1- It is important to remember that the CIA trained and financed Bin Laden's friends in Afghanistan and blind Islamic cleric Omar Abdul Rahman presently sitting out prison terms for his role in the previous World Trade Center terror attack of 1993. The United States helped these bands of terrorists into the United States, some with false papers, so that they could establish a recruiting center, known as the Al Kifah Refugee Center, in order to help in the struggle against the Soviets in Afghanistan.
El Sayed Nosair, one of the ringleaders who later assassinated Rabbi Meir Kahane was one of these operatives that helped run the Islamic Recruiting Center in Brooklyn that trained and sent many terrorists to Afghanistan. Some of these terrorists remained in the U.S. Some returned. Some participated in the Kahane assassination in 1990 and the World Trade Center bombing in 1993.
For all we know, some participated in last week's horror.
While everyone is talking about Bin Laden we are missing the point. Every American or Israeli attempt that has ever been made to court moderate Islamic sectors or to appease them has only backfired in the most horrific way. Israel helped finance and create the Hizbullah and the Hamas to weaken the PLO, only to learn that they would be even more deadly. The U.S. created these monsters in Afghanistan. The results we all now see.
The U.S. and Israel are making the same foolish error again. Now, Israel places their faith in Arafat to dismantle the "radicals", and the U.S. continues to rely on the moderate state of Pakistan, when Pakistan is the only state to recognize the Taliban regime that harbors Bin Laden.
Similarly, the U.S. continues to place their faith in various so-called Arab moderate states. Will Syria, a state sponsor of terrorism, once again be a part of the U.S. coalition? Relying on Moslem or Arab states or terrorist factions to put down other states and factions will only backfire, once again.
Terror is terror and Islamic fundamentalism continues to fuel the fires of hatred and suicide bombers in Tel Aviv and in New York. There is no difference between Arafat and his Palestinian Authority TV encouraging suicide bombers and brainwashing young to follow the example of the murderous martyrs, or Bin Laden preaching his hate in Afghanistan. There can be no partnership with these barbarians. Anything we do with them or teach them will be used against forces of good and innocent people in the
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