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To: pater tenebrarum who wrote (123822)	9/19/2001 2:51:26 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Khoban Ali, a lorry driver, was distinctly peeved when asked if every man in his tribe could handle a rifle. "Not just the men, even the children," he tutted, dismayed at a foreigner's ignorance. "Most of us can use a bazooka, too, and if the Americans come we will show them how." Villages up and down the road that snakes for 40 miles from the Pakistani city of Peshawar through forbidding, barren hills to the Afghan border are full of fighting talk. "The Taliban are our brothers," Mr Ali said of the extremist Islamic movement that has offered shelter to Osama bin Laden. "An attack on Afghanistan will be an attack on us. We all have to die some time, so why not now?" On either side of the Durand Line, demarcated by the British in 1893, live Pashtun - sometimes known as Pathan - tribesmen who share a language and a fiercely conservative Islamic culture with the Taliban. Villages are dirt poor, illiteracy is high and life expectancy low. ................................... Off the road, Pakistan's authority yields to tribal rule. Local newspapers reported yesterday that the village chiefs, or maliks, old men with abundant beards and splendid turbans, had summoned their jirgas, or councils, to mobilise opposition to a potential US invasion to snatch bin Laden or overthrow the Taliban. portal.telegraph.co.uk Few solutions to stop it now ............ pandera box open ?? Any military action will only enforce their resilinece. Going ot read more about Nostradamus ........ to complement my knowledge