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...special-ops soldiers on the ground in Afghanistan rose to 300, with hundreds more headed in to hunt down the remnants of the al-Qaeda brass. Members of Britain's elite Special Air Service regiment are said to be assisting American commandos in the manhunt. The Pentagon may still establish forward bases in Afghanistan to stage special-ops search-and-destroy missions alongside the Pashtun in the south and to secure humanitarian supply lines in the north. But American military planners remained leery of sending ground troops into the caves to root out the enemy in person. They would prefer...
...They try to slow the game down, and we want to establish a quicker tempo,” Turano said. “It’s difficult for us when they’re always clutching and grabbing...
...singles Kingston as one of his closest friends on the team, chiefly because the two of them have shared the need to establish themselves as athletes, not merely as kickers. Kingston, for his part, agrees...
...Usually, kickers don’t get very much respect,” Kingston says. “We establish ourselves so that we are respected, even just in the way we consider ourselves athletes. And we’re more of a presence on the field than more kickers are, not just sitting by and watching but being a part...
...standards of guilt, explains Pyle, are far different in a military tribunal than they are in a civilian court or even in a traditional military trial. "They don't need to establish guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, or even a preponderance of evidence pointing to guilt," he says. "The court just needs to convince the majority of the military officers present - all of whom see themselves as being 'at war' with this prisoner - that the Pakistani man had something to do with a terrorist...