Bush Ordered to Prepare for Military Retaliation Operation

The U.S. set for the retaliation operation against the Osama Bin Laden, born in Saudi Arabia, has been suspected as the wire puller of many terrors including the suicide airplane attack to New York and Washington D.C.

According to the Washington Post, U.S. President George W. Bush ordered to the Department of Defense to prepare the list that includes all the possible military countermeasures to the terrorists.

The U.S. investigation agencies established identities of about 50 suspects related to the terror and the terrorists and have arrested some of them already. Therefore, the full story of the terror is expected to be revealed soon.

·~Retaliation War in Preparation: The U.S. is now preparing the military retaliation operation against Bin Laden and his aides. Bush and the high officials demanded the support from the neighbor countries for the U.S.`s military countermeasures to arrest and retaliate the terrorists and their aides in Europe, Middle East, and Asia. Donald Rumsfeld the U.S. Secretary of Defense and the Henry Shelton the Chairperson of the Joint Chiefs of Staff discussed yesterday the limited military operation to arrest Bin Laden and the full scale military operation including the deployment of the ground troops.

Colin Powell the U.S. Secretary of State stated yesterday that the military retaliation operation would not be carried out in a few days since it takes time to search the targets and mobilize the U.S. troops. However, he declared that the U.S. would act as soon as the related personnel are identified.

·~Rapid Progress of Investigation: the Federal Bureau of Intelligence arrested 4 suspects related to this serial terror in New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Florida. The investigation agencies established the identities of about 50 suspects and put 10 of them on the wanted list. 27 suspects are known as having taken flight training.

An investigator remarked that the suspects hold the passports of the Middle East countries and they are the members of 4 independent organizations. The U.S. press sources reported that the investigation team had found the will of the terrorists left to their parents.

The investigators in Florida searched and seized the related documents from the Huffman Aviation, in which the terrorists had flight training from July to November last year. The school revealed that Mr. Marwan Al Shehi and Mohamad Atara had pilot training last year.

John Ashcrawford the U.S. Justice Secretary announced yesterday that ``the 10 terrorists are all the followers of Bin Laden. 4 separate teams of 3-6 people took a plane respectively and hijacked the plane by threatening the crews with weapons such as knife.``

In relation, Taliban denied the report that Bin Laden was under house arrest by the ruling Taliban of Afghanistan.

Han Ki-Heung eligius@donga.com