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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (334719)	12/29/2002 12:22:29 PM
From: Baldur Fjvlnisson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Late January 2001 : The new Bush administration discontinues the covert deployment of cruise missile submarines and gunships on six-hour alert near Afghanistan's borders that had begun under President Clinton. The standby force gave Clinton the option of an immediate strike against targets in al-Qaeda's top leadership. The discontinuation makes a possible assassination of bin Laden much more difficult.[Washington Post, 1/20/02] washingtonpost.com