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To: margie who wrote (8896)	10/14/2001 2:54:50 AM
From: Thomas M.	Respond to of 17683

It is not morally acceptable to slaughter 5000 innocent civilians and it is not morally acceptable to massacre 21 15-16 year old teens at a Tel Aviv disco; or 15 Israelis including 6 babies at a Sbarro Pizzeria in Jerusalem. Correct. (On Lou Dobbs, the prince said: “America's blind alliance and favoritism to Israel is not helping a lot, because you have to understand that those Arab people watch Palestinians every day being slaughtered in the tents.) lying sob Strange. Why do you pity the dead Israeli and American victims, but not the Palestinian victims of Israeli/American violence? Are you among the 40% of the Israeli population that "justified" or "understood" Baruch Goldstein's Hebron massacre, in which he slaughtered 29 Palestinians in a mosque? washington-report.org Tom

To: margie who wrote (8896)	10/14/2001 12:08:49 PM
From: james-rockford	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17683

... conversations between members of the Saudi Arabian royal family that were electronically intercepted by the National Security Agency, beginning as early as 1994, "demonstrated to analysts that by 1996 Saudi money was supporting Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda and other extremist groups." The intercepts, Hersh writes, "depict a regime increasingly corrupt, alienated from the country's religious rank and file, and so weakened and frightened that it has brokered its future by channelling hundreds of millions of dollars in what amounts to protection money to fundamentalist groups that wish to overthrow it." By 1996, Hersh reports, Saudi money was supporting Al Qaeda and similar extremist groups in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Yemen, and throughout both Central Asia and the Persian Gulf region. "Ninety-six is the key year," one American intelligence official tells Hersh in the October 22, 2001 issue of the NEW YORKER. Hersh reports that the intercepts have provided several important insights into political and economic affairs in the kingdom, including the extent of the physical incapacitation of King Fahd, the corruption of specific royal-family members, and the funding of fundamentalist groups through charities. The intelligence official tells Hersh that as far as bankrolling fundamentalist groups goes, the Saudis had "gone to the dark side." Current and former intelligence officials suggest, Hersh reports, that the instability of the Saudi regime is "the most immediate threat to American economic and political interests in the Middle East," and that "the Bush Administration, like the Clinton Administration, is refusing to confront this reality." drudgereport.com Bringing 'the Prince' to the WTC was like bringing Hirohito to visit Pearl Harbor. People don't yet get it, this is a War.