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[quote]Originally posted by Joss21:
As far as i know, Bin Laden, supposed leader of the terrorists, is refugiated in Afghanistan.

It is too early to say who is responsible. At this point, some Groups that didn't do it will be claiming responsibility because they wish they had done it. And some Groups that didn't do it may be claiming credit on behalf of Groups they are at odds with, hoping to get their enemies blamed, and retaliated against.

I thought Palestinian people were responsible for this... not Afghanistan
At least who were celebrating were the palestinians

It's very important to remember that Arabs are not all the same. Palestinians are not all the same. Not every Palestinian is a terrorist. Not every Palestinian is anti-US, and even most of the ones that are, separate their hatred of the US government from a basic respect for the US people.

Some are celebrating this grotesque tragedy, but they are not the ones responsible for the crime. They celebrate because it is a strike against the US and US power. The US has supported Israel's brutal 34-year military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. The Palestinian who you see celebrating on TV news is doing so because the Israeli bulldozer that demolished his sister's home Last week was paid for with money handed over by the US government. It is a matter of saying "now the Americans know what it is to suffer, as we do." It's wrong, but that's the way it is.

That make US no better than the terrorists...
Its only a game of "I hit you because I´m greater than you, and you can´t fight back"

That is always the policy of strong nations. Many people in the US, as they mourn this tragedy, will not see the context in which such actions take place. They will blame "the Palestinians" and that will be that.

There are many Groups in the world that hate US power, and some of them have very legitimate reasons for that, even if their methods of fighting US power are the methods of cowards.

I heard comments by one American man-on-the-street about word that the DFLP may have been responsible. He then started raging about Arafat, without realizing that the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine is not the PLO, is not Arafat's group, and in fact is opposed completely to the two-state solution Arafat has been seeking since the early 1990s. Most of the competing Palestinian Groups hate each other, and would kill each other's leaders if they could.

Most Americans, unfortunately, know little of the effects of their government's policies abroad. They make little effort to understand other countries and other people. The same Americans who claim to have a deep, basic mistrust of their own government nearly always believe whatever their government has to say concerning national security matters, or matters of war and peace. It's sad.

Punish the guilty. But do not single out a race or a nationality or a religion for hatred.

Please stop Bush. Is totally crazy.

He's not crazy, merely dumb. This gives him a chance to play President.

But still, he has to do something. The guilty have to be punished.

To all: I have kept my remarks in this post civil. Please remain civil in your flames.


[This message has been edited by Natsef-Amun (edited 11 September 2001).]



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