A handful of al Qaeda fighters hiding in a cave near the Pakistan border went on American TV last week to make threats against the United States. The men spoke from a cave only 50 miles from where Operation Anaconda was fought, ostensibly to wipe out the remnants of Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan. The interview with CBS was conducted under great secrecy with a nightscope, which illuminated the armed and scowling figures in an unearthly pallor. A man known only as Nasrullah told US viewers: "Revenge is in the air." Another of the men said: "Disappearing from the battlefield does not mean that the Taliban has gone." Various tribes will put up every kind of resistance until they have defeated the Americans, he declared.
Gee, I'm sorry I missed it. "We're gonna have bloodthirsty revenge and kill you all and all your kids, too" seems like a good way to reawaken some of the justified hatred Americans felt toward these vicious killers six months ago - hatred which is rapidly being replaced by interest in the love life of Gary Condit and Britney's breasts doings. |