1. 52Supplies for US Army troops overlook the Hindu Kush mountains at Observation Post Mustang in Kunar Province, Afghanistan.

2. The Bundeswehr's recent offensive in Afghanistan's Hindu Kush mountains is too timid for Washington, yet too bold for many in Germany.

3. Land-locked. aside from most modern routes of communication . and broken up by the mighty Hindu Kush mountains and by vast deserts.

4. But Berlin has just tiptoed over another red line, in the Hindu Kush mountains.

5. Saturday's earthquake hit shortly before 9 a. m. local time in the rugged Hindu Kush mountains of northern Pakistan.