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On the plus side, they are responsible for lots and lots of cartoons where you get to see girls panties.
On the negative side, they are directly responsible for one of the biggest atrocities of all time. Pearl Harbour. The film.
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You're right. I wasn't paying attention. Sorry.
I was correct about the panties though.
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The Toronto Star published a summary of Al Qaeda and the Taliban's Blunder here
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Basically, The Taliboys forgot a basic lesson that we thought everybody'd learned by now...
The Americans are Insane.
Hell, I practically expected to hear someone paraphrase Londo Mollari:
"Is it true? They say the Americans have gone mad! That they are destroying every place that has been touched by the terrorists!"
The US, as a country, is like that mentally ill guy who sits in a chair, unmoving, staring into space... and you can talk to him, or scream in his face, or even paint his toenails... but don't poke him, 'cause he'll leap out of that chair and break all your arms.
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Which is why, although we invite you to parties, no-one ever offers you a lift home.
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but don't poke him, 'cause he'll leap out of that chair and break all your arms.
All... two of them?
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In case everyone missed this, it rather got burried in the news...a page 4 brief in the Times:
quote:EGYPT Official Says Tape Is Bin Laden 'Confession' From Times Wire Reports
In the first official Egyptian reaction, the police minister said a videotape in which Osama bin Laden is shown rejoicing over the Sept. 11 attacks amounts to a "complete confession."
"This tape is a clear and complete implication of Osama bin Laden, contrary to what he had said earlier about having nothing to do with the attacks," Interior Minister Habib Adli, in charge of Egyptian civilian security forces, was quoted as telling the weekly magazine Al Mussawar.
Many in the Middle East doubted the authenticity of Bin Laden’s tape, released by the Pentagon on Dec. 13.
But Egyptian security forces "consider it a clear confession of Bin Laden’s responsibility in all that happened. . . . It is a complete confession that implicates him," Adli said.
That seems to me that's a rather inportant statment for a Arab country to make.
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Well, hardly a change of position for the Mubarak government, really. They've been very anti-fundie since, um, forever. Egypt's been routinely disintegrating members of Islamist movements since they assasinated Sadat.
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True enough that is, however, the Dubya propaganda machine seems to be asleep at the switch on this one.
Egypt is an important member of the Muslim world, moderate as it may be on some issues. This should be got out just as loudly as some of the schmoes said he was innocent.
That and I don't see any other member of the Muslim world, like say Jordan or even Kuwait saying anything about the guilt of Bin Laden. To be sure, many have expressed support or condolences have been quiet beyond that.
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A little surprising from Jordan, perhaps, but one must take into account that few governments in the Arabic world are popular, or elected, for that matter. Bin Laden has the potential to become a sort of folk hero, not so much for striking back against the Great Satan as for suggesting that nations like Saudi Arabia or Kuwait are corrupt through and through and need to have their current leaders kicked out and replaced, which is a position many people in those nations can agree with.
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