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...said, Kerry doesn't need any lectures in courage. In fact, Kerry has already effectively questioned Bush's military policy in Afghanistan from the right. He argued that a more aggressive use of American troops might have trapped Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaeda leadership at Tora Bora. But Kerry's performance on Iraq raises a question. He voted for the war, but reluctantly. One almost senses that it was a political vote, intended to neuter his opposition to the first Gulf War. He was not a happy warrior. He said he could support the war only...
...school and hasn't looked back. A journalistic veteran of last year's Afghan war, Brooks has been in northern Iraq for TIME since February and has covered, among other things, the assault by Kurds and U.S. Special forces on Ansar guerrillas. "The battle with Ansar was similar to Tora Bora" In Afghanistan, she observes. "The Ansar fighters were retreating into mountains, hiding in caves and breaking off into small groups...
...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...
...trail went cold sometime in December 2001, when Osama bin Laden slipped away from the caves and forests of Tora Bora in eastern Afghanistan into the wild White Mountains that stretch along the Afghan-Pakistani border. The precise date on which he left Tora Bora isn't known. Pakistani intelligence claims that he was gone as early as Dec. 8, when a bungled operation by American special-operations troops and their local allies to flush al-Qaeda leaders out of the mountains had only just begun. But one former Taliban fighter says bin Laden slipped away when the besieging forces...
...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