Events at a Glance
MILITARY FRONT
Opposition fighters went to war against the Taliban’s last northern enclave, shelling the holdouts’ positions in and around the city of Kunduz with tanks and heavy artillery as U.S. warplanes dropped bombs.
SECURITY
With mounting frustration, state and local authorities nationwide are complaining that, at this time of intense planning, the federal government is leaving them out of the loop in the drive to secure the homeland.
INVESTIGATION
Spanish investigators believe that a mysterious trip to Spain in July by Mohamed Atta, the suspected leader of the Sept. 11 hijackers, was a key step in carrying out the attacks, according to court documents and interviews with officials.
DRUGS
Now that the Taliban has retreated to the mountains, there is an eagerness among farmers in the irrigated lowlands south of Jalalabad to return to opium poppy cultivation.
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