On Sat, 15 Sep 2001 jamesd@echeque.com wrote:
-- On 14 Sep 2001, at 10:57, !Dr. Joe Baptista wrote:
James - I find your statements incredible. America is being attacked for being rich and free? I don't think so
If these people are arabs - and i still don't have any proof of that - then we can assume they blew up the WTC in protest of americas support of terror and antidemocratic institutions - i.e. the palestinian israel problems.
Those terrorists origins that have been reported so far come from parts of the arab world that are very far away from Israel -- and also far away from the oil.
Which is an irrelevant point for both of your positions. The conflict is one of fundamental belief and past actions. It crosses national boundaries. To say (as James is implying) that Pakistani's don't talk to both Afghani's and say Syria is simply irresponsible, as well as wrong.
Don't forget James - if in fact Bin Landen is involved in this then the facts remain that the US Government sponsored and assisted him during the Russian occupation of afganistan.
No the US government did not, though it surely would have had he showed any concern about Afghanistan earlier.
He did, he fought during the Russian invasion (I've sent a URL to a reference seperately). It's almost certain he at some point used US supplied arms.
Bin Laden hates freedom,
No, he just uses a different incompatible definition than you. For example one of his complaints is that he is not given the freedom to move the godless (eg US forces) out of the holy lands of Syria (eg Mecca and Medina). One solution, only send Muslim US service men. You got any idea how much good will something like that would buy?...Priceless -- ____________________________________________________________________ natsugusa ya...tsuwamonodomo ga...yume no ato summer grass...those mighty warriors'...dream-tracks Matsuo Basho The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------