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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (9097)	11/6/2001 12:07:19 PM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

All of the big bombs are nice Hawkmoon, but how do you identify and kill an enemy that blends into a crowd. I found the quote below quite disturbing. Not in the sense that they will somehow overcome the bombs or the armies that are descending on Afghanistan, but rather my worries are about what happens after the Taliban and Al Queda and OBL falls? It seems it is an idea that we are up against. How do we conquer an Idea? Can the coalition partners in the war on terrorism even find such an elusive foe let alone defeat it? When the call goes out, as it will soon, he said, tens of thousands of men will begin moving toward Afghanistan, working their way through an underground network of safe houses and secret contacts. Others, he said, will move into place to launch attacks on the Pakistani air bases U.S. forces are using. The chain of command is secret and strictly compartmentalized, "but we are in contact, all of us," Mirza said. "We are organized from the very base. We are in touch with Kabul, we are in touch with the Taliban. There are many ways for the trained persons, the warriors, the mujahedeen, to get to Afghanistan."