He said he would strike the US this June. Known terrorists with ties to him were on flight manifests from the hijacked planes. He stated previously that he would strike the US for entering Saudia Arabia with troops. His argument is that Americans are non-believers in Islam and as such should die for being in a sacred land, such as Saudi Arabia. Of course, he has also tried to off King Fahd for asking for American protection from Hussein in the first place. Bin Laden has stated publicly that he should be King. He is very good at what he does. This is about Prince Bin Laden’s desire to rule Saudi Arabia. You don’t have to like it. It is what it is.
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From: “Vic Titious”
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 5:46 AM
Subject: Re: [IMC-DC] Grow Up (Comment) (II)**** How do YOU know who did this? Others are not so sure. See Below re/ Japanese group. Others speculate on an Inside Job w/ renegade right wing anti-gov’t types. Others speculate that the gov’t itself did it to gain MANY advantages re. mil. funding, civil rights deprivations, curtaliment of dissent, excuse to infiltrate legal dissident groups, excuse to tap communications, excuse to send US troops over to get in face of China and Russia etc etc. And so on. If the corporate-serving gov’t takes advantage of this (or “capitalizes” on it?) over the bodies of man thousands of dead people and over the feelings of even more grieving kin, how would you feel about that?
* I’m a capitalist too…but but I haven’t killed or lied or cheated or robbed or destroyed property etc. (Only indirectly by buying gas for car, fuel for home, etc.) It’s US-Style capitalism that above all is the crime. I’ll capitalistically exchange a couple dollars for an organic beer any day…preferably home-made, not industrial. And I’ll gladly pay for solar power on the roof, if public subsidized like oil, and affordable.
If it WAS an oil billionaire behind the carnage, maybe it’s a battle of the Global Greedballs instead of a retaliation by terrorized overseas entities. If Flipping Fu Manchu, the evil of evils or whatever, did the attacks it REMAINS the top possiblity that the the US set itself (or its citizens, rather) up as inevitable targets. If you don’t see that this is LIKELY terrorist vs. terrorist, then….I don’t know what to say. You need to read more from the non-corporate alternative media perhaps. Certainly, disrtust those in the corporate media who have huge motives to deceive at every turn. It’s their flipping JOB. Secondary job…don’t get caught. Ta.
To: “Amnesty International List Serv”
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 12:06 AM
Subject: Arab wide condemnation of WTC terrorist attackIncite Hope — Human Rights!
Arab wide- condemnation to aggressive attacks in the USA
Regional-USA, Politics, 9/12/2001An unidentified person talked in the name of the Japanese extremist “Red Army” has claimed responsibility for the series of aggressions which took place on Tuesday in Washington and New York. This was in a telephone call he made with a Jordanian paper and justified these aggressions in the desire to revenge the victims of Hiroshima killings.
The former chairman of the Jordanian Writers Union, Fakhri Qawar, who is also the chief editor of the Jordanian daily al-Wahda, said in a statement to the AFP that:”an unidentified person who speaks Arabic but in a foreign accent claimed, in a telephone call with the paper, responsibility for the series of aggressions in the USA and stressed that these aggressions were carried out in revenge of the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.” Qawar added that the speaker did not give details and closed the telephone receiver, and Qawar stressed that he takes this claim seriously.
Several Arab countries denounced the aggressions against the US and sent cables of denunciation and condemnation to Washington. These were sent by the Lebanese President Emil Lahoud, the chairman of the Palestinian Authority Yasser Arafat, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, King Muhammad 5th of Morocco, President Muhammad Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen and from the Kuwaiti president.
Moreover, Islamic organizations expressed their strong condemnation to these attacks and the founder of the Hamas movement, Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, denied his movement to have any link to the said attacks. Sheikh Yassin said:
“Our battle is only with the Zionist occupiers in Palestine.” Both the Democratic and People’s Fronts for the Liberation of Palestine denied any link to what happened in the USA. In a statement the Islamic Jihad movement said:”We are against any thing [which] target[s] the civilians.”
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