Georgia: US opens new front in war on terror
Bush sends in 200 crack troops at a cost of $64m to tackle a few dozen militants
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Trouble at High Levels
Mountain warfare is not the only thing slowing down the U.S. Army.

thanks to Cursor
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Uncle Sam's lucky finds

On Sunday night the United States prepared for fresh strikes against new pockets of al-Qaida and Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. At almost exactly the same time, American intelligence revealed that they had uncovered an increase in money being transferred between groups of al-Qaida fighters. According to my reckoning, this is the 14th handy thing that American intelligence has discovered since September 11. Think back over the past six months and it becomes ineluctable: never in the history of modern warfare has so much been found so opportunely.
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Neo-Fascist right leading America to abyss
Would it help if we dropped a nuke on the National Review?

Rich Lowry is a good reason why the American right is, more and more, being viewed as a raving pack of psychotic loons. An editor with the far right National Review propaganda sheet, he came out with the proposal that we teach those Moslems a thing or two by dropping a bomb on Mecca. Granted, he had enough scraps of sanity left to mention that it would be in retaliation if someone nuked us first, and he even went so far as to say that the idea was "a bit extreme," but he was pretty sure that destroying Mecca and making it impossible to visit for years or decades would "send a signal."

If that’s his idea of a "signal" then I think his sex life must consist of jack hammers and cherry bombs. It takes an incredible emotional thickness to describe the destruction of Mecca as "a signal." Maybe Hitler’s actions were a hint that he wouldn’t be marrying a Jew.
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