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03-22-2004, 11:10 AM
Good article at the link below... well worth a read.
"On the North-West Frontier, soldiers are trying to tighten the noose around bin Laden's forces. But in Europe and America, there is no clear enemy to fight - yet every expert knows that a terrorist atrocity is comin."
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1174502,00.html
"There were shadows in the rocks. As the 12 US Special Forces soldiers arrived at a remote mountain region in eastern Afghanistan last week, the shadows took form and started moving, turning into people. The Americans, accompanied by troops from Pakistan and Predator drones scouring the hills ahead, finally got a glimpse of the prey they had been hunting for months.
In a modern equivalent of the Great Game, in which Western spies dressed as locals wandered the lawless region 100 years ago, the soldiers had spent days trekking through the mountains, offering bribes to tribal leaders in a game of deadly intrigue. Their aim: to strike at the heart of an enemy waging war throughout the world."
...continued at link.
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"On the North-West Frontier, soldiers are trying to tighten the noose around bin Laden's forces. But in Europe and America, there is no clear enemy to fight - yet every expert knows that a terrorist atrocity is comin."
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1174502,00.html
"There were shadows in the rocks. As the 12 US Special Forces soldiers arrived at a remote mountain region in eastern Afghanistan last week, the shadows took form and started moving, turning into people. The Americans, accompanied by troops from Pakistan and Predator drones scouring the hills ahead, finally got a glimpse of the prey they had been hunting for months.
In a modern equivalent of the Great Game, in which Western spies dressed as locals wandered the lawless region 100 years ago, the soldiers had spent days trekking through the mountains, offering bribes to tribal leaders in a game of deadly intrigue. Their aim: to strike at the heart of an enemy waging war throughout the world."
...continued at link.
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