I know I'm kind of dropping a diplomatic cyberbomb here but what's the problem? What's the use of a ''Free Speech'' right if laymen don't use it?
I'm pleased to see that you're intellectually receptive to my French theory --as ugly as it may look. There's so much at stakes in Central Africa! This French article I included in one of my previous posts is really interesting: it sums up very well the local chess game that both the US and France are playing in Africa. Further, with France heavily connected to the Arab world, it's all too easy for its secret services to make up such an operation and to give it a Muslim flavor...
And frankly, I don't see this Omar bin Laden teleguiding all this synchronized bombings from his remote survival camp in Afghanistan's mountains... It would have been easier for him to strike on a closer target (Pakistan, Indonesia or even Egypt).
Talking of hard-to-believe-stories I find the following news much more incredible:
U.S. Company Signs Afghan Telecom Contract
[KABUL--Reuters] A U.S. telecommunications company signed an agreement with Afghanistan's Taleban movement government on Wednesday to install a communication network across the war-torn country, a company official said.
The project would cost more than $240 million and was expected to be completed within three years, Telephone System International (TSI) deputy head Gary Brishinsky told Reuters.
He said the New Jersey-based TSI would provide 80 percent and the Afghan government 20 percent investment for the project, which would be exempted from tax for eight years and would be owned by Afghanistan after 15 years.
The agreement, providing for the biggest foreign investment in Afghanistan after about two decades of civil war, comes at a time when anti-American sentiment is high among Afghans after the August 20 U.S. missile attack on suspected terrorist camps in the eastern Khost area of country.
Brishinsky said the network would be a sophisticated wireless system covering whole of Afghanistan and linking the country to the rest of the world with advanced and standard telecommunication services, including the Internet.
He said TSI had set up telephone networks in African countries and had a good experience in the field.
Helicopters would be chartered to install phone towers on mountains and carry equipment within Afghanistan because of bad war-damaged roads, he said.
Referring to the U.S. State Department advice to Americans against travelling to Afghanistan, he said he felt more secure and safe in Afghanistan than in New York city.
He said he hoped to move to Kabul with his family within a few months and that his project would succeed despite the anti-U.S. feeling in the country.
The project would provide jobs for more than 20,000 Afghans and would be run by Afghan and U.S. technicians,. he said.
He said he was inspired and encouraged by a U.S.-based Afghan to build a communication system in the country nearly two years ago.
"I was giving a speech about building infrastructures in Islamic countries with fundamentalism...and an Afghan encouraged me if we could do anything in Afghanistan," he said.
He said his motto was to bring the world closer to Afghanistan, which he said had been neglected by the United States.
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As you can see, maybe those Taleban folks are not so bad after all!
Anyway, you Americans will soon be able to shout all your hate calls directly to Bin Laden --by dialing his mobile! Err... think twice about it though: TSI might need his militiamen to guard its operating facilities in the country... You don't want to piss off the foreign security manager of a US company, do you?
Regards,
Gustave. |
