http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=16532Nearly thirty months after President Bush declared open season on Osama bin Laden, the much-vaunted U.S. spring offensive along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border is getting ready to roll. According to the Miami Herald, “the Central Intelligence Agency has moved at least two unmanned aerial vehicles, both armed with Hellfire missiles, from Iraq to Afghanistan, and that the military's Central Command is moving an unspecified number of Special Forces soldiers from Iraq to Afghanistan.”
The offensive, which may produce a Spring Shocker, a Summer Stunner or an October Surprise, is clearly aimed at capturing and/or killing al Qaeda’s terrorist leader. But, while bin Laden’s capture or death may give the flagging re-election fortunes of George W. Bush a much needed boost, it will not put an end to terrorism or the war against terrorism. Just as the capture of Saddam Hussein didn’t end the resistance in Iraq, bin Laden’s capture or death will not end terrorism in Afghanistan.
At least that’s what four high-profile terror warriors -- al Qaeda’s Ayman al-Zawahri, CIA Director George Tenet, Admiral Lowell E. Jacoby, the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and FBI Director Robert Mueller -- are saying.
In a tape aired in late February by Al Jazeera television, al-Zawahri said: "Bush, strengthen your defenses and your security measures for the Muslim nation which sent you the legion of New York and Washington has determined to send you legion after legion seeking death and paradise." Al-Zawahri also accused President Bush of lying about the strength of al Qaeda’s forces: "Bush alleged that his troops have spread freedom in the world, that Iraq had achieved democracy thanks to his coalition forces, that his government has crushed more than two-thirds of al Qaeda and that... Afghanistan is secure.
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