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Powell says Bin Laden is prime suspect
Saying the administration had not yet publicly identified the organization it believed responsible, Powell added: "When you look at the list of candidates, one resides in the region." Asked whether he was referring to bin Laden, the Saudi expatriate who runs a terrorist network from Afghanistan, Powell replied: "Yes." "We will go after that group, that network and those who have harbored, supported and aided that network to rip the network up," he said. U.S. officials say they are drafting plans to attack not just bin Laden, but the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan who allow him to operate from their territory either killing bin Laden and destroying his camps or forcing the Taliban to turn him over. And, said Powell, that's not all. "When we're through with that network, we'll continue with a global assault on terrorism in general." A senior official named the Iranian backed group Hezbollah, which in 1983 killed more than 200 American Marines in Lebanon, and Hamas, which sends suicide bombers against Israeli civilians, as two of the terrorist groups the U.S. intends to go after. (CBS News) Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2001-09-13 |
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