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To: maceng2 who wrote (6022)	10/18/2001 3:16:08 PM
From: FaultLine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

a statement from Mohammed Atef, the military commander and the No 3 leader of Al Qaida, warning that US troops will suffer the same fate in Afghanistan they did in Somalia, where bodies of slain soldiers were dragged through the streets. They still think Americans have no stomach for casualties, but everything has changed. Somalia was a peacekeeping mission and is not. More importantly we've already suffered 6,000 gruesome deaths, an act like he describes will do nothing more than increase the resolve for victory.