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...Blackhawk is not a gunship; it carries in the special forces. But it has plenty of fire power. There may also be Apache helicopters in Uzbekistan. We don't have any confirmation on that, but it would certainly make sense to have them there if you're planning on putting troops in harms...
...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 has little choice but to go after bin Laden, it also knows that the chances of finding him are not great. Says one former U.S. counterintelligence official: "The entire U.S. Army was in Panama, and it was really hard...
...alliance. In recent years, Uighurs, Kurds, Tibetans and Chechens have all resorted to bombs to protest oppression. The bombs may be wrong, but their struggles for self-determination, once much applauded in the West, may be legitimate. Likewise, should the ex-communist thugs who rule over Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan be given carte blanche to deal with opponents as though they were all card-carrying bin Ladenists? And how is the U.S. now to reward China for its support, however tentative? These are?or should be?real dilemmas...
...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 has little choice but to go after bin Laden, it also knows that the chances of finding him are not great. Says one former U.S. counterintelligence official: "The entire U.S. Army was in Panama, and it was really hard...
...hard-cores in the sand are obviously training for something very real, "Operation Bright Star" suddenly looks like a pretty big media event. We may be babysitting the press full time, and we may be asked to stick around for a while. We may get shipped somewhere else - Cairo. Uzbekistan. Possibly Tampa...