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To: John Carragher who wrote (15861)	11/11/2003 8:38:23 AM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793743

Their idea of diversity is laughable. These people have no idea of what is going on in America.

To: John Carragher who wrote (15861)	11/11/2003 9:46:23 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793743

The UN and the Internet - Reason Placing the Internet under UN auspices "is now firmly on the international agenda," reports the Financial Times. Such nations as Brazil, India, South Africa, China, and Saudi Arabia want to dump ICANN and the current model of minimal regulation and commercial development. Writes the FT, "The critics argue that the internet is a public resource that should be managed by national governments and, at an international level, by an intergovernmental body such as the International Telecommunications Union...." The issue will be addressed next month at an information summit in Geneva, though it won't be resolved there. International information bureaucrats hope to have an accord by 2005. reason.com

To: John Carragher who wrote (15861)	11/11/2003 12:10:58 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793743

Egypt has been the Fountainhead of the Terrorists since the 1920s. Egypt's Dangerous Game By Michael Meunier FrontPageMagazine.com \| November 11, 2003 While the U.S. and its allies are fighting Islamist ideology and terror, Egypt, a supposed Western ally, is drastically undermining their efforts. In an alleged attempt at "historic reconciliation," President Mubarak has recently released Egypt's most notorious and dangerous Islamist leaders, along with over 1,000 of their cohorts. Among the chief leaders of the Gammaa el Islamiya, Karam Zohdi, Fou'ad El-Dawalibi and Assem Abdel-Maged were released last month on the supposition that for the past several years they had taken an active role in the spread of a pacifist ideology within the characteristically violent group. The violent Gamma el Islamiya revitalized their campaign of terror in the 1990s, seeking to overthrow the government and killing hundreds of people, including police, tourists, and their easiest targets – the Christians. During the nineties, the group's attacks on the country's Christians increased in both their brutal and indiscriminate nature. Copts, the Christians of Egypt, whose very existence was viewed by the group as a threat to aspirations for a fundamentalist Islamic state, were assaulted, terrorized and murdered. During this decade, Copts, Jews, and Westerners were systematically targeted as infidels, whose wealth was declared by the group's leaders as forfeit and available for the plundering of the Islamic faithful. Coptic men, women, and children were killed; Coptic businesses ravaged and looted; and Coptic churches bombed and set on fire. This onslaught of violence on Copts in their homes, businesses, and places of worship paralyzed the Coptic community. The government's decision to release the Islamist prisoners allegedly comes on the heels of the government's promise of reform towards democratic dialogue and as a consequence of the group's alleged ideological revision. Leaders of the Gamma el Islamiya have issued statements of repentance, however curiously omitting remorse concerning the Copts, Jews, and Western victims of their campaign of violence. In fact, shortly following Zohdi's release, the group published a book, dedicating it to the "blood of all innocent Muslims who were killed in the [Riyadh] bombing and other similar attacks." The group has even gone so far as to label President Sadat, assassinated at their hands, as a martyr. Yet, the discriminatory Islamist ideology that propelled the group's members to violence against the Copts appears to remain ingrained within its new, revised philosophy. We hear no remorse for the brutality demonstrated against the infidels (Christians and Jews) - they are once again sidelined as acceptable victims of violence. MORE AT frontpagemag.com