Re: What do you think Bush is waiting for? I think Taleban are pretty confused by now, and when it comes, they will not know what hit them! I think Mullah Omar is hopefully on the list!
I TOLD YOU SO! Remember that Prez GW Bush said there'll be no D-day... Rumsfeld warned US public opinion that much of US retaliation's gonna be carried out off the limelight... Ashcroft pointed to police/intelligence endeavors as even more crucial than heavy-handed military strikes...
And then, switch on your favorite mass media --CNN.com and co-- and look how they've re-packaged the whole "Afghan crusade" with a humanitarian spin: pictures of starving kids, refugee camps along the Pakistani border, truckloads of USAID-stamped ricebags, etc... If anything, think of the Afghan mission as a mix of Somalia (Restore Hope) and nation-building.
Again, my Fourth Crusade analogy was bang on: the US will not crush Afghanistan through carpet-bombing, overkill shelling and the like --'cause there's just nothing to destroy out there! Did you notice how desolated that country already is? So far, I haven't noticed a single tree in all the footages that were broadcast!!! Afghanistan is a target-poor environment. Now, that's fine with me... Let me predict how things will turn out: in one year from now, Afghanis will scream for the Yanks to REMAIN there, just like Albanians and Kosovars want their US buddies to hang around in the Balkans. Afghanis will do business with your GIs --trading opium bags against American cigarettes and the like <g> That's how the American Magic works and that's why I'm eventually optimistic about the US takeover of that hopeless country...
Re: BTW I will not be surprised that Sadam gets hit very hard. I hear through the grapevine that one of his agent passed some money to Att in Germany! So maybe we see the end of Sadam soon.(it makes you sad?)
Don't bet on it, Yaacov... Wolfowitz's star is waning by the day and keep in mind that Bush won the 2000 election --not Lieberman!
As for "Israel has decided to get rid of Arafat." LOL, c'mon Yaacov, we both know that there's just nothing for Israel to "decide about"... If anything, Perez has greatly benefited from the current crisis. He might soon replace Sharon if the latter proves "counter-productive" to the US effort to build a worldwide anti-terrorist coalition.
Besides, according to a French radio broadcast, the suicide hijackers who committed the Sept 11 attacks got trained on used Boeing 727s that were sold to Afghanistan by Air France... See how the whole investigation closes in on the REAL culprits??
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In the meantime Ariana ordered three Boeing 727-200 advance Series from Air France and those aircraft delivered to Kabul in the year 1993. More pilots hired and sent to Royal Jordanian Air Academy in Amman Jordan, to obtain their ATP Licenses and after training in there all pilots returned home and most of them are serving now.
Ariana still holds two Boeing 727-100 and one Boeing 727-200 advance aircraft for international routs and four AN-24 for Domestic routs.
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