Word: tora
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...camel herders, mango farmers and fishermen. But in the mental map of Islamic militants, it looms large. The oldest al-Qaeda training camp in Africa, Ras Kamboni, is perched on Somalia's southeastern tip, surrounded by swampy jungle that makes it as inaccessible as the hill caves of Tora Bora in Afghanistan. Radical groups like al-Itihaad al-Islamiya, funded and trained by foreign militants supplied by Osama bin Laden, have been in Somalia for years. The same bin Laden T shirts that fill Pakistan's bazaars are sold in the markets along Kenya's Indian Ocean coast...
...truth is, each one is a little different. I got my first feel for explosions in Afghanistan in December of 2001, when I was reporting on the siege of Tora Bora. A volley of mortars fell on a front-line position I visited one day. The fear stands out most in my mind when conjuring the memory. I remember thinking: "Run, don't die here. Run, don't die here" over and over again. But physically? Well, when the closest mortar fell atop a large rock under which I was cowering, the sensation was like being punched hard...
...country has jumped more than 50% in the past year, to 27,000, a much bigger surge in percentage terms than is being argued over for Iraq. There are six times the number of soldiers as in 2002 when U.S. forces were staking out bin Laden in Tora Bora. Only now the enemy is not just the Taliban and al-Qaeda but also the proxy army of warlords that the U.S. helped enrich and empower--an army that America once hoped would be critical in the struggle against terrorism...
...backed up by CIA agents and officers, have little information on bin Laden's whereabouts despite the $25 million bounty on his head. The last time they came close to him was in late 2001, when he apparently escaped a tightening noose as he fled his mountain redoubt at Tora Bora in eastern Afghanistan...
...collection of "highlights" from his third-grade class. As far as I could tell he wasn't attending an Iranian elementary school so much as one of those scary Pakistani-type madrassas, where rows of boys sit on the floor memorizing the Koran and the alumni all died at Tora Bora. The first minutes captured the class making ritual ablutions before prayer, followed by scenes of them actually praying together in the classroom, and finally, a lively segment of them practicing the call to prayer. Noting my horrified look, my friend explained that "public schools here are really much better...