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[mackthefork]

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Terrorism is simply another form of war.


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And Zarqawi is a "Jordanian Fighter," huh?

Terrorism is a ruthless, barbaric form of warfare that kills innocent people.

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We call it collatoral damage when we do it to them.

Mack

[fluxrad]

As much as I hate Bush and am annoyed at Blair's lapdog-like attitude towards him, I must say that I didn't even feel the need to read the article. It is absolutely assinine to assume the root cause of the blast before the culprits have even been determined. It's a fair bet that this was perpetrated for the exact same reasons as the Madrid bombings, but assigning motive where there is not even a defined villain yet is simply political posturing.

Hell. This could have been the friggin' IRA for all we know.

[Cyrus]

Osama bin Laden is no more a true representative of Islam than General Mladic, who commanded the Bosnian-serb forces, could be held up as an example of Christianity. After all, it is written in the Qur'an that we were made into different peoples not that we might despise each other, but that we might understand each other.

Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies.

Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Al-Qaida, literally "the database", was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians.

Inexplicably, and with disastrous consequences, it never appears to have occurred to Washington that once Russia was out of the way, Bin Laden's organisation would turn its attention to the west.