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To: Judgement Proof.com who wrote (191790)	10/13/2001 12:55:34 PM
From: haqihana	Respond to of 769668

JP, You're just a bleeding heart piss-ant. You failed to mention the, almost, 7,000 innocent people (men, women, and children) that were killed by terrorists aided, and abetted, by the Taliban. Innocents in Afghanistan had the opportunity to leave. If the didn't, they can expect to be in danger during war times. Why don't you just go over there, and join the rag-tag army of the Taliban, so we can get a good shot at you?

To: Judgement Proof.com who wrote (191790)	10/13/2001 12:55:45 PM
From: Skywatcher	Respond to of 769668

Experts say the Pentagon's photographs so far have focused on the kinds of targets the U.S. military is good at hitting, such as large objects, both fixed and mobile. More telling is the fact that the Pentagon has not released images or statistics about harder-to-reach targets such as tanks, troops and underground facilities, according to Michael O'Hanlon, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based think tank. "It's not so much a question of whether we're hitting 85% or 75% or 65% of targets," O'Hanlon said. "The notable thing to me is that the targets we're trying to hit so far seem to be limited to the kinds of things we've always been good at. It's a little like a high school football player bringing home a report card that shows an 'A' in physical education." Others also questioned the significance of some of the targets depicted in the Pentagon photos. One photo shows about 20 MIG fighters and a cargo plane at Herat airfield in northwestern Afghanistan. The post-strike picture shows nearly all the aircraft broken into pieces. Tim Brown, a senior analyst at GlobalSecurity.org, said a closer look at the photographs reveals that the fighters were probably Korean War-era MIG-15s, MIG-17s or MIG-19s, not the newer MIG-21s and MIG-23s that Taliban forces reportedly have. Shades of the Gulf War misinformation about all the "accuracy" of the million dollars bombs. CC