--- lweiger at umich.edu wrote: >
> Osama bin Laden is the only terrorist we know
Could I just point out that unless there are lurkers I don't know about, or unless someone has taken a crash-course in this, "we" in the sense of regular posters on lbo-talk, know 95% of fuck-all about international terrorists, and thus that any sentence of this form has to be put in the "general amateur-hour bum-talking" category.
While we're on the subject, and despite what you have read here, nobody on lbo-talk has any real knowledge of the following topics (I am happy to be proved wrong on this list):
* how difficult it is to pilot a Boeing * how difficult it is for an unarmed person to overcome a person wielding a box-opener knife (actually, I have done this once, but have not yet seen fit to comment on the subject) * what makes steel-frame skyscrapers fall down * the current physical location of Osama bin Laden * the planned destination of the aeroplane which crashed in Pennsylvania * what the FBI, CIA or any other confidential agency knew at any time in the last year.
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