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September
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Bombs in 48 Hours?
By Patrick Cockburn and Rupert
Cornwell
The Independent
The US will strike at Osama bin Laden's
supply bases "in days rather than weeks" a senior
opposition leader in northern Afghanistan, in daily contact
with Washington, predicted yesterday.
Abdullah Abdullah, foreign
minister of the opposition Northern Alliance, said US intervention
in Afghanistan may involve the insertion of special forces combined
with the bombing of Taliban troops at a later stage.
But he dismissed American
claims that US special forces were already in Afghanistan in
significant numbers. "They might be in the southern deserts,
or in the border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan, where
the frontier is not properly delineated," he said.
The Pentagon and the Taliban
both dismissed reports that a US special forces unit had been
captured in western Afghanistan, near the Iranian border. The
Pentagon said it gave "no credence" to the story as
officials insisted no US units are in the country.
Several hundred people protested
in Washington yesterday against US retaliation. Attacks would
"only increase the cycle of violence," Larry Holmes,
an organiser, said.
But a new Newsweek poll shows
65 per cent support for military action, even if innocent civilians
are killed, and in his weekly radio address yesterday, President
Bush vowed "war will be waged wherever terrorists hide,
run or plan".
The promised "hot pursuit"
is expected to consist of limited air strikes targeting suspected
terrorist bases and Taliban military installations, supplemented
by commando-style operations and increased support to the anti-Taliban
Northern Alliance.
As the build-up continued,
a British submarine and a destroyer passed through the Suez
Canal yesterday, joining more than 20 British ships sent earlier
to the Gulf. The US has sent up to 130 warplanes and 2,000 marines
to the Gulf, as well as a naval battle group led by USS Theodore
Roosevelt.
Three Muslim men suspected
of belonging to a fundamentalist group plotting fresh attacks
were arrested in Germany yesterday. The men were tracked down
through a website which calls for Muslims to enlist in the war
in the Caucasus, and raises money for the Taliban. CP
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