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To: E who wrote (8771)	11/3/2001 4:52:59 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Good ideas. I have a simpler implementation. When the Northern Alliance takes Taliban POWs, they should show them American bomb casings greased with pig fat. Tell them it's standard American practice. Then release the POWs to tell their comrades the news.

To: E who wrote (8771)	11/3/2001 4:58:59 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

One is to get Ray Charles to sing God Bless America in Arabic and other local languages and blast it out, very loud, all the time. . . . Or they could reprise the brilliant FBI strategy at Waco and put screaming bunnies on the loudspeakers. Worked real well there.

To: E who wrote (8771)	11/3/2001 8:42:59 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi E; Re pig's blood and Moslems... I've been ignoring this, it seems so, well, juvenile, but maybe somebody out there really believes this BS. If it were possible to use pig parts as an efficient way of influencing Moslem behavior it would have been done millions of times over the past 1400 years. Humans aren't stupid. The crusaders would have noticed this incredible weakness, and would have used pig's blood all over the place. Instead, in my readings of the history of the crusades, I remember no such things. (But I am getting older.) To suggest that Moslems could be so easily influenced is probably a form of racism. At the very least it ignores the contents of the Koran. There was the incident in India where a rumor of the use of pig fat in cartridges contributed to a revolution, but *I don't recall the Moslem rebels refusing to use the cartridges to shoot at the English.* Allah understands necessity. Heck, Allah understands expediency, particularly in warfare. -- Carl