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To: grusum who wrote (78485)	10/15/2001 5:33:58 AM
From: d:oug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116752

Message from grusum9: "... a wild question for you." "Do you think the USA can economically survive another terrorist attack in a major city where at least tens of thousands of lives are lost?" grusum9, What will happen in these weeks and months ahead for the usa will not be as your above example since your scale is off by 10 to 10,000. "[9/11] will seem like a pin prick drawing only one small drop of blood." To:drugstorecowboy From: Doug A K Tuesday, Sep 11, 2001 Best to wait a few days or weeks as the picture will change to reflect either today's events as a focus to understand and deal with, to the other extreme possibility that what happened today was just the start of what will be a long battle with people that will fight against the USA using already in place weapons as those we know can be obtained and set at the ready as chemical, biological, germ and even mentioned nuclear weapons the size of a briefcase. It depends on what the USA does, as in if the USA tries to do more than punish those who they think are most responible, as in if the USA tries to erase certain groups to a point that they cannot function, then these groups will have nothing to lose, as in if they know that the USA will go all out to find and destroy/stop them totally, then they can exercise measures that are in the total extreme without fear since they know that they will be destroyed and thusly to them it will be the proper thing to do to fight that last battle using all the weapons available to them all at once. For example, the USA public has been told many times over these years that chemical and biological weapons are cheap, easy to obtain and easy to hide with their small size that it would be possible that many of these have already been obtained and located in places of the USA of dense populations citys. What would the USA do if they started to hunt and destroy groups at a whole causing these groups to say that since we will soon die and not be able to continue our struggle against the USA that we will now activate thousands of chemical & biological weapons we have already planted in every major USA city ??? ... [lets] see what action is taken, if the USA tries to do what will get them politicians re-elected by taking massive strong total wipe out the enemy, then today will seem like a pin prick drawing only one small drop of blood. dougak

To: grusum who wrote (78485)	10/15/2001 7:28:57 AM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116752

Take out Omar first: Musharraf tells Bush timesofindia.com WASHINGTON: Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf will this week urge Washington to "take out" Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar before targeting terror suspect Osama Bin Laden, a report said on Monday. Musharraf will tell US Secretary of State Colin Powell during his visit to Islamabad that Washington must first target those giving shelter to suspected terrorists, the president said in an interview with the daily newspaper USA Today and US television broadcaster CBS. "Get Mullah Omar, and Osama won't be able to operate. He'll be on the run," said Musharraf, whose country was the Taliban's strongest ally. "You must take out the center of gravity," he said in the interview conducted this weekend in Islamabad. Washington is waging a ear against terrorism following the Spetember 11 suicide hijack attacks on New York and Washington that it blames on Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda network who have been "guests" in Afghanistan for five years. Musharraf has thrown Pakistan's weight behind the US-led global campaign against terror, despite mounting domestic opposition to that support. Powell was due to arrive in Islamabad later on Monday on the first leg of a South Asian visit aimed at calming tensions between nuclear rivals India and Pakistan, and to explore options for post-Taliban Afghanistan. Musharraf told USA Today that Pakistan does not know Bin Laden's exact location in Afghanistan but that its intelligence services are working hard to find him. But also predicted that the Taliban would not be able to "muster enough strength" to defeat US ground forces when they are deployed in Afghanistan, as widely expected. He said fundamentalist militia has been hiding its ammunition in mountains and caves to prevent the US-led forces from finding and destroying it. ( AFP )