I don't pretend to have the answers. My only certainty is that we are given very shabby information.
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 10:02:14AM -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Michael Perelman wrote:
>
> >I am skeptical about anything that I read now. If they are using
> >leaderless resistence, ObL may not have known about the details; if he did
> >the Taliban may not have known.
> >
> >I just don't know. Even if a few Taliban leaders knew, ....
> >
> >I just hope that you and I don't get bombed for the crap that our
> >government pulls.
>
> Yesterday, the Financial Times began a series investigating al Qaeda.
> Not much new in yesterday's installment - haven't gotten to today's
> yet - but it repeats the claim that 70,000 alums of al Q training
> camps are scattered across 50 countries. Maybe this is a complete
> crock, though the FT isn't exactly USA Today, and it doesn't make
> much sense for the newspaper of the international bourgeoisie to lie
> to its readers. But if anything like this is true, ObL & the Taliban
> certainly bear responsibility for their trainees, no? And insofar as
> they need coordination and finance for their bigger operations,
> someone other than the direct perps has to know, right?
>
> And if anything like the 70,000 number is true - divide it by 5 if
> you want, and it's still a big number of people hellbent on
> destruction - what do you pacifists and fatalists and revolutionary
> defeatists suggest be done? Just let them be? Act nice? Invite them
> over for coffee?
>
> Doug
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