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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence

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To: John Hunt who wrote (12061)	12/21/2001 11:55:50 AM
From: Runner	Read Replies (1) of 27666

The military official said the tight rules of engagement (ROE) are part of an overall policy of Army Gen. Tommy Franks, the campaign's commander, to keep civilian, or collateral, casualties as low as possible. He does not want a group of civilians mistaken for al Qaeda troops and mistakenly killed. Gen. Franks heads the Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla. The military official said, "people moving at night, that's not the Afghan people. They're either al Qaeda or drug runners. So kill them." "You wonder how a lot of them have sneaked out of Afghanistan? This is how." How stupid is that?! The English couldn't do it. The Russians couldn't do it. We have brought the warriors of the Kyber Pass to their knees in 6 weeks and we let them slither out of their holes at night.

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