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To: epsteinbd who wrote (73422)	2/12/2003 6:44:10 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

He speaks from the skies. A dervich for the masses, a dibbouk for he who fight not the infidel, a golem for the cowards... ...and a tape recording of dubious origin for the rest of us.

To: epsteinbd who wrote (73422)	2/12/2003 6:57:58 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Soon OBL will become a part of the collective unconscious. A bugi-man. I'm presently re-reading a book by a fine author, Eric Hansen, entitled Motoring with Mohammed. The book relates the typical middle-class fantasy of sailing around on a yacht. Well, things got dicey for Hansen's group during a storm, and they shipwreck off a Yemeni island. This takes place in 1978. He buries a sail bag containing his writings accumulated over 7 years of travelling on the beach of this deserted Yemeni island. The group is finally rescued by a crew of goat import-exporters who seem to have a lot more to do with gun-running than goat-selling. Hansen experiences many kindnesses from Muslims in Yemen, including one memorable character who who provides him with a free airline ticket out of Yemen provided that Hansen agree to one day provide someone in need with a similar kindness. Hansen returns to Yemen in 1988 intent on recovering his buried bag which contains his precious writings relating his adventures in Tibet, India, etc. Mohammed is his driver in Part II of the adventure. I have a point..... The Yemeni Muslims Hansen meets in 1978 and ten years later are invariably hospitable to him. There is no sense of threat in the book whatsoever. What's gone wrong, if anything?