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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: D.Austin who wrote (5587)	3/13/2004 2:44:19 AM
From: Don Earl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

<<<Just stopped by to offer some more intellectual nourishment for your conspiracy....>>> Unfortunately, I generally don't consider opinion pieces to be "intellectual nourishment". There was very little real information in the article you posted. For example: <<<Civilians have rarely been targets, save for ETA's worst attack in Barcelona, when a bomb killed 21 people in a grocery store in 1987. A car bomb almost killed Aznar during elections in 1995. But ETA violence has always been very selective and strategic, save for the few instances like Barcelona.>>> "Terrorism" has become a popular tag in the media to describe any group fighting a war without the benefit of taxing someone to support the cost. Once upon a time the media had enough of a vocabulary to accurately describe persons in that category as "militants". Since they're out manned and out gunned, the only option available is to fight a guerilla action. For groups like ETA and al Quaida, hitting civilian targets is worse than useless. It hardens public opinion against their cause, and does absolutely nothing to hurt their real enemies. You're drooling like Pavlov's dog. Hear a loud noise? Yell al Quaida!!! Heaven forbid you should ever use your brain and ask the one question responsible for solving every crime in human history. "Who benefits from this?" welfarestate.com In Osama bin Laden's own words: <<<I have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States. As a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie. I had no knowledge of these attacks, nor do I consider the killing of innocent women, children, and other humans as an appreciable act. Islam strictly forbids causing harm to innocent women, children, and other people. Such a practice is forbidden ever in the course of a battle.>>> khilafah.com