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...neutralizing Bin Laden is the first phase of the anti-terror campaign, the form that will take may be known Tuesday when the Taliban convenes a council of 20 of its senior clerics to rule on an ultimatum to extradite the Saudi terrorist. Pakistani emissaries met Taliban leaders on Monday to emphasize that they had only days to agree to hand him over, or else face devastating military force. There's little optimism that they'll agree to the U.S. demand - although the self-preservation urge may prompt them to play for time by demanding that the evidence against Bin...
...clear of the sort of frontal invasion of Afghanistan that became a nightmare for the Soviets, and instead concentrate on special forces operations along with British commandos. But even that would draw fierce resistance from the Taliban, and the U.S. has, of course, promised to punish those who shelter Bin Laden. A major confrontation between the U.S. and the Taliban, though, potentially creates a serious domestic crisis for Pakistan, and possibly some of the Arab allies...
...coalition, then, has to be capable of not only mustering the forces to go after Bin Laden himself, but also to sustain a consistent long-term effort to root out his cadres and their allies across the globe. And the need to establish the widest possible consensus behind a course of action may explain the furious diplomatic shuttling between U.S. leaders and their European, Russian, Pakistani, Arab and Asian counterparts underway this week...
...apparently innocuous as "crusade" serves as a reminder of the complex geopolitical challenges involved in building and sustaining the broad coalition necessary to root out terrorism. That challenge is about a lot more than simply rounding up a posse to go into Afghanistan and arrest or kill Osama Bin Laden. President Bush may stir American feelings by invoking the image of a Wild Western "Wanted Dead or Alive" poster, but listen closely to Secretary of State Colin Powell: "Osama bin Laden is the chairman of the holding company, and within that holding company are terrorist cells and organizations in dozens...
...Pakistan is the indispensable ally in any military action against Bin Laden and his Taliban hosts, because its airspace and military bases are essential to any effort to strike inside Afghanistan, and its intelligence may be required to actually find Bin Laden. But the government of the nuclear-armed Muslim nation is under tremendous domestic political pressure from its own sizable Islamist constituency to rescind its somewhat reluctant decision to support the U.S. campaign, and there are real concerns over whether General Parvez Musharraf's military government would ultimately survive the domestic political turmoil a full-blown war would almost...