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...There had been a growing sense in Pakistan late Sunday that the strikes were about to happen. UN staffers were contacted early Sunday evening by their offices and told that "should anything happen" they were expected to stay at home on Monday and not come to work. A U.S. diplomat who had invited me and some colleagues to dinner called to say that he would be "working all night" and had to call off the dinner...
...benefit of night-vision goggles and precision-guided missiles. It will involve actions that are economic, financial, political and even religious. Nor will the war be fought only in the folds of Afghanistan's rugged corrugations. The kind of group responsible for the attacks, as a former U.S. diplomat says, cannot simply be "a guy talking on a cell phone in a cave." It surely includes members of a "network that is deep within the society of the United States, Germany and other countries." The battlefields of the new war, it follows, will include the countinghouses of Swiss banks...
Powell, sources say, is in his element. His State Department aides describe a man who looks after the basics, allotting specific tasks to his team. "Colin's at the center of gravity," says a senior European diplomat who has seen him up close. But that doesn't mean that Powell has always got his way without argument. The national security team met with Bush at Camp David for seven hours on the weekend after the attacks--with maps and charts spread out over tables and easels, and a mood that Card described as "like a war council"--and then continued...
...terrifies some of Washington's allies. The French have been jittery from the start about the Administration's use of the word war, and anything that might turn that war into a contest between "the West" and half the Islamic world makes their blood run cold. A top British diplomat acknowledged that London had heard the case to widen the war but said, "What we see in terms of policy is very measured. We have seen no evidence of hasty rushes to judgment or pounding the sand." Still, the argument over the nature of the Iraqi regime has been running...
...however, the Administration is committed to Powell's plan, one that a senior European diplomat calls "ruthless prioritization." The short-term priority is to deal with the Taliban and its response to Bush's ultimatum. The longer-term goal is to build a strategy for concentrating on terrorism itself. "There's a sequence to follow," says the European source. "You've got to take them one at a time." In its initial phases, the military plan hence concentrates on Afghanistan. Last week the preparation for presenting the final options to Bush hit a brief snag. On Thursday, Shelton reviewed...