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To: arun gera who wrote (82155)	3/14/2003 6:52:31 PM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 281500

Thanks, arun, I've been revising my thoughts on the airlift. The best bit of information I've found so far is this one: msnbc.com Something happened, exactly what is very murky. I would guess that the Pakistani president conned the Bush Administration in order to get his countrymen out of harm's way. I doubt that the stability of the Pakistani regime was in jeopardy, though we'll never know to a certainty. If it in fact was, the Bush administration had a very difficult choice on its hands, one which could never go right and which would forever smell badly regardless of the decision it made. If Musharraf fell as a result of Bush not allowing the airlift, the harm would have been immeasurably more than that created by allowing a few fighters to get away. If he allows it, he knows some Talibs and AQ are going to get away. Bush was really between Scylla and Charybdis, the kind of place to which scandal-mongers like Hersh gravitate. Since India naturally did not want to see any Pak extremists get away, we can naturally expect that its intelligence services made the matter worse for all involved. I suspect that this is the reason Hersh was fed the wildly inflated 4,000-5,000 escaped AQ/Taliban figure. C2@warishell.com