Some points to remember in the days ahead:

* A former Pakistani diplomat has told the BBC that the US was planning military action against Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban even before last week's attacks.

* Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani Foreign Secretary, told the BBC that he was told by senior American officials in MID-JULY that military action against Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of October.

* Mr Naik said U.S. officials told him of the plan at a UN-sponsored international contact group on Afghanistan which took place in Berlin. Mr Naik told the BBC that at the meeting the U.S. representatives told him that unless Osama Bin Laden was handed over swiftly, America would take military action to kill or capture both Bin Laden and the Taliban leader, Mullah Omar.

* The wider objective, according to Mr Naik, would be to topple the Taliban regime and install a transitional government of Afghans in its place - possibly under the leadership of the former Afghan King Zahir Shah.

* Mr Naik was told that Washington would launch its operation from bases in Tajikistan, where American advisers were already in place.

* He was told that Uzbekistan would also participate in the operation and that 17,000 Russian troops were on standby.

* Mr Naik was told that if the military action went ahead it would take place before the snows started falling in Afghanistan, by the middle of October at the latest.

* He said it was doubtful that Washington would drop its plan even if Bin Laden were to be surrendered immediately by the Taliban.

* So the attacks in the United States were a remarkable "co-incidence" given that they gave the U.S. and it's Illuminati allies the excuse they needed to do what they had been planning for so long at the very time they planned to do it.

* The biggest UK military force deployed since the Falklands War left for the Middle East a week before the U.S. attacks and therefore is now in precisely the right place to be used in a war against Afghanistan and other targets which have been blamed without evidence for the U.S. atrocities.