Hakki Alacakaptan
CGI Animation and NLE instructor Visual Communication Design Dept. Istanbul Bilgi University
hakkia at bilgi.edu.tr halacakaptan at ixir.com nucleus at superonline.com
|| -----Original Message-----
|| From: Bradford DeLong
|| >But the most revealing question was: "Did Arab groups carry out
|| >the September 11 attacks?" Eighteen percent of all respondents
|| >said "yes." Sixty-one percent said "no."
|| >
|| >Given the overwhelming documentation available about the
|| >identities of the September 11 terrorists, this finding suggests
|| >something well beyond entrenched mistrust of the United States.
|| >It points squarely to the severely limited access of people in many
|| >Islamic countries to anything like objective news coverage by
|| >independent media.
News is censored in many is lslamic countries, unlike the US ... not. Despite the fact that they are slightly more illiterate than Americans, perhaps Islamic peoples have a clearer take on events. Maybe not watching CNN and Fox helps rather than hinders.
The S11 perps on the planes, if they really were who the US alleges they were, came from countries that remain the US's allies. Qaeda, if it really was invoved in S11, is headed by a Saudi and its numbers 2 and 3 were Egyptians. The Taliban were inflicted on Afghanistan by Pakistan and were Pak's puppet regime. Given these facts, what the US did - media disinfo notwithstanding - was to terror-bomb Afghanistan and let the Qaeda leadership and Pak members of the Taliban get away. ObL himself was allowed to get away on numerous occasions during his alleged terrorist career and his US-resident family was also escorted out of the country without even a cursory interrogation after S11. The main force of the Taliban are intact, though some may have had to shave and lose the black turbans. Among the 2000 Moslems locked up in the US only one has been proven to have Qaeda links and just about the same holds true for the orange men at X-ray. Judging by the US's military actions, the real perps behind S11 were starving Afghans, not Arabs. Judging by who benefited from S11, opinions may differ but it sure as hell wasn't the Arabs.
The US proved by its actions that it doesn't believe its own words. So the Gallup survey can also be interpreted as revealing a more astute reading of, and possibly a more objective, news coverage.
Hakki