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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (5989)9/27/2006 8:39:59 PM
From: American Spirit  Read Replies (1) of 224744
 
LIAR! AL Qaida did not exist until about 1994. It was not known to exist by the US until about 1995. Before 1994 it was just a few guys sitting around with Bin Laden fuming about US bases left in Saudi Arabia after the Gulf War. Maybe they took a few shots here and there, maybe they were even involved in the firt WTC attack, but they were not yet an organization. That didn't happen until the mid 90's and it took us at least a year to find out enough about them to blame them for anything.

There is no evidence whatsoever that a single fighter in Mogadishu was an Islamic fundamentalist. Al Qaida fighters are Muslim extremists not thugs for warlords. Any possible connections with Bin Laden in Somalia were unknown at the time and highly questionable even now. However, under Bush Somalia has indeed fallen into the hands of AL Qaida connected Islamic extremists. That is for sure.
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