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...Mullah Omar and most of the movement's senior leadership have never been captured. Unlike the sophisticated Arab operatives of al-Qaeda for whom Afghanistan was simply another stopover in a globalized jihad, the one-eyed peasant mystic mullah is still believed to be at large somewhere on home turf. (The Pashtun heartland spans the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.) And the fact that he hasn't been found suggests a measure of support among the local population...
Before I go out, I test the drag act on my home turf, the Dudley Co-op. I descend the stairs in my male regalia, baseball cap pulled low and a scruffy goatee and soul patch pasted on my face...
...feet. Lying on the ground with a mouthful of grass and sod, I watched as the earth erupted with shells and grenades, many of them flying off in random directions. The big artillery shells went off with ground-shaking booms, and the shockwaves pressed me into the turf. But much more frightening were the anti-aircraft shells, which fizzed about - some along the ground, some in the air - in lethal balls of orange flame. A few of the rockets took off with a great hiss, like supercharged Chinese fireworks...
...holdout is group is a band of tribal gunmen who have barred the bridge across the Tigris that leads into the city center. They may be protecting the city against looters or they may be trying to prevent competing groups of marauders intruding on their turf. The first signs of looting are already clear, however. A new car with five self-styled Kurdish guerillas drove by, telling a stirring tale of gunfights and escape and pointing to a bullethole and a smashed window in the side of the car. The car plates, however, were covered over with mud - usually...
Thanks to the continuing winter weather, Harvard has not yet had a full practice or game on its home turf of O’Donnell Field. But the squad’s still eager to begin Ivy play on familiar territory...