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U.S. considering ground attack in Afghanistan using elite forces By Shlomo Shamir (NY), Natan Gutman (Washington), Ha'aretz Correspondents and Agencies
U.S. diplomatic sources said Thursday that the American government was discussing plans to carry out a military operation against terror bases in Afghanistan, an operation that would ultimately include the assassination of Osama bin Laden.
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell confirmed Thursday that Saudi national bin Laden was the prime suspect in Tuesday's attacks in the United States. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Friday that the United States had yet to decide whether Saudi-born dissident Osama bin Laden was behind the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
According to diplomatic sources, the operation under discussion is a "massive retaliatory attack." Aside from a cruise missile attack on terror bases in Afghanistan, they added, the government was also debating a ground attack on the country using elite forces. A plan to use select NATO forces in such an assault was also under discussion.
Deputy Defense Minister Paul Wolfowitz said Thursday that the United States would respond to the terror attacks with a prolonged military operation. He said the United States would not be satisfied with one attack, even if it was very dramatic. "The retaliation would be continued until the roots of terrorism are destroyed. These people try to hide. They won't be able to hide forever," Wolfowitz said. "They think their harbors are safe, but they won't be safe forever. One has to say it's not just simply a matter of capturing people and holding them accountable, but removing the sanctuaries, removing the support systems, ending states who sponsor terrorism." Wolfowitz refused to state the targets of the attacks and the military possibilities being considered.
U.S. MAY SOCK BIN LADEN FROM RUSSIAN BASES
By NILES LATHEM
September 14, 2001 -- WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is talking with Russia about using former Soviet military bases in central Asia as staging areas for massive military assaults on Osama bin Laden, The Post has learned.
Senior diplomatic officials in both countries revealed last night that plans to use two Russian bases in Tajikistan - and the former Soviet air base at Bagram inside a portion of Afghanistan under the control of anti-Taliban forces - are at the center of ongoing talks between the United States and Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose country has been victimized by terror bombings of Moscow apartment buildings linked to bin Laden, has revived an offer he made a year ago for the United States to use bases in Tajikistan for possible joint operations against bin Laden and the ruling Taliban in Afghanistan.
Secretary of State Colin Powell said President Bush spoke twice by phone to Putin on Wednesday about joint measures the two former Cold War rivals might take to combat their common enemy: militant Islam.
FROM DEBKA INTELLIGENCE FILES
30-50 more suicide
killers in U.S.
Intelligence sources say they wait for orders to strike
An estimated 30 to 50 suicide-killers are waiting inside America for their orders to strike. This time, while aiming as before for the president, the White House and Capitol Hill, they will also go for a broad spectrum of what they consider strategic targets, such as airports, oil fields and oil installations, sensitive military and intelligence facilities, warships and carriers. The last were indeed ordered out to sea shortly after the assaults on Tuesday
Aware that flushing out the terrorists in waiting, many of whom may be U.S. nationals, is akin to finding a needle in a haystack, U.S. leaders quickly resorted to a short cut. They turned to allies, in and outside NATO, in the arena in which America fell down most signally: advance intelligence.
Within hours, rough cross-checking of U.S. intelligence data with the flow from foreign colleagues was enough to strongly confirm the second wave thesis. It also indicated that the masters of international terror intend landing their second blow while the American government and people are still recovering from the first. They will not wait for the United States to get itself and its anti-terror coalition organized for a tough retaliatory war.
- Anyone with information about the attacks may call a special toll-free phone number, 1-866-483-5137, or visit the FBI's Web site U.S. considering ground attack in Afghanistan using elite forces By Shlomo Shamir (NY), Natan Gutman (Washington), Ha'aretz Correspondents and Agencies
U.S. diplomatic sources said Thursday that the American government was discussing plans to carry out a military operation against terror bases in Afghanistan, an operation that would ultimately include the assassination of Osama bin Laden.
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell confirmed Thursday that Saudi national bin Laden was the prime suspect in Tuesday's attacks in the United States. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Friday that the United States had yet to decide whether Saudi-born dissident Osama bin Laden was behind the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
According to diplomatic sources, the operation under discussion is a "massive retaliatory attack." Aside from a cruise missile attack on terror bases in Afghanistan, they added, the government was also debating a ground attack on the country using elite forces. A plan to use select NATO forces in such an assault was also under discussion.
Deputy Defense Minister Paul Wolfowitz said Thursday that the United States would respond to the terror attacks with a prolonged military operation. He said the United States would not be satisfied with one attack, even if it was very dramatic. "The retaliation would be continued until the roots of terrorism are destroyed. These people try to hide. They won't be able to hide forever," Wolfowitz said. "They think their harbors are safe, but they won't be safe forever. One has to say it's not just simply a matter of capturing people and holding them accountable, but removing the sanctuaries, removing the support systems, ending states who sponsor terrorism." Wolfowitz refused to state the targets of the attacks and the military possibilities being considered.
U.S. MAY SOCK BIN LADEN FROM RUSSIAN BASES
By NILES LATHEM
September 14, 2001 -- WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is talking with Russia about using former Soviet military bases in central Asia as staging areas for massive military assaults on Osama bin Laden, The Post has learned.
Senior diplomatic officials in both countries revealed last night that plans to use two Russian bases in Tajikistan - and the former Soviet air base at Bagram inside a portion of Afghanistan under the control of anti-Taliban forces - are at the center of ongoing talks between the United States and Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose country has been victimized by terror bombings of Moscow apartment buildings linked to bin Laden, has revived an offer he made a year ago for the United States to use bases in Tajikistan for possible joint operations against bin Laden and the ruling Taliban in Afghanistan.
Secretary of State Colin Powell said President Bush spoke twice by phone to Putin on Wednesday about joint measures the two former Cold War rivals might take to combat their common enemy: militant Islam.
FROM DEBKA INTELLIGENCE FILES
30-50 more suicide
killers in U.S.
Intelligence sources say they wait for orders to strike
An estimated 30 to 50 suicide-killers are waiting inside America for their orders to strike. This time, while aiming as before for the president, the White House and Capitol Hill, they will also go for a broad spectrum of what they consider strategic targets, such as airports, oil fields and oil installations, sensitive military and intelligence facilities, warships and carriers. The last were indeed ordered out to sea shortly after the assaults on Tuesday
Aware that flushing out the terrorists in waiting, many of whom may be U.S. nationals, is akin to finding a needle in a haystack, U.S. leaders quickly resorted to a short cut. They turned to allies, in and outside NATO, in the arena in which America fell down most signally: advance intelligence.
Within hours, rough cross-checking of U.S. intelligence data with the flow from foreign colleagues was enough to strongly confirm the second wave thesis. It also indicated that the masters of international terror intend landing their second blow while the American government and people are still recovering from the first. They will not wait for the United States to get itself and its anti-terror coalition organized for a tough retaliatory war.
- Anyone with information about the attacks may call a special toll-free phone number, 1-866-483-5137, or visit the FBI's Web site, .ifccfbi.gov which is run by the Internet Fraud Complaint Center, itself a joint venture of the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center.
, which is run by the Internet Fraud Complaint Center, itself a joint venture of the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center.
