World News 03-12-2001 who: The SAS what: Will take part in assault on Taliban stronghold where: Afghanistan when: This week snippet: Special forces from the SAS and SBS "will play a major role in an impending attack on the Tora Bora area as the hunt for Osama bin Laden intensifies," says The Independent. "According to defence sources," reports Kim Sengupta, "the British have consistently out-performed the Americans in tracking al-Qai`da and Taliban fighters in flight, and in engaging and neutralising them." Elsewhere in The Independent, American bombers are reported to have killed 100 covilians in a botched bombing raid; The Times says the body of CIA officer Johnny `Mike` Spann - the first American to be killed in combat in Afghanistan - has been flown home and there`s a report on an interview with an American-born Taliban soldier; Sun photographer Terry Richards has pictures of a dramatic raid on an al-Qa`ida bunker; and The Telegraph says that soldiers in Kandahar, the Taliban`s last bastion, are close to surrender. [... more]

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