dissent is making a difference
Doug Millison
nopynching at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 2 12:10:01 CDT 2001
"[...] Even if timely intelligence locates Bin Laden
in Kabul, the US and Britain would be faced with a
serious dilemma, Whitehall sources admit. Any decision
to launch air strikes on the capital, even with
precision weapons, would carry the risk of heavy
civilian casualties.
"The American and British governments are determined
to limit such risks, partly because of the need to
maintain as broad an international coalition as
possible, partly to avoid provoking retaliation by
groups of protesters at home. [...]"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,561628,00.html
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