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U.S. government personnel are searching for al Qaeda fighters in the rugged tribal regions of northwest Pakistan, and the American military is set to send in troops to join the hunt, officials said Thursday.The mission of U.S. special forces is ex
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stanley romania al Qaeda.The new strategy became necessary after the latest assaults on al Qaeda positions found little more than abandoned caves on the Afghan side of the border.The United States and Pakistan reached an agreement several weeks ago allowing American military operations on Pakistani soil, U.S. officials said. The tribal areas are believed to be traditional rallying points for fighters fleeing Afghanistan.The operations carry considerable risk, physically for the Americans and politically for Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, who faces a referendum on Tuesday to extend his term as president for five years. He has defied strong anti-American sentiment to support President Bush in countering terrorism. Pakistan s tribal belt is ruled by deeply conservative and fiercely independent tribesmen who swear little allegiance to anyone but their tribal eld
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A winter that lasts years isn ;t just a problem in Game of Thrones. Roughly 1500 years ago, our world was turned upsidown by a winter that witnesses say never ended. Now there is scientific evidence that there really was a decad
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stanley cup le lands. Over at New Scientist, Colin Barras has a terrific article about the scientific quest to discover whether these reports have any basis in reality. For years, scientists have studied tree rings and ice cores, looking for clues that could reveal whether the weather change was caused by a supervolcano which have been known to cool the planet considerably . Some promising evidence suggests there may have been a supereruption in El Salvador, which could help explain why Maya settlements nearby mysteriously stopped producing written records for a few years. But that wouldn ;t explain why the planet remained cold for many years. Usually a supervolcano only affects the weather for a year at most. But now a geologist named Dallas Abbott h
