February 8, 2003 Like a flock of ghosts returning to the place of their first haunting, the F-117A Nighthawks slipped from the skies of the Middle-east late this week and landed at a classified location; an air base belonging to an American ally the U.S. Air...
February 8, 2003 F-117 Nighthawks are considered “stealthy” because of two technologies, both considered top-secret until fairly recently. One is the radar-absorbing material that coats every exterior surface, and in fact, has to be re-applied to screw-tops or...
October 8, 2001 “It is very dangerous to go to this place,” said Zubair. We sat cross-legged on the floor of the foreign ministry in Khoja Bachoudin eating kebabs and rice. I was asking for permission to visit a village called Zard Kammar...
October 10, 2001 Millions of people in Afghanistan not only belong to the Third World, in many ways they belong to the third century. At the refugee camp near Khaja Bahaod Din, a huge herd of camels make their way languidly down a dusty slope to the Pyandzh River....
November 17, 2001 As we made our way out of the recently-liberated town of Taloqan towards the large northern Afghanistan city of Konduz, we passed about a dozen Soviet-era T-55 tanks, armored personnel carriers, and some mobile artillery parked on the outskirts. Some...
