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...Northern Alliance's newly won territory offers tremendous opportunity for the U.S. to intensify its campaign all over Afghanistan. The Pentagon's first priority may be to establish new air bases inside this zone, which can be used not only to resupply the Alliance and any expanded U.S. troop presence, but also to ratchet up the air war. To reach the battle zone right now, fighter planes have to fly over Pakistan from carriers in the Arabian sea - a distance that limits them to a single sortie each day and with a lighter bomb load necessitated by the heavier fuel...
...Gotthard Tunnel every year. The accident is likely to stiffen opposition to the reopening of the Mont Blanc Tunnel, closed in March 1999 after a truck fire killed 39. three held for training leftist guerrillas in Colombia. The British government started dismantling military installations in the province. ISRAEL Troop Withdrawal Under strong diplomatic pressure, Israel agreed to withdraw from Bethlehem and Beit Jala, two West Bank towns it occupied after the assassination of cabinet minister Rehavan Ze?evi. Troops had already pulled out of Beit Rima, where they reportedly captured two suspected members of the Popular Front for the Liberation...
...they remain stuck in their trenches, waiting impatiently for the U.S. to heavily bomb the front-line Taliban assets--tanks, artillery and troop positions--that stand between the alliance and Kabul. Without U.S. air strikes to soften Taliban positions, the estimated 5,000 alliance troops north of the capital may not be strong enough to break through. "They're simply not ready for any big ground attack," notes a Western analyst who has made extensive visits to the front in the past two weeks. But the attack could come just the same...
...they remain stuck in their trenches, waiting impatiently for the U.S. to heavily bomb the front-line Taliban assets?tanks, artillery and troop positions?that stand between the alliance and Kabul. Without U.S. air strikes to soften Taliban positions, the estimated 5,000 alliance troops north of the capital may not be strong enough to break through. "They're simply not ready for any big ground attack," notes a Western analyst who has made extensive visits to the front in the past two weeks. But the attack could come just the same...
...lives, was Italy?s worst civil aviation accident. According to recordings of conversations with the Milan control tower, the Cessna pilot thought he was on a different taxiing runway. GEORGIA Fresh Fighting The smoldering conflict between Georgia and its breakaway province of Ab-khazia flared up when a troop of Chechen rebels, supported by Georgian guerrillas, invaded Abkhazia and shot down a U.N. helicopter. When unidentified planes bombed Abkhazian villages, Georgia accused Russia of provocation and Georgian and Abkhazian troops rushed to Abkhazia?s Kodori gorge, where 1,600 Russian peacekeepers stand between the warring sides. The Georgian Parliament demanded...