Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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Tora Bora is just one in a long line of graphic examples of driving terrorists, no matter what their name, from place to place. You probably know most or all of the following. Take care, -Am

The eastern Afghanistan intelligence chief for the country's new government, Pir Baksh Bardiwal, was astounded that the Pentagon planners of the battle for Tora Bora had failed to even consider the most obvious exit routes. He said: 'The border with Pakistan was the key, but no one paid any attention to it. And there were plenty of landing areas for helicopters had the Americans acted decisively. Al-Qa'eda escaped right out from under their feet.'..."
Daily Telegraph, 23 Feb 2002

Why? In Bush’s own words:

Our response involves far more than instant retaliation and isolated strikes. Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen. It may include dramatic strikes, visible on TV, and covert operations, secret even in success. We will starve terrorists of funding, turn them one against another, drive them from place to place, until there is no refuge or no rest. And we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. (Applause.) From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime. Bush, September 2001.

A US official said that 'casting our objectives too narrowly' risked 'a premature collapse of the international effort if by some luck chance Mr bin Laden was captured'.... "
Daily Mirror 16 November 2001

The more al-Qaeda is displaced from one country to another the more the US has a pretext for military and political action against whichever country it chooses - the last thing the CIA wants at this stage is the end of al-Qaeda. But why is the US so keen to prolong the 'War Against Terrorism' in this way.....?
http://www.btinternet.com/~nlpwessex/Documents/WATcia-al-q.htm


DRIVE TERRORISTS FROM PLACE TO PLACE AND THEN PURSUE THEM.

I was at first hesitant to believe the CIA did not want an end to al-Qaeda until I realized that this scenario easily fits Richard Perle’s vision for total war on a wordwide scale which reared its ugly head long before September 11 and could explain our most recent failure in Afghanistan which left an operable al-Qaeda .

http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=880256


"Global supremacy, not the defeat of terrorism, is the goal; only the politically blind believe otherwise."
The Colder War, by John Pilger, The Mirror, January 29, 2002