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To: LLCF who wrote (10419)	9/28/2001 10:19:59 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Not very accurate. We have the French, the Italians, the Spanish and the Scandinavian. Be not mistaken. They are like brothers. You know, like Cain and Abel. And they all have different views on that: The British always jump at every opportunity to do some gunboating. I don't know but it perhaps gives them a spurious feeling of being a world power. Imagine a bunch of soccer hooligans with a assault rifles, you' got the picture. The Germans always like to give a noir view about everything. You read the Der Spiegel in a dark November day and you'd jump out of the window in depression. The French always give a different twist for everything just to prove they are not like the Brits. The Scandinavians are more the types for a peacekeeping force rather than striking. Hey you've got a lot exports going out of those countries and imagine the Peugeot cars, the MAN machinery, the Siemens hospital equipment, the ABB chemical plants, the Framatome power plants, the Airbus planes, the Swiss Bofors cannons you know there is a lot at stake for one country going single minded behind the US.

To: LLCF who wrote (10419)	9/28/2001 11:00:07 AM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

I've found the UK to be as parochial in its media as the US. It only seemed that way after I lived in the US and then returned to the UK and found myself still listening to the BBC World Service :) reading the Economist etc. The mainstream media were more focused on the UK I found or just as bad as the US ones were focused on the US. In both countries I got the feeling that for many people no other countries count. This is of course much less justified in the UK. Statements like "100,000 people a year die of cancer" (or whatever). They mean British people but don't say so. By contrast Australians (and Israelis) always seem aware that this is a small country on the World scene. Australians are likely to say "100,000 Australians a year die fo cancer". Just some thoughts David

To: LLCF who wrote (10419)	9/28/2001 12:24:26 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

The guy is the leader of a bunch that is going to launch a suicide attack. He brings his luggage with his exhortation to his fellow terrorists to be prepared. His luggage is not taken into the plane. This is found and so here's the smoking gun. After leaving flight manuals in Arabic and videos related to flight instructions this is really becoming suspicious. The guys were in a first class one way ticket. They know they didn't need to return. Why they would take luggage along? Pretty soon there will be a record of a phone call from a mobile phone to Kabul from inside the plane and jpeg photo of terrorist with a knife at the throat of a stewardess which they made as a souvenir. Digital camera found under 1 million tons of rubble. Who's going to star this, Leslie Nielsen?