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To: SirRealist who wrote (40721)	9/25/2001 12:58:43 AM
From: Smart_Money	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Saudis in Flight 22 September: King Fahd Bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia has been secretly flown out of the kingdom to his palace in Geneva, Switzerland. DEBKAfile reports this breaking news exclusively from its Gulf and Middle East sources. The royal mobile hospital fitted aboard Boeing 757 HZ-HMED landed in the private VIP section of Geneva airport Wednesday afternoon, September 19. A palace conclave led by Crown Prince Abdullah, who effectively rules the kingdom, decided to remove the chronically ailing monarch to safety, fearing he might be stranded in the middle of a military crisis arising from the impending US offensive in the region. The royal hospital plane was accompanied by another craft of the royal flight carrying the king?s family and entourage. The possibility of a major terrorist attack on the royal palaces being sparked by the outbreak of hostilities was also taken into account in Riyadh. A group of princes was therefore carried to a safe place in the additional fleet of 10 royal aircraft that ferried members of the Saudi royal family to Geneva. More than a dozen Mercedes waited on the tarmac of Geneva International Airport to collect the royal arrivals.

To: SirRealist who wrote (40721)	9/25/2001 11:31:32 AM
From: j g cordes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

SR.. our search for answers must eventually face the tough questions. "The world is getting smaller" is a common phrase usually describing how faster travel and coummunications shorten distance and time. However, the result of a smaller world, as we have seen through the twentieth century, is greater conflict over values and cultural eminent domain. Why? Because every area around the world has an indigenous cultural momentum of its own.. comprising its own religious values, how trade is done, how families are structured, how law and rights are arrived at, how their values should be accepted by others, how commerce and property are pursued, how strangers are perceived and delt with. Time and distance no longer offer protection, they are rolled over by uncontrollable waves of foreign culture and beliefs. In the West we internalize cultural change through business and consumerism. Its the great engine of cultural digestion. Its also what many cultures find so fearful and rightly so. The key challenge going forward is how reactions to cultural change around the world become translated into an ethic of common benefit and peach instead of war and killing? If we don't answer and find a solution for that, then the problems of alienation and blind rage will only continue. We've asked here, when will the Islamic rennaisance will occur? We must believe it is occuring now and support those voices. Think of the challenge such a question poses. Opening the door to self exploration and new cultural expression also opens the door to permanantly changing the present... to accomodating others values. The world of Islam as we can see, is polarized between many internal and external forces. Battles are raging for the hearts and minds of future generations. To meet the minority militant call to arms, Islam itself must rise to contain and fight its own civil war for freedom of expression and individual rights. So not only is there an American child asking "Why do they hate us..," there is a child in Afghanistan and others in every country asking the same question. I don't know the answer. Terrorism is murder and it is form of war that is indiscriminate, therefore against humanity. No nation state can be allowed the charade of making war in this disguise. But every nation state and religious cause must also answer that childs question such that no child anywhere needs to ask it.. Jim