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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (921)	5/18/2003 7:54:41 AM
From: rrufff	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

In words to which you would probably relate, eradicating terrorists is like wiping out cockroaches. It may never happen. So long as one misguided soul can be coerced by his handlers to kill innocents, then this "tactic" is deemed effective by those who have no souls themselves. The trend is our friend. Yes, I still agree that the elimination of Taliban, the elimination of Afghani bases, wiping out financial and moral support from Iraq are major victories in the war against terrorism. These horrid individuals only understand force as can be seen by the news today. Yet, with the numbers, progress is being made. Apparently 14 suicide bombers were used in Morocco, 9 in Saudi Arabia. Eventually, like all cults, these numbers will be less and the tools become less useful. We have no choice but to go after the source of terror and we will. We now see what Israel has been subjected to. It is easy to sit behind a keyboard and blame Israel. I suggest that if ChinuSFO and others were subject to terror on a daily basis, their reaction might not be even as muted as Israel's has been. Once the source of these latest attacks has been traced, that will likely be our next target. The regime in Saudi Arabia is now cracking down on Al Queda as it hasn't done before. Morocco has arrested 2 dozen suspects this morning. Neither Saudi Arabia nor Morocco were firmly in the US camp before. They will be now or they will be doomed regimes. You offer no alternative other than capitulation. It won't happen.

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (921)	5/18/2003 10:55:19 AM
From: rrufff	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

Terrorists may do our work for us. In their stupidity and cowardice, they may be wiping out any support they have in the Arab world. What follows is NOT from the Jerusalem Post but the ARAB NEWS. THE ENEMY WITHIN aljazeerah.info The Enemy Within, Arab News 14 May 2003 Words are inadequate to express the shock, the revulsion, the outrage at the suicide bombings in Riyadh. Are expatriates working here an army of occupation, to be slaughtered and terrorized into leaving? This was an undertaking of sheer evil. Life — be it the life of Muslims, of Saudis, of Westerners, of anyone — is sacred, a gift from God. It was targeted as much against Saudi Arabia as against Westerners — not just because Saudis and Westerners alike have been killed and maimed but because the prime aim of those responsible for this despicable crime is to create panic and terror. Those responsible are the new fascists. Merciless, cold and full of hate, with a demented vision of Islam, they declared war on humanity for the thoroughly un-Islamic goal of separating and insulating the Muslim world from the rest of humanity, as part of which they hope to terrorize Westerners into leaving the Kingdom. They have no qualms about killing anyone who gets in their way; they spread hatred and resentment, not peace; yet they have the blasphemous effrontery to claim that they do God’s work. They make a mockery of Islam, an open, inclusive faith. We have to face up to the fact that we have a terrorist problem here. Last week’s Interior Ministry announcement that 19 Al-Qaeda members, 17 of them Saudis, had planned terrorist attacks in the country and were being hunted was a wake-up call — particularly to those who steadfastly refuse to accept that individual Saudis or Muslims could ever do anything evil, who still cling to the fantasy that Sept. 11 and all the other attacks laid at the doors of terrorists who happen to be Arab or Muslim were in fact the work of the Israelis or the CIA. For too long we have ignored the truth. We did not want to admit that Saudis were involved in Sept. 11. We can no longer ignore that we have a nest of vipers here, hoping that by doing so they will go away. They will not. They are our problem and we all their targets now. It goes without saying that those responsible, those who poisoned the minds of the bombers, those who are planning to become bombers, must be tracked down and crushed — remorselessly and utterly. But crushing them will not be enough. The environment that produced such terrorism has to change. The suicide bombers have been encouraged by the venom of anti-Westernism that has seeped through the Middle East’s veins, and the Kingdom is no less affected. Those who gloat over Sept. 11, those who happily support suicide bombings in Israel and Russia, those who consider non-Muslims less human than Muslims and therefore somehow disposable, all bear part of the responsibility for the Riyadh bombs. We cannot say that suicide bombings in Israel and Russia are acceptable but not in Saudi Arabia. The cult of suicide bombings has to stop. So too has the chattering, malicious, vindictive hate propaganda. It has provided a fertile ground for ignorance and hatred to grow. There is much in US policy to condemn; there are many aspects of Western society that offend — and where necessary, Arab governments condemn. But anti-Americanism and anti-Westernism for their own sake are crude, ignorant and destructive. They create hate. They must end. Otherwise there will be more barbarities.