-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Report: Bin Laden Has Army of 35,000 NewsMax.com Wires Thursday, July 12, 2001 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Saudi millionaire and dissident Osama bin Laden has raised an army of 35,000 men for incursion and terrorism to destabilize Central Asia, a media report said. Chiefs of the border guards of the Commonwealth of Independent States, who met in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi on Wednesday, said they had noted an increase in bin Laden's activities in the region, reported Press Trust of India. They said major camps of international militants, including Arabs, Chechens and Filipinos, are located in the Taliban-held areas of Afghanistan along the borders of CIS countries. The camps reportedly receive generous aid from bin Laden. Meanwhile, anticipating a massive incursion of Islamic militants in Central Asia in the coming months, Russia and its regional allies have begun holding military exercises, the report said. Recently, the Kazakhstan army conducted an exercise to "liberate villages occupied by Islamic militants." In the Sverdlovsk region in the Urals, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations and Civil Defense conducted a mock operation to tackle possible rocket strikes by extremists on vital chemical installations, the report added. Russia and other member states of the CIS are also preparing their quick-reaction strike forces in Central Asia to deal with the emerging threat. Last month an Arab TV station, Middle East Broadcasting Center, showed excerpts from a report filmed in Kandahar, Afghanistan, which said fighters of bin Laden were on a state of alert. The broadcast report claimed that bin Laden's men are ready to attack the U.S. and Israeli interests worldwide. But Afghanistan's ruling Taliban denied the report. Last week Richard Armitage, deputy U.S. secretary of state, warned that the United States could launch military retaliation against the Taliban if bin Laden attacked U.S. interests. The outgoing U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, William Milam, also gave the same warning to the Taliban during a meeting in Islamabad. Also last week, President Bush decided to renew U.S. sanctions imposed on the Taliban ruling militia for harboring bin Laden. "The Taliban continue to allow territory under its control in Afghanistan to be used as a safe haven and base of operation of Osama bin Laden," the president said in a June 30 letter to the U.S. Congress. The Taliban described as "tyrannical" the extension of sanctions against it by the United States. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
