Return-Path: <sentto-279987-2742-1002428726-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.0) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Sat, 06 Oct 2001 21:30:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 24395 invoked by uid 510); 7 Oct 2001 04:28:07 -0000 Received: from n16.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.66) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 7 Oct 2001 04:28:07 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-2742-1002428726-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.1.220] by n16.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 07 Oct 2001 04:28:09 -0000 X-Sender: fc@big.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_4_1); 7 Oct 2001 04:25:26 -0000 Received: (qmail 92541 invoked from network); 7 Oct 2001 04:25:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by 10.1.1.220 with QMQP; 7 Oct 2001 04:25:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO big.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta1 with SMTP; 7 Oct 2001 04:28:08 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by big.all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id VAA25974 for iwar@onelist.com; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 21:28:08 -0700 Message-Id: <200110070428.VAA25974@big.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 21:28:08 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] [fc:Taliban.Threaten.to.Attack.Uzbekistan.if.Aids.U.S.] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit October 6, 2001 By REUTERS Filed at 2:43 p.m. ET ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Officials of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban on Saturday threatened to attack Uzbekistan if it allowed U.S. forces to attack Afghanistan from Uzbek territory, Taliban-run radio reported. ``We will attack Uzbekistan if any attack is launched from its borders,'' Radio Voice of Shariat quoted officials as telling a rally in Hairaton, near the Uzbek border. The broadcast was monitored by Reuters in Pakistan. Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov on Friday told visiting Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld he would make an air base available for use by U.S. cargo planes, helicopters and troops, but only for humanitarian and rescue operations. Some 1,000 soldiers of the U.S. army's 10th Mountain Division have been sent to Uzbekistan, on an unprecedented deployment of American forces in a former Soviet republic. ``We are against the usage of our territory for the land operations against Afghanistan and we are against air strikes executed from the territory of Uzbekistan,'' Karimov said after meeting Rumsfeld. ``We do not have any guarantees that tomorrow we will not find ourselves face to face with these terrible terrorist forces and so we do not want to allow ourselves to be used by anyone.'' The country is ideally placed as a base for any U.S. operation in Afghanistan, where the ruling Taliban are sheltering Osama bin Laden, the man Washington blames for last month's attacks on the United States. Analysts in Washington expect U.S. strategy to include missions by special forces inside Afghanistan, and say Karimov's insistence that Uzbekistan will not be the springboard for such attacks poses problems for military planners. But they said the definition of ``humanitarian'' and ``rescue'' operations might be quietly broadened with Tashkent's consent. The former Soviet republic was the jumping-off point for the ill-fated Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get your FREE VeriSign guide to security solutions for your web site: encrypting transactions, securing intranets, and more! http://us.click.yahoo.com/UnN2wB/m5_CAA/yigFAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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