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To: KLP who wrote (51213)	10/11/2002 7:44:33 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Europeans might change their minds if a few terrorists take these buildings and citizens down.... Remember that France had a fairly close call with the Algerian terrorists who hijacked a plane with intent to fly it into one of the Parisian buildings (la Tour Montparnasse most likely was their goal.) Luckily once they got the plane on the ground at the Marseille airport to ostensibly refuel, swat teams were able to do their work. This was widely reanalyzed in France after 9/11. And France has had an ongoing series of Islamist terrorist attacks, attempts to derail the TGV trains, etc, not to mention ETA cells and Corsicans blowing up buildings here and there (the Bordeaux town hall was one of their laughing fingers in the face of the French government.) Believe me, they are concerned about these scenarios, despite some appearances, and I'm pretty sure they are equally in Germany or other countries on the continent as well.

To: KLP who wrote (51213)	10/11/2002 9:13:11 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi KLP; Re: "Europeans might change their minds if a few terrorists take these buildings and citizens down. Or a few Cathedrals and other signs of man's progress through the centuries." Seeing what happened to the WTC undoubtedly firmed in European minds the policy of not sticking their hands into the Arab tar baby. That shoe bomber was originally going to attack Israel, but changed his mind and tried to destroy a US bound aircraft. Note that he didn't consider attacking Germany. -- Carl

To: KLP who wrote (51213)	10/14/2002 5:19:07 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I realized the US has been attacked for the first time since Pearl Harbour, and Americans are now coping with the trauma. However, it is just not correct to assume that the rest of the world is not familiar with the pain of meaningless deaths, as caused by the 9/11 incident. Some of us come from countries where malls were blown up, embassies bombed, etc for the better part of our lives. We just had the common sense not to go blanket bombing a country and/or ousting their leader through a military invasion because we suspected their support in the terrorism against us. Why? Because it is just not human to kill several thousand innocent people of another country, just because a terrorist group has killed several thousand people in your own country. It is not human, it is not honorable, it is not fair, and just serves to show that you are no better than the beasts who, for reasons of their own, killed several thousand innocent people. This is why no matter what kind of terrorist acts happen in Europe (and do believe that Europe had more than its fair share of terrorist attacks in the past) the public opinion will not be for invading other countries and/or forcibly changing their regimes. Europeans do not favour playing God.