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NYPOST
U.S. TARGETS CHEM SITE
By NILES LATHEM
September 26, 2001 -- WASHINGTON - An al Qaeda terror camp, where
scientists may be working on chemical weapons, and the Taliban's heroin
production facilities will be among the first targets hit when the shooting
war starts, The Post has learned.
U.S. military planners, working with Russian and Pakistani intelligence
agencies and anti-Taliban rebels in northern Afghanistan, have quietly
drawn up a list of hundreds of potential targets for airstrikes and
ground missions in the early phases of the war on Osama bin Laden's
empire of terrorism.
Bush administration officials insist that final decisions have not yet
been made, pointing out that mapping out strategy against a mobile enemy
hiding in caves and tunnels in a mountainous country with few big
"strategic targets" is an immense undertaking.
But the Pentagon, which is mobilizing the largest attack force since the
Persian Gulf War, is expected to aim much of the U.S. firepower at the
Kandahar and Jalalabad regions in southern Afghanistan.
That's where the bulk of bin Laden's terror infrastructure is based and
where the Taliban's seat of power is located.
U.S. officials expect to strike a notorious bin Laden terror camp where
intelligence agencies believe experiments have been taking place on
chemical and biological weapons.
That suspicion is backed up by recent satellite photos that show hundreds
of dead animals outside.
The Taliban maintains scores of opium and her oin production facilities
throughout the country that are likely targets of air and ground attacks.
"Afghanistan is a worldwide leader in poppy production and the drug
trade is a primary source of funding for the Taliban, generating . .
. between $50 million and $100 million a year," said Peter Singer,
military analyst for the Brookings Institution.
"Targeting those facilities makes a lot of sense, because not only do we
cut off a primary source of funding for the Taliban but it helps in the
information warfare - the p.r.effort to paint this regime as a criminal
enterprise that is doing very un-Islamic things," Singer added.
The White House said yesterday that it's not seeking to replace the
Taliban with another government.
But administration officials concede that hundreds of strategic and
tactical targets of the Taliban, including radio stations, government
buildings and military installations are on the Pentagon's hit list.
Other targets for U.S. airstrikes include Taliban air bases in Kabul,
Kandahar, Shindand and Herat, where the militia maintains a decrepit
force of 10 fighter jets and 20 attack helicopters.
Bin Laden is believed to have his own small fleet of planes -
including a giant transport jet and a small passenger jet. If they can
be located, those planes will also be hit to prevent the millionaire
Saudi expatriate from fleeing.
The United States is also expected to launch airstrikes against Taliban
military positions along the front lines in the civil war with the
Northern Alliance. U.S. officials want to use the Alliance's Bagram
air base as a staging area for commando operations against bin Laden's
forces and need to eliminate threats from Taliban forces massed in that
area.
The Taliban has an estimated 20,000 troops as well as 200 tanks, Stinger
anti-aircraft missiles and pickup trucks outfitted with rocket
launchers.
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