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Original Post Date: 2001-09-22 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 9/22/2001 10:04:46 PM
US Sending men & planes to prepare for attack
By Alan Elsner and Tom Heneghan
WASHINGTON/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – The United States stepped up its military
buildup on Saturday for a coming assault on Afghanistan, whose Islamic rulers
are refusing to surrender Osama bin Laden, prime suspect in last week’s
attack on America that left more than 6,800 dead or missing.
Heavy B-1 and B-52 bombers and (96)`(96)`warthog’ attack planes, designed for taking
out tanks and close air support of ground forces, lumbered into the air from
bases in the American heartland on their way to the Gulf and the Indian Ocean
in the biggest U.S. military mobilization since the 1991 Gulf War.
Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban said its forces had shot down an aircraft in the
north of the country, but officials issued conflicting statements on whether
it was an unmanned U.S. spy plane or a helicopter of the opposition Northern
Alliance. The Pentagon had no comment.
Bush, in his weekly radio address to Americans, sought to bolster confidence
in the U.S. economy after the worst week in Wall Street financial markets
since the 1930s.
(96)`(96)`The terrorists who attacked the United States on Sept. 11 targeted our
economy as well as our people,’ Bush said. (96)`(96)`They brought down a symbol of
American prosperity but they could not touch its source.’
The aftershocks of the suicide plane assaults on New York’s World Trade
Center and the Pentagon pummeled the U.S. economy this week, leading a
growing number of analysts to conclude the United States has entered a
recession.
(96)`(96)`Our economy has had a shock,’ Bush acknowledged, noting many workers lost
their jobs this week, especially in the airline and hospitality industries,
in restaurants and in tourism, as companies struggled to remain afloat.
(96)`(96)`Many Americans have also seen the value of their stocks decline,’ Bush
said. (96)`(96)`Yet, for all these challenges, the American economy is fundamentally
strong.’
BUSH CONFERS WITH AIDES
Bush, who has vowed to wage a global (96)`(96)`war on terrorism’ and states
supporting it, convened a meeting of his National Security Council by
teleconference from the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland.
(96)`(96)`The president has made it abundantly clear that this nation is preparing
for war, because war has been declared against the United States,’ Bush’s
spokesman Ari Fleischer said on Friday.
Bush had put the Taliban (96)`(96)`on notice’ and was (96)`(96)`preparing to do what must
inevitably come next,’ he said.
The Taliban on Friday rejected an ultimatum from the U.S. president to hand
over bin Laden, based in Afghanistan as their ‘guest’, without evidence the
Saudi-born Islamic militant masterminded the hijacked airliner attacks on New
York and Washington.
Pakistan again asked the Taliban to consider the grave consequences of
defiance.
(96)`(96)`We hope that the Taliban would consider the grave situation and will also
consider how to meet the demands the U.N. Security Council had made to
them,’ Foreign Ministry spokesman Riaz Mohammad Khan told a news
conference.
U.S. defense officials said about a dozen more aircraft, including refueling
planes, would soon move to the Gulf and Indian Ocean — within range of
Afghanistan — to join nearly 350 warplanes at land bases and on two aircraft
carriers.
The U.S. assault ship Essex left Sasebo naval base in Japan on Saturday and
was expected to head for the Indian Ocean. The carrier USS Kitty Hawk, which
carries about 70 aircraft, left its home port near Tokyo on Friday.
Tens of thousands of Afghans have fled cities and towns and headed for the
relative safety of the countryside in anticipation of a U.S. military strike
following the Sept. 11 attacks that left some 6,800 people dead or missing.
Aid agencies in Kabul said the impoverished country faced a humanitarian
crisis, with essential supplies likely to run out within a month after
Pakistan and Iran sealed their borders.
The hard-line Islamic movement vowed to resist any assault from the world’s
mightiest armed forces, defying a warning that failure to surrender bin Laden
would be met with retribution.
(96)`(96)`SHOWDOWN OF MIGHT’
(96)`(96)`It would be a showdown of might,’ Mullah Abdul Salaam Zaeef, the Taliban
envoy to Pakistan, told reporters in Islamabad. (96)`(96)`We will never surrender to
evil and might.’
The twin threats of war and recession have loomed ever larger over the world
economy since the airliner attacks, which leveled the 110-story twin towers
of New York’s World Trade Center and blew a hole in the Pentagon outside
Washington.
A fourth hijacked plane crashed in rural Pennsylvania.
Wall Street ended its worst week since the 1930s Great Depression, with the
benchmark Dow Jones industrial average down 14.2 percent after a five-day
stampede out of equities.
Congress acted late on Friday to aid another victim of the attacks: the
airlines. The Senate and House of Representatives approved a $15 billion
rescue plan for the industry.
With many American and other travelers terrified of flying, airlines have cut
flight schedules by about 20 percent and announced job cuts of more than
100,000 since the attacks.
In a Reuters poll of 25 leading Wall Street brokers, all but one said the
economy was now in recession and most did not expect a recovery before the
first half of 2002.
Muslim Turkey, a NATO member, and the Philippines both pledged logistical
support to the United States on Saturday in any response to the attacks.
Ankara said it would allow U.S. transport aircraft to use Turkish airspace
and air bases, while Manila said U.S. Air Force planes would be allowed to
refuel in the Philippines.
In a potential setback for Bush, however, Saudi Arabia was resisting a U.S.
request to use a new command center on one of its bases in any air campaign,
The Washington Post reported.
SAUDIS NOT COOPERATING
Quoting unidentified U.S. defense officials, it said Saudi resistance to use
of the Prince Sultan Air Base had forced U.S. military planners to consider
moving the operations center to another country, which could delay any air
strikes for weeks.
Saudi Arabia was Washington’s foremost Arab ally in 1991 in the successful
air and ground war when a U.S.-led international coalition expelled Iraqi
occupying forces from Kuwait.
It is one of just three countries, along with Pakistan and the United Arab
Emirates, that recognized the Taliban.
In a diplomatic boost for Bush, the UAE’s official news agency WAM said the
government had cut ties with the Taliban after failing to persuade the Kabul
government to hand over bin Laden for what it called a fair international
trial.
Afghanistan, a country of rugged, inhospitable terrain, has proved a
graveyard for foreign invaders.
Its tribesmen defeated or held off Britain three times between 1839 and 1919,
while the Muslim mujahideen (holy warriors) humiliated invaders from the
Soviet Union in the 1980s when Moscow was still a superpower.
In New York, workers battling underground fires in the ruins of the World
Trade Center turned to more heavy equipment in an apparent tacit admission
that hope of finding alive any of the 6,333 missing was all but gone.
There were also signs the city, the financial heart of global capitalism, was
slowly returning to some semblance of normalcy after the horrors and shock of
the attacks.
About 35,000 people chanting (96)`(96)`USA’ turned out at Shea Stadium for the
city’s first Major League Baseball game since the attacks. The New York Mets
beat the Atlanta Braves 3-2.
Security was tightened for the Miss America pageant scheduled for Saturday
evening in Atlantic City, New Jersey.