Message-ID: <32048221.1075860843343.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 16:48:00 -0800 (PST) From: mailings@cnn.com To: kenneth.lay@enron.com Subject: The Fog of War Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: Greenfield at Large @ENRON X-To: Lay, Kenneth X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Kenneth_Lay_Mar2002\Lay, Kenneth\Inbox X-Origin: Lay-K X-FileName: klay (Non-Privileged).pst ============================================================ Greenfield at Large: Weeknights, 11:00 p.m. ET Tuesday, January 08, 2002 ============================================================ Here's the view from the ground in Afghanistan: "...in Afghanistan you need more than smart bombs to win a war; you need cash. You need to pay fighters so they won't loot, you need to buy food so they won't steal it and you need to purchase gas for their 4-by-4's. Most crucially, you need cash to entice enemy commanders and soldiers to switch sides...The going rate last fall was several thousand dollars for a midlevel commander and as little as $30 a head for soldiers." Here's another: "'There was no al Qaeda group there,' Aji Akhter Jan said of a U.S. airstrike Dec. 29 on a compound in eastern Afghanistan. The Red Cross said the raid killed 52 people, nearly half of them children. Jan, an elderly, but robust- looking man who wears a black turban, Taliban-style, said the Americans were misled by an informant with a grudge against two extended families who lived there." Those reports came from the New York Times and USA Today, respectively. They paint a picture of a nation where alliances have less to do with the Taliban and the Northern Alliance, and more to do with the Montagues and Capulets, or perhaps the Hatfields and the McCoys. Just this week, the 14-year-old suspected of shooting Sgt. First Class Nathan Chapman has somehow disappeared from the custody of the Afghan elders holding him. Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar similarly seem to have evaporated after Afghan forces reported having them surrounded. Can the U.S. trust its supposed allies there? And if not, how can the U.S. military safely proceed in its search for remaining al Qaeda pockets? Perhaps more worrisome, how can stability take hold in an environment where warring factions need chaos to thrive? Tonight, we'll hear from the reporters of those stories, Peter Maass of the New York Times and Steven Komarow of USA Today, as well as CNN Military Analyst Gen. Wesley Clark (Ret.). We hope you'll join us. (Note: Our guests and topic are subject to change.) ====================================================== Visit us online at http://www.cnn.com/greenfield or drop us an e-mail: greenfield@cnn.com. Read our privacy guidelines at: http://www.cnn.com/privacy.html (c) 2002 Cable News Network, Inc. An AOL Time Warner Company All Rights Reserved. ====================================================== To unsubscribe, click here: http://cgi.cnn.com/cgi-bin/mail/clik?email=kenneth.lay@enron.com&list=greenfield This message was sent to you at kenneth.lay@enron.com