This makes me sick. If they should do this, I hope that we hunt the ones that did it down, and well... bring em to my house. I'm sure I could find something to do to them with pork.

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Thursday October 18 11:09 AM ET

Al Qaeda Says Will Drag U.S. Troops Through Streets CAIRO (Reuters) - The military chief of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network said Afghans would drag slain U.S. troops through the streets, rekindling memories of Washington's doomed 1993 involvement in Somalia, a report said on Thursday.

``The calculations of the crusade coalition were very mistaken when it thought it could wage a war on Afghanistan, achieving victory swiftly,'' the report by the London-based Islamic Observation Center quoted Abu Hafs al-Masri as saying.

``America will only be certain about its mistaken calculations after its soldiers are dragged in Afghanistan as they were in Somalia,'' he was quoted as saying in the report, which was obtained by Reuters in Cairo.

The Islamic Observation Center, which has close ties to Muslim extremists in several countries, said it received Abu Hafs' comments from its contacts in Kabul.

Bin Laden's aide was referring to 18 U.S. troops, part of a U.N. peacekeeping force, who were killed when militiamen downed two helicopters in Mogadishu in 1993. Mobs dragged the bodies of some of the soldiers through streets. Washington then withdrew its troops from the Horn of Africa country.

The whereabouts of Abu Hafs, the nom de guerre of Egyptian radical Mohamed Atef who is reportedly number two in al Qaeda, are unknown.

The London-based Islamic Observation Center started issuing the regular report on events in Afghanistan after the start of U.S.-led attacks against bin Laden and his hosts, the ruling Taliban, on October 7.

With U.S. military maneuvers pointing to a decision soon to send in ground forces for sharp strikes, the Taliban have insisted that their guest bin Laden, blamed for attacks on New York and Washington last month, would not be found.

Sources in Afghanistan said Saudi-born militant bin Laden, his comrades and Taliban leaders were all safe.

-- Anonymous, October 18, 2001

Answers

I was going to save my bombs for a rainy day, but what the heck, let's just keep dropping. (Do they really think we'll cringe at a threat like that??)

-- Anonymous, October 18, 2001

Brooks,

I remember the footage from the first time it was done in Somalia. It made my blood boil then, and seeing some of the 2-second shots they have been replaying as of late, still makes my blood boil. I think they are showing the shots to get us used to hearing about it, or possibly seeing it.

I'm quickly getting to the point that I wish hubby could deliver his bombs..... :O

-- Anonymous, October 18, 2001

Be ready for it. This is the kind of thing they do. They do NOT hsve our mindset. Just keep your fingers crossed that no females are captured. Seeing a dead female pilot or Marine dragged through the streets might cause a lot of people to withdraw support.

-- Anonymous, October 18, 2001

I seem to recall that our armed forces were not going to be using women in positions that would put them at risk because of the way women are treated over there. Wish I could remember where i saw/heard that.

-- Anonymous, October 19, 2001

Female fighter pilots are flying over there. Read a story on one with a Brit accent, call sign is "Mumbles" cos the others can't understand her. (Pah!) Sweetie's call sign was "Animal."

-- Anonymous, October 19, 2001

OG, Seeing something like this might just set our resolve even more and make us even more pissed. It would me.

-- Anonymous, October 19, 2001

Barefoot, what I read was that it was a cultural thing with them. If they saw women in our military they would lose respect for us or something. So, it was more than the possibility they might be captured.

-- Anonymous, October 19, 2001