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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (2683)	8/11/2001 9:02:12 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Looks like Carlos the Jackal and German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer are old comrades in arms. Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the infamous terrorist known as “Carlos the Jackal,” issued a written statement from his French prison cell saying he stored automatic weapons and explosives at the commune Fischer ran with fellow radical Daniel Cohn-Bendit, now a member of the European Parliament. Ramirez said Fischer later ordered the weapons removed and they were taken to another location. Fischer denies any knowledge of Carlos’ weapons. insightmag.com

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (2683)	8/11/2001 2:48:31 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 23908

Gustave, I do not see evidence to support your conclusions. I think your "Byzantine alliance" leaves one very major player out of the calculations...Turkey. Turkey is a rising regional power, coming into a natural alliance with Israel because they share enemies, and is coming to lead the Turkic-speaking states of the Russian "near abroad": Kazakhstan, Kirgikhistan, Uzbekistan, etc. I see no evidence that Russia is "Arabophobic" as you put it, but lots of evidence that Russia is Turkiphobic, and for good reason.

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (2683)	8/12/2001 4:17:30 PM
From: Thomas M.	Respond to of 23908

Reading a fluff piece in today's paper about the clash between Brooklyn blacks and Orthodox Jews, I noticed an interesting comment. At a neighborhood meeting held to clear the air between the two groups, black women complained that the Jewish men wouldn't make eye contact or shake hands. A Jewish women came up with this gem as an explanation: "Often they're praying as they walk down the street; it's not that they don't want to look you in the face. And it's not that they don't want to touch your hand; they won't touch any woman's hand." LOL! This thread and our society as a whole is teeming with people complaining about women's rights in Saudi Arabia and in the back woods of Utah. I can't recall anyone EVER complaining about these religious freaks, though. One reason: people like Cobie running around furiously trying to deny these customs exist. Tom