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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (5836)	10/17/2001 4:51:55 PM
From: bela_ghoulashi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Muslims killing muslims does not make the news. Presumably it's less of an outrage than anyone else killing them.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (5836)	10/17/2001 8:33:52 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Respond to of 281500

Try one hundred thousand estimated dead since 1991. And no one has paid attention, least of all the Arabs. I lived recently in France and still follow European francophone news. It's almost a banal nightly news item, another dozen or twenty or whatever killed by Islamists, day in, day out, after several years it really starts to add up! They don't report the killings by corrupt police forces working for the corrupt government in place. Today is the 40'th anniversary of the mass killing by French police who put down an Algerian demonstration in Paris. The police fired into the crowds, everyone was herded into busses while getting clubbed. There was never a tally of the number dead... this was in response to the 10 or so French police who had been assassinated by terrorists in France during the epoch. People in Europe and northern Africa in general are well aware of what's going down in Algeria. But nobody is willing to lift a finger. Least of all the French, who don't want another round of Metro bombings like 1995-1997 for daring to meddle with things there. I was on the RER B line about 3 hours before a bomb went off at the Port Royal station in 1997 during that series. It's a strange feeling to be in a luxury department store with soldiers carrying assault weapons mingling with the crowds. It's not particularly fun.