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Islamabad IRNA - The bodies of 124 American troops have been flown back home in a cargo plane on November 29, claimed a local daily here on Sunday. 'Pakistan Observer' reported that the troops were killed during clashes with Taliban fighters when they had landed in Helmand province to help the ex-governor of Kandahar Gul Agha's Lashkar fighters against Taliban. It added the perished troops are being officially described as missing in action. Meanwhile, another daily, 'The Frontier Post', said 65 US marines have been killed by Taliban suicide squads in southern Afghanistan. Reports of fresh casualties come as the ...

It has its own ventilation system and its own power, created by a hydro-electric generator. Its walls and floors in the rooms are smooth and finished and it extends 350 yards beneath a solid mountain. It is so well defended and concealed that – short of poison gas or a tactical nuclear weapon – it is immune to outside attack. And it is filled with heavily armed followers of Osama bin Laden, with a suicidal commitment to their cause and with nothing left to lose. Yesterday, for the first time, a witness spoke about one of the greatest remaining challenges ...

French Terrorist Chief Warns of New Attacks, Possibly Cyanide Phil Brennan, NewsMax.com Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2001 The man who hunted down and jailed Carlos the Jackal, the world's most notorious terrorist, is now warning that the U.S. faces a deadly threat from terrorists now operating undetected in this country. Jean-Louis Bruguiere, France's chief anti-terrorism official, told journalist Christophe Calais that well-concealed terrorists cells in the U.S. could easily use cyanide to poison water supplies here. Writing in Saturday's New York Times, Calais revealed that the French terrorism expert warned that neither the destruction of the Taliban nor even the capture ...