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US and Britain to strike terror camps within days
uk observer | 9/30/01

Posted on 09/29/2001 5:55:57 PM PDT by newsperson999

Devastating attacks on bases controlled by Osama bin Laden are set to be launched in the next 48 hours as part of a tightly focused military operation approved by US President George Bush and backed by Britain.

The strategy, which is a victory for pragmatists in both Britain and America, is designed to kill bin Laden and his forces, and will be launched in tandem with strikes against air and ground forces of the Taliban regime supporting him.

The operation, which British and US sources say could be launched as early as today, would begin with air and missile strikes to destroy the Taliban's 20-aircraft air force, remove anti-aircraft missile batteries, and destroy Taliban tanks and other armour.

In a clear sign that strikes were imminent, Bush declared last night, after a meeting with military advisers at Camp David: 'America will act deliberately and decisively, and the cause of freedom will prevail.' MORE HERE


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1 posted on 09/29/2001 5:55:57 PM PDT by newsperson999
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Why not just tell the whole world? Pssst. World. We're putting on a show in a little while.
2 posted on 09/29/2001 6:03:15 PM PDT by rumblefish71
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To: newsperson999
Let's see... I heard the same story about a launch within 48 hours, 72 hours ago... So, if I keep saying 48 hours, I will eventually be right, right???
3 posted on 09/29/2001 6:04:29 PM PDT by rintense
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To: rumblefish71
This was leaked for a reason. We do it all the time as part of strategy.
4 posted on 09/29/2001 6:05:19 PM PDT by hispanarepublicana
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To: rintense
It's OK to bomb now...they are all empty!
5 posted on 09/29/2001 6:05:43 PM PDT by Sungirl
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To: rumblefish71
Why not just tell the whole world? Pssst. World. We're putting on a show in a little while.

Calm down - There is a published source; it has been reported elsewhere.

6 posted on 09/29/2001 6:05:49 PM PDT by Eric Esot
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To: rumblefish71
Ready....Set....PSYCH!!!!
7 posted on 09/29/2001 6:06:21 PM PDT by NeonKnight
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To: newsperson999
oct 2 at 1pm
8 posted on 09/29/2001 6:06:48 PM PDT by Rustynailww
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To: rintense
We kinda heard the same thing since about September 12 in the a.m. didn't we? Evidently it will happen however I shall not hold my breath. I am getting impatient for some action I must admit. Moreover, we cannot follow through. It would be the same as a parent threatening a child of discipline but in fact never following through. What power would the US have then if that were the case?
9 posted on 09/29/2001 6:08:24 PM PDT by Viktra
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From the article: The news came as British sources claimed that the Taliban was set to flood the west with heroin in an attempt to destabilise its enemies.

Huh? Does anyone understand economics anymore? Flooding the market with heroin will simply drive its price down -- the demand is extremely inelastic. There aren't people waiting to jump into heroine addiction -- they aren't price shoppers.

This is completely and utterly ridiculous. Doesn't anyone care about economic accuracy anymore???

10 posted on 09/29/2001 6:09:11 PM PDT by jlogajan
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the Taliban's 20-aircraft air force

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

11 posted on 09/29/2001 6:10:01 PM PDT by M. Thatcher
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To: M. Thatcher
15 of them are camel powered.
12 posted on 09/29/2001 6:11:06 PM PDT by jlogajan
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Flooding the market with heroin will simply drive its price down -- the demand is extremely inelastic.

I think their plan -- idiotic and laughable though it may be -- is to flood us with heroin so we all get high and decide they should be left alone.

MM

13 posted on 09/29/2001 6:17:15 PM PDT by MississippiMan
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To: newsperson999
Osama, Can you see

By the dawn's early light

The many bombs we send you

With Hellfire now streaming

.

Our Justice is served

What a glorious sight

Our hearts are made bright

By the sounds of your screaming

.

As the blast with its heat

Warms the ground at your feet

You now recognize 'tis your hour of defeat

.

Oh, say do you now know

As you go to your grave

We're the land of the Free

And the home of the Brave....

14 posted on 09/29/2001 6:17:29 PM PDT by San Jacinto
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the Taliban's 20-aircraft air force

In the early 1990s Afghanistan's Air Force included 12 combat squadrons with a total of 126 aircraft [Russian-built Mig-21, Su-7, Su-20, Su-22, and Il-39]. Some An-12 transports were equipped with Soviet-designed bomb racks that could carry up to 38 250-kilogram bombs. The five aviation transport squadrons had about 60 planes [An-12, An-26, An-32, and Yak-40], and nine helicopter squadrons with about 100 Mi-8 and Mi-17 transport helicopters, and 14 Mi-24 combat helicopters.

By the mid-1990s the Air Force had collapsed as a professional military establishment, and remnaining aviation assets changed hands over the course of the civil war. Most of the surviving aircraft, amounting to about 40 combat aircraft and various transport planes and helicopters, are under Taliban control. About half the combat planes are Su-20 and Su-22 export versions of the Su-17 fighter-bomber, with the other half including Mig-21 interceptors and ground attack fighters. The Taliban also converted a few Il-39 trainer aircraft to bombers. Most of the planes are elderly, and many are unsafe to fly. Improvisation and cannibalization provide a few combat aircraft (six or eight) for limited operations.

Source: Afghanistan - Air Force

15 posted on 09/29/2001 6:17:42 PM PDT by Eric Esot
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To: newsperson999
let's see, the B-52's have been in a holding pattern for HOW LONG??????
16 posted on 09/29/2001 6:19:47 PM PDT by rockfish59
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This can't be true, yesterdays USA today paper said there were "three to five man special ops teams searching every cave in Afghanistan until they founf OBL at which point they would kill him or pin him and his 5 thoudsand men down until the cavalry arrived". Paraquoted of course.
17 posted on 09/29/2001 6:21:14 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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"Also fully mobilised was the 10th Mountain Division, which would be the main ground force in what Bush called an upcoming 'guerrilla war' fought by US and British forces.

I read here on FR last night that this mountain division was not prepared for war. Insight, anyone?

18 posted on 09/29/2001 6:29:45 PM PDT by blam
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To: newsperson999
Shouldn't this headline read

US and Britain allegelly to strike alleged terror camps allegedly within days.

19 posted on 09/29/2001 6:30:17 PM PDT by gunshy
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