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NEWS AND COMMENTARY
BY DAVID T. WRIGHT |
Dear Mr. Wright -- I appreciate your analysis of that incident. But couldn't it be that those people were deliberately provoked to such a reaction in order to have them killed,slaughtered, because that was the wishes of Donald Rumesfield, our mighty secretary of defense, offense, after all? Also I am wondering for how long before when the Northern Alliance will become our new favorite evil incarnate?!! Thank you Salem WRIGHT REPLIES: Dear Salem: Thanks for your comments. While I wouldn't put such a scheme past Mr. Rumsfeld, I doubt that the massacre was his idea, at least at the beginning: (1) because these captured fighters were small potatoes; (2) because the CIA probably did want intelligence from them; and (3) because I don't think the CIA agents would have done what they did if they knew what the reaction was going to be. However, it is quite possible that the Northern Alliance was looking for an excuse to kill these people, and that they allowed the weapons in for that purpose. As to your speculation about the Northern Alliance becoming the United States's future enemies -- you took the words right out of my mouth. Cheers! David Wright |
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