Great article about afghanistan/taliban/bin laden [OT]

Sun Sep 16 08:58:00 UTC 2001

At 19:04 14/09/01 -0400, David Charlap wrote:

> >> That's why he did this.  Read his speeches and statements. It's
> >> all right there.  He really believes Islam would beat the west. It
> >> might seem ridiculous, but he figures if he can polarize the world
> >> into Islam and the West, he's got a billion soldiers.  If the west
> >> wreaks a holocaust in those lands, that's a billion people with
> >> nothing left to lose, that's even better from Bin Laden's point of
> >> view.  He's probably wrong, in the end the west would win, whatever
> >> that would mean, but the war would last for years and millions
> >> would die, not just theirs but ours. Who has the belly for that?
> >> Bin Laden does. Anyone else?
>
>The real problem is that this war is going to happen sooner or later,
>whether we want it or not.

Sooner:
http://asia.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/africa/09/12/religion.nigeria.reut/
No Israelis/Jews/Americans in Nigeria at last count.  Same been going on in 
Indonesia, Chechnya, Malyasia, Phillipines, etc. for the past 2-3 years.

-Hank