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...Oman. B-52 and B-2 bombers, flying from the U.S. and the tiny speck of Diego Garcia, an island in the Indian Ocean, will also be serviced by tankers flying out of Thailand. Air Force Special Operations MH-53J Pave Low helicopters may be based in both Uzbekistan and Pakistan, close to Afghanistan's borders. (After initially seeming enthusiastic about basing rights, the Uzbeks appear to have had second thoughts.) The 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit is sailing to the theater, with 2,000 Marines and support helicopters; it will join another similar unit already in the region. Three guided...
...strong brigade fighting as part of training on the front line in the Taliban's ongoing war with the Northern Alliance. The soldiers are not just Arab militants from dozens of Middle Eastern countries aspiring to change secular regimes into Taliban-style states but are revolutionaries from Uzbekistan and Uighur separatists from China as well. U.S. officials believe that bin Laden masterminded the Sept. 9 assassination of the leading military commander of the Northern Alliance, Ahmed Shah Massoud, the Taliban's chief rival for national power. In return, bin Laden and the militants are guaranteed sanctuary, plus room...
...allies at this point include such bastions of Western ideals as Pakistan and the struggling former Soviet republics of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. American determination to form a pan-national anti-terror coalition has even led it to make overtures to other states that stand accused of supporting terrorism: Iran and Syria both come to mind. The trouble is that, while the governments of these nations may be willing to ignore previously cold relations with the U.S. or to cooperate for the sake of debt relief and favor in the eyes of the world’s only superpower, their citizens...
...first one is at the Pentagon - and in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Uzbekistan and pretty much any other ?stan you can think of. Wall Street watchers figure the bottom is right around here somewhere, but investors still need a reason to be confident about the future - to rally the way they rallied when the Iraqi army turned out to be a bunch of weak-fighting surrender candidates, and it was suddenly, instantly clear that the U.S. was going to win, quickly and safely. Think it?ll be that way with Osama bin Laden and his stateless, shapeless, cave-dwelling band? George...
...Meanwhile, Russian sources also confirmed to TIME that U.S. military planes have already landed in Uzbekistan just north of the Afghan border. Ukraine and Kazakhstan said Monday that their air space would be open to the U.S. air force...