Response to Terror
Times coverage from its Dec. 19, 2001, edition.
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Afghanistan: U.S. bombs have reduced Al Qaeda’s training site, bunkers and caves to rubble.
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Kandahar is slowly letting down its guard amid wariness about pockets of Taliban sympathizers.
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Investigation: The interrogations at a jail Marines constructed at the ruined Kandahar airport will focus on getting details on past and future terror attacks.
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Medicine: Supply is to be used experimentally against any lingering spores in people’s lungs.
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Family: While one brother prepares to run his war-torn country, another epitomizes capitalism in the U.S.
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Troops: Defense secretary says peacekeeping mission is straining U.S. resources.
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Fugitive: But pursuing the former leader of the Taliban is not a top priority now, he adds.
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Law: Parents of Californian captured in Afghanistan say he’s been denied their letter.