----- Original Message ----- From: <shniad at sfu.ca> To: <shniad at sfu.ca> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 3:43 PM Subject: [R-G] Terrorism
> THE DEFINITION:
>
> THE CONCISE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF CURRENT ENGLISH, sixth edition 1976, page
> 1196, defines TERROR:
>
> 1. extreme fear
> 2. Person or thing that causes terror
>
> TERRORIST:
>
> One who favours or uses terror-inspiring methods of governing or coercing
> government or community; hence or cong[itive]~istic.
>
> TERRORIZE:
>
> Fill with terror; coerce by terrorism: hence-[terrori]zation.
>
> EXAMINE THE THE READILY AVAILABLE AND VIRTUALLY INDISPUTABLE EVIDENCE FOR
> WORLD AS A WHOLE AND BY WORLD REGIONS TO COMPARE TERROR, TERRORIST,
> TERRORIZE, TERRORISM by
>
> - individual is bad
> - individual and state harbored is worse
> - [by] state is still worse
> - state in region is worse yet
> - state around the whole world is worst of all
>
> THE HISTORY:
>
> Letter to the Editor, The Independent, London, October 9, 2001:
>
> Sir: Wow, it's just like when the Spanish bombed our airbases in
> retaliation for our failure to extradite the terrorist Pinochet, in spite of
> the fact that we'd been shown the evidence against him. How history repeats
> itself ...
>
> HISTORICAL STATISTICAL APPENDIX
>
> Tuesday, September 11, 2001
> Bombing of WTC in NYC and Pentagon in Washington DC, USA
>
> DAMAGE: Human and Pysical, Economic and Political
> Dead and Missing 7,000 - more than half non-nationals of the USA. WTC
> destroyed, Pentagon damaged existing economic recession deepend,existing
> political power strengthened.
>
> RESPONSIBILITY personal : Unknown.
> Suspected: possibly Osmana bin Laden, but unproven
> Behind the Scenes [not much] : possibly Al Quaeda
> State responsible: None proven, nor even to anybody's knowledge
> RESPONSE: Massive bombing of Afghanistan by US & UK
>
>
> Tuesday, September 11, 1973
> Bombing of Presidential Palace La Moneda in Santiago Chile
>
> DAMAGE : Human and Pysical, Economic and Political
> Dead and Missing - about 30,000, almost all Chileans
> Thousands tortured, 100,000 plus driven into exile
> Moneda Palace damaged [by destruction and fire]
> Economy seriously damaged, unemployment trippled, inflation quadrupled,
> income vastly lowered and very much more unequally distributed political
> power changed by military coup and decade and a half military dictatorship
>
> RESPONSIBILITY personal:Chilean General Augusto Pinochet and Military Junta,
> [behind the scenes but very visible] U.S. President Richard Nixon &
> Secretary of State Henry Kissinger - all self declared and proven, eg. in
> their files, US Senate Church Committee Hearings, recently summarized by
> Christopher Hitchins in Harpers Magazine and demanding that Henry Kissinger
> be indicted as War Criminal to be brought before International Court of
> Justice or new International Criminal Court
> Responsible State: Chilean and United States of America
>
> RESPONSE: Car bomb in Washington DC, killing ex-Chilean ambassador to US and
> a US national, proven responsibility: Chilean DINA secret police with CIA
> backup.
>
>
>
>
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