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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bela_ghoulashi who wrote (6597)	10/8/2001 4:05:17 PM
From: Lola	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 27666

Some Muslims want bin Laden dead ... 'Please make sure you get Laden' WASHINGTON: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Uzbekistan and other Muslim nations secretly demanded that the US-led war against terrorism would not be abandoned until Osama bin Laden was dead and his Al-Qaeda network finished off, the Miami Herald reported today. While Arab and Muslim leaders publicly warned of the dangers of US strikes, they privately sought assurances that US president George W. Bush would not stop the war prematurely, the way his father ended the campaign against Iraq a decade ago, according to the report, which quoted two unnamed senior US administration officials. "While they were complaining in public about the West attacking other Muslims, in private, they wanted to know if, this time, we were going to finish the job," the paper quoted one senior official as saying. "They did not want to cooperate with us and then have bin Laden coming after them," the official said. "Basically, they told us that they want bin Laden dead." As a result, one of the tasks before Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld last week, when he visited Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Uzbekistan, was to reassure leaders in those nations that, this time, the United States was not "short of breath," the Herald reported. Some Arab and other alliance leaders were worried that because US Vice-President Richard Cheney, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and other senior officials in the current administration played prominent roles in the Gulf War, the outcome could be similar, the report said. ( AFP )