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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (142967)	8/11/2004 11:07:39 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Respond to of 281500

I saw him on TV stating as much in response to a question by a reporter.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (142967)	8/11/2004 11:38:30 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Respond to of 281500

Here is another example of our fearless leader's eloquent grasp of political concepts. It is a brief audio. majorityreportradio.com

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (142967)	8/12/2004 5:58:23 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 281500

<But I say that symbols are mighty empty when they don't have the financial resources to attract multitudes of followers. If you want to defeat terrorism, defeat the sources of finance that facilitate and support it. And that's in the oil countries of the Persian Gulf.> Hawk, the world is rich in irony. The IRA terrorists enjoyed cash flow from Americans. Osama destroyed the Twin Towers and put paid to that support, with such terrorist donations actually illegal now. So the victims of the IRA could rightly be glad that Osama caused that financial flow to be heavily reduced! Almost certainly, Osama's gang even killed some IRA supporters in the Twin Towers as a lot of Irish American firemen were caught in the attack and hopefully some of them were IRA supporters and not all innocent victims. Irony galore. There hasn't been so much IRA terrorism in recent years. Good riddance. Now, Osama's lot is being decimated and decimated again. Osama's preparing the last gasp attack which is to be bigger than the Twin Towers attack. He'd better make it bigger and better because if it's a fizzer, his reputation will go down the gurgler. I suspect he's done his dash and I don't think my fears of a nuclear explosion are well-founded, judging from the public information on what's been going on. So he'll have to try to load up apartment buildings [say they rent fifth floor apartments in 100 buildings] with explosives. Each day, as they come home from 'work' they have another briefcase full of explosive, or supermarket bag, or carton, which they stack in the spare bedroom. In a couple of years, they could have stacked up quite a lot of cartons, which wouldn't attract a lot of attention going into an apartment building. Their "moving days" could have included a lot of cartons of explosive, maybe with some toxic chemicals to panic people. Having the explosions on upper floors, means the columns supporting the buildings above that point are weaker and as they found in the Twin Towers, if they can get a collapse going, they use the weight of the building against itself. So the optimum height would not be the ground floor, but actually about 3/4 up the building. Once the top floors collapse, the lower ones can't support the cascading mass with increasing momentum. In the first Twin Towers attack, where they bombed the basement, they learned that the huge columns were too tough so they made a mess, but failed to topple the buildings. Osama is obviously better at religious fanaticism and terrorism than civil engineering! Maybe all 10 storey or higher apartment buildings should be searched to ensure there isn't a stack of cartons, or drums of diesel oil and ammonium nitrate or something, in a bedroom. I suppose the stack of cartons would not need to be all that big, judging by Tim McVeigh's Ryder truck explosion. Residents of all apartment buildings would, I'm sure, be happy to have premises inspected for Islamic Jihad with bombs. I'd be happy to show a policeman around our apartment to ensure my building didn't come down. Mqurice PS: Maybe an inspector nominated by the apartment building residents would be better than a policeman as there wouldn't be the suspicion that the policeman would get distracted by drugs or something else in an opportunistic way.