that there are terrorist training camps but I wouldn't expect them to admit it.

Personally I don't trust them nor do I believe them but it is my instinct rather than any facts I have. It may well be that they are to be sacrificial pawns in a game of revenge in that they have so few friends (other than some wild relatives in Pakistan).

If the US has chosen to smash the Taliban they don't have to invade to do it but they do want to make sure they wipe them out as failure to do so might invite more problems than a less effectual strike would achieve.

Anyway, forthis aspect of the future I believ the die is cast.

Cheers

Doug