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...transport helicopters that load up at supply dumps in Tajikistan and northern Afghanistan, then fly across the towering Hindu Kush range to the Panjshir Valley and Shomali Plain. But last week bad weather and low visibility grounded those choppers. The other supply line is a rock-strewn mountain track that winds for more than 150 miles from Afghanistan's northern border through the heart of the Hindu Kush, crossing the 13,000-ft. Anjuman Pass into the Panjshir Valley. It's a grueling three-or four-day journey--for those vehicles that make it. "This road wasn't built...
...Afghanistan, so trucks laden with fruit lumbered for 24 hours down the road from Kabul to the markets in the Pakistani border town of Peshawar. In Jalalabad, just up the Khyber Pass from Peshawar, 60% of the population is thought to have fled to the relative safety of mountain villages or across the border into Pakistan. By the weekend there were reports that civilians?how many was a matter of wild dispute?had keen killed in a strike on the eastern village of Karam. And on Saturday the Pentagon confirmed that a smart bomb dropped from...
...agreement with Uzbekistan allowing for the long-term stationing of American troops and aircraft in the Central Asian country. Khanabad, an air base 125 miles north of the Afghan border, has become the staging-post for U.S. forces in the region. More than 2,000 members of the 10th Mountain Division are based there, and American and British special forces have used it as a jumping-off point for missions...
...transport helicopters that load up at supply dumps in Tajikistan and northern Afghanistan, then fly across the towering Hindu Kush range to the Panjshir Valley and Shomali Plain. But last week bad weather and low visibility grounded those choppers. The other supply line is a rock-strewn mountain track that winds for more than 150 miles from Afghanistan's northern border through the heart of the Hindu Kush, crossing the 13,000-ft. Anjuman Pass into the Panjshir Valley. It's a grueling three- or four-day journey?for those vehicles that make it. "This road wasn't built...
...Some 250 km northwest of Termez on the road to Samarkand lies the Khanabad air base, a symbol of Moscow's failure and Washington's hopes. NATO sources say it is now home to up to 2,000 U.S. soldiers, including crack Mountain Division platoons, as well as an unspecified number of British special forces. There are regular incoming flights of heavy U.S. cargo carriers each day, and Apache attack helicopters and fixed-wing airplanes patrol the skies. The base is sealed with tight security?an outer ring of Uzbek police, an inner ring of military police, plus U.S. security...