"In 1980, D. A. Henderson did what no one else in history has ever done. He wiped a disease, smallpox, off the face of the earth." So begins an article in "The New York Times," an article about the man who led the global effort to eradicate smallpox. And, now, his service is needed again.

A Reuters story posted on Yahoo!News, "U.S. Pursues Bin Laden as Taliban Touts Plan," speaks of "a withering U.S. aerial bombardment" of Kandahar and reveals that the Taliban protectors of Osama bin Laden claim that "their increasingly dire situation was part of a grand plan to destroy America".