Response to Terror

Afghanistan: Bin Laden is increasingly vulnerable, Pentagon says, as huge bomb is dropped on cave complex. Britain may lead peacekeeping force.

With no home, no husband and no prospect of a job, Shalla is sure she is due a share of the food flowing from an outside world finally ready to feed the hungry maw that is Afghanistan.

Military: Marines set up a staging area near the city to supply “hunter-killer” teams pursuing fleeing Al Qaeda, Taliban members.

Security: Pending U.N. approval, soldiers could begin arriving early next week, diplomats say.

Service: Mike Spann, who died in Afghanistan, is called an American hero. In Kentucky, three soldiers killed by ‘friendly fire’ are also honored.

A young woman with a troubled past is touched by the reverence of a mosque wedding. She becomes a Muslim, but her friends wonder if it will last.