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...attacks on these targets, which included early warning radars, surface-to-air missile sites, airfields, aircraft, military command-and-control installations and terrorists camps, were meant to disrupt air defenses for further military strikes and air drops of humanitarian aide, according to Pentagon officials...
...would be to bomb Taliban and terrorist targets that can't shoot back. You go after air defenses in order to protect your pilots. After a couple of days of leveling what air defenses they have, you move on to the next layer, which would be military depots, secondary command structures, even prosaic things like motor pools and housing for soliders, if there...
...officials know that simply "decapitating" al-Qaeda by taking out bin Laden won't solve their terror problem. The very nature of the web he has built, and part of what makes it so confounding to U.S. officials, is that there is no clear chain of command. Bin Laden, U.S. intelligence believes, has several deputies who are perfectly capable of running terror operations without him. There is even a chance that bin Laden may not even be in Afghanistan anymore--speculation has put him everywhere from the hills of Uzbekistan to the deserts of Sudan. And if the White House...
...number of vehicles and cargo containers inspected at our entry points. Inspectors must be focused on the most likely targets and trained to carry out their missions with the least possible disruption to international commerce. Though the agency should not have intelligence-collection responsibilities, it should be able to command special priority in focusing intelligence on threats to the homeland, so that crucial information gets where it needs to go, and gets there on time. A suspected terrorist's name on a watch list is no good unless the list arrives at the border before the suspect does...
...officials know that simply "decapitating" al-Qaeda by taking out bin Laden won't solve their terror problem. The very nature of the web he has built, and part of what makes it so confounding to U.S. officials, is that there is no clear chain of command. Bin Laden, U.S. intelligence believes, has several deputies who are perfectly capable of running terror operations without him. There is even a chance that bin Laden may not even be in Afghanistan anymore--speculation has put him everywhere from the hills of Uzbekistan to the deserts of Sudan. And if the White House...