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Interesting response. What made you bring up curtains? Any prior experience with that kind of thing?

What? Are you upset because I may be threatening YOUR job? Don't worry...you're safe.

I'm sorry, but what the heck is going on here??? Are we supporting the comeback of this kind of activity in Kandahar by eliminating the Taliban and Al-Qaeda?? Are we fighting in Afghanistan to protect THESE customs??

What is being done about this blatant abomination???

ABC is actually pretty late in reporting this story. A site that I stumbled across a few days after September 11th said the same thing in a couple of reports starting on December 8th, 2001.

These guys DEBKAfile are based in Jerusalem, and from what I've read so far, they have been about 90-95% correct on all of their reports.

You know, I find a CIA denial of any story about them to be about par for the course. That's what they're supposed to do, isn't it? My guess is that somebody in the CIA thought they were talking off the record, and got a surprise when it was reported to the public.

Heck, even Rumsfield or one of his spokespersons has made the comment that they are no longer going to follow-up on every CIA report of an Osama/Omar-sighting by CIA agents in the field. They've discovered that nearly 95% of the CIA field agents are very new in-country and are easily convinced by the Afghan warlords that their information is 100% reliable. After several CIA-requested U. S. air strikes wiped out civilians (to include women and children), rival tribes, and delegates to the new government convention, Defense has decided to use their own people on the ground.

Interesting. No offense, but that's pretty old information. I'm hoping that our crack CIA intell guys new about this a long time berfore they actually reported it. DEBKAfile reported on December 8, 2001, that Bin Laden had just left Afghanistan, POSSIBLY retreating into Pakistan. A short time later they reported that Bin Laden sent his extended family into Pakistan as a cover for his own escape through Iran and out by sea via the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas. I don't think you will find that information on their current home-page because it has scrolled off. To be privy to all of their information you have to subscribe, something I have yet to do.

As a side note, I just began reading this Jerusalem-based website a few days after September 11th, and they have been about 90-95% correct on all of their reports. Some of their reports have been pretty grim...such as:

1. Rumsfield reporting to NATO in mid-December that Al-Qaeda has between six and twelve operational cruise missiles. Where did they get those cruise missiles, you might ask? Apparently, they were pieced together from several unexploded and only slightly damaged cruise missiles from the last attack (under Clinton)on Bin Laden that involved about seventy cruise missiles.;

2. China not only has been sending weapons to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, but hundreds of Chinese "volunteers" have also participated in the current campaign as members of Al-Qaeda.;

3. A ship belonging to the U. S. Sixth Fleet docked at Haifa recently. The ship contains vaccines and other medicines in anticipation of an attack on Israel using weapons of mass destruction.;

4. It is strongly believed by Middle Eastern intelligence analysts and investigative journalists that Al-Qaeda does indeed have weapons of mass destruction to include at least two of the old KGB suitcase bombs. Our mainstream press has been VERY deceptive on this issue, and will only report that they are being told by Pentagon/Defense that there is no evidence that Al-Qaeda is CURRENTLY working on waepons of mass destruction. DEBKAfile has strongly hinted that those two suitcase bombs may already be in position in the U. S. for a future terror event.

5. Iraq now has four operational super-guns capable of firing shells or rocket-assisted shells to a range of 1200-1500 kilometers. These guns are much-improved versions of the super-gun that an artillery expert by the name of Bull was designing for Iraq prior to Desert Storm. Targets from Tel Aviv to New Delhi are now in range of shells that can deliver nuclear, biological or chemical weapons in addition to an extremely large high-explosive round.

6. Despite the soothing commentary by the U. S. mainstream press, India and Pakistan are much closer to an all-out conflict than we are being told. Such a conflict will probably involve the use of nuclear weapons. The U. S. military and other concerns currently stationed in Pakistan have fully operational contingency plans to evacuate Pakistan if the Indian-Pakistan conlict goes nuclear. DEBKAfile reports that Al-Qaeda was an active planner on the attack on the Indian Parliament building. Bin Laden intends to push the entire region into an anti-West coalition by destabilizing the India-Pakistan conflict, as well as the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

Like I say, DEBKAfile is an excellent site, filled with all kinds of information that you will probably never see in our mainstream press.