From: Barry Stoller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: WWIII update - Somali is next target [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- MSNBC. 17 October 2001. Pentagon plans could extend attacks until mid-November; Somali camps may be next. U.S. officials indicated Wednesday that widespread anti-terrorist bombing could continue for another full month, telling NBC News they wanted to wrap up the air campaign by mid-November. NBC News has also learned that military planners are already drawing up a list of potential targets for U.S. action elsewhere, beginning with terrorist camps in Somalia [N.B.]. The acknowledgement of mid-November as a cutoff point for U.S. bomber and missile strikes is the first public indication that military planners have established a specific timetable for the air campaign. Opposition to the U.S. air attacks, already strong in Arab and Persian Gulf states, would likely intensify should the military campaign continue into Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting, which begins Nov. 17 in Afghanistan and almost all of the United States. At the same time, military planners were also looking beyond Afghanistan. NBC News defense correspondent Jim Miklaszewski reported from Washington that U.S. commanders had been given orders for the first time to draw up battle plans for potential assaults in other countries on bases of bin Laden�s al-Qaida terrorist network. Sources told NBC on condition of anonymity that military planners were drawing up a list of potential targets elsewhere, beginning with terrorist camps in Somalia. Bin Laden, the exiled Saudi millionaire accused of masterminding the Sept. 11 attacks on U.S. targets, said in 1997 that his followers were responsible for the deaths of 18 U.S. servicemen on a humanitarian mission in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, in October 1993. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews with continuing coverage of WWIII _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
