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To: Zeev Hed who wrote (106)	11/4/2001 2:45:11 PM
From: Alastair McIntosh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 758

Zeev, here is Iqbal's comments on Asad in Syria and the shelling of Hama: Message 16604688 Starting on February 2, 1982 and lasting 27 days, President Asad ordered the shelling of Hama, one of Syria's major cities some 150 miles north of Damascus. According to the Syrian Human Rights Committee that operates outside of Syria a third of the city was completely destroyed. Some 30,000 to 40,000 civilians were killed. Another 15,000 were never accounted for. Why? Only a few months earlier on October 6, 1981, members of the Muslim Brotherhood had assassinated Egyptian president Anwar Sadat. The Brotherhood had been founded during the 1930's in Egypt by Hassan Al-Banna. He allegedly was killed on orders of Egypt's General Gamal Abdul-Nasser. Sadat too was a general and so was Asad. The destroyed district of Hama had become a major center of the Brotherhood in Syria. Clearly Asad struck massively and brutally to prevent the same from happening to him. The present President uncle Rifa'at was the chief enforcer of the Hama massacre. Yet in later years he began to drift towards the Brotherhood. He grew a beard and went regularly to mosque. But this time Hafez decided the Brotherhood could be useful rather than dangerous and himself approached them. He showed his changed attitudes by having Rifa'at placed under house arrest in their home town Latakia on Mediterranean shores.

To: Zeev Hed who wrote (106)	11/4/2001 2:45:44 PM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 758

Zeev, check out this recent article... British Muslim support for terror sunday-times.co.uk Divided loyalties on the home front \| Poll results FOUR out of every 10 British Muslims believe Osama Bin Laden is justified in mounting his war against the United States. And more than one in 10 say the attacks on the World Trade Center were justified, write John Elliott and Maurice Chittenden. A Sunday Times survey, the first large-scale poll of the Muslim community since the start of the bombing campaign against Afghanistan, shows 40% believe Bin Laden has cause to wage war against America and a similar proportion say Britons who choose to go to fight alongside the Taliban are right to do so. Muslim leaders, some of whom said the survey did not reflect mainstream opinion among Britain's 2m Muslims, said they believed the results reflect increasing anger about America's role in the Middle East and central Asia. British Muslims - 1,170 were interviewed outside mosques across Britain - are less convinced about Bin Laden's tactics: only 11% believe there was some justification for the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The Muslims polled were overwhelmingly against the continued American bombing of Afghanistan: eight in 10 believe the action will lead to worsening race relations in Britain. Asked if it was more important for them to be Muslim or British, 68% chose their faith.