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US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is making a tour of the middle east in what BBC Correspondent Tom Carver is saying is a process of “laying out the case for military action.”

The trip was arranged within the past two days at the request of President Bush. Rumsfeld will stop in Saudi Arabia, Oman, Egypt and Uzbekistan. He will return to Washington this weekend.

Saudi Arabia has presented the United States with a serious obstacle by refusing to allow US bases in that country to be used directly in the military effort. This has created a significant obstacle, especially in terms of delivering and supply any large ground force. The carrier Kitty Hawk has been moved into the Persian Gulf to partially offset the loss of the bases.
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If Osama bin Laden is killed, he becomes a martyr to the Wahhabite cause. If he is imprisoned, his supporters will be inspired to take hostages to gain his release.

This will work:

Special forces units should capture him, take him to the nearest willing hospital, and have a sex change operation performed on him. The ‘she’ can be returned to Afghanistan to live as a woman under the Taliban.

Thanks to D. Rose

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The September 22, 2001 issue of the British weekly magazine The Spectator is filled with insightful articles about the recent terrorist attacks. Most important, its articles explain the background of the conflict in a way that no American publication has so far managed to do.
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