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Jumper, 56, acknowledges that as a former "white-scarf fighter pilot" (and the father of two daughters who wear Air Force blue), he might be expected to hate drones for usurping the role of the fighter jock. Not so. "Pilots are for anything," he says, "that will get them in and out alive...
...Sultan Raziya, where the Pakistanis had set up their garrison, the soldiers refused to surrender. Alliance troops met a lethal volley of automatic-weapons fire from every side of the two-story building. They called in American fighter-bombers--guided by spotters on the ground--which scored two direct hits on the front of the school Saturday afternoon. Windows were blown out a quarter of a mile away. Hundreds of Pakistanis died in the explosions...
...there we were, with darkness setting in, surrounded by curious and heavily armed Taliban. One fighter points up into the mauve twilight sky. I think he's showing me the crescent moon and I nod appreciatively: "Yes, very beautiful." Impatiently, he gestures over to a range of darkening hills, and then I see it: a B-52 bomber, its vapor trails catching the last rays of light. "American?" he asks me menacingly. "No, French...
...three hours on Saturday afternoon, U.S. fighter bombers have been hitting Taliban targets along the ridgeline. That morning General Hassan, the commander of the assault, told TIME that a team of U.S. special forces had come in the night before to coordinate the bombing. The Alliance brought in 21 tanks at midnight to add firepower, and they have been unloading on Taliban lines since midmorning. The morale of the Northern Alliance troops is high after the sudden fall of Mazar-i-Sharif the night before, and they jokingly predict that with U.S. help they will take Taloqan by Sunday...
...Qaleh to the front line. These lines haven't moved in more than a year, and today the attack begins slowly. Hassan shouts into his radio, "Where are the soldiers? I ordered them to attack. Advance now." On the radio he gives out bombing coordinates, and two U.S. fighter jets appear overhead. Three hundred yards to the left of Hassan's position is another command post, where one of Hassan's officers says the American team is based. It cannot be seen from Hassan's position, but over the radio, Alliance commanders ask the Americans to give coordinates...