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The United States and Britain halted the bombing of Iraq . There were no U.S. or British casualties and minimal Iraqi civilian casualties.
Despite the enormous casualties and continued neighborhood blackouts, much of the city was up and running the day after the quake, including major highways and the airport.
They bring an unacceptable increase in the risk of casualties from land mines, sniper fire and brigandage."
He thinks the United States, given the way the war was being fought, should have pulled out in 1968, if only to avert the subsequent casualties that, he argues, wound up weakening America's determination to combat Soviet and Chinese communism.
Such a study, if it actually existed, yields significant insight into the thinking of al Qaeda's leaders: (1) they rejected hijackings aimed at gaining the release of imprisoned comrades as too complex, because al Qaeda had no friendly countries in which to land a plane and then negotiate; (2) they considered the bombing of commercial flights in midair-as carried out against Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland- a promising means to inflict massive casualties; and (3) they did not yet consider using hijacked aircraft as weapons against other targets.