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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (22874)3/31/2002 5:19:24 PM
From: carranza2  Respond to of 281500
 
Terrific post, Nadine.

Perhaps it is best for world stability for some sort of a pressure relief valve to be found to vent Arab frustration with their own global incompetence.

The rage the Arab man-in-the-street must feel against the West has to (or should be) equal to the rage he should feel for the despots and kleptocrats who have routinely robbed him of his future. I still don't understand why the so-called Arab Street doesn't topple its own worthless governments. What the Arab masses need is the following:

1.- Employment

2.- Opportunity

3.- Education

4.- Equal treatment of women

5.- Secular political values

6.- Democracy

Even small measures would make a tremendous difference in the general well-being of the populace. Turkey in the early 1900s was a terrific example.

C2@whereisattaturkwhenyouneedhim.com



To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (22874)3/31/2002 9:18:17 PM
From: Elsewhere  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
<In his whole career from the eighties up until about a year ago, bin Laden never even mentioned the Palestinians.>

Check out

Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders
World Islamic Front Statement
23 February 1998
fas.org

OBL included the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a reason more than three years before 9-11.