To: Rob C. who wrote (18673 ) 9/21/2001 8:32:15 PM From: TLindt Respond to of 20297 >>>It would be nice if Checkfree holds the 15 level today. If not, we got below 10. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. That's a statement, after talking to you today...after meeting you personally and pounding down mass quantities. Sounds like you're whipped buddy. What you told me today, what happend that day, what your friends in the Police and Fire Departments bore witness too, the the Friends you lost. You are right hasn't been reported in the press...nor the pictures. It's sick and I'm not going to repeat it, I give what I can brother in your time of need, my shoulder. And to tell you there are more Flags flying in Michigan then you can shake a stick at. The area they hit in New York, 14 15 acres? That's about the size of my backyard, it is. But it wasn't my backyard...it was our soul, our belief in this society to be tolerent of others opinions. That even though you are a Catholic(I assume, cause you are Italian), your partner is a Jew, I'm a Lutheren, my partner is a Seventh Day Adventist...I contribute to the Baptist Church. Why? Cause I don't know all them answers and I'm cover'n my bets. But I'll Tell You this.Osama bin Laden is not only dear to the leader of the Taliban government, Mullah Omar, because he is perceived as a courageous Arab guerrilla fighter who has devoted his life and his wealth to the Islamic, and Afghan, cause, but he is also Omar's beloved son in law, whom he cannot leave in lurch. Bin Laden is believed to have four wives. This personal connection of Omar to bin Laden has the potential to undermine the power of the Taliban leader in a country where the culture and traditions of the Afghans and Arabs are vastly different, in addition to differing Islamic values. atimes.com The Taliban has declared "holy war" on...Russia "Since taking control of most of Afghanistan, the Taliban have declared holy wars against the northern-based, anti-Taliban alliance, Russia and Iran, but never the United States."news.excite.ca Osama bin Laden has declared holly war on the United States. "Several months after Osama bin Laden declared holy war on the United States in August 1996, an Arab journalist trekked up to his hide-out, 8,000 feet high in the mountains of southern Afghanistan."washingtonpost.com So when the Taliban said...and I sent this to Brooks Jackson I expected a response."Doing a little investigation here today...and found this. Deputy chairman of the Taliban Council of Ministers, Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhond said in a government radio broadcast. "I would like to tell my people that our jihad will be formally resuming against the Americans."uk.news.yahoo.com KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement will launch a holy war against the United States, a senior cleric said on the Taliban's Voice of Shariat radio, warning Washington against attacking his country. Officials of the Islamic movement moved quickly to say that the deputy chairman of the Taliban Council of Ministers, Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhond, was not in a position to declare a holy war, or jihad, and a final decision lay with a council of clerics due to convene this week.news.excite.com . Brooks then answer me this, "what is this guy resuming"? Compliments of Winnie the Pooh...." Who's jihad? It's a Father and Son deal. You can't lie and keep your story strait I found that out in my 45 years, see I'm a confessed idiot, but I ain't stupid...I'm Bad and I caught them Dead Nuts..