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To: jim black who wrote (23000)8/24/2002 12:46:20 AM
From: elmatador  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74559
 
This is the engagement: The Arabs will pull the money out of the US. Total boycott to US consumer goods in a market of about 1.5 billion people. No Boeing sales, no NT, no LU, no MOT sales.

Uh,, it looks these action will be very good business for the Europeans.



To: jim black who wrote (23000)8/26/2002 8:44:31 PM
From: pezz  Respond to of 74559
 
<< Mecca and Medina, same hour, same day, with a messenger to the UN..."Who's next? >>

Well....um...ahem...Yes that would make'em hate us alright for a coupla centuries...Gotta watch out for that as the balance of power could change in a few short decades ....Stranger things have happened....But I do agree that Bush wuz to easy on'em. I do think respect is preferred over fear and hate BWTFDIK?



To: jim black who wrote (23000)5/14/2003 2:49:48 AM
From: elmatador  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74559
 
<<"What matter if they hate us so long as they fear us?">>

Message 17914306

30 Die in Riyadh Suicide Attacks
Mohammed Alkhereiji, Arab News Staff
arabnews.com
JEDDAH, 14 May 2003 — In all 30 people, including seven Americans and nine suspected bombers, were killed in the suicide attacks in Riyadh Monday night, according to the Saudi Interior Ministry. “Twenty-one people were killed in the car bombs in Riyadh last night,” the statement read out on Saudi television said. “Nine charred bodies were also found at the sites, and they are believed to be those of the terrorists.” The statement also said 194 people had been wounded in the synchronized massive car bomb blasts...

I think they don't fear, but I think they hate still more now than last August.