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To: LindyBill who wrote (30454)	5/23/2002 7:51:58 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 281500

Lindy, I think Musharraf [and a lot of other people around the world] got a very big fright when the WTC crumbled to the ground in what was the most spectacular event ever [that I can think of that was recorded]. Hiroshima would have been comparable, but not really observable in the human detail which made the WTC attack such a horrific event. Anyway, it wasn't recorded. There was so much about the WTC attack which seared itself into brains and terrified the world. 2 passenger airliners and 2 others in the same event. Two of the world's tallest buildings. In one of the world's pre-eminent cities. Live on television. With huge flames. With humans trapped for all to see. With people jumping. With the soul-destroying collapse. The huge dust cloud and immense energy of the collapse. Terror. I would not have been surprised if the USA simply nuked those who might have been responsible, their cities, training camps armies and anything else. The refugees from Afghanistan fled presumably because they expected such retaliation. Musharraf presumably was shocked too and was very concerned about the USA response to Pakistan which might be made if Pakistan was seen to be the main front and protector of the Taleban and Osama. We are now well into the next year, the last debris is being removed from the WTC site, the Taleban has gone, Osama and co are in hiding, people in the USA are getting retail therapy, there is obviously NOT going to be a wild and vast USA response. Musharaff is back to business as usual. He has to contend with Mad Moslem Mullahs and their head-hacking tendencies right there in Pakistan. So the pressure is off from the USA and Kashmir and the Hindu Kush is back at the top of the agenda. Only the other day did I learn what Hindu Kush means; "Hindu Killer". India, not surprisingly, is no more enthusiastic about terrorist attacks against Indian families than Americans enjoyed the WTC viewing. <The effect of Secretary of State Colin Powell's intense and successful diplomatic intervention last winter to ease tensions has been washed away by U.S. inattention and failure even to acknowledge Pakistan's subsequent backsliding. "America is either with us or with the terrorists," Omar Abdullah, a rising star in India's political system, said mockingly in Parliament last week as details of the grisly Jammu raid spread. The attack on an Indian military family housing area by three guerrillas identified in the Indian media as Pakistani citizens could hardly have been more inflammatory. Wives and children of Indian soldiers were butchered. A 2-month-old baby was machine-gunned to death. By coincidence or design, the attackers went to the very limit of the Indian military's tolerance. > Will the USA offer assistance to India in the WAT? Are they on the side of terrorism and the Axis of Evil or on India's side? This is a very bad situation. Mqurice