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...neutralizing Bin Laden is the first phase of the anti-terror campaign, the form that will take may be known Tuesday when the Taliban convenes a council of 20 of its senior clerics to rule on an ultimatum to extradite the Saudi terrorist. Pakistani emissaries met Taliban leaders on Monday to emphasize that they had only days to agree to hand him over, or else face devastating military force. There's little optimism that they'll agree to the U.S. demand - although the self-preservation urge may prompt them to play for time by demanding that the evidence against Bin...
...Palestinian peace process - and America is not finding Prime Minister Ariel Sharon particularly eager to play ball. Before the dust had settled on the World Trade Center ruins, Sharon ordered his foreign minister, Shimon Peres, to call off cease-fire talks with Yasser Arafat, who Sharon likened to Osama Bin Laden. And he has since sent his army into three Palestinian cities amid escalating violence. Bush administration officials phoned Sharon five times in the past week to urge him to allow the Peres-Arafat meeting to go ahead, and it seems to be working: Tuesday both sides agreed...
...clear of the sort of frontal invasion of Afghanistan that became a nightmare for the Soviets, and instead concentrate on special forces operations along with British commandos. But even that would draw fierce resistance from the Taliban, and the U.S. has, of course, promised to punish those who shelter Bin Laden. A major confrontation between the U.S. and the Taliban, though, potentially creates a serious domestic crisis for Pakistan, and possibly some of the Arab allies...
...Pakistan is the indispensable ally in any military action against Bin Laden and his Taliban hosts, because its airspace and military bases are essential to any effort to strike inside Afghanistan, and its intelligence may be required to actually find Bin Laden. But the government of the nuclear-armed Muslim nation is under tremendous domestic political pressure from its own sizable Islamist constituency to rescind its somewhat reluctant decision to support the U.S. campaign, and there are real concerns over whether General Parvez Musharraf's military government would ultimately survive the domestic political turmoil a full-blown war would almost...
...even Bin Laden's capture or elimination would destroy his networks only if it were followed by a sustained campaign of police and intelligence work to neutralize the thousands of his operatives all over the world. And the most important allies in such a campaign would be the governments of the Arab world, from among whose citizens Bin Laden claims most of his recruits. But the escalating Israeli-Palestinian violence poses a significant obstacle to winning active Arab support for the U.S.-led anti-terror campaign. Arab governments have found it increasingly difficult to support Washington on issues such...