<HTML>Hi Duncan
This link might also be of interest?
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news.bbc.co.uk] and Russia unite against Taleban Thursday, 7 December, 2000, 23:56 GMT</a>
Did you see the news this morning? The Pakistan government have deployed troops along it's border and closed their airspace. This business might become academic soon, presumably the Pakistan govt are taking the threat issued at the weekend by the Taleban seriously - and are preparing for the chance of attack. Or I could have got that all wrong :-)
>>We'd be very naive to think that a war on Afghanistan will put an end to international terrorism.
In The Sunday Times reported that in a survey of 24 suicide bombers 19 had either been to university or college (and were thus likely to have access to financial resources too). What will end international terrorism do you think? I don't think that this eradicating poverty talk covers it. Bin Laden see's glory in killing Americans because they are on Saudi soil. And of course these terrorists object to Israel and blame the US for aiding them. So what do we do? Abandon Israel to these guys? Remove our troops defending Saudi and Kuwait from Iraq? That would invite further terrorist attacks surely if they suceed in influencing US foreign policy. I'm not sure I see a solution at all if this military option fails, but I take your point about that military option. Basically I don't know what will work.
Claire</HTML>
