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| Posted By | Discussion Topic: U.S to bomb Afghanistan with paper ,food and aid drops for now | ||||
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| TeenWeek what's a status? | posted on 10-01-2001 @ 11:44 AM |    | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00  | US to drop bombs and leaflets by Keith Dovkants in Islamabad America intends to target Afghan military installations, including air bases, when it launches its retaliatory strikes against the Taliban, Pakistani military sources believe. But alongside bombs and cruise missiles, America is expected to be firing . . . paper. The Pakistanis understand that Washington is planning a twin-strategy for dropping explosives and propaganda leaflets side by side. The Americans are launching a big hearts-and-minds campaign, supported by massive food aid deliveries, to try to convince Afghans that America's fight is with Osama bin Laden and the Taliban, not with the population of Afghanistan. The Islamabad government expects American action to come within days, and to aim chiefly to destroy Taliban military assets such as aircraft, helicopters, radar towers and a new airbase south of Kandahar, in the absence of bigger targets in a country dominated by rubble. A three-man American military delegation has been holding talks in Pakistan for days now, but President Musharraf still refuses to commit his own nation to participating in action against Afghanistan, which he knows will be bitterly unpopular with many of his own people. The Pakistanis are resentful, however, that since they refuse to take part in the Western strikes, the American team has not confided detailed intentions to them. Instead, the Americans have secured an agreement to use Pakistan's airspace which will provide a route from the Arabian Sea into Afghanistan. The Bush administration believes that an effective strike has to happen before the American festival of Thanksgiving on 22 November, with some experts believing it should take place well before 17 November, the beginning of the Islamic month of fast, Ramadan. The American strategy is to avoid at all costs "collateral damage" - casualties among the civilian population. Reliable sources here indicate that a short campaign aimed at grounding the Taliban will be followed by an intensive wave of strikes against anti-aircraft installations to clear the skies. However, the first bombers will drop paper - pamphlets explaining to the general population that America is not at war with them, but is conducting a campaign against terrorism. The pamphlets will say that a coalition of nations wishes to help Afghanistan by expelling the so-called Arab-Afghans, Islamic fundamentalist volunteers who have flocked to terrorist suspect Osama bin Laden. This will be accompanied by a series of food and aid drops. From the talks held here it seems certain that the US airforce will try to repeat its exercise in Bosnia when food was parachuted into Muslim enclaves. Pakistan's ISI - InterServices Intelligence - has been at pains to persuade the Americans that there is a moderate faction inside the Taliban with which the United States can do business. Sources suggest American officials have also taken on board the ISI Afghan section's motto: you cannot defeat Afghanistan, but you can buy it. Contacts are being made to explore the possibility of bribing influential personalties inside Afghanistan, and the sums being discussed are extraordinary. The Americans have been told that at an awkward stage in the Taliban's conquest of Afghanistan it bought off an opposing military commander with a $10 million bribe. The ISI men have suggested they double that, at least. There is already evidence that the CIA is taking a hand. Six Afghan nationals were arrested over the weekend after being caught with a large number of pamphlets calling on people to resist Taliban rule and consider the US and its allies as friendly powers which wished to liberate the country from tyranny. The Taliban was reported to be desperately trying to recover some leaflets - called "night letters" - which had been distributed among people in the towns of Gardez and Khost. The local governor Mullah Abdul Rauf said he expected the six people who had been arrested to be hanged for "colluding with infidels". American intelligence agents are also keen to reach key people who operate the Taliban's war machinery. According to officials here - who are in a position to know - the Taliban use a number of foreign nationals to fly aircraft and maintain equipment, including tanks and heavy weapons. They are not described as mercenaries as such but these individuals are believed to be among those most likely to respond to opportunities elsewhere. The Pentagon team is expected to be reinforced this week with military experts who will further de-brief ISI agents. The ISI, which played godparent to the Taliban, has unique intelligence on the regime and its military infrastructure. But what the Americans have learned so far is not encouraging. The Taliban has vastly extended the network of underground bunkers and caves used by the Mujahideen during the Soviet occupation. An important command centre in the Haruti heights, for example, is reckoned to be impregnable. A key part of America's strategy, of course, is to keep the Taliban guessing. There is said to be quiet satisfaction with the way the Taliban has reinforced positions on the Pakistan border, especially near Peshawar and Quetta, which leaks here suggested would be used by the USAF. The Taliban rushed down heavy weapons to its side of the border near Chaman, outside Quetta, and has been staging a show of strength over the past few days. Four rocket propelled grenades were fired into an empty patch on the Pakistan side yesterday, apparently to demonstrate that it means business. This is thought to have made the Pentagon team chuckle. Pakistan is out of the plot as far as use of its territory is concerned, sources here say. The Americans have been more prolific with questions than answers. When the missiles go in, the news will break in Washington, not Islamabad.  | ||||
| Cementbag | posted on 10-01-2001 @ 2:22 PM | | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Sep. 01 | Well we have to start somewhere. Just add water Ill either get hard or my lunch will get wet | ||||
| IrishAlkey Chucky Official OA.com Homo CUNT ROCKETTE Look who's laughing now, fuckers!!! Is It In Yet? JYD-4-LIFE [Sarcasm]Subzero316 fan since day one!!1!![/Sarcasm] "my mod powers are on temporary hiatus" This status is sponsored by: P®oJë©T M@¥hέm | posted on 10-01-2001 @ 2:53 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Aug. 01 | Well, if we drop frozen goods maybe someone will get a bad head injury... | ||||
| WhackBagKid TALK TO ME, GOMEZ. HE WHO IS #1. | posted on 10-01-2001 @ 3:30 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Sep. 00 | i like this plan, anyone ever get a really bad paper cut,, those things can hurt more than a bullet | ||||
| Filzy Stand up straight Stomach in Shoulders back SOUND OFF!!! | posted on 10-01-2001 @ 3:54 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Sep. 00 | We pulled that stunt in Desert Storm. It didn't work the first time, and it won't work now.  There are 3 types of leaders and heroes. Some are born leaders, some are built from the ground up by experience, and some are the right people at the right time. Now accepting two recruits for the revived Armored Division. | ||||
| njstrawberry | posted on 10-01-2001 @ 4:06 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Feb. 01 | We provide Afghanistan with $177 million dollars a year in humanitarian aid. Now that we have clearly stated that this “act of war†is not against all Muslim people we will have to continue with our humanitarian aid. If we do not it will look as if we are intentionally starving the people of Afghanistan. This would be hypocritical at this juncture. Our allies and those whom are willing to extend the olive branch for this effort will not look kindly upon us if we do not continue with our aid and at this point we need every friend or enemy who is willing to assist us on our side. $177 million dollars is a pretty cheap price to keep your enemies at arm lengths united in the same cause. | ||||
| IkeaBoy P.L.F. Portugese Liberation Front- Liberating Status' everywhere from the Tyranny of Portugal I will die a traitor's death | posted on 10-01-2001 @ 9:21 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Sep. 00 | hey, they're ripping off the M*A*S*H episode with the Army-Navy game where the bomb is in the middle of camp and is really a bomb of flyers. I can't just picture it now: Taliban- oh my Allah! Oh my Allah!! the americans are coming to bomb it * bombs fall* Taliban- no! no!-- Doritos? Those morons! Woo-hoo!  "I didn't realize how tragic it [the WTC attack] was until the celebrities told me"- Ron Bennington | ||||
| whichwaymediumorrare | posted on 10-02-2001 @ 10:08 AM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Apr. 01 | quote: quote:very very funny.had me lmao out loud.lets feed them.fatten them up real good then blow the sit out of them.who the f is running this military anyway.  "well hello mr. fancy pants.i got news for you pal,you aint leadin but two things right now,jack and shit and jack left town." "good,bad..... i am the guy with the gun." | ||||
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