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To: robnhood who wrote (123978)	9/19/2001 7:14:20 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

rrman, it is amazing to me how twisted reports could be. Let's stop for a little and think straight -- most oil producing Arab countries have a extraction cost of around $2 to $3 and around $1 to $2 in transportation costs. Based on an average cost of $25 those countries pocket $20 per barrel. As such their income are something like $320 billion per day. Now let me thing - as an example all arabs calling themselves palestinians are less that 4 million, paying them $5 per capita per day will add to a meager $25 million per day Keep in mind $320 billion vs. $25 million !!!! less than 0.01% of revenue. Afghanistan - 25 million people earning $800 a year or around $2.75 a day. Doubling those people income is $2.75 x 25 million a day which adds to the paramount amount of $70 million a day Who were those countries to help their brothers as guided in the Koran ?? Why should the US or any other country for that matter be responsible for people that are used by other Arab countries as a bargaining chip be responsible??? Syria, Iraq, Jordan Egypt, Lebanon and most Arab countries have lows in place than they can not own land or even have their citizenship. On the other hand the US, Israel and many other countries offered to many permanent residence, citizenship, education health care. rrman get the facts not all on the Internet is true or innocent. Propaganda and twisting of facts is abundant those days. IDKTFF Haim

To: robnhood who wrote (123978)	9/20/2001 3:03:58 AM
From: steve susko	Respond to of 436258

Interesting article but a very flawed argument. US intervention in the Middle East against Iraq is not entirely based solely on US interest, although it was a factor. What ever propaganda the writer believed, Kuwait citizens were being slaughtered by Iraqi military in a clear cut act of invasion by one country over another soverign country. The 70,000 Iraqi soldiers, sorrowfully, died at the hands of Saddam, as he had knowingly delivered them to the much superior US military. And the suicidal terrorists are not the abandoned hopeless souls left in the refugees camps at the worst of battle grounds, records so far show that they are relatively well off middle east citizens of very wealthy oil countries, often the ones given expensive overseas college education in Europe, such as the one that studied urban planning in a Univeristy in Germany. Given rumors that these terrorist network cash in big by shorting airline and insurance stocks after the horrific event, they must be very wealthy people jetsetting all around the world, living a very luxurious life. The Afghan, especially the Afgan people, are unfortunate victims, of these terrorists who are paying very low rent for the luxury of using the country as their head quarter; so their expensive villas all over Europe will escape the attention of the world.