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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scoobah who wrote (434)	11/19/2001 11:36:06 PM
From: Scoobah	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

TALIBAN ABANDON BIN LADEN November 19, 2001 The Times reports: “Osama Bin Laden was left isolated and on the run in Afghanistan last night after the routed Taliban leadership left him to his fate. The Taliban, who harbored their ‘guest’ for years and refused to hand him over after the September 11 attacks, declared that he no longer enjoyed their protection and was beyond their help. With most of Afghanistan now in the hands of opposition groups, and the Taliban reduced to two shrinking pockets of control around Konduz and Kandahar, bin Laden and his al-Qaeda supporters found themselves alone and for the first time on the front line of the war. Hundreds of American and British special forces troops were yesterday criss-crossing the rugged mountains of southern and eastern Afghanistan on one of the greatest manhunts in history. Downing Street said that coalition forces were gaining a ‘stack’ of new intelligence material which could lead them to pinpoint their quarry. Bin Laden, who is traveling with his three wives, children, bodyguards and advisers, is thought to be moving in a convoy of Jeeps from one bunker to another. Abdul Salam Zaeef, the Taliban’s Ambassador to Pakistan, displayed little interest in his fate. ‘I do not know where he is; whether he is in other areas of Afghanistan or has left Afghanistan,’ he said. ‘But I know this much: he is not in the area of our control.’ With bin Laden on the run, US fighter-bombers have stepped up their pounding of suspected safe houses and caves, directed by spy planes and satellites…”