim militants. In Tora on Sept. 11, 2001 he was struck by the range of responses. "The first reaction of everybody in prison was shocked and sympathetic. It was the second moment that some of them began to express a delight, either open...
...During the Tora Bora battle in December 2001, the U.S. relied mainly on Afghan forces to mop up after the air bombardment. But the surrogate soldiers, due to bribery and tribal ties, let Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda fighters slip away. American commanders didn't want to make the same mistake again. So, at Adhi Ghar, U.S. troops crept up the mountain, blasting rocket-propelled grenades into caves in pursuit of 40 rebels thought to have survived the first attack. It is not known whether Rahim was among them. The mop-up lasted through the weekend, and even...
...growing village of Bursins, he remains in perpetual motion. In addition to his U.N. work he chairs and partially funds the Geneva-based Global Harmony Foundation, whose projects have included a hospital in Niger for victims of Noma, a flesh-wasting disease, and three girls' schools in Afghanistan's Tora Bora region. "For Nepalese landmine victims we turn out wheelchairs in Kathmandu," says Ustinov. "Come to think of it, I could use one myself," he jokes, after a laborious landing in an armchair in his book-crammed living room. Ustinov seems to take comfort in the homey clutter...