<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2668" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>> CB: You think the bombers didn't identify<BR>> at all with the colored victims of the white British invasions ?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I honestly do not think so, Charles. Certainly the bombers are unlikely to have sympathised with the 500 Yugoslavs killed in the British/American bombings of 1999. On the contrary, they wanted to see more of them killed, and many Al Qaeda supporters were volunteers in the war against the Serbs, which was the last occasion when Osama bin Laden directly collaborated with the US authorities.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I know that some listers are struggling to understand the obvious, the bombers were motivated by an Islamist belief, not an anti-imperialist one. Abd Samad Moussauoi cites some of the propaganda that inspired his brother, Zacarias Moussaoui to get involved in the World Trade Center bombing:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"Today a Muslim society no longer exists, there is no more Islam and there are no more Muslims. Muslim society will only come back into being when existing regimes have been destroyed and given way to a power which respects divine intervention to the letter. All the societies in the world, with no exceptions, are idolatrous and full of infidels, conscious that authority belongs only to God. For when a man dares to invent laws, he proclaims himself the equal of God. And all peoples which subject themselves to such a man without resistance or rebellion are in a state of adoration of him by their obedience to him. The true Muslim today is the Muslim who makes jihad against all governments whose legislation is human in origin, in order to topple them and reinstate divine legislation.' (The Making of a Terrorist, p 49)</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Everyone is an apostate, all human government is wicked. That is not an anti-Imperialist ideology, is is an anti-human one. It legitimates killing people of all colours, and all religions, including Muslims who live in law-governed societies.</FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>