Partisan Review, wrong again...?

[Ian Murray]

< http://www.bu.edu/partisanreview/archive/2001/3/laqueur.html >
"The conservatives, Saudi Arabia and the Muslim religious
establishments in Egypt and elsewhere are discredited, whereas the
record of radical regimes such as Iran, Sudan, and the Taliban in
Afghanistan have been dismal and prospects are less than brilliant.
Extreme nationalist regimes such as Iraq, Syria, and Libya have kept
their distance from Islamism or even combated it. The Islamists have
made some progress among the Palestinians but the terrorists in
Algeria are on the defensive and a phenomenon such as Osama bin Ladin,
the Saudi planner and paymaster of the terrorists, while providing
headlines for the Western media, will forever remain marginal."

[This from Walter Laqueur a man of immense influence on the issue of
terrorism in DC a few years ago, no less!!]

Ian