At 07:42 PM 9/15/01 -0400, baptista@pccf.net wrote:

Nikolai Kovalyov, the former head of the Russian FSB security service, has just warned the US that an attack on Afghanistan would fail to capture Osama bin Laden, and would backfire on the US. "In Afghanistan's mountainous terrain it takes a trainload of explosives to destroy three

militants," he said. "The chance of hitting bin Laden is zero."

Hmmm, if the US used gas there wouldn't be all that *archeological* damage...