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To: NickSE who wrote (43915)	3/31/2003 6:59:16 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

Comments on the headlines today (a) Hosni Mubarak thinks that the conflict in Iraq would create a 100 more Bin Laden. Clear sign of moral equivalence that OBL is a product of inequities and American foreign policy. Jack Straw, the day before yesterday, discussed at length about the double standards of the American foreign policy in relation to the statehood of the Palestinians and there are some genuine grievances but OBL is not a product of Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He had scores to settle with the Al-Saud dynasty. The Islamic population at large casts a blind eye towards injustices and terror infested despots. Mullah Omar and Osama Bin Laden, or presently Saddam, are supported by the icons of political Islam because they rejuvenate the dreams of the era when Islam was preeminent throughout the known world. The emergence of hundred OBLs is possible with or without the conflict in Iraq. Rather the removal of such centers of instability, such as Iraq, will only help eradicate the state sponsorship of terrorism. If Hosni Mubarak is really sincere and aims to stem the tide of self pity and self-flagellation within Islam, which perceives the West as the greatest enemy of Islam, he should encourage pluralism and freedom within his own nation, Egypt. It is implausible that a nation like Egypt, with such a deep sense of history and culture, and produce Nobel Laureates like Najeeb Mahfouz should have the same president since Sadaat and moreso with a very questionable kind of democratic credentials. It is this lack of a democratic framework that breeds OBLs and without any genuine expression of dissent the Arab societies, or any subdued undemocratic tyranny, will produce extremist terrorists. So a free Iraq, where the population will have an active say, and will not have to live on meager resources will have a future to look at. This statement, made to placate his own population rather than deliver any genuine insight, ranks a poor C! It would have been far much better if he would have highlighted of the poor Arabs of the marshlands who live like Sub-Saharan Africans, despite sitting on top of 50bn barrel of oil. It is these poverty stricken and opportunity-less milieu that will produce disenchanted youth who will find refugee in the opium of ideology.