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To: lorne who wrote (2812)	11/11/2003 9:10:50 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3959

Lorne, you and I have had the fundamental difference of opinion in that I have maintained that terrorism of the kind we have been witnessing recently has nothing to do with the Islam religion. This editorial is from Gulf News, a Saudi daily. Show no mercy to terrorists 10/11/2003 The terrorist attack on a housing compound in Saudi Arabia, leaving 11 people dead, is yet another proof that the perpetrators of the attack are outside any recognisable political agenda. They are using the horror of carrying out random killings without reason or motive as a way to enact their own appalling vision of where they want the world to go. There can be no pretence that the cause is neither related to a genuine Muslim cause, nor that it has a political agenda driving it. It is a purely terrorist act, worse still it was committed during the holy month of Ramadan. Over the past few weeks, there have been several warnings that an attack was likely, and the residential compound that was attacked had tens of guards protecting it. But despite these precautions, the attackers were able to get through and set off their bomb with terrible effect. It is clear that the Saudis will have to improve their state of readiness to be able to cope with such attacks. They can no longer be regarded as remote possibilities, but have to be regarded as a likely event. Security checks, scans of people and vehicles, regular use of sniffing equipment, are only a few of the procedures that will be required to become part of general life in order to defeat the terrorists, as so many other countries have done. Good intelligence is also very important to find out who is in the terrorist groups, and where they are planning to attack. In the past few months the Saudis have had some genuine successes in arresting some of the terrorists, and have also killed a few in gun battles. However, such groups are notoriously difficult to penetrate, and it is clear that they are still active. The challenge of defeating terrorism will remain a domestic priority for Saudi Arabia (and any other country in the region) for many years to come. The fight against terror has to be on several fronts at once. The implementation of better and more rigorous security has to go along with a political initiative to isolate the terrorists. The recent bombings have destroyed the vague willingness of some to sympathise when the attacks were on western targets. The recent attacks were on targets in Saudi Arabia, and killed Muslims. The terrorists are clearly only terrorists. They deserve only to be hunted down, arrested, and imprisoned. gulf-news.com

To: lorne who wrote (2812)	11/11/2003 10:40:41 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 3959

Lorne, you and I have diametrically different perspective of the current "Islamist" war. Here is an interesting read from a SA daily. It is a reprint of a original from LA times and is written by an American journalist. Placing political Islam in its overall perspective By James Klurfeld 05/11/2003 There is increasing talk these days of a new force in the Muslim world called political Islam. It is a movement, say some Middle East watchers, that explains not only much of the hostility aimed at the United States' presence in Iraq but the more general hostility coming from that part of the world toward everything associated with the United States, period. Read the rest by clicking: gulf-news.com