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...exits of the Shah-i-Kot valley, where American troops waited. To the south, battle positions Heather and Ginger were divided by a hill christened the Whale, while to the east, battle position Eve guarded escape routes over the high mountains to Pakistan. But after two days of fierce combat, the al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters were still in place; one American had already been killed...
...retooled plan seems to reflect a loosening of the traditional constraints the U.S. has placed on its nuclear arms--which limited their use to retaliation against biological, chemical or nuclear attack or to extraordinary combat situations. The review--first reported by the Los Angeles Times--says the U.S. might consider nuclear strikes if Iraq attacked Israel, if China moved militarily against Taiwan or if North Korea reinvaded South Korea...
...Intelligence and combat support from local Afghan forces is seldom entirely free of the axe-grinding of local warlords, and Afghan observers believe that may have played a role both in the underestimation of the enemy's strength at Shah-i-Kot and in the performance of the Afghan forces initially deployed. Question marks over the reliability of local Pashtun militias were underscored by the Afghan government's decision midway through the battle to reinforce the allied contingent with 1,000 ethnic Tajik fighters from the Northern Alliance. But despite their solid battlefield performance, the Tajiks' presence has fueled ethnic...
...January, after talks with the Group and local shopkeepers, represented by Clavien, Lausanne's police department launched Operation Alpha, and relief for St. Laurent now stalks the streets in the shape of Patrick Martin. In black combat gear and bullet proof vests, touting an array of dissuasive weaponry, Martin and his six colleagues of the Alpha Squad are a no-nonsense message to the cocaine dealers, a comfort to the locals and, in the end, probably whistling in the wind. "They aim for visibility," says Christian Séchaud, of the Lausanne police, and to scare dealers off the streets...
Noting that the conflict that came to a head in Paris last June - when CITES halted the legal caviar trade by Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan in a dispute over conservation measures - is not over, Wijnstekers says that "greater efforts are needed to combat illegal fishing and corruption." While Iran was not subject to the ban because it had a functioning national system, it has nevertheless joined the regional effort...