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To: Road Walker who wrote (269884)	1/24/2006 4:04:15 PM
From: Taro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572208

I just have to wonder why those copy-and-paste posts of our super libs are always that long while the cooks from "the other" side are at the most a few lines. Quantity beats quality??? I don't think so. The libs and their socialist fellas think so. In particular so the FL leftists. LOL Taro

To: Road Walker who wrote (269884)	1/25/2006 7:35:04 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572208

This wealth of information creates a new picture about what is motivating suicide terrorism. Islamic fundamentalism is not as closely associated with suicide terrorism as many people think. The world leader in suicide terrorism is a group that you may not be familiar with: the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka. This is a Marxist group, a completely secular group that draws from the Hindu families of the Tamil regions of the country. They invented the famous suicide vest for their suicide assassination of Rajiv Ghandi in May 1991. The Palestinians got the idea of the suicide vest from the Tamil Tigers. I just got done pointing that out to CJ although I didn't know the TT were marxist. RP: I have collected demographic data from around the world on the 462 suicide terrorists since 1980 who completed the mission, actually killed themselves. This information tells us that most are walk-in volunteers. Very few are criminals. Few are actually longtime members of a terrorist group. For most suicide terrorists, their first experience with violence is their very own suicide-terrorist attack. What also has been found is that suicide bombers are often depressed and discouraged with their lives. They are not able to find work and to creat full lives for themselves. At least some of the blame falls on their country's oppressors. If Palestine is typical, unemployment tends to be high and very little job creation is possible. ted

To: Road Walker who wrote (269884)	1/26/2006 10:13:51 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572208

Worth highlighting a couple passages. I believe our job is done in Iraq. It's not time to leave asap. We've done all we could do. Now it's up to the Iraqis themselves.... The purpose of a suicide-terrorist attack is not to die. It is the kill, to inflict the maximum number of casualties on the target society in order to compel that target society to put pressure on its government to change policy. If the government is already changing policy, then the whole point of suicide terrorism, at least the way it has been used for the last 25 years, doesn’t come up.... I think it depends not exclusively, but heavily, on how long our combat forces remain in the Persian Gulf. The central motive for anti-American terrorism, suicide terrorism, and catastrophic terrorism is response to foreign occupation, the presence of our troops. The longer our forces stay on the ground in the Arabian Peninsula, the greater the risk of the next 9/11, whether that is a suicide attack, a nuclear attack, or a biological attack.