Word: warthog
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...crews in an effort to halt reconstruction of the pitted Kabul-to-Kandahar highway. When Wazir's phone flickered to life, the U.S. traced it to a mud-walled fortress near the town of Ghazni. The U.S. command at Bagram air base outside Kabul quickly dispatched an A-10 Warthog fighter plane, able to lay down enough fire to decimate a small army...
...that Wazir was long gone. He had left his sat-phone behind, and according to Afghan security officials, a local laborer had apparently switched it on. Outside Wazir's house, nine children were shooting marbles in the dirt. Around 10:30 a.m., villagers saw the Warthog circle once over the house, vanish behind a mountain and come roaring back, firing what villagers said were 35 explosive rounds. Each was powerful enough to destroy a tank. The children were in the pilot's field of attack. There was little left of them except the marbles, a few shredded prayer caps...
...enemy on the north, east and south sides of the ridge, just inside the border. U.S. spotters target at least 30 al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters. Worthan, while dodging sniper fire behind a boulder, orders up the full wrath of several Apache attack helicopters and an A-10 Warthog gunship. "The whole ridge was ripped up," Worthan later recalls. "It was like time stopped." The Americans estimate that more than 20 al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters were killed...
...bison steak. Wooloomooloo, an Australian restaurant in Berlin, has cleared beef off its menu and now features kangaroo, ostrich and crocodile. For the truly adventurous, the Springbok Café in Chiswick, west London, has been doing what owner Peter Gottgens calls a "roaring trade" in blesbok, impala, kudu, warthog and zebra. Since wild game roams freely and eats natural vegetation, Gottgens calls it "the ultimate organic meat-real organic, not man-made organic...