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To: RocketMan who wrote (130343)	10/19/2001 8:00:05 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 436258

RM, my speculation is that the anthrax cases are a distraction / deflection from some thing else planed to happen. It may be that is was foiled or just postponed. The fact is that the hysteria around the anthrax achieved the maximum terror possible ......... people are afraid and the US government passed some quite extreme laws in a hurry. The cumulative economic damage of the anthrax scare is as big as the direct damage of the Sept. 11 event. As to the explosive it was stored in a very strategic location IMHO ......... a locker of bus station ....... mostly ignored ....... but only 1 1/2 hour drive from DC or New York. My guess it was planed for a later stage after the security procedure relax a bit. Just thing about, placing it beneath the right floor corner in the right parking lot of the right sky scraper in New York or DC. Very Very clever ..........but luck it was discovered. As to who is doing it I would not like to speculate ........ plainly I do not know. The mere fact that many are confused only ads to the smarts behind the terror action. BWDIK Haim

To: RocketMan who wrote (130343)	10/19/2001 11:08:09 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

More worries - Saudis Have Long Tried to Add U.S. Muslims to the State Religion By building mosques across the country, sending Americans to the Middle East to be trained as imams and promoting pilgrimages to Mecca, the Saudis have spent hundreds of millions of dollars in an effort to stamp their austere version of Islam on the lives of Muslims in the United States. That version is called Wahabism, although the Saudis are loath to use the term in referring to their proselytizing in this country. As practiced in Saudi Arabia, Wahabism denies equal rights to women, and its teachings have inspired the violent extremism of Osama bin Laden and the Taliban government that harbors him in Afghanistan........................... Wahabism says that Islam is the superior religion and must always be so."...............As the Saudis themselves explain, their beliefs reject aspects of Western culture that they see as deviating from fundamental teachings of the Koran............................ religious scholars describe Wahabism as a particularly rigid minority Islamic sect that is intolerant of other forms of Islam, unwilling to accommodate other religions Remember??? the Prince and his $10 million "donation" ?? This article points out what I was posting for many days on SI ............ the Saudis are the problem nytimes.com