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To: Doug R who wrote (268865)	7/1/2002 3:28:14 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769667

I call posting criticism that effects lives sans any personal analysis and based only upon anonymous talking head reports mindless. I have absolutely no idea of your reference to a conspiracy. Those who may already be here and those who were already in Pakistan would have more time and resources. Try to understand the simple. I would assume that since before and after 911 there are terrorist at large in the US. I assume that before and after 911 there are terrorist at large in Pakistan. I assume that before and after 911 there are terrorist at large in Afghanistan. Your proffer based upon talking heads is that 5000 to 10000 post 911 terrorists moved from Afghanistan to Pakistan. That is the situation being discussed, not a conspiracy. Have you followed that so far. Those are a statement of movement of terrorists. The above assumption defines a subset of all possible movements of and positions of terrorists. For this subset I suggested costs incurred by the terrorist organization based upon those movements. All of the talking head second guessing is about the movement of terrorists from Afghanistan to Pakistan. So what is your conspiracy and how do you suggest that the movement might have caused more risk that overide my analysis that shows why there might be less risk. Feel free to post any analysis from talking heads. But remember to include an analysis that considers more of less likely dead Americans. I believe the current number is sadly not zero but less than 10.