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To: biotech_bull who wrote (71331)	6/9/2008 10:21:16 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542160

Again I disagree - the US had so much good will in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, many moderates in the Muslim world were on our side - not so anymore To the extent that is true (and I think at the least you exaggerate it), it doesn't address the point. Its a statement about the prestige of and opinion about the US, not OBL. Moderates where not behind bin Laden in 2001 and they are not behind him now, but the radicals where emboldened by 2001, and Al Qaeda was seen as powerful for being able to strike the US.