-----Original Message----- From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Chris Burford Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 7:46 PM To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com; pen-l at galaxy.csuchico.edu CNN had a live report there. Small explosions on the edge of the city. If it had been the USAF, you can bet it would have looked quite different.
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>He said the fighting in Kabul appears to be rocket attacks by Afghan
>rebels opposing the ruling Taliban in response to the attack on a rebel
>general over the weekend.
Why anonymous? Perhaps it is true that they are restraining themselves at the moment. Perhaps they are embarrassed that the Afghan opposition is confusing the picture. Most likely they are indeed planning as spectacular a counter-strike as they can, and trying to control the media with a web of secrecy. Interesting isn't it that there has been no confirmation of the report from Germany that the plane that crashed near Camp David, was shot down.
Meantime Blair and the other Europeans are striving to set an international agenda in which it is the "World against Terrorism". Blair will be good at emphasising the unity of the west, but the British foreign office, like the other European governments, will above all be thinking at this moment how to limit and manage the US and take advantage of the punishment it has received for its arrogant isolationism.
Chris Burford
London