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At 10:59 PM +1000 10/11/01, Spectro wrote:
>Dennis Gunn <mightyjohn@...> wrote:
>
>>All right lets get it straight.  "not one of the *primary*
>>motivations"   ?  To a native speaker of English this seems to be
>>implying that you think it may be a secondary motivation.  Is that
>>what you are meaning to say or am I misunderstanding?
>
>I said what I meant. Given that one of the *primary* gripes of the
>terrorist(s) appears to be the perceived occupation and abuse of
>territories held as significant to them, then however tenuous
>a link, it is indeed an 'environmental' issue at some level.

Not buying this for an instant.   Territorial and environmental are 
two different things.  Giving the terrorists environmentalist motives 
is pure attribution.  Unwise in the extreme.  I would never attribute 
one of my values to a terrorist.  It would not make me look good. 
And further why would one want to assign them virtues they don't even 
claim for themselves.   Foolish and ghoulish.
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