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To: maceng2 who wrote (9532)	11/9/2001 4:01:18 PM
From: Cage Rattler	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 281500

<<In Mazar-e-Sharif, the population is largely made up of ethnic Uzbeks and Tajiks. These are the same tribes of the Northern Alliance. I don't think the Taliban were popular.>> This would seem to increase the probability of an in-country terrorist attack; no? I wonder, and perhaps you can fill me in, is there any chance that the Hemorrhagic Fever effecting the refuge camps may be terrorist in etiology? If I were the Taliban and wanted to defeat the Northern Alliance at this stage of the game, biologicals would certainly be high on my weapons list. Why? Because of the period between infection and symptomatic recognition coupled with the spread vectors within the enemy group. Iraq/Iran have proven they have no qualms about violating the Geneva Convention.