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| Afghanistan |
| US doesn't expect strikes to hit bin Laden |
| 2001-10-05 |
In the clearest indication yet of how the administration plans to wage its coming military campaign, Bush aides concede that they have only a slim chance of hitting Osama bin Laden and his deputies through military strikes and that their best chance of ridding the country of terrorists is by squeezing the Taliban directly. The campaign will be "a very precise effort over several days to take out the elements of Taliban control," one senior administration official said. Bombers and jets using precision missiles will target the Taliban's various headquarters, training camps, airfields and military supplies, he said. He added that the wave of air strikes is intended to create "a nearly instantaneous shift in the balance of powers" as military commanders desert or join up with opposition forces, and the Taliban begins to fall apart. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |