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Thread #38897   Message #551093
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
15-Sep-01 - 08:31 PM
Thread Name: War (against countries that support terrorism)
Subject: RE: WAR.........
Killing people in Afghanistan might have some symbolic meaning. But if there is an organised bunch of people who ran this, and having been blown up, they'll probably be somewhere in America or Western Europe, very likely in some country that hasn't the least intention of harbouring them.

As I understand Bin Laden's only way of keeping in touch would be sending messages by courier, which is good for secrecy, but a bit slow. I can imagine maybe they might sned him a message saying "This is what we are planning, do you think it's a good idea?", and possibly if he said it wasn't they might have another think. Or not.

But it hardly seems likely that wiping out him and all his friends and supporters in Afghanistanis going to do anything to affect whatever operational command structure they have. (Always assuming that it is a Bin Laden Enterprises operation to begin with.)