Re: "Differentiate, as Shrubbery apparently fails to, between a government and a terrorist organization."
Ok. Iraq, the country, constituted a terrorist threat.
You're welcome, any time.
Re: "Governments have a military and weaponry so they do not have to resort to terrorist (relatively small actual damage plus big psychological effect ---- by definition) tactics."
I think Iraq had to, not having the conventional military capacity to deliver pain in "conventional" ways to America proper. Iraq supported terrorists organizations as noted by American Spirit(at minimum only, to be sure).
By the by, there is nothing in the definition of terrorism that limits its result to "relatively small damage." You are objectively wrong there. What do you make of that 707 jetliner at a terrorist training camp without a runway, in Iraq?
"Both countries support terrorist cabals and have national airlines of the most modern kind. Iraq is my candidate for such training. Let us remember that Ramsi Yussef, a Pakistani who was a leader in the effort to bring down the World Trade Center in 1993, was traveling on an Iraqi passport. And Iraqi television on September 11 officially cheered the bombings in these words:
"The American cowboy is reaping the fruits of his crimes against humanity. It is a black day in the history of America, which is tasting the bitter defeat of its crimes..."
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"September 23, 2003 | Bill Gertz -Washington Times
Posted on 09/24/2003 6:33 AM PDT by rftc
A terrorist training camp at Salman Pak was shut down by military operations in Iraq, a White House report disclosed last week.
It was the first time that the camp located 25 miles outside of Baghdad had been offically mentioned. A second camp used by the Al Qaeda affiliated group Ansar al Islam was shut down in Northern Iraq.
'Many terrorist groups' used the Salman Pak camp for training, the report stated.
U.S. Officials said that satellite photographs of the camp disclosed a commerical jetliner at the site, an indication that terrorists were using the camp to practice hijacking techniques.
Iraqi military defectors disclosed the existence of the Boeing 707 near a rail track and provided other details prior to US Military Operations.
Some 40 Saudi, Egyptian and Chechan terrorists spent up to five months in training at the camp."
Dan B. |
