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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (5948)	11/9/2003 7:11:33 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15992

Hawk, with the recent bombings in Saudi Arabia, I wonder if the attention that the US Administration has given to Iraq has done anything in the war against terror. Let us go back in time and focus on the US military's assault in Afghanistan, the US having Al-Qaeda on the run during their assault, the Al-Qaeda chatter falling silent etc. etc. And then, the US gives up their pursuit and turns attention to Iraq. Today FOX news is reporting the discovery of Iraq bodies in mass graves. Is that what the US has gone in for? To save the Iraqis from a tyrant of to pursue the Al-Qaeda in the hills and the jagged terrains of Afghanistan/Pakistan border. AlQaeda guys seem to have regrouped and have resurfaced starting with the bombing of the Jordanian embassy and ending with the Saudi bombings. Now folks like you, the Bushies as I would venture to call, are very quick to accuse others like myself that I politicize the issue. What you fail to appreciate is that we do respect all lives except those of the Al-Qaeda. To use Bush's own words, "Smoke them from there foxholes" Surely, there are no foxholes in Baghdad. The SA bombing surely indicates that the war on terrorism, even though it is a long one, has made no headway whatsoever. IMHO

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (5948)	11/9/2003 7:34:03 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15992

‘Reforms Have Nothing to Do With Terrorist Attacks’ Mohammed Alkhereiji, Arab News Staff — JEDDAH, 10 November 2003 — The terrorist attack in Riyadh on Saturday night came in the middle of a heated debate on the Arabic language media in the Kingdom and throughout the Gulf about whether there is a link between terrorism and the reform movement in Saudi Arabia. Mushary Al-Zaidi, a journalist and an expert on radical Islam, said the two issues are being incorrectly aligned in some quarters. “There’s absolutely no relation between the senseless terrorist act that occurred in Riyadh and what might be described as a slow reform process here in the Kingdom,” he told Arab News. “The individuals who committed this atrocity have a fixed agenda, and reform is not an issue for them. These cells have one vision: To remove US troops and all Westerners from the whole of Arabia. They also want to establish a fanatical state like the Taleban. If all reform initiatives had been completed a year ago, these suicide attacks would still have taken place.” Jamal Khashoggi, media adviser to the Kingdom’s ambassador to the UK, agrees. “The reformers and the terrorists have two completely different goals,” he told Arab News from London. “These terrorists are not intent on reform, and their actions should not under any circumstances be considered a means of bringing about change. Basically, they do not want Saudi Arabia to be a part of the civilized world.” “The actions of this suicide cell contribute nothing positive to anything,” said Nawaf Obaid, a security analyst in the Kingdom. arabnews.com