User talk:64.231.235.124

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"After the September 11, 2001, attacks, investigators rapidly accumulated evidence implicating Osama bin Laden[citation needed]. "

Which investigators? What evidence? To my recollection, over a year into the war in Afghanistan the only evidence produced by U.S. Intelligence against bin Laden linked him to the African embassy bombings and the attack on the USS Cole. This statement not only requires a citation, it is probably factually incorrect and should be replaced with an official statement of belief by US Government representative(s). Even the 9/11 commission, convened 441 days after the WTC attack, and working for almost 2 years, did not attribute the attack to bin Laden personally, but to al-Qaeda, an organization which lacks a strict military command structure. While this does not, of course, exclude bin Laden from blame, it more accurately reflects the state of affairs, and illustrates the difficulty in targeting military actions against an amorphous foe. This is a valuable lesson of history of clear relevance to the background for the war. The current statement, on the other hand, is clearly biased and unsupported.

Also, you can not mention debate around Article 51 of the UN Charter, without including why Article 51 is relevant - namely to permit timely defensive military action, while maintaining the UN consensus against waging a "War of agression". I have added the reference. To be complete, moreover, this article should have some reference to relevant articles dealing with the actual debate. Merely mentioning that some debate exists is not sufficient - or particularly neutral.

64.231.235.124 (talk) 18:25, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:War_in_Afghanistan_%282001%E2%80%93present%29" 64.231.235.124 (talk) 18:29, 20 February 2008 (UTC)