DATE=10/8/98
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-239942
TITLE=SENATE-AFGHANISTAN (L)
BYLINE=DAVID SWAN
DATELINE=CAPITOL HILL
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO: THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION IS WARNING AFGHANISTAN MAY
FACE MORE MISSILE STRIKES IF ACCUSED TERRORIST OSAMA BIN LADEN
CONTINUES TO OPERATE ON AFGHAN TERRITORY. CORRESPONDENT DAVID
SWAN HAS DETAILS.
TEXT: ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE KARL INDERFURTH SUGGESTS THE
ATTACK THAT TOOK PLACE IN AUGUST WILL NOT NECESSARILY BE THE
LAST. TESTIFYING ON CAPITOL HILL (THURSDAY), HE SAID THE RULING
TALEBAN MILITIA BECOME COMPLICIT IN MR. BIN LADEN'S CRIMES BY
OFFERING HIM A HAVEN AND TREATING HIM LIKE A GUEST.
// END ACT //
WE BELIEVE THAT THIS MAN IS NOT A GUEST, THAT HE IS A
MURDERER AND A TERRORIST, AND THAT HE SHOULD BE TURNED
OVER TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY, TO APPROPRIATE
AUTHORITIES, AND BE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE. WE HAVE MADE
THAT MESSAGE VERY CLEAR TO THE TALEBAN AND TO ALL ITS
NEIGHBORS.
// END ACT //
THE MISSILES FIRED IN AUGUST HIT AN ALLEGED TERRORIST TRAINING
CAMP IN AFGHANISTAN AND A SUDANESE PHARMACEUTICAL PLANT U-S
OFFICIALS BELIEVE MADE NERVE GAS. THE STRIKE WAS MEANT TO
RETALIATE FOR THE BOMBING OF TWO AMERICAN EMBASSIES IN AFRICA,
WITH THE LOSS OF 268 LIVES.
MR. INDERFURTH COULD NOT CONFIRM A RECENT REPORT THAT MR. BIN
LADEN IS MOVING HIS BASE TO KASHMIR, THOUGH HE DID SAY KASHMIRI
MILITANTS HAVE PASSED THROUGH THE SAUDI FINANCIER'S CAMPS.
// INDERFURTH ACT //
THIS TRULY IS A VIPER'S NEST OF TERRORIST TRAINING AND
THOSE TERRORISTS ARE NOT ONLY THOSE DEALING AGAINST OUR
INTERESTS AROUND THE WORLD, BUT ARE ALSO TAKING PART IN
WHAT IS TAKING PLACE IN KASHMIR.
// END ACT //
THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY SAYS THE TALEBAN MAY NOW BE REASSESSING
THEIR STAND TOWARD MR. BIN LADEN, BUT THEY DO NOT APPEAR TO BE
RESTRICTING HIS ACTIONS. (SIGNED)
NEB/DS/RAE
08-Oct-98 2:30 PM EDT (1830 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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