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To: tejek who wrote (185340)	3/22/2004 6:36:26 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1577020

Well, genius, where was Bush's "brilliant" foreign diplomacy on this one? The Palestinian situation has obviously not worked out. But only the most die-hard Bush-haters will hold that against him. He certainly made a reasonable effort. The administration handled this assassination better than I thought they would. My view is, "The guy was a terrorist. It is great there is one less of 'em in the world today; wish they had gotten more". I feared, however, that the administration would condemn the actions. Instead, they just sort of stayed out of it -- much better than condemning Israel for its actions. The situation in Iraq is improving rapidly. The reason I've more or less left this board is I recognized what a waste it is to try and discuss what are clearly long-term issues on a day-to-day basis. One can only look a year or three down the road and see where we are then. While Iraq will be further improved a year from now, new fronts in the war against these slimeball terrorists will have opened up by then. We will keep stomping on them like the cockroaches they are until they are all dead or have lost their fight.

To: tejek who wrote (185340)	3/22/2004 7:05:43 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1577020

In other words, this whole thing was for show to please the great white fathers in Washington! ********************************************************* Suspects may have escaped through secret tunnels Pakistan backs away from claim that Al Qaeda no. 2 trapped in seige of remote fortress by Tom Regan \| csmonitor.com The Scotsman reports that many of the top suspects Pakistan believed it had cornered over the past few days in the border region with Afghanistan may have escaped through several secret tunnels. The tunnels led from mud fortresses, which were under attack by the Pakistani army, to a dry mountain stream near the border. Pakistani military officials say the tunnels may have been used during the first day of fighting on Thursday. Pakistani officials are also backing away from claims that Al Qaeda's second-in-command, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, was among those cornered by the fighting, Knight Ridder New Service reports. In Washington, on CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer," Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, Pakistani ambassador to the United States, said, "We've made it absolutely clear that we do not know the identity of the high-value target that might be there, and we think there is a high-value target there, or one or more, because of the intensity of the resistance." csmonitor.com