Voice from the Commonwealth Commentary, World Views and Occasional Rants from a small 'l' libertarian in Massachussetts
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Nothing that hasn't been said among the rational elemnts of the internet community before. The assasination of Masood was the first step in Bin Laden setting up a South Asian Caliphate.
"Their plan was to capture (northern) Afghanistan in one week after the assassination and -- maybe two to three weeks later -- capture Tajikistan and Uzbekistan," said Mohammad Arif, chairman of the government's National Security Directorate. As Massood's chief of intelligence, Arif ran spies inside the Taliban and received reports from interrogations of Taliban and other captured Islamic militants.
"The group around Osama thought up different scenarios. They imagined a Bill Clinton-type response," said an Afghan intelligence official, referring to a 1998 cruise missile strike in Afghanistan that Clinton ordered after the bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa. "They could never imagine the response that took place" after Sept. 11, the official said.
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