Re: Terror and its impact on society.
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Originally posted here by Negative
The States keep pushing on the fact that it is all about nukes. A leaked Pentagon-document showed a couple of weeks ago that the States themselves are willing to use nuclear weapons THEMSELVES against China, Syria, Russia, Iran, Iraq and North-Korea.
If it really was about nuclear weapons, the States should go after North-Korea. That country DOES have nuclear weapons.
It's all about nukes? Yeah right...
I wonder why the USA is so eager to use nuclear weapons all the time? What is terror, if not to threaten countries like China, Syria, Russia, Iran, Iraq and North-Korea to surrender OR ELSE?
How about putting pressure on Israel, Pakistan, India who are also nuclear-capable nations? Oh, I forgot, they are allies to the US. I could be argued that an all-out war between Pakistan and India is more likely than any, other than the US itself, which remains the primary imperialist aggressor in the world today.
Accusing the North Korean nation of being a terrorist nation along the so-called "axis of evil" is also wrong. The North Koreans only want peace, and peaceful re-unification with the South. North Korea has never invaded another country or territory, unlike the US.
-Bjørnar Simonsen-
Here's wot Bin Laden has to say!
Dunno if u've seen it already, and am not sure about how true this actually is.
Agence France-Presse
Doha, November 13
Osama bin Laden hailed the spate of terror attacks in the Arab world and Asia as well as last month's Moscow hostage-taking, and threatened US allies, in an audiotape attributed to him and broadcast by Al-Jazeera TV late on Tuesday.
The speaker lashed out at US President George W Bush, calling him the "pharaoh of the century," and at his key allies, whom he called "murderers."
"As you assassinate, so will you be (assassinated), and as you bomb so will you likewise be," the tape said, against the background of a photograph of the Al-Qaeda terror network's leader, in turban and khaki jacket, a rifle at his side.
In the message to "the peoples of countries allied to the United States," he warned them against the "alliance between their governments and the United States to attack us in Afghanistan."
He cited "Britain, France, Italy, Canada, Germany and Australia."
The supposed bin Laden said: "What has happened since the conquests of New York and Washington up until now -- like the operations on Germans in Tunisia, the explosion of the French tanker in Yemen, on the French in Karachi, the operations against the (US) Marines in Failaka (Kuwait), on Australians and Britons in the explosions in Bali, as well as the recent hostage-taking in Moscow and other operations here and there -- were nothing but the response of Muslims eager to defend their religion and respond to the order of God and their Prophet.
"Australia was warned about its participation (in the war) in Afghanistan and its ignoble contribution to the separation of East Timor (from Indonesia). But it ignored this warning until it was awakened by the echoes of explosions in Bali," the speaker said.
"If you suffer to see your (people) killed and those of your allies in Tunisia, in Karachi, in Falaika, Bali and Amman, remember our (people) killed among the children of Palestine, in Iraq ... and in Afghanistan," the speaker said.
"As you look at your dead in Moscow, also recall ours in Chechnya.
"For how long will fear, massacres, destruction, exile, orphanhood and widowhood be our lot, while security, stability and joy remain your domain alone," he asked.
"What Bush, the pharaoh of the century, did by murdering our children in Iraq and what Israel, the ally of America, did in bombing houses of the elderly, women and children in Palestine, using American planes, was enough for the wise among your leaders to distance themselves from this criminal gang."
He went on: "Our people in Palestine have been massacred and subjected to the worst of suffering for nearly a century.
"If we defend our people in Palestine, the world gets agitated and coalesces against Muslims under the cover of the war against terrorism, unjustly and in a false way.
"Do your governments not know that the clique in the White House is made up of the greatest murderers of the century?"
Among them, the speaker characterized US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as the "butcher of Vietnam who has killed more than two million people."
Saying such an imbalance had come to an end, he added, "It is high time that equality be established to this effect," promising more terrorist operations against Western targets by young Muslims "committed before God to pursue Jihad (holy war)."
In Washington, a US official, asking not to be named, said the CIA was to analyse the voice on Al-Jazeera's tape to determine if it was bin Laden's.
The Qatar-based satellite channel did not provide any details on how it obtained the tape but said it showed that bin Laden was still alive at least until the Moscow hostage-taking in late October or the October 28 killing of a US diplomat in Amman.
On October 6, Al-Jazeera broadcast what it said was another recording of the Al-Qaeda chief in which he issued a new threat to strike US economic interests until Washington renounced its "injustice and hostility" toward Arabs and Muslims.
Ever since the US-led attack on Afghanistan late last year, there has been debate on whether bin Laden, who was in hiding there, had survived those attacks.
A former Afghan commander said in Pakistan on Monday that bin Laden was still alive and hiding in Afghanistan.
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I have no inputs to give on who's or who'll be a bigger power - Europeans or Americans! :cool:
