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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (205670)10/13/2006 10:43:15 AM
From: Geoff Altman  Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 281500
 
Not sure how you've gotten from what I said here:

those that actively work towards the deaths of all that don't believe as they do.

to here:

the first is that you assume you know what and why others believe.

I believe "actively" is the key word here. When you capture someone like Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is there really any doubt that he holds a terrorist network in his head and has directly contributed to the deaths of 1000s? He lasted 2 1/2 minutes on the water board before he started spilling the beans, which is about twice as long as most people last. You'd never have gotten any info out of him at all without waterboarding according to the interrogators.