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WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Monday November 19 12:00 PM ET More U.S. Troops Hunt for bin Laden By ROBERT BURNS, AP Military Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - More U.S. commandos have slipped into Afghanistan (news - web sites) to help in the hunt for Osama bin Laden (news - web sites), the Pentagon (news - web sites) said Monday. American planes pounded Taliban front lines just outside the city of Kunduz, where Taliban and al-Qaida forces have been holding out for days as the rest of the north has fallen to opposition forces. With U.S. bombs still falling, the Taliban regime cracking and Afghan opposition forces rising, Bush administration officials say chances of finding bin Laden are improving. Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clarke said Monday that more American troops were sent Friday into the country's south, where special operations forces have been gathering intelligence and setting up roadblocks to try to catch bin Laden and fleeing Taliban. There are a few hundred American special operations troops now on the ground throughout the country, she said. Clarke said Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld will visit Fort Bragg, N.C., Wednesday to watch a demonstration of special operations and to receive a briefing on special operations forces from Air Force Gen. Charles Holland, commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, which oversees all of the services' special operations units. Fort Bragg is home to the Army's Special Operations Command. As for bin Laden, ``We're beginning to narrow his possibilities for hiding,'' Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites), President Bush (news - web sites)'s national security adviser, said Sunday. In separate television interviews, Rice and other officials said bin Laden is on the run, with little chance of gaining safe haven in neighboring countries if he were to escape Afghanistan. ``It's getting harder for him to hide as more and more territory is removed from Taliban control,'' Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) said on ABC's ``This Week.'' ``I don't think there's any country in the region that would be anxious to give him guest privileges if he showed up.'' Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said bin Laden was ``in very great danger'' of being killed or captured. ``This is a man on the run who's doing his best to hide,'' Wolfowitz told CBS' ``Face the Nation.'' All three administration officials said the United States has no reason to believe bin Laden has fled Afghanistan. The Taliban's envoy to Pakistan said Saturday that bin Laden had left Afghanistan, but that has not been substantiated. Later, the diplomat said he meant only that bin Laden was outside areas under Taliban control. As U.S. bombing continued Sunday in the Kandahar area in southern Afghanistan and the Kunduz area in the north, the Pentagon said 75 strike aircraft had participated in Saturday's attacks in six target areas near Kabul. It said tunnels and caves used by Taliban and al-Qaida leaders were among Saturday's targets. Powell said the CIA (news - web sites) has been doing ``some rather splendid work with respect to our activities in Afghanistan, working alongside our military forces that are inside in Afghanistan.'' The Washington Post reported Sunday the CIA has paramilitary forces in Afghanistan; Powell would not confirm that. ``I think we've got a very fine linkup between our intelligence assets, our military assets, all within the framework of a good political and military strategy,'' Powell said. ``And it's now starting to show rather significant results.'' If bin Laden were to flee Afghanistan, the United States would keep up the hunt, Wolfowitz said. ``We are going to continue pursuing him,'' he said. ``Let's also remember, we're going to continue pursuing the entire al-Qaida network, which is in 60 countries, not just Afghanistan and, worst of all, here in the United States. ... This is a campaign against all the global terrorist networks and the states that support terrorism.'' Powell said no country on the periphery of Afghanistan, including China, would give bin Laden a haven. ``I don't think this fellow is going to be welcome anywhere,'' the secretary said. ``He is an outcast. He is a murderer, he's a terrorist. ... He is on the run, just as the president said he would be. And we will get him.'' Rice cautioned against assuming that the military successes in Afghanistan over the past week mean the United States has met its main objective. ``This may take a while,'' she said on NBC's ``Meet the Press.'' Rice also left open the possibility that Iraq could become a target in Bush's war on terrorism. ``We do not need the events of Sept. 11 to tell us that (Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)) is a very dangerous man who is a threat to his own people, a threat to the region and a threat to us because he is determined to acquire weapons of mass destruction,'' she said. *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! Write to same address to be off lists! <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. 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