In the short run, the American aim seems to be to pile the pressure on the Taleban without, as yet, making their removal from power an explicit goal.
This is designed to achieve several things:
-To rattle the Taleban psychologically -To encourage defections in Taleban ranks, -To give the Taleban one last chance to surrender the Saudi-born radical Islamist Osama Bin Laden
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