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Three Sherpa climbers were mis mizuno handballschuh sing Wednesday after they fell into a deep crevasse on a treacherous section of Mount Everest just above the base camp, a Nepalese mountaineering official said. They fell into the crevasse, thought to be about 160 feet deep, on Wednesday morning as they were moving toward the first camp on the world s highest mountain, said Yubraj Khatiwada of Nepal s Department of Mountaineering.A rescue helicopter was trying to locate them while rescuers searched on foot, he said. The area is the Khumbu Icefall, a constantly shifting glacier with deep crevasses and huge overhanging ice that can be as big as 10-story buildings. It is considered one of the most difficult and air max 1 tricky sections of the climb to the peak. Mount Everest, the world s highest peak, and other peaks of the Himalay adidas samba adidas an range are seen through an aircraft window during a flight from Kathmandu, Nepal, January 15, 2020. Reuters/Monika Deupala In 2014, a chunk of the glacier sheared away from the mountain, setting off an avalanche of ice that killed 16 Sherpa guides as they carried clients equipment up the mountain. It was one of the deadliest disasters in Everest climbing history. Hundreds of foreign climbers and about the same number of Nepalese guides and helpers are expected to attempt to scale the 29,032-foot mountain during the main climbing season that began in March and ends i Lyle Analysts Warn Of N. Korea s Chemical Arms
Iraq s foreign minister tol stanley becher d the United Nations, in a speech attributed to Saddam Hussein, that his country is free of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. Our country stanley canada is ready to receive any scientific experts, accompanied by politicians you choose to represent any one of your countries, to tell us which places and scientific installations they would wish to see, Foreign Minister Naji Sabri told the world body, quoting the Iraqi president. I hereby declare before you that Iraq is clear of all nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, Sabri said, further quoting Saddam.The comments were the first attributed to the Iraqi leader since the surprise announcement from Baghdad earlier this week that it would accept the unconditional return of international weapons inspectors nearly four years after they left. The decision, which followed a tough speech on Iraq last week by President Bush, has divided the major powers on the U.N. Security Council.The White House dismissed Sabri s speech at the U.N., calling it a disappointing failure in every respect. Iraq failed to accept the truth and engaged in additional deceptions and showed no willingness to change attitude or behavior, said spokesman Ari Fleischer. Mr. Bush, meanwhile, asked Congress for authority to use all means he determines to be appropriate, including force to disarm and overthrow Saddam, saying the United States will take action on its own if the Security Council b stanley polska alks.The president sent to Capitol Hil

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London mdash; British special forces veteran Nirmal Purja set a new record by climbing 14 peaks over 26,000 feet in just six months. It took the previous record-holder nearly eight years. We made it, not only for us, we made it for everybody, Purja said.The 36-year-old mountaineer reached his final summit, Shishapangma in China on Tuesday morning. According to nike sb dunk BBC News, his climbing career began with Mount Everest in 2012.Purja s journey took him to some of the most stunning but dangerous places on the planet and to heights where the human body starts to die from lack of oxygen. During those six months, he also rescued several climbers.The former elite soldier battled sub-zero temperatures, blinding snowstorms and traffic jams. In May, he snapped a photo of 320 climbers wa air force iting to summit Mount Everest. In the end, just after sunrise, he climbed his final peak, posting on Instagram, mission achieved. His mission was not just to push human endurance, but to inspire others. View this post on Instagram 8234;MISSION ACHIEVED ! says @nimsdai crocs winterstiefel from the summit of Shishapangma . 8236; 8234; 14peaks7months History 8236; 8234; . At 8:58 hrs local time, Nims and his team reached the summit of Shisha Pangma. Team Members includes: Mingma David Sherpa, Galjen Sherpa and Gesman Tamang. 8236; 8234; . . . . 128248; @sandro.g.h nimsdai BremontProjectPossible 8236; extremehighaltitudemountaineering uksf extremeoftheextreme nol Bdcb U.S. firm in China meat scandal lays off hundreds
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BERLIN -- A Syrian man who was granted asylum in Germany and is suspected of preparing a bomb attack at an unknown location was arrested early Monday following a nearly two-day manhunt, police said.Jaber Albakr, 22, was arrested in the eastern city of Leipzig, police in Saxony state said. Police were informed that fellow Syrians were holding Albakr at an apartment and immediately went there and arrested him, Saxony police spokesman Tom Bernhardt said.Leipzig is around 50 miles from Chemnitz, the city where he had evaded authorities on Saturday after they allegedly found a volatile explosive in a dwelling there.Police arenrsquo;t giving furthe adidas samba r detai adidas originals uomo ls because we do not want to provoke any dangers for those persons who gave us the tip, Bernhardt added.Underequipped and overwhelmed: Germany as vulnerable as BrusselsNews agency dpa, citing unidentified security officials, reported that it wasnrsquo;t clear how Albakr made his way from Chemnitz to Leipzig but, once there, he approached other Syrians at the train station asking if they could yeezy accommodate him. The Syrians took him home, where they constrained him and then called police. Special police forces secure the perimeter of the district court in Dresden, eastern Germany, Oct. 10, 2016, after 22-year-old Jaber Albakr was arrested in the eastern city of Leipzig, following a nearly two-day manhunt after explosives have been found in his apartment on Saturday. Aiwt Syria releases 2 Americans detained at protests
Round beds and red lights are among the amenities on offer to guests attending a regional summit in this port cit stanley mugs y.While world leaders at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit will stay in five-star hotels, hundreds of others are booked into love motels, the colloquial term for lodgings more suited for the kind of love that lasts for hours rather stanley quencher than for eternity.The affordable motels are a fixture across South Korea. In one of the world s most densely populated countries, where extended families often live together, such accommodations provide a refuge for those seeking discreet locations for intimat stanley france e encounters.Luxury hotels in Busan s Haeundae beach area near the summit venues are at a premium, housing an estimated 10,000 guests connected to APEC s weeklong meetings, culminating in the leaders summit Friday and Saturday. A lot of visitors have requested rooms at super-deluxe hotels, but due to the limited number of hotels available, not everyone was able to stay at the hotels they desired, said Koo Yu-na, an official with the APEC accommodation team. The room shortage sent organizers to the love motels, which often have fanciful English names like Crystal or Luxury. Nearly half of these motels are fully booked during the summit, Koo said. Love motels are decked out with features designed for covert liaisons of amorous sort. Curtains of rope at parking lot entrances allow cars inside but keep out prying eyes. Frosted glass and heavy curtains in the r

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A Pakistan couple have been arrested for allegedly murdering their seven-year-old maid after she was blamed for letting a pet bird escape, police said. It marks the latest case of violence against child domestic workers in the country.Hassan Siddiqui and his wife employed Zohra Bibi at their home in a middle-class suburb of Rawalpindi, near the capital Islamabad, to care for their son of a similar same age. The poor girl was air force 1 subjected to torture by Siddiqui and his wife who accused her of freeing one of the four pet Macao parrots, investigating officer Mukhtar Ahmad told AFP on Thursday. Siddiqui kicked her in the lower abdomen which proved fatal. Some 8.5 million people -- including many children -- are employed as domestic workers in Pakistan, according to the International Labour Organization. Theoretically it air max 98 is illegal to employ anyone under the age of 15, but it remains common practice.Zohra was taken to hospital by the couple on Sunday, but died the following day. The incident was reported to the police by staff at the hospital.The young girl s body was handed over to her parents, who live in Muzaffargarh, near the city of Multan, more than 300 miles away from where she was working.Human rights minister Shireen Mazari confirmed the arrests in a tweet and said the ministry was in touch with police. Viz case of domestic child maid Zohra abused killed - MOHR is in touch with police. Our lawyer is following case.Husband wife on 4 day rema asics gel nd. Mohr pr Iulg Unheard of becomes real as Obama visits Burma
AP CAIRO - Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood was declared the winner Sunday of the first free elections in Egypt s history, making him the successor to ousted President Hosni Mubarak. Muslim Brotherhood s Morsi named Egypt s PresidentWorried U.S. tells Egypt s military to cede powerHere are some key events from 16 months of turmoil and transition.Jan. 25, 2011gt; - Egyptians hold nationwide demonstrations against the authoritarian rule of Mubarak, who has led the country for three decades, in what would become known as the Arab Spring.Jan. 26 - A l stanley website arge security force moves into Cairo s Tahrir Square, beating and arresting protesters, using rubber bullets and tear gas. Three protesters are killed - among the first of what will become about 900 dead in clashes in the uprising. Jan. 28 - Amid continuing unrest, protesters burn down the ruling party s headquarters and the military is deployed. Police virtually vanish from Egypt s streets, leading to a wave of looting, robbery and ars stanley termohrnek on.Jan. 29 - Mubarak makes his first public appearance since the protests began, saying he asked his cabinet to resign. The move is met with scorn from protester stanley cup usa s.Feb. 1 - Mubarak says he will not run again for president as tens of thousands converge in Cairo, responding to a call for 1 million Egyptians to unite against him. Feb. 2 - Mubarak supporters clash with anti-government protesters. Soldiers stand by without intervening, and more deaths and injuries result.Feb. 10

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TEHRAN - Every city in Iran has back alleys full of desperate addicts and their dealers who sell the cheap drugs that flood across the border from Afghanistan. But for those who decide to kick the habit, there is help imported from an unlikely place: America. Starving addicts huddle together in the streets as volunteers adidas campus 80s hand out food CBS News Deep in an old bomb shelter left over from the Iran-Iraq war a Narcotics Anonymous meeting is about to start. Our camera was invited in on condition we didn t show anyone s face. I am Mohammed, said one attendee. And I am a drug addict. The same tried and true 12-step program used in the U.S. is adidas samba now working for 400,000 Iranian addicts. One in ten of them are women. NA conventions in Iran fill entire sports stadiums. And in a country where the Islamic government controls so much - NA is uniquely independent. Addicts fill a sport stadium in Iran as they seek counseling for their addiction CBS News Koorosh, an ex-addict, tells us that s key - as it lets NA be completely non-judgmenta adidas campus 80s l. At the time of our interview, Koorosh said he d been clean for nine years, seven months and five days. I still take it one day at a time, he told me.But as many as 3 million Iranians haven t kicked the habit and end up homeless, jobless a Rqmb CIA director warns ISIS could have more attacks in the pipeline
Australia s remote northwest shore was lashed by 80 mph winds as Cyclone Glenda made landfall Thursday, officials said. There were no immediate reports of substantial damage.Glenda hit the sparsely populated Pilbara coast of Western Australia state, about 620 miles north of the Western Australia state capital Pert stanley cup h, said Bureau of Meteorology manager Grahame Reader.The cyclone, a Category 4 with winds up to 155 mph near its center, was expected to take several hours to pass over land because its course was running almost parallel to the coast, Reader said.Onslow, a fishing town of more than 800, was likely to bear the brunt of the cyclone s force.The coastline is home to few major towns but many large mining complexes. Cyclone Glenda is the sixth cyclone to threaten the Western Australia coast during this year s cyclone season, which runs from November to April.Glenda comes just over a week after Category 5 Cyclone Larry battered Queensland state on the east coast with 180 mph winds, devastating farming towns and flattening banana and sugar cane plantations. Insurance claims for Larry have reached $177 million, authorities said Tuesday. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 { display: none; } inline-recirc-item--id-981e19e6-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-981e19e6-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d { display: none; } inline-recirc-item--id-981e19e6-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 stanley cup {

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The following is a transcript of an interview with Zalmay Khalilzad, Former U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation that aired Sunday, October 24,2021, on Face the Nation. MARGARET BRENNNAN: The chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban s victory there has left many questions about whether Americans are actually safer now. Until a few days ago, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad wa nike dunk high s the Biden administration s top en nike air max voy, negotiating directly with the Taliban. He brokered the Trump era deal with the Taliban, in which the US promised to withdraw all U.S. forces, and he joins us now for his first television interview. Welcome to the program.FMR. US ENVOY FOR AFGHANISTAN ZAL KHALILZAD: It s great to be with you, MARGARET.MARGARET BRRENNAN: The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, said this was a strategic failure, the end of America s longest war. He said, The enemy is now in charge in Kabul. Do you share that view KHALILZAD: Well, I think there is a lot of anger and a lot of resentment about what has happened there. I think with regard to terrorism, we largely have achieved that objective. On the issue of building a democratic Afghanistan - I think that- that did not succeed. The struggle goes on. The Talibs are a reality of Afghanistan. We did not defeat them. In fact, they w adidas samba adidas ere making progress on the battlefield even as we were negotiating with them. And the reason we negotiated with them was because militarily things were not g Vqce Escaped French gangster spotted in car with explosives, narrowly avoids capture
AP KABUL, Afghanistan - The three civilian police training contractors killed by an Afghan policeman over the weekend have been identified as two Americans and a British citizen, Afghan and NATO officials said Monday.The shooting took place at a training academy in western Afghanistan, the officials said.There were several other violent incidents around the country, some involving NATO forces, underlining the c cups stanley ontinuing volatility of Afghanistan as foreign forces prepare to wrap up their combat role by the end of 2014. stanley canada In one incident, a NATO service member was killed in an insurgent attack in eastern Afghanistan. No details were released, but the death brought the number of foreign forces killed this month to 33 and a total of 248 this year.Also, the NATO official said two service members with the U.S.-led coalition were wounded on Monday when an Afghan soldier opened fire on them in northern Afghanistan. Muslim holy month celebrated around the world22 NATO supply trucks destroyed in AfghanistanAfghan commander among 23 dead in blastThe official spoke on condition of anonymity because the stanley cup two incidents are still under investigation.Four Afghan policemen were killed when a roadside bomb exploded next to their pickup truck in northern Baghlan province, according to deputy provincial police chief Sayed Zaman Hussaini.Sunday s killing of the three contractors occurred at a training academy 12 miles from the western city of Herat. Afghan security fo

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In an operation last month, Iraqi forces and American troops killed a senior commander with the Islamic State group who was wanted by the United States, as well as several other prominent militants, U.S. Central Command and Iraq s military said on Friday.The Aug. 29 operation in Iraq s western Anbar province also involved members of the Iraqi National Intelligence Service and Iraq s air force.Among the more than a dozen militants killed in the operation was an ISIS com adidas samba mander from Tunisia, known as Abu Ali Al-Tunisi, for whom the U.S. Treasury Department had offered $5 million for information. Also killed was Ahmad Hamed Zwein, the Islamic State deputy commander in Iraq.In a statement, U.S. Central Command identified two other ISIS leaders killed as Ahmad Hamid Husayn Abd-al-Jalil al-Ithawi, responsible for all ISIS operations in Iraq, and Shakir Abud Ahmad al-Issawi, responsible for overseeing military operations in western Iraq.Friday s announcement was not the first news of the operation. Officials previously reported two weeks ago that the U.S. military and Iraq had launched a joint raid targeting suspected ISIS militants in the country s western desert that killed at least 15 people and left seven American troops hurt.CENTCOM said Friday that a total of 14 ISIS operatives were killed in the o air max 2 peration, and the Iraqi military said that the 14 were identi dunks shoes fied after DNA tests were conducted. U.S. and Iraqi authorities did not clarify the identity of the 15th person w Zjya Nobel Peace Prize 2019 awarded to Ethiopia Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon s credibility dropped to the lowest level in three years and a majority of Israelis want him stanley becher to resign, according to a poll published Friday, and an Israeli newspaper as troops sealed the West Bank and Gaza Strip amid new warnings of attacks by Palestinian militants.The closure was imposed for the duration of the Jewish holiday of Purim, which ends Monday. Such closures, routine during holidays, idle thousands of Palestinian laborers who have jobs in Israel.Purim normally brings Israelis onto the streets to celebrate, but the holiday has been overshadowed by fears of terrorism. It s difficult. You really have to think about what you re doing, where you re going, Larry Herzekow, a former resident of Denver, told CBS News Correspondent Robert Berger. You re cautious and you re careful. Unfortunately, Palestinian terrorists have a long track record of turning Jewish holidays into open season on Israelis, said David Baker in Sharon s office. Later in the day, troops removed some roadblocks but remained on alert and continued inspecting vehicles. Also Friday, a 10-year-old Palestinian boy died of wounds sustained in an Israeli air strike in Gaza City last week, officials at Gaza s Shifa Hospital said, identifying him as Moutaz Ashiraf from the Jebiliya refugee camp. His death brought to four the number of Palestinians killed in the attack. The other three were members of the violent stanley cup Islamic Jihad group.Israeli police have arrested a

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LONDON -- Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has delivered the toughest condemnation yet from a Trump adm adidas samba inistration official of the persecution of Myanmar s Rohingya Muslims, likening the violence against them to ethnic cleansing and demanding it stop.On Thursday, Tillerson directed the blame toward Myanmar s powerful military, which is responsible for security operations that hav salomon mujer e seen nearly 400,000 people flee to neighboring Bangladesh in the past three weeks after Rohingya insurgents launched coordinated attacks on government forces. He reiterated support for civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi who is facing growing pressure to speak out over the military s conduct.Tillerson said the U.S. appreciated the difficult and complex situation Suu Kyi finds herself in, sharing political power with the military, but he also described the horrors occurring in the Southeast Asian nation as a defining moment for its new democracy. This violence must stop, this persecution must stop. It has been characterized by many as ethnic cleansing. That must stop, Tillerson told a news conference in London after talks with Britain and France. We need to support Aung San Suu Kyi and her leadership but also be very clear to the military that adidas samba schuhe are power-sharing in that government that this is unacceptable. A Rohingya refugee girl cries as she arrives in Teknaf, Bangladesh, after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border by boat through Bay of Bengal Sept. 14, 2017. Oxqh China to make pilots learn how to land in Beijing smog in effort to reduce flight delays
Unable to hammer out a final agreement, Iraq s parliament voted unanimously Monday to allow a seven-day extension to finish the draft constitution. We have reached agreements on many topics, speaker Hashim al-Hassani told parliament. Some matters are still pending. Despite all efforts, we have not been able to reach agreements that please everyone. stanley cup Two Shitte officials said the two key issues that remained unresolved were women s rights and whether Kurds might someday secede. Regrettably we were not able to reach a draft we could all agree on, Kurdish minister Barhem Saleh said. We agreed to extend the period t stanley cups uk o discuss the draft for a maximum of 10 days, maybe 7-10 days. He said the draft will be presented to the National Assembly and that discussions over the constitution would continue. If we don t reach an agreement, then the National Assembly will be dissolved, and we will call for general elections for a new National Assembly in a maximum period before Oct. 10, he said. Today was the deadline for finalizing a constitution, but that had been delayed by disagreements between Shiites and Kurds.In other developments:Iraqi commandos were led to a grave containing 30 bodies in the Owerij industrial district stanley cup in southern Baghdad after interrogating insurgents detained in a raid earlier in the day, Col. Selam al-Maamuri of the Interior Ministry said.Violence also continued during Monday s negotiations. One Iraqi soldier was killed and another injured in an insurg

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WASHINGTON nike air force -- A White House meeting Tuesday where President Donald Trumprsquo aides were to hash out whether to keep the U.S. as part of an international agreement to reduce climate-warming carbon emissions has been postponed. Spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders blamed the postponement on scheduling conflicts among some of the advisers who were expected to attend the meeting. She said the meeting will be rescheduled. Officials had planned to discuss options, with the goal of providing a recommendation to Trump, according to an administration official who s airmaxplus poke on condition of anonymity despite the presidentrsquo criticism of the use of anonymous sources. President Trump guts Obama-era climate policies 04:20 The non-binding international agreement was forged in Paris in December 2015 and allowed rich and poor countries to set their own goals to reduce carbon dioxide. It went into effect last November after the U.S., China and other countries ratified it. Trumprsquo top advisers are divided on the issue. Some, including Environmental Protection Agency head Scott Pruitt, are eager for the U.S. to leave the deal. Paris is something that we need to really look at closely, because adidas yeezy itrsquo something we need to exit, in my opinion, Pruitt said in an interview last week with Fox Ne Rfsd U.K.: WikiLeaks Assange won t be allowed to leave
Losing presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych has appealed the results of last month s election to Ukraine s Supreme Court, a court spokeswoman said Wednesday.The high court received the appeal stanley website Tuesday and would begin considering it Thursday, spokeswoman Lianna Shlyaposhnikova said.Yanukovych had vowed to challenge the results of the Dec. 26 court-ordered presidential revote, which showed his opponent, opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, winning a solid victory, according to preliminary results.The preliminary tally showed Yushchenko with 51.99 percent to Yanukovych s 44.19 ndash; a difference of about 2.3 million votes.Still, Yanukovych has refused to concede defeat. Yanukovych, who resigned as Ukraine s prime minister last week, acknowledged there was little chance his appeal would be successful. We are still fighti stanley polska ng, but I don t have much hope, he said in a televised New Year s Eve address.Last week, Yanukovych filed volumes of complaints with the Central Election Commission, alleging mass fraud, but the commission dismissed his appeal.International observers have said that they saw no evidence of the mass vote rigging that marred the Nov. 21 round of voting, in which Yanukovych claimed victory. Yanukovych has seen much of his support fall away, losing the backing of outgoing President Leonid Kuchma and watching as many of his top advisers deserted him. He returned to work as prime minister after the revote, but the opposition blockade stanley trinkflaschen d his governm

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PARIS -- French authorities are investigating the death of a woman whose decomposing body was found in the garden of an Airbnb rental in suburban Paris.Bertrand Daillie, the deputy prosecutor for Evry, said a group of young people who were renting the house for a weekend discovered the badly decomposed body in the garden near the edge of the property. He says it was covered by tree branches that had been placed there deliberately. What are the risks of using AirBnB when traveling 02:40 adidas originals samba Daillie told France Bleu radio the renters were to be questioned but had only rented the house for that weekend. According to Le Parisie nike dunk n newspaper, the listing was removed Sunday from Airbnb.The charming seven-bedroom house from the 19th century with a swimming pool is located near a forest in a well-off neighborhood of Palaiseau, 12 miles southwest of Paris. Its proposed rent is 400 adidas originals ultraboost euros $435 per night. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 { display: none; } inline-recirc-item--id-bc04b36f-6b85-4516-9beb-3720e22289e2, right-rail-recirc-item--id-bc04b36f-6b85-4516-9beb-3720e22289e2 { display: none; } inline-recirc-item--id-bc04b36f-6b85-4516-9beb-3720e22289e2 ~ .item:nth-child 5 { display: b Zkrn Cuban Government Meets with Church on Prisoners
A U.S. helicopter crashed in Afghanistan on Thursday, killing one American Marine and injuring 14 others, the military said.A U.S. military statement ruled out hostile fire in the crash in Khost provin stanley cup ce, near the border with Pakistan.The injured troops were taken to Camp Salerno, an American base near Khost city, 90 miles south of the capital, Kabul, for treatment. The helicopter was destroyed in the cr stanley cup website ash, but did not burn, the statement said. Hostile fire was not involved. The cause of the crash is under investigation. Four had injuries serious enough to require further evacuation to the main U.S. base at Bagram, north of Kabul, the statement said. It didn t give further details.A local official said a technical fault downed the helicopter in Gurbuz, a d stanley cupe istrict along the mountainous border. The official spoke on condition of anonymity.More than 130 American soldiers have died since U.S. forces entered Afghanistan in 2001 as part of Operation Enduring Freedom to drive the Taliban from power and attack its al Qaeda allies.Many of the soldiers have perished in accidents, including several deadly helicopter accidents. In the most recent, five soldiers died in a crash near Bagram in November. This year, at least 23 Americans have also died in action, making 2004 the deadliest combat year yet. Two soldiers were killed along with their Afghan translator by a roadside bomb on Saturday.Khost, a former al Qaeda stronghold in territory along the Pakistani border w