Terror Inc.

Ulhas Joglekar uvj at vsnl.com
Sat May 4 19:42:07 PDT 2002


From: Dennis Robert Redmond


> On Sat, 4 May 2002, Dennis Perrin wrote:
>
> > Al-Qaeda is quite a bit more than Al Capone, and the Taliban (and Saudi
> > Arabia and its collaborators in the Pakistani ISI) are quite a bit more
than
> > corrupt cops on the beat.
>
> Not at all. They have more guns than Capone, and a slicker ideology.

Pakistan has nuclear weapons.


> they're the unwitting and unconscious product of the total
> system, fanatics of petroleum-rents instead of alcohol-rents, and just as
> powerless in the end.

I don't know much about the total system, but what Pakistan has to do with petroleum rents?

Ulhas


> -- Dennis (the double-dashed one)
>
>



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