Arab frustration

[Gordon Fitch]

Gordon Fitch: 
> > I've read this story several times.  There are odd things
> > missing from it.  For instance, Foley was a police officer
> > during the first part of his career, was he not? 

Carrol Cox:
> Back in the '70s a former police chief from (I believe) Terre Haute,
> Indiana, was kidnapped and executed in Uruguay by the Tupamaros. It
> became widely known (but not in the mass media of course)later on that
> what he was doing in Uruguay was giving instruction in torture.
> 
> (This is the first post I've read on this thread, so I have no opinion
> on the particular case. It doesn't seem very important.)

What is important?