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...seized its moment. "We saw what was happening as the chance of a lifetime," says a Pentagon officer--"a very rare opportunity for the U.S. to move directly against al-Qaeda and get these terrorists." Meles says, "U.S. air assets were used for bombing on two occasions." The first attack was on the night of Jan. 7, after U.S. special-operations forces picked up intelligence that Fazul and Aden Hashi Ayro--a notorious and ruthless Afghanistan-trained militia leader--were riding in a convoy close to Ras Kamboni. According to an Ethiopian officer who was present, a local herdsman...
Fazul's group allegedly struck again on Nov. 28, 2002, killing 13 people when gunmen attacked the Israeli-owned Paradise Hotel near Mombasa, Kenya, and launched two missiles (both missed) at an Israeli airliner in Kenyan airspace. In 2003, staff at the U.S. embassy in Nairobi evacuated for a week following reports that Fazul wanted to level the new building, and in 2006 al-Sudani was implicated in a plot to attack a U.S. base in Djibouti. All of this means that in the fight against Islamic terrorism, Africa is an increasing worry. "If we're successful in denying...
...Green to assault the net. “It was a very poor decision on our players’ part to play ‘keep-away’ with that much time on the clock,” Stone said. “We’re an attacking team. Attacking teams attack. We don’t back up.” Dartmouth threatened several times in the last period, and after pulling Clemis on its final power play for a 6-4 advantage, appeared poised to tie the score. “We made it harder...
However, Sandler said that because she did not know how the assailants and victim were moving during the attack, she could not definitively determine the force used to inflict each wound...
...bombing was the first such attack in the middle of the capital since a suicide bomber detonated himself on an army bus on Sept. 29, killing at least 35 Afghan National Army soldiers. But it came a day after a bomb planted on a little-used road on the fringes of the capital exploded, killing four. And on Saturday, a suicide bomber blew himself up in the town of Paghman, 15 miles outside Kabul, in an attack on Italian military engineers building a footbridge. One soldier and eight Afghans were killed in that attack, including three children. The Taliban have...