Theos-Talk Archives (December 2001 Message tt00346)

Monday, December 17, 2001

Dallas again inquires:

What has this t do with THEOSOPHY?

If it is extraneous, the why does it occupy space here ?

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-----Original Message-----
From: bri_mue [mailto:bri_mue@yahoo.com]
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2001 10:23 PM
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Theos-World By by Afghanistan.

Afghanistan/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. and Afghan forces
destroyed
the last bastion of the al Qaeda organization in Afghanistan on
Sunday but did not find Osama bin Laden.
"We have no reason to believe that he has been either killed or
captured. We don't know where he is," Powell said.
Brigitte
--- In theos-talk@y..., "nos" <nos@g...> wrote:
> OBL - minus wig and make up - is currently in his personal
trailer
> outside a west hollywood soundstage owned by Rupert Murdoch.
>
> Cheers
>
> Nos
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bri_mue [mailto:bri_mue@y...]
> Sent: Friday, 14 December 2001 7:33 AM
> To: theos-talk@y...
> Subject: Theos-World By by Afghanistan.
>
>
> Yvonne Ridley of the UK Sunday Express, sneaked into
taliban-held
> territory illegally in late September hidden under a
traditional
> Afghan woman's burqa veil, but was caught as she journeyed back
to
> Pakistan. She was later released.
>
> Ridley now is launching a book on her 10-day ordeal, accused
western
> intelligence services on wednesday of trying to have her
executed
> during her capture to boost public support for the bombing
campaign
> in Afghanistan.
>
> "I suppose that if I had been publicly executed for being a
spy,
that
> would have been a huge propaganda tool for the West," she told
.
>
> The allegations, which appear in the final chapter of "In the
Hands
> of the Taliban", were based on what Ridley said were false
documents
> she had seen suggesting she was a spy.
>
> She had no copies, but said the documents, and evidence that
her
> apartment in London had been broken into during her assignment
> abroad, all pointed to foul play.
> On the other hand trying to make a realistic assesment of the
actual
> situatuation in Afghanistan, the taliban no longer hold state
power,
> but it seems that doesn't mean they have ceased to exist. Only
a
> fraction of taliban fighters have been captured, and most of
them
> remain armed. Russian and indian estimates indicate there are
about
> 10,000 taliban captives out of an initial force of 40,000 to
50,000.
> If the estimates are correct,it seems then the 30,000 to
40,000
> armed taliban still in Afghanistan might remain a force to be
> reckoned with, if they can maintain some degree of cohesion.
> In preparation for the deployment of new al Qaeda command
cells,
U.S.
> forces have reportedly been moving into key countries. One
media
> report has U.S. military officers arriving in Somalia while
others
> say U.S. forces have been made available to the Philippines in
its
> fight against pro-bin Laden muslim rebels.
> The Christian Science Monitor said bin Laden had escaped the
Tora
> Bora base to Pakistan 10 days ago with the help of Ghilzi
tribesmen,
> according to a senior Al Qaeda operative and Saudi financier,
Abu
> Jaffar.
> One problem with the media aspect of the war I think is, that
the
> Bush administration has allowed the war to be personalized. It
has
> focused on bin Laden and his fate as a key issue in the battle
> against terrorism. So I wont ask anymore, "has anybody seen OBL
?".
>

>
Brigitte
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