Saving Private Taliban

[Shane Mage <shmage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

from the NYTimes (website  19/11):
                     "Several hundred Pakistani fighters are also
believed to have sought
                    refuge in Kunduz, including relatives of some
powerful clerics, this
                    intelligence official said. Saving them could
improve President
	Musharraf'S strained relations with his country's hard-line religious
                   parties, which have opposed his assistance to the
United States.

                    Northern Alliance commanders and numerous
refugees from Kunduz said
                    in recent days that at least two airplanes landed
at Kunduz airport,
                    presumably to take away some of those who had
retreated to the city. The
                    commanders speculated that the planes were from
Pakistani intelligence,
                    but officials in Islamabad emphatically denied
knowledge of the flights."

Is there anyone in  the world who imagines that airplanes could fly into
and out of this besieged "terrorist" stronghold without the explicit and
deliberate approval of the highest US  command authorities?

Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all things."

Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64