Re: OT Tried to listen to Al Fanken on Air America...

In article <1171684298.909242.103320@m58g2000cwm.googlegroups.com>,
"larry moe 'n curly" <larrymoencurly@my-deja.com> wrote:
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> dbu, wrote:
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> > In article <G7Wdnf1Lequl0EvYnZ2dnUVZ [email]rCsnZ2d@giganews.com[/email]>,
> > "Cathy F." <clfr@adelphiadot.net> wrote:[/color]
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> > > Perhaps you could explain - logically so, that is - why oh why are we so
> > > specifically interested & mired in an absolutely lousy situation in Iraq,
> > > when terrorists are spread out in cells all over the place, rather than
> > > concentrated in Iraq. Or why Saddam & sons are dead & buried, yet bin
> > > Laden
> > > & Co. are still running their own show(s), 6½ years after 9-11.[/color][/color]
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> > As I said before, and in my opinion, bin [Laden] is dead. We
> > need to nip the bud, chop off the head, the rest will wither.[/color]
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> I doubt that al Qaeda is that highly dependent on bin Laden because
> for a long time, the real person in charge of its operations has been
> Dr. Zawahiri, who's definitely still alive, plus al Qaeda is run by a
> comittee whose members were chosen mostly on merit, not loyalty or
> fanaticism, and who are free to disagree with their superiors (that's
> why their 9/11 attacks occurred on 9/11 and not 7/4 as bin Laden had
> desired).
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> > Not an easy task, but
> > worth the effort given all the years of terrorist bombings, hijacking of
> > aircraft, blowing up civilian planes in the desert, subsequent killing
> > of our military members on civilian planes and killing of civilians on
> > cruise ships, terrorism at olympic games and so on. More recently in
> > Spain, U.S. and GB mass killings.[/color]
>
> Why did al Qaeda carry out attacks in Spain and the UK? I'm not
> asking about their ideological reasons but their practical ones.[/color]

terrorist
noun
the detainees are suspected terrorists extremist, fanatic;
revolutionary, radical, insurgent, guerrilla, anarchist, freedom
fighter; bomber, gunman, assassin, hijacker, arsonist, incendiary.
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