Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Slavery Reparations -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (169)	8/31/2002 12:51:22 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 203

Battling Iraq, has nothing to do with the reparations issue, Battling Iraq, Iran, N.Korea, Suadi Arabia and the rest of the terrorist nations can only serve to lessen the evil in the world, making it a more secure place to live. IRAQ will be a cake walk, and is designed to make the other nations that harbor and support terrorism, re think their current positions and topple those leaders who beleive they can take over the world and take away the freedoms from others It's all real simple. Do we allow those who harbor terrorists to continue to sword rattle and sucker punch the other nations of the world or do we as the last remainig superpower take them out and establish peace....? The State Department branded Iran the world's most active sponsor of terror Tuesday as the Islamic fundamentalist state intensified support for Palestinian militants attacking Israel. On the other hand, Libya and Sudan were taking steps "to get out of the terrorism business" and North Korea and Syria took smaller steps in that direction, but continued to host militant groups, the department said in its annual report to Congress. The report named seven states as sponsors of terror, including Cuba and Iraq, the latter concentrating its terror on opponents of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein but also providing bases for anti-Israel terror groups. "The terrorist threat is global in scope, many-faceted and determined," Secretary of State Colin Powell said. "The campaign against terrorism must be equally comprehensive." Releasing the 22nd annual report, Powell said, "Terrorists are trying every way they can to get their hands on weapons of mass destruction, whether radiological, chemical, biological or nuclear." Francis X. Taylor, coordinator of the department's Office to Counter Terrorism, summarized the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States and said, "Additional terrorist attacks are very, very likely." The al-Qaeda terror network is trying to regroup, and "we are very much concerned," he said, despite 1,600 arrests around the world and the uprooting of the group in Afghanistan. In listing Iran, the department said the country has matched rhetoric with action, acting on supreme leader Ali Khamenei's denunciation of Israel as a "cancerous tumor" that must be removed. On the other hand, Libya last year sharply decreased its support for international terrorism, trying to shed its "pariah status," and Sudan also moved toward cooperation with the U.S. campaign against militant groups, the department said in "Patterns of Global Terrorism 2001." Lebanon, which was not listed, nonetheless was accused of refusing to hand over three Hezbollah operatives who are on the FBI's list of most wanted terrorists for their role in the hijacking of a TWA airliner in 1985. Taylor said the State Department had no reason to question the validity of documents provided by Israel that seek to link Yasser Arafat and other senior Palestinian officials to the financing of terror attacks on Israel. "We have not been able to make a final judgment who and how far up in the Palestinian Authority" may have been involved, Taylor said. But he said of Arafat, "We believe he can do much more to control those activities." At the same time, Taylor said Jewish extremists accused in the report of attacking Palestinian civilians were as much terrorists as Palestinian suicide bombers. The report, without elaboration, accuses Israel of destroying the Palestinian Authority's security apparatus, an allegation Israel disputes. Iran is described as the most active sponsor of terrorism. Message 17939377