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To: teevee who wrote (21723)	3/19/2002 10:08:40 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 281500

Allied special forces who go out on recon "hunter-killer" missions in the mountains for days at a time, sniping Al Quaeda as they poke their heads out from a cave, or up from behind a mortor or gun emplacement Do you really think that US special forces are so much less capable at hunting down and killing small groups of enemy fighters? Once spring arrives, with allied special forces recon units placed at the key mountain passes between Pakistan and Afghanistan, just stepping over the border will mean getting one between the eyes. That would spread them pretty thin. There is a lot of passes. A few main ones might be the only ones useful for vehicles but there is lots of places where people who know the area can get through and its very hard (probably imposible) to patrol them all. Tim