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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (738)	7/22/2002 10:45:18 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 3959

See how close to WWIII (between Russia & Pakistan) we were... and world opinion's still clueless about it --LOL: cdi.org Excerpt: "Three million Uzbeks cannot overrun ten million Pushtuns," Gartmann says plainly. If the Taliban are not engaged in the South (of Afghanistan), and are able to send sufficient firepower to the North, things will get dicey." Under a scenario of the Taliban crossing the border of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) along the Amu-Darya river, Russia is obliged to act to protect the security of the treaty members. "Moscow will have to consider throwing everything it got into the Central Asian theater of operations, And it ain't going to be pretty," Gartmann says. [...] ____________________ LOL... You bet Russia's throwing her weight around in Afghanistan wouldn't have been pretty! The Russian air force would likely have flattened each and every Pashtun village --Ooops, make that "Taliban den". The Russians wouldn't have had qualms about spoiling a "wedding party"! Eventually, Russia would have had to resort to biowarfare against the Taliban --and that's when Gen Musharraf would have asked for his nuclear suitcase... Gus