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...different from anywhere else. The air campaign makes the point. Last week's bombing was carried out by the B-2s from Whiteman, B-1 and B-52 planes based on Diego Garcia--a tiny island in the Indian Ocean--and Navy F-18s flying off the U.S.S. Carl Vinson and U.S.S. Enterprise. Cruise missiles were fired from surface vessels and submarines (including, on the first night of the attacks, a British one). The attacks hit more than 60 targets, such as air-defense systems, weapons dumps and training camps run by both the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Pilots...
...ability to wage terrifying war on Afghanistan. There are already several hundred American warplanes in the region, based in Turkey and Saudi Arabia, and aboard two aircraft carriers, the U.S.S. Carl Vinson and the U.S.S. Enterprise. Washington wants to conduct the air war from a new command center just outside Riyadh, but the Saudis are balking. (If the past is any guide, the U.S. will eventually get its way.) Another pair of carriers, the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk and the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, could be ready to attack within a week. The Pentagon and the State Department have arranged for basing...
U.S.S. Carl Vinson Battle Group In the Persian Gulf...
...prime yet are still selling big some 30 years later--Tupac's music undoubtedly will be sold, purchased and heard for many generations to come. Why? Partly because he was one heck of an artist and partly because of the secrets that remain locked behind death's door. MIKE VINSON McMinnville, Tenn...
...writers! Especially poignant was the statement "Attack writing is personal and seeks to do personal injury." How true. This type of exchange is analogous to opposing attorneys battling a case in court. Each makes a lethal effort, regardless of the damage, to discredit the other and his witnesses. MIKE VINSON McMinnville, Tenn...