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BA>> That said, observing current events in the Middle East I cannot help
BA>> but feel that the
BA>> trouble has been organized/sponsored by al-Qaida.  That
BA>> organization's goal, after all,
BA>> is to establish a multi-national caliphate and set human development
BA>> back by at least
BA>> a millenium.  Having not had much luck here and in Europe over the
BA>> past several years
BA>> I think they're looking for softer targets.

 RW> OF course, and one must remember that wahhabism, which is
 RW> the root of al qaeda also has close ties to the muslim
 RW> brotherhood in Egypt.  I've had much the same thoughts.

 Except this arose so fast Al Qaeda didn't have time to set it
 up. And the secularists are behind it in Egypt, the MB is
 keeping a relatively low profile.

 The Caliphate would be another dictatorship, and the people want
 democracy.

 RW> Which is why I would never support a war to defend Saudi
 RW> Arabia and Kuwait.  A young man or woman serving over there
 RW> for the U.S. must have his/her reading material censored to
 RW> satisfy these barbarians and that isn't what we stand for
 RW> in this country.

 During the first Gulf War I was ranting how a Christian can't
 even carry a bible in public. Our troops were built up in Saudi
 Arabia over nearly a year. I was of the opinion we ought to take
 out the Saudi Govt first.

 ...

BA>> I'd forgotten about the trouble those folks have caused in Indonesia
BA>> and elsewhere in
BA>> southeast Asia (including the Philippines).   In any case,
BA>> developments in Egypt and, to
BA>> a lesser extent in Jordan, seem to be right up their alley.

 RW> OF course they are.  Which is why I still don't understand
 RW> how it was that our great federal bureaucracy could miss
 RW> all the signs before 9/11/2001.

 The FBI was investigating the tie between Saudi Arabia and
 funding for Al Qaeda before 2001. The Bush administration shut
 down the investigation.

 RW> Sayyid Qutb and some of the
 RW> founders of modern wahhabism were directly tied to the
 RW> Muslim brotherhood in Egypt.  IT all is of a piece, and our
 RW> so-called experts missed it.  They missed it because they
 RW> chose to ignore it.

 They missed it because it's Saudi, and the Saudis have the oil.
 Therefore they buy the politicians.


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