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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: SirRealist who wrote (1019)9/23/2001 1:23:17 PM
From: SirRealist  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
Hey tekboy, is this Soros group a credible source? They seem so...

Why Talibunnies won't surrender Osama
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Here's the Tears of Allah piece... think they'll target Euro/American cities as a socially destabilizing tactic?

>>Drug developers in Afghanistan are not only ruthless but industrious, according to Russian intelligence. They say bin Laden personally is investing in a new liquid heroin called "Tears of Allah." <<
eurasianet.org
>>some say Afghanistan houses enough of the super-narcotic to saturate Europe and the United States in three years. <<

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Uzbekistan's role (plus highlight on role of Net in restricted societies)

To residents of Tashkent, the lack of news from local sources is no surprise, even considering that Uzbekistan may be one of the strategic sites from which the US may launch retaliatory military actions and there is much interest in how this may affect their lives.
"If we didn't have access to Internet or Russian TV, we would be the some of last ones in the world to know," said one Tashkent resident.
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Is a strategy emerging?

While keeping the world's attention on Bin Laden and the war-that-may-be-a-decoy, agencies in other lands uncover and detain extremist suspects and sleepers. Perhaps while fear grows of a malignant war in Afghanistan, the cancer of terrorism is being destroyed cell by cell ?
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Quite a fair lode of info, I thought.
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