UK News 19-10-2001 who: Tony Blair what: Says campaign has reached "most testing time" where: LONDON when: Yesterday snippet: "US and British troops are getting ready to move into action in Afghanistan," says The Independent, "after the clearest signals so far from Tony Blair and George Bush that a ground war was not only inevitable but imminent." The BBC reports that US special forces are now operating "inside Afghanistan". Meanwhile, in related news, The Guardian says that international development secretary Clare Short has dismissed pleas from aid agencies to halt the bombing of Afghanistan as "emotional". And The Times presents an extensive biography of terrorist Osama bin Laden, written by Ben Macintyre. [... more]

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