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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: skinowski who wrote (25702)4/17/2002 10:52:10 AM
From: Win Smith  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
This inspired me to look up my favorite Debka story, for old time's sake. #reply-16467750

Before even the launching of the major US military offensive in Afghanistan, long Chinese convoys were carrying armed Chinese Muslim servicemen through northwest China into Afghanistan, according to DEBKAfile’s intelligence experts. They were sent in to fight alongside the ruling Taliban and Osama Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda. Their number is estimated roughly between 5000 and 15,000. Our sources report another three convoys are behind the first 3000, who crossed the frontier Friday, October 5.

I couldn't remember which side this army was supposed to be on, but given right wing orthodoxy on China, I guess it was a given they were agin' us. "Intelligence experts" like that make the legions of bloviating pundits toeing the Perle/Wolfowitz line look like the very picture of intellectual integrity and independent thought, relatively speaking.
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