Ordinarily I don't bring discussions I am involved with to this thread, after all I may be the moron. But does the following post really suggest that it was the French who bombed the US Embassies in Africa?
Message 5621308
To: Henry Volquardsen (38 )
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER
Saturday, Aug 29 1998 11:49AM ET
Reply # of 106
Henry,
How can you be so sure about an Arab/Muslim involvement in the Nairobi/Dar
es-Salaam bombing of US embassies? Because the media threw a bogeyman like this
Saudi billionaire to the naive American public?
You know, there's a good term that best defines terrorism: it's twilight. A superpower
like the USA's got a lot of ennemies or rather, opposing/diverging foreign interests.
Do you remember President Clinton's African Tour a few months ago? This was a
milestone event! I can tell you: visiting President Mandela, meeting with newly enthroned
President Kabila in Ruanda. I seem to remember that Clinton even dropped by
Senegal... or was it Cameroun? Anyway, it was the first presidential trip in Africa by a
US President in 20-25 years. Such a seachange! A few months before, Dem. reverend
Jessie Jackson was visiting Kinshasa and a few months after President Clinton's ''safari'',
the CEO of the American Import/Export Bank was landing in Central Africa --another
significant event.
All these bold initiatives of the White House with regard to a region that's always been
neglected by former US administrations --Central Africa that is-- was not suppose to
please the French and, to a lesser extent their traditional European allies in the region.
After all, Clinton was hanging about in France's traditional backyard!! Get the picture?
As Clinton was sadly destabilized by this MonicaGate set-up, rival interests of the USA
all over the world seized the opportunity: from Israel's refusal of the Oslo accord to
Nothern Ireland peace settlement to... Central Africa, Clinton's foreign agenda has been
systematically sabotaged!
The US are trying to shoulder some other foreign corporate interests out of Congo, and
out of Western Africa? BANG! two US embassies in anglosaxon Africa are blown up!
Got the message? Hey! After all, Congo's one of the richest minefield on earth! First
producer of cobalt...
I want you to get me right: I don't claim that there's no Arab/Muslim hostility toward the
US but then again... why Tanzania and Kenya? Why not blowing up the Indonesian US
embassy instead? Is there currently no anti-US feelings in the largest Muslim country in
the world? And then, remember how the Palestinians have reacted to these odious
bombings: they kept a low profile. After all, who has the highest interest in deteriorating
the US/Arab relations? The Palestinians? Iranian leader Khatami? Nope! They struggle
to get back in favor with the US. So, as you can see, these terrorist stories are much,
much more complex than this Hollywood Good, Bad and Ugly-story offered by the
mainstream media!
Regards,
Gustave.
Some of the follow up posts are pretty funny as well. |
