Posted on 09/29/2001 8:28:40 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
Breaking.
Japanese language news reports, filed from Islamabad just a few a few ago, 11:45 p.m. local in Tokyo (Mainichi News Reporter).
Upshot: US Armed forces have secured 12 military bases bordering Afghanistan for usage in the campaign. Open sourced information. 5, 4 and 3 respectively for Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzhbekistan, all w/in 500 kilos of Taliban Afghanistan. Baredel near Peshawar has been secured, as has Quetta AB. Termez for the Uzbeks, and Kuriyab for the Tajiks. Full court press with the Northern Alliance upon Taleban. Taleban apparantly freaking out in addition to a massive outflow of civilian refugees from major cities. Internal dissent and breakdown in discipline within Taleban is also reported in other Japanese news reporter sources....these chaps are filing from Peshawar and Islamabad where it is Saturday night.
What I would give to see that as a headline on the New York Times.
In Pakistan, the of air force base which is close to the central city yV of the north section (80 kilometers) and the Chubu NFb^ air force base (it is increasing to the same) and so on candidacy to the Afghan border.
You say with Uzbek the empty * army base of the Telecom female which is close to the Afghan border and with Tadzhik the clear Bu air force base which utilizes also counter ^o combination " north section alliance " (the same 100 kilometers) et cetera there is a possibility of being used. (Everyday the newspaper)
Of course, things could be worse. You could have been forced to do a translation from original kanji.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
My thrust was that fishing boats need to stay away from 100,000 ton ships or get swamped by their wake. Such ship launch Tomcats (the F14 kind) and Hornets (the F18 kind).
I also made a reference to eagles (as in F15 eagles).
But this is a very fragile part of the world, and India, Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan and Red China all need attention in this situation.
There were reports of a fishing boat sighting one US Aircraft carrier (which is not news). But sighting more than one and lots of aircraft activity may hurt the US.
I intentionally was crypt. I wanted to cause some folks to think...
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