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Ridge, Rumsfeld warn Taliban's fall could bring fresh attacks in the US
Abstracted from The Wall St Journal ^ | Nov 14, 2001 | The Wall St Journal

Posted on 11/16/2001 1:05:41 PM PST by CommiesOut

Ridge, Rumsfeld warn Taliban's fall could bring fresh attacks in the US
The Wall Street Journal - US Abstracts; Nov 14, 2001

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge warned yesterday that the fall of Afghanistan's Taliban regime could precipitate a new wave of terror attacks on the United States. Speaking from his offices in the West Wing yesterday, Ridge said that although the US had no intelligence pointing to an upcoming attack, terrorist leader are "waiting in the wings" to take over Osama bin Laden's campaign if he is caught or killed. Meanwhile, Rumsfeld suggested that Taliban supporters could mount a last-ditch strike on the US if the Taliban falls although so far, the US had not changed its military strategy to accommodate such an attack.

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1 posted on 11/16/2001 1:05:41 PM PST by CommiesOut
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To: madrussian; malarski; Askel5; GROUCHOTWO; Zviadist; kristinn; Free the USA; struwwelpeter...
You thought it's over, eh?
2 posted on 11/16/2001 1:05:41 PM PST by CommiesOut
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To: CommiesOut
It ain't over till Rosie O'Dogfood sings.
3 posted on 11/16/2001 1:05:43 PM PST by EggsAckley
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To: CommiesOut
Whatever international infrastructure of Al-Qaeda remaining will be aching for vengeance against us. Remember - they believe that we have just ended the first truly Islamic state since the Caliphate.

We shouldn't let our guards down.

4 posted on 11/16/2001 1:05:43 PM PST by wideawake
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To: CommiesOut
Stay the course......

If we take hits here than so be it! Ashcroft is doing a great job of shutting down cells here....he won't get them all but we MUST see this through...

NeverGore

5 posted on 11/16/2001 1:05:44 PM PST by nevergore
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To: CommiesOut
"Meanwhile, Rumsfeld suggested that Taliban supporters could mount a last-ditch strike on the US..."

He made no such 'suggeston'. A reporter did, in asking her question at the briefing yesterday, using the words "last ditch". Rummy agreed, though in a sideways fashion, saying we are, in fact, always on the alert for terror, not the just the last ditch variety.

6 posted on 11/16/2001 1:05:51 PM PST by jwfiv
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To: CommiesOut
When you're dealing with human institutions, especially with something that's built largely around the personality of one guy, getting rid of the guy or seriously crippling the organization, will not automatically result in others moving in to take his place. This is not something like le Chatelier's principle in which the addition of substrates or removal of products will move the chemical reaction forward. There are not hundreds waiting in the wings to take over bin Ladin's place. If there were others who were as rich and, apparently, as competent to build an organization such as al Qaida, they would already be heading it up. The fact is that there is an extremely limited number of people who have the organizational ability, let alone expertise to pull off something like old MADE IN ANUS LAB (Usama bin Laden). This number of people is NOT determined by the presence of lack of other such people (unless those other such people are trying to track down potential rivals and eliminate them). There is nothing inherent in reality that will cause others to come into existence when one is taken out of it.
7 posted on 11/16/2001 1:05:53 PM PST by aruanan
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To: CommiesOut
I guess we can expect more "accidents" then - you know, people drinking from streams and getting anthrax, planes falling apart in the New York sky, etc.
8 posted on 11/16/2001 1:06:02 PM PST by over3Owithabrain
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To: over3Owithabrain
Exactly, for weeks they tell us to be extra vigilant, something big is going to happen. Then, when a jetliner full of innocents explodes and crashes on take-off from JFK they tell us within hours that it's an accident. Not buying it.
11 posted on 11/18/2001 1:53:29 PM PST by wtc911
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To: CommiesOut
This new Ridge and big liberal government bureaucracy with the feel good name "Homeland Security", coming out and parroting yesterday's news is getting embarrasing, not to mention a pathetic display of trying to be a tax sucking bureaucracy justifying it's needless existence....
12 posted on 11/18/2001 2:24:52 PM PST by lewislynn
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To: lewislynn
Unfortunately this country became a joke 8-9 years ago.
You're right. Not too much improvements so far.
13 posted on 11/18/2001 2:55:20 PM PST by CommiesOut
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