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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (5136)	9/28/2001 2:04:57 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 23908

From today's Federalist: >>Though accountability for the September 11 attack apparently still falls at the feet of Osama bin Laden, our sources indicate that he had significant support from Iraqi intelligence and logistical support from terrorist fronts in Saudi Arabia and Egypt -- who still have operational assets on U.S. soil. President Bush is appropriately deliberate in determining our method of attack and choice of targets -- avoiding noncombatants while inflicting maximum pain and suffering on combatants and their rear echelon of support. While we still expect a show of force from the air -- reducing to fine powder any hole where bin Laden's al Qaeda cadre have ever stopped for shade -- the President has chosen to implement our most effective means of redress based on the cold and calculated Israeli model -- insertion of small special forces units to quietly bleed out anyone aligned with bin Laden. Regarding those operations, we cautiously add this note: According to our military sources in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, and Peshawar, Pakistan, bin Laden's operatives suffered the consequences of several firefights with U.S. Special Forces six days ago -- we were asked, for obvious reasons, to provide no details about the locations. Our sources indicate that the rules of engagement were "unrestricted in contact with verifiable combatants." One of those night assaults produced a "significant number of enemy dead." There were no American casualties reported. In addition to the search and destroy missions now underway in Afghanistan, we have initiated the lengthy process of exterminating other agents of destruction in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Sudan and Libya. Oh, did we mention HAMAS? "The only way to deal with [terrorism] is to go after the terrorists ... and we must also go after the nations that are harboring and financing and supporting and facilitating and tolerating these terrorists," said Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Jihadistan has declared open war on the West -- and will not rest until all have been converted to Islam -- or left for dead. All the domestic precautions imaginable may inhibit some acts of terror -- but they will not stop them all. The only method to contain the risk of that threat is to prejudicially eliminate its source -- very difficult to accomplish but much more effective as a mitigating factor than homeland defense. We must make no distinction between the terrorists and the states that support them -- and crush every discernible component of these networks. If you want to eradicate roaches, you kill all of them -- leave none behind to spawn a new generation.<< federalist.com