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Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War!
U.S. MAY SOCK BIN LADEN FROM RUSSIAN BASES
By NILES LATHEM
September 14, 2001 -- WASHINGTON - The Bush
administration is talking with Russia about using
former
Soviet military bases in central Asia as staging
areas for
massive military assaults on Osama bin Laden, The
Post
has learned.
Senior diplomatic officials in both countries
revealed last
night that plans to use two Russian bases in
Tajikistan - and
the former Soviet air base at Bagram inside a
portion of
Afghanistan under the control of anti-Taliban forces
- are at
the center of ongoing talks between the United
States and
Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose country has
been
victimized by terror bombings of Moscow apartment
buildings linked to bin Laden, has revived an offer
he made
a year ago for the United States to use bases in
Tajikistan
for possible joint operations against bin Laden and
the
ruling Taliban in Afghanistan.
Secretary of State Colin Powell said President Bush
spoke
twice by phone to Putin on Wednesday about joint
measures the two former Cold War rivals might take to
combat their common enemy: militant Islam.
Asked specifically about whether the United States
will use
the Russian bases as staging areas for military
operations in
Afghanistan, Powell said only: "There are lots of
ways the
Russians can help. It's their neighborhood."
The White House has said it is prepared to launch
massive
and sustained military action against those
responsible for
Tuesday's attacks, but has not made final decisions
on the
details.
Options being debated include repeated air strikes
and
possible ground assaults and commando raids, sources
said.
The United States could stage long-range air raids
and
missile attacks from aircraft carriers and bases in
the
Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean, but Pentagon planners
have
acknowledged the need for a staging area in the
volatile
region if it becomes necessary for ground
operations.
"If you look on the map, the Tajik and Afghan bases
are
the most logical and reliable staging areas for what
I think is
being contemplated," said Kenneth Katzman, former CIA
analyst and Afghan expert for the Congressional
Research
Service.
Likely targets of U.S. bombing raids and ground
assaults
would be heavily fortified mountain bunkers and
caves.
"There is 100 percent Russian solidarity on this. The
Russian government and people realize that we face a
common enemy," said Michael McFaul, of the Carnegie
Endowment of International Peace.
Russia has maintained a large military presence in
Tajikistan
since its forces pulled out of Afghanistan in the
early 1980s.
The 201st Motorized Division is considered one of the
best-equipped and -trained units left over from the
once-mighty Soviet Red Army, and is located near the
Afghan border.
The Bagram Air base, once the center of Soviet
military
operations in Afghanistan, is located 40 miles north
of
Kabul in an area controlled by the Northern
Alliance, one
of the largest anti-Taliban groups still fighting in
Afghan's
civil war.
The Russians have also been pushing for months to
give
economic aid and military support to the Northern
Alliance
fighters, and those plans intensified yesterday with
meetings
in Tajikstan that were also attended by Iran and
India.
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