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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (5491)	4/16/2003 3:41:33 PM
From: Rollcast...	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 15987

Abbas method of prosecution should be interesting... Military tribunal or domestic court??? Assuming military tribunal at this point. ps: ROFLMAO btw, looks like you hit JohnM's wealth redistribution nerve. Interesting how Faultline looked the other way when his fellow academic attacked you. If the posts had been reversed FL would have thrown you immediately. Speaking of less than subtle hypocrisy... JohnM is an extraordinary example of current academic political double standards and bias. I no longer have any doubt his classroom must be an utter subliminal advertisement of his political views. Although I am sure each indoctrination session is disguised by an appropriate level of politically correct "nuance"... much like his posts. He doesn't deserve to carry the title "professor".

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (5491)	4/17/2003 5:21:20 AM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

Here is a little piece about Abu Abbas inserted in the Congressional Record in 1990 by all of people Barney Franks. Barney could not constrain himself and had to fire a shot at the president while he was making his points. I am not familiar with his stance on the current war....But he should luv it. fas.org One such group--Abu Abbas' Palestine National Front--mounted what was intended to be a spectacularly bloody massacre on May 30, when six armed speedboats made for Israel's crowded Mediterranean beaches. They were intercepted, fortunately, in the nick of time. The Bush-Baker dialogue, we have argued before, is worse than dishonest, it is dangerous. By greeting each new act of terrorism with an unfulfilled threat to end the dialogue, the Americans merely signal that further attacks will be winked at, too. The result is a climate more, not less, hospitable to terrorism. Following last week's near-atrocity--two years in the planning, Abu Abbas said--the State Department is making threats again: The PLO must condemn the Abu Abbas raid and expel those responsible or the dialogue will be halted. But Arafat and Abu Iyad no longer worry about State's idle warnings. `We are not responsible, as the PLO, for this operation,' Arafat said, declining to so much as criticize Abu Abbas, let alone expel him from the PLO. Americans know Abu Abbas as the evil mastermind behind the Achille Lauro hijacking, in which the elderly Leon Kling-hoffer was shot dead in his wheelchair and thrown over the side of a cruise ship. (`Maybe he was trying to swim for it,' Abu Abbas cracked.) But to Arafat & Co., Abu Abbas is a comrade in arms, an honored leader of the Palestine National Council (the PLO's `parliament'), and a member of its executive committee. Why would they turn against him? He, like they, is in the terrorism trade. Unchastened, Abu Abbas threatened last week: `This operation is the beginning.' Unlike Bush and Baker, he intends to keep his promise.