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From: longnshort	9/30/2004 7:44:50 AM
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Osama's inspiration "The revival of the martyrdom tradition of the assassins had begun during Iran's war with Iraq, when the Ayatollah Khomeini deliberately sent hundreds of thousands of Iranian youths to their deaths in human waves to be sacrifices for the cause. ... "Another stage of its revival occurred in Lebanon, when the Iranian-sponsored Islamic terrorist organization Hizbollah carried out a suicide bombing on a U.S. barracks that killed 243 U.S. Marines in Beirut [in 1983]. The subsequent withdrawal of the Marines without retaliation inspired Osama bin Laden to regard America as a weak adversary. In a 1998 interview, bin Laden told ABC News reporter John Miller, 'We have seen ... the weakness of the American soldier, who is prepared to fight cold wars and unprepared to fight long wars. This was proven in Beirut when the Marines fled after two explosions. It also proves they can run in less than 24 hours, and this was also repeated in Somalia [in 1993].' " — David Horowitz, from his new book, "Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left"

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