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UN says Al Qaeda reappearing in Afghanistan
Back in Business - Three Qaeda recruits tell NEWSWEEK they’re training again for terror in Afghanistan
Now, a year after Kabul fell as the Taliban left their hot dinners on the front line and ran, was it worth the killing of anything from 800 to 3,000 men, women and children? (good read)
Bin Laden's doctor held by FBI agents
Apologies, Please? The horror of Gitmo revealed!
Blast Rocks U.S. Base in Southern Afghanistan
Conventional forces now doing the searching
“What Would Mohammed [Atta] Do?”
U.S. Navy overwhelms Aussies in undercover operation
JACK STRAW - Is not so squeaky clean himself, re prisons. . .
GITMO - UK prisoners have no complaints
QUICK!!! - Vote here!
US HELO DOWN - N Afghanistan
U.S. defends conditions inside Cuban camp
Suspected Al-Qaida Dressed As Women Arrested
Musharraf: Nation Won't Permit Terror [Packistan]
AFGHAN SPOTTERS - Vital to pinpointing enemy
Animal protection group to help save Kabul zoo
U.S., coalition forces share radar, strategic data to prevent collisions
OMAR - Search comes up empty
BIN LADEN - Believed to have fled (again???)
More on those terrorists tests
Shoe bomber met with Al-Quaida suspects
Chief of OBL terror training camps in marine custody
Green Beret killed by enemy fire
AL-QUEDA - graded terrorists exams and other paraphenalia
U.S. military shuts down Camp Rhino
Closing in on Omar
Searching the Baghran caves
Kabul computer reveals files on top Al Q officials
AFGHAN - How the U.S. strategy evolved as the war unfolded
Afghan's new gov't intends to restore giant Buddhas
BIN LADEN - Chances high he's alive
OBL - appears to be ill
NEW VIDEOTAPE - Adds fresh urgency to OBL hunt
GIs - Wage charm offensive in Afghanistan
GEN FRANKS' - Helicopter fired upon durign approach to Kabul
NYC firefighters, police bring aid to Afghan orphans
Pakistan Prez says strong possibility OBL killed in Tora bombing
Britain Deploys First Troops in Afghanistan
U.S. Bombing on Afghan Convoy Said to Kill 65
OBL - new translation of tape
WALKER - Defends terrorists in CNN interview
OBL - More videotapes
AFGHAN - Britain to lead peacekeeping effort
GIULIANI - Consider death penalty for Taliban John
AFGHAN REFUGEES - Scatter around world on risky smuggling routes
OBL - His voice detected over radio in Tora Bora region
Intense fighting in Tora Bora - they think they've found him
When Johnny Comes Slinking Home !
Injured Arab Patients threaten to blow themself up in Afghanistan
Pakistani Helicopters Hover at Boarder to keep em out
OBL TAPE - Translation concerns
AQ FIGHTERS - Issue demands as surrender deadline expires
ANDREW SULLIVAN - On Spann and Walker
BIN LADEN - Starving, bandaged, offers US chance to surrender
CIVILIANS - Are also responsible for Arab anger (bin Laden aide)
SECRET AL QAEDA - Lots of information in this one
US shifts military command to Kuwait
BIN LADEN - TV suicide, followed by more attacks?
BIN LADEN - Leading Tora Bora defense in person
AQ - Plans bloody ambush
US MARINES - Bury Afghan fighter
AQ - Put up fierce resistance in mountains
^^^10:45 AM ET^^^ BRITISH SPIES - Played key role in Taliban downfall
BIN LADEN - May have disappeared weeks ago
WHERE IS OMAR? - Kandahar surrendered but Omar is missing
THE WAR - Best of the Web
Handing over an Afghan city is often a messy affair
BUNKERS TAKEN - Osama missing
TALIBAN JOHNNY - Tragic CIA hero grilled the rat
^^^7:45 AM ET^^^ U.S. Marines fire mortar rounds, go on alert
AMERICA - The powerful
JOHNNY JIHAD
OBL'S SON - Or son-in-law may have been killed
TALIBAN - To hand over Kandahar
WOMEN - Named in new Afghan government
Taliban denounce new government as "puppets of America"
AFGHAN Factions Create Interim Govt.
BRKG- 2 Americans Killed & 20 Wounded
US SOLDIER - Shot and wounded in Afghanistan
BIN LADEN - Aide killed, another wounded
AFGHANS - Set to attack bin Laden caves
KANDAHAR - Fierce resistance, fighting rages at airport
TRUCK BOMBS - Planned against troops in Afghanistan
BIN LADEN - Slips clutches of SAS
AL Q - Now in 'survival-only mode'
DETERRENCE WORKS
SUICIDE GRENADE - Kills 80 Taliban
^^^9 AM ET^^^ Allies want SAS to lead Tora Bora assault
GUNGA DAN - Is back
KABUL - End of dark days for Afghan Hindus
AFGHAN ORDEAL - Returning jihadis tell; fundamentalist leader/recruiter arrested
INTL. PEACEKEEPERS - Alliance gives OK
KRAUTHAMMER - Memo to experts: The big stick works
ALLIANCE - Battle rages near Kandahar
US TROOPS - Guard Afghan airfields
N. ALLIANCE - Sr. Cdr. says forces entering Kandahar
TALIBAN - Hangs "American Spy"
AL QAIDA - Six top leaders believed dead
FIRST-HAND REPORT - Of the prison incident
MULLAH OMAR - Orders Taliban to fight to the last
8TH JOURNALIST SLAYING - Sparks media retreat
CIA AGENT CONFIRMED DEAD - Re prison incident
SPIES - Lead US bombers to strike (meeting of Taliban officials)
TALIBAN - Kidnaps Canadian journalist
TALEBAN PRISON REVOLT - No survivors
JOURNALISTS - Warned of Taliban plot
SWEDISH CAMERMAN - Murdered in Afghanistan
BATTLE RAGES - At Afghanistan fortress
REBLDG AFGHAN - No U.S. aid without deal on broad-based govt
MYSTERY MAN - Hero of bloody rebellion
MARINES - Attack convoy
^^^5:30 AM ET^^^ 'Ban on the run! Waves of US troops hit the ground for mass attack on Kandahar
Hope for renewal in postwar Afghan
PENTAGON - No US casualties in Afghan prison riot
WESTERN TROOPS - Ready to storm Taliban spiritual home
REPORT RE AMERICAN KILLED IN TALIBAN PRISONER REVOLT - Not confirmed, may be speculation
ALLIANCE COMMANDER - Enters Kunduz, "continuous surrender"
HEROIN - After 3 yr ban, E. Afghan farmers resume planting poppies
Most senior Taliban defector blames OBL, Al Qaida
Lack of casualities surprises Pentagon
KUNDUZ - Hundreds of Taliban said to be surrendering
KABUL EMBASSY - Remains silent: we will know we are safe when it reopens
DELTA FORCE - Has killed hundreds
KABUL - Marvels at accuracy of air strikes
WAIT!--NO, WAIT! - Surrender negotiations underway again in Kunduz
OMAR - Goes into hiding
BIN LADEN'S UZBEK ALLY - Killed
SPECIAL FORCES - Get free rein in Afghanistan
FOREIGN FIGHTERS - US fears NA will massacre
KUNDUZ - Talks collapse, rebels attack
BODIES - 4-600 found in Mazar-e-Sharif
JOURNALISTS - Three more killed?
^^^8 PM ET ^^^ TALIBAN'S RETREAT - Undercuts hardliners
EVIL DOERS - Life at an Al Qaida camp
AQ - Aloof terrorists were town's elite
TWO NEWSDAY JOURNALISTS - Robbed, threatened
TALIBAN - Near surrender in--lol, almost typed "Kudzu"!!!--Kunduz
US AID - Crate goes astray, damages poet's shrine
THE TALIBAN - Take on a free press
^^^8 AM ET^^^ AFGHAN WOMEN - Belated
US AID - Food supplies a hit at Afghan market
AFGHAN CONFERENCE - Set for Berlin
OBL - Afghan citizens asked to help finish manhunt
OBL TOP AIDE - Arrested, Pakistani newspaper reports
TALIBAN - Abandon surrender plan after Omar's 'prophetic dream'
^^^8 PM ET^^^ US COMMANDOS - Smugglers witness in action
BREAKING - Four journalists murdered outside Kabul
WARLORDS - Reclaiming Afghan cities
CENTRAL COMMAND slow to give clearance during air campaign
AFGHAN TV - Back on air
UK TROOPS - Afghan mission delayed
THE WAR - Just win, baby!
ATTACKS - From out of the blue
SECRET CIA UNITS - Playing central combat role
FIRST MAJOR BATTLE - Of retreating Arab militants waged outside Kabul
AL-QA'EDA - Massacre Taliban
BIN LADEN - Will not surrender--we hope
^^^4:15 PM ET^^^ AL QUEDA - That nuke manual? Looks like Internet hoax--they were duped?
BIN LADEN - Uses 10 lookalikes to foil hunt
ALLIANCE - Promises to maintain order--weapons forbidden in Kabul, beginning tomorrow
US SHELLING - Blessing in disguise for Kandahar's poor
N ALLIANCE - Wants UK troops withdrawn
GROUND WAR - US troops battling Taliban
HUMANITARIAN AIRDROPS - Surpass 100 flights, 1.6m HDRs
RUMSFELD - Plagues of Biblical Job
More Canadian Troops to Afghanistan
DONALD RUMSFELD - Want to think about his brilliant strategy?
FIVE BRITISH MUSLIMS - Killed fighting for Taliban
AFGHAN - U.N. herding cats on location for new gov't discussions
TALIBAN - Entering new phase - guerrilla war
AID WORKERS - Treated much differently from other prisoners
DEFECTOR - May point way to bin Laden
Anxiety as terror of the Taliban is replaced by a new dread
BIN LADEN'S 2ND or 3RD IN COMMAND - Probably killed
OMAR - Agrees to leave Kandahar
AFGHAN - France sends its first troops
AFGHAN - U.S. expanding ground force
OBL - Iran radio says he's probably in Pakistan
MORE UK SPECIAL FORCES - In Afghnistan
SR. TALIBAN LEADERS - May have been captured
THE QUARRY - Don't lose sight of it
KABUL - More on life returing to normal
MULLAH OMAR - We will destroy US
AIR WAR - US jets pound targets in Kunduz
AFGHAN - Refugees not returning yet
KABUL - Women remain covered and cautious
IN KABUL - Taliban leaves wide wake of destruction
OH-OH - Victorious Alliance: we don't want no steenking peacekeepers
$25 ON BIN LADEN'S HEAD - Lures bounty hunters to mountains
KABUL - New rulers tighten grip
KANDAHAR - Said to have fallen
UN - Rebels walked the walk while diplomats talked
KANDAHAR - In state of panic
BIN LADEN - Hunt heating up
^^^7:15 AM ET^^^ NEW DAWN - Over Kabul
BLOODBATH - Paras ready to stop
MILLIONS LOOTED - From Afghan money market
ANDREW SULLIVAN - The press and the war
TOWN OF BAMIYAN - Totally destroyed by Taliban, many massacred
KABUL - Wakens to a freer way of life--no beards, music, celebrations
OOPS! - Al Jazeera's Kabul office blowed up real good
TALIBAN - Take the Christian aid workers with them
ANDREW SULLIVAN - Now, Kabul
N. ALLIANCE - Broke promise to King?
AID WORKERS - Taliban took them when they left Kabul
^^^8 AM ET^^^ Kandahar airport falls to opposition tribal chief
^^^9:35 PM ET^^^ N. ALLIANCE - Moving into Kabul
POWELL - Urges "speed, speed, speed" in UN efforts on Afghanistan
EXECUTIONS - Reported by UN in Mazar-e-Sharif
TALIBAN - Flee posts north of Kabul
HERAT - In hands of N. Alliance
Northern Alliance claims capture of key western city, Herat
TALIBAN'S PAKISTANI ALLIES - Abandoned in Mazr-e-Sharif
NORTHERN ALLIANCE - Not entirely behind US
JOURNALIST - Killed in Afghanistan
OSAMA - America can't get me alive
ALLIANCE - At Kabul's gates, Taliban retreat
MAZAR-E-SHARIF - Residents celebrate Taliban defeat
TALIBAN - 'On the run' in north
BAGRAM - US warplanes said to be using airbase
TALIBAN - Confirms loss of Mazar-e-Sharif
^^^10:45 AM ET^^^ BREAKING - Wire services: Alliance has taken Mazar-e-Sharif (no text)
VISION OF HELL - What a great yarn!
^^^8 AM ET^^^ BREAKING - Northern Alliance moving on Bagram Airport (Fox)
GROUND WAR- Taliban and opposition slug it out around Mazar-el-Sharif
REBEL CHIEF - Location still a mystery
GROUND WAR - N. Alliance fights tanks on horseback
AIR/GROUND WAR - Hevay fighting near Mazar-e-Sharif (incredible pic!)
AIR WAR - Pakistani group says raids kill 85 Pakistani fighters
BIN LADEN'S SONS - Visit [alleged] helicopter wreck
COLLATERAL NONSENSE
REBELS - Capitalize on flush reporters
BBC - Reports helo shot down by Taliban crashes in Pakistan, killing 4
STRATFOR - Ground war strategies, Part 1
^^^6:15 AM ET^^^ BODIES - Of 10 US troops, reported by Pakistan newspaper
TRAITOR - 'I'll kill Americans'
^^^7 AM ET^^^ GROUND FORCE - Boosted
HUMANITARIAN AID - Taliban is the problem, not American bombing
AIR WAR - Up to 300 Taliban wounded
GROUND TROOPS - New Yorker story false, no serious injuries during Delta raid
BIN LADEN ARABS - Buy Afghan husbands for their women
TALIBAN - Truth and lies of their death claims
AIR WAR - US strikes key Taliban positions
TALIBAN - Said to ahve executed NA commander and an American national
AFGHAN - Snow heralds advent of winter
^^^6 PM ET^^^MARINES - Launch first Harrier jet air raids over Afghanistan
12 DELTA MEMBERS INJURED - On Omar complex raid, three seriously
NORTHERN ALLIANCE - Says a Mazar-e-Sharif district captured
OSAMA - Closing in
ROBERT D. KAPLAN - The view from inside [Afghanistan] (very good read)
HELO DOWN - Crew rescued from Afghanistan
BUSH - War in Afghanistan unraveling bin Laden's network
TALIBAN DESERTER - From East London
^^^12:45 PM ET^^^ SEARCH FOR BIN LADEN - Narrows
TALIBAN - Capture southern rebels (Fox has reported they're already being hung)
GROUND FORCES - US sees winter as an advantage
FOR THE AFGHANS' SAKE - Don't stop the bombing
RADIO FREE AFGHANISTAN - Approved by House over State Dept. objections
^^^11:30 PM ET^^^ PASHTUN UPRISING = Reported in Afghanistan
RAMADAN - No ceasefire
Carpet Bombing - About Time!
TURKEY - To send forces to Afghanistan
^^^11:30 AM ET^^^ TALIBAN - Say they have Americans
PAKISTANIS - Pour in to aid Taliban--in new uniforms and with AK-47s
GALLUP - Eight out of ten Americans support ground war
BIOTERROR TREATY
HOUSTONIANS - Buy a bomb for bin Laden
TALIBAN - Claims 1500 killed in raids
AFGHANS CHEER - As US jets hit Taliban
Reliance on pack animals hampers US effort to arm alliance
U.N. braces for malaria outbreak in Afghanistan
^^^7:45 AM ET^^^ MAZAR-EL-SHARIF - Long and bloody battle forecast
FEEDING AFGHANISTAN - Even before the war on terrorism, the Afghan people were starving
Pentagon considering setting up a base inside Afghanistan
AFGHANISTAN - US mulls creating forward base
KABUL - US pilots are tested by complex and sometimes perilous missions
HAQ - Desperate call to CIA failed to save him
US JETS - Pound Taleban troops
Pentagon needs your best ideas
EXECUTED AGHAN REBEL - US refused his call for air strike against Taliban
TALIBAN - Key opposition leader captured, Fox now reporting executed
AFGHANISTAN - UK commandos set for assault
GROUND ATTACK - Could have ended in disaster
U.S. sets fire to critical Taliban oil supplies in Kandahar
US JETS - Blast Kandahar oil depot
^^^8:15 AM ET^^^ BIN LADEN - "Get him by any means necessary"
TALIBAN OFFICERS - Defect in droves; British press
FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH - Taliban says we hit hospital, killed a hundred
HINDUSTAN TIMES - Not exactly the Washington Times, but see what they're saying anyway
U.S. ready to increase night ground raids
ARMY RANGERS - Leave Taliban photos of US firefighters raising flag
US GEN - Terrorist Bases Crippled
GROUND TROOPS - The war of the night
GROUND WAR - Omar's compound was raided
I WAS SMILING - I had dropped my bombs. They hit.
BRITISH UNIT - Prepares to defy extremes of Afghan winter
UP CLOSE - And personal (Telegraph editorial on ground action)
^^^11:30 PM ET^^^ CIA - Told to do "whatever necessary" to kill bin Laden
GROUND WAR - US gets its feet dirty (nice British article with additional info)
GROUND TROOPS - Seize intelligence in raid
REFUGEES - Biggest one-day flood into Pakistan
COVERT missions under way in Afghanistan
KEY SITES - Targeted by Rangers
TALIBAN - Americans too soft for combat
GROUND ATTACK - Latest from BBC
^^^10:45 PM ET^^^ TWO KILLED - Three injured in helo crash in Pakistan NT
^^^7 PM ET^^^ Ground war has begun!
^^^5:09 PM ET^^^ GROUND OPS - More info, as of 3:01 PM CDT
CHAOS - As Afghans flee bombed city
TALIBAN - May blow up mosque, blame US
Taliban - Defiant at deployment of US ground forces, saying 'send 100,000'
AFGHAN FIGHTERS - Put survival over loyalty
BIN LADEN AIDE - Said ot have been killed by his own grenade
SPECIAL FORCES - Open ground campaign
US SOURCES - Al Qaeda deaths not top lieutenants
Al Qaeda Says Will Drag U.S. Troops Through Streets
^^^3 PM ET^^^ AID - Mercy Corps office and two UN food warehouses reportedly taken over
BIN LADEN'S DEPUTY - Reported killed by bomb
TALIBAN DESERTERS - Offer few clues
TALIBAN - Return stolen aid
RED CROSS - Warehouse had Taliban guards, equipment
AFGHANISTAN - Hit by armed unmanned aircraft
TALIBAN - You have signed your own death warrant
IRANIAN RADIO - Says US troops have landed near Kandahar
TALIBAN - Has seized two warehouses containing donated food--UN
PRO-AMERICAN RADIO - In Afghanistan
STRIKES - Cripple Taliban power
BIN LADEN - May be planning to run
TALIBAN DEFECTIONS - Caused by unpaid lunch
OOPS! Red Cross compound hit by U.S. jets
SPECIAL OPS - Reportedly in or near Kandahar (FOX) No Text
WOMEN - Play key role in airstrikes
U.S. targets weapons sites in Kabul - BIG explosions!
POSSIBLE HELO ASSAULT - In Kandahar
PROPAGANDA - Pentagon adds leaflets to bombing campaign
^^^12:20 AM ET^^^ KABUL - Under attack again
Kabul's phone exchange destroyed
^^^3:15 PM ET^^^ BUSH - Rejectes new Taliban offer to hand over bin Laden
APACHE HUNTERS - Ready to seek and destroy
DRUDGE - Military failed to kill Taliban leader when he was in sight during first night of war; Rumsfeld furious
TALIBAN - Arming backers along border
OMAR'S CAR - Hit by US bomb
BOMB - Hits civilian area
Ground troops to go in "sooner rather than later"!
ATTACKS RESUME - Air raids on Kabul
ATTACKS - On hold for holy day
UN REFUGEE AGENCY - Failing in aid effort
Weather may affect deployment of ground troops
CAVE COMPLEXES - Smashed by bombs
UNLEASH THE GURKHAS! - Britain's most terrifying warriors prepare to take on the Taliban
TALIBAN - Demands tax for each food aid truck
^^^12:32 PM ET^^^ RUMORS OF OBL'S CAPTURE
TALIBAN - Says US targeting civilians
NICE PIC - From Lucianne
FOOD DROPS - Making matters worse?
SEVERAL TALIBAN LEADERS - Killed in raid
TALIBAN - Commanders surrendering to N Alliance
PROTESTS - Abroad swell up against US air attacks
TALIBAN - Say US not safe while strikes go on
NIGHT #4 (2pm EDT) - renewed attacks
HMMM - UN says Taliban beat mine clearing staff. . .
HELICOPTER RAIDS - Planned for Afghanistan
US STRIKES - Continue in daylight
US - Military strategy will shift soon
ANTI-TALIBAN - Rebels capture northern areas, cut off Taliban supply route
BEFORE AND AFTER FOTOS - Terrorist camp taken out
US - Can now fly at will over Afghanistan
We're running out of stuff to blow up
SAS - Prepares ground for next stage
TALIBAN - AF head killed in raids
NORTHERN ALLIANCE - Not seen as cure
UN - Four workers killed, wants protection for innocent civilians
FIRST DAYLIGHT RAID - Kandahar, Kabul
KABUL - Counts the cost
COVERING - A 21st century war
SECOND ATTACK - Underway NT
STRIKE-BACK - Assessment
HEAD'S UP - It's already dark in Afghanistan NT
BIN LADEN - Can he be caught?
A JEWEL - Ground to rubble
KABUL - Tries to go about its business
THOUSANDS - Flee Kabul
HOWEVER - Taliban ambassador says civilians killed
TALIBAN RADIO - No casualties or damage in Kabul
THE END - Of the beginning
FIRST SORTIES - From carrier successful
AFGHANISTAN - Awakes after night of horror
US BOMBER CREWS - Proud of strikes
GROUNDSWELL - Support for air strikes easily eclipses Gulf War levels
AIR STRIKES - Shouldn't raise false hopes
40 US & BRITISH - Warplanes hit Afghanistan
7:03 PM ET - THIRD WAVE - Of attacks underway NT
UPRISING - Against Taliban in Ziranj
LOVELY PIC
5:03 ET - New wave of attacks reported by Fox NT
What was hit...?
TALIBAN - Claims plane shot down
TALIBAN ENVOY - Bin Laden still alive
50 missiles used in attack
Blair: Confirmed UK submarines were involved
FOX - Bombardment will go on all night NT
GOOD TIMELINE - With details, from BBC
US BEGINS MILITARY STRIKE - BBC Report (map)
US, BRITAIN STRIKE AFGHANISTAN - Fox News report
JALALABAD UNDER ATTACK - Report
STRIKES HIT NEAR DEFENSE MINISTRY - Report
CNN - 2nd wave of attacks, worse than first; also AP report
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