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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (208851)	12/11/2001 7:50:57 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769670

Poor poor binnie did not like the flowers. Some have a rain cloud follow them. pbase.com The offers followed the drop of a 15,000-pound "daisy cutter" bomb on suspected al Qaeda positions on Sunday. Sources tell ABCNEWS it had a massive impact in terms of its outright destruction, and also set off a series of panicked radio and satellite-phone calls immediately after, and creating a flood of new hard evidence on the whereabouts of bin Laden. The communications told intelligence sources that bin Laden was near the blast and is now on the run - and that many other al Qaeda leaders were killed. "They felt they had a good reason to use it in that location," said Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of the 15,000-pound bomb on Sunday. A Complicated Surrender Today Rumsfeld warned that even if the remaining al Qaeda fighters in the mountains surrender, the conflict is far from over. "There's no question but that some of the terrorists are on the run, and there also are pockets of terrorists and Taliban that are being attacked as we speak," Rumsfeld said. "But we all know that a wounded animal can be dangerous, and so, too, the Taliban and al Qaeda can hide in the mountains, they can hide in caves and, indeed, they can hide in cities." The cease-fire was ordered after Zaman held a radio conversation with al Qaeda leaders followed by a meeting between commanders from the two sides. An interpreter working for The Associated Press listened in on some of the radio negotiations between Zaman and the al Qaeda commanders. The al Qaeda fighters "called me, they said, 'Please don't fight us, we want to surrender,' " Zaman said, adding that the surrender would occur in small groups, not all at once. abcnews.go.com tom watson tosiwmee