[Land_of_Lincoln_John]

Fox News is also reporting that Mullah Omar, leader of the Taliban, could be among the fatalities. Let's hope so.

[JusPasenThru]

Bump.

[jonathonandjennifer]

Tora Bora was built with U.S. aid for anti-Soviet rebels during the Soviet Union's embattled 10-year occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s. It lies 35 miles south of Jalalabad, atop a 13,000-foot mountain and three hours by foot from the nearest road. Carved 1,150 feet into the mountain are a series of rooms and tunnels that reportedly can house 1,000 people.

HOLY COW! How much do you think that complex cost us?

[blam]

I kept looking for this on breaking news. It should be there. This is the big war item of the whole day.

[alithia]

we built the much vaunted Bin Laden cave complex? That's just dandy.

[Savage Beast]

Mullah Omar sold his soul to the devil for revenge--revenge against the so-called infidels who had dared to invade "Arabia".

What a fool!

He should have asked God's guidance and asked to do God's will.

Evil is the ultimate stupidity, Omar, and you have proven yourself to be very stupid.

Renounce Satan--whom you have prayed to as "Allah"--before all the world. Turn to God. It may be too late to save your life, but it's not too late to save your soul.

You fool!

[blam]

(I think this is the same strike)

Spies Lead US Bombers To Strike

Foreign Affairs
Source: The Times (UK)
Published: 11-28-2001 Author: Roland Watson/Martin Fletcher
Posted on 11/27/01 6:27 PM Pacific by blam

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 28 2001

Spies lead US bombers to strike

BY ROLAND WATSON AND MARTIN FLETCHER

AMERICAN bombers attacked a Taleban compound near Kandahar after being told that Mullah Muhammad Omar was there last night.

The intelligence was received and the strike ordered while Donald Rumsfeld, the US Defence Secretary, was visiting the military’s central command headquarters in Florida, from where the war is being run. He said: “It clearly was a leadership area. Whoever was there is going to wish they weren’t.”

General Tommy Franks, commander of the US military operation, had earlier disclosed the two areas of Afghanistan where the Pentagon believes Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda and Taleban leaders are hiding: the area around Kandahar where Mullah Omar, the Taleban supreme leader, heads a garrison of around 5,000, and a larger area of mountainous territory in a triangle between Kabul, Jalalabad and Tora Bora.

Mr Rumsfeld had also said that the military were receiving a lot of intelligence on the whereabouts of bin Laden and his cohorts. “There’s no question that people find that the reward money is an incentive and are busily engaged in trying to earn it.”

General Franks went on to say that bin Laden’s foreign supporters holed up in Kandahar were seeking a way out and that the mere presence of a US Marine base near by would add to the pressure on the city.

The general also said that the Pentagon had identified 40 sites in Afganistan where al-Qaeda terrorists may have been developing chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.

He said that a “great deal” of chemical samples and laboratory paraphernalia had been found flown to the US for analysis: “If there’s anything there we will find it. We will not leave weapons of mass destruction in this country

[Semper Paratus]

Mullah Omar was a prophet: In my dream I lead as long as I am alive".

Insallah (God willing)