Taliban clinging to power, U.S. says
With U.S. warplanes unleashing their most punishing bombing raids in four days on the Taliban's front lines, a top Pentagon official conceded Wednesday that Afghan resistance is more formidable than...
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Taliban may have plans to poison rations, U.S. says
The Pentagon said Wednesday that it has received intelligence indicating the Taliban might poison the rations American planes have been dropping for civilians in Afghanistan and blame the United States...
Confused? It’s part of the plan
Many of you, like me, must be thoroughly confused as to what is exactly going on in the war against terrorism. If Hollywood were to make war movies the way...
Rebels seek more strikes
Leaders of Afghanistan's rebel forces are pushing the U.S. to step up attacks on Taliban troop concentrations, but a top Pentagon official said Tuesday that the bombing campaign is moving...
Strikes target Taliban troops
Dozens of American warplanes pressed their attacks Monday on front-line positions of the Taliban army in northern Afghanistan, trying to clear the way for opposition rebel forces to move against...
Rumsfeld scolds media’s Pentagon sources
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld lashed out Monday at Pentagon sources who told the news media last week about Army Ranger commando raids against a Taliban headquarters and airfield. "I couldn't...
First lady on the front lines of crisis
With sirens blaring, the White House motorcade sped along the interstate, police and unmarked Secret Service cars weaving from lane to lane on either side of the Cadillac limousine like...
This theater isn’t child’s play
As the parents of millions of little children may not realize, there is decidedly more to the late humorist/cartoonist Shel Silverstein than "A Light in the Attic," "Where the Sidewalk...
U.S. warplanes make fierce raids on Kabul
The Pentagon unleashed its air power on Kabul and other Afghanistan cities Wednesday, striking the capital with what witnesses described as the fiercest attack since bombing began Sunday. Paving the...
Finer points of Signac
We did not go to a glittering Metropolitan Museum of Art gala reception last week that opened an exhibition of the works of the celebrated French pointillist painter Georges Seurat....