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With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

For the story behind the story...

Saturday Oct. 6, 2001; 2:51 p.m. EDT

Prediction of Terrorist Counterstrikes Delays Retaliation

In a classified briefing to Congress last week, a U.S. intelligence expert said he was a "100 percent" certain that terrorists still operating in the U.S. and around the world would launch counterstrikes when America retaliates against Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network -- a prediction that has forced the delay of U.S. military action.

"That is part of the equation," one official told New York Post Saturday, referring to the Bush administration's decision to hold its fire for the moment.

News of bin Laden's doomsday plan was shared with Congress on Tuesday by counter-terrorism officials at the FBI, CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency.

They reportedly told intelligence committee members that field operatives are in a desperate race against the clock to hunt down the terrorists who are ready to carry out bin Laden's doomsday plan. "(Military planners) want to give the FBI time to find the counterstrike cell and neutralize it," sources told the paper.

"I think Americans should be very concerned," said Senate Intelligence Committee member Jon Kyl, in an interview Friday with Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly. "I don't think there's any doubt that the... terrorists are going to strike again."

Experts say the U.S. has only a few weeks left retaliate against bin Laden, since Afghanistan's winter starts in November. Veterans of the former Soviet Union's ten year war in the country during the 1980's said its brutal winters made military action infinitely more difficult.

U.S. and allied military forces have reportedly had Afghanistan surrounded for days, with some sources claiming commando units have already pinpointed bin Laden's whereabouts. But plans for an attack are apparently now on hold, while the U.S. attempts to defuse bin Laden's counterstrike terror timebomb.

"The information (on bin Laden's doomsday plan) was based on intelligence from sources in England, Germany, Afghanistan and Pakistan," the Post said. "Pakistani elements of bin Laden's network are thought to be involved."

Unless part of the plan against us is multiple nuclear weapons, bomb the Taliban.

They reportedly told intelligence committee members

A bit thin on docs.

"Doomsday Plan" hmmmm.....several scenarios come to mind. What are your thoughts, people?

i figured that's why there has been no military action against afghanistan. well, at least it's comforting to know our powers are trying to do it the right way & get the threat here under control first.