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...Once grown and pressed, Afghan hash is sold to freelance truck and jeep drivers who take it to Tajikistan or Kabul, where it is resold at four times the price. It's then smuggled via Central Asia or Pakistan to the West, where Afghan hash finds many eager buyers. But as dope smokers celebrate the new "enlightened" view of pot, any thought of the distant, parched land where it is grown has been lost in the haze. Back in the dust-bowl fields around Mazar, the growing foreign demand and new freedom to exploit it translate into a rare chance...
...suicide operation: Anas Kandari, 21, and Jassem Hajiri, 26, had traveled from their homes in Kuwait City to the uninhabited island of Failaka, 12 miles offshore. There they had stalked U.S. Marines participating in an urban warfare exercise code-named "Eager Mace," before jumping out of a white pickup truck and spraying the Americans with Kalashnikov rifle fire. As the Marines took cover, the two men scrambled back into their vehicle and proceeded up the road where they attacked a second cluster of Marines before they were blown away...
...since the end of Operation Desert Storm in 1991. In November 1995, confessed Bin Laden supporters from Saudi Arabia set off a car bomb at a joint Saudi-American training facility in Riyadh, killing four U.S. servicemen. In June 1996, attackers with alleged links to Iran detonated a massive truck bomb outside a U.S. Air Force housing complex in Khobar, eastern Saudi Arabia, killing 19 Americans. A few months later, the Saudi-born Bin Laden openly declared a jihad against the U.S., denouncing America's military presence in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf...
...Marine live-fire urban-warfare training exercise in the Persian Gulf turned tragically real Tuesday when two local men firing AK-47 rifles jumped out of a pickup truck. The Marines killed their attackers, but not before losing one of their own and having a second man wounded - the first casualties, some will say, of the coming war for Iraq. Of course there is no war, right now, and the Pentagon insists that the training exercise in Kuwait had been planned months ago and had nothing to do with the current standoff. Then again, that planned exercise had been...
...forces have reason to regard the threat as real. Last week, a large cache of weapons and explosives, which police say may be linked to the plot to overthrow the A.N.C., was discovered at a farm some 170 km north of Johannesburg. And 3 weeks before that an abandoned truck filled with arms, ammunition and explosives was found in South Africa's North West province. Police say a meeting of the Farmers' Force, the right-wing splinter group suspected of being behind the plot, was planned in the area. But the gathering was called off when members learned that...