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>might be a small part of a much larger
>American agenda in the middle east (not explained to the press for
>political reasons)

I've noticed that people from repressive regimes often think there is a 
conspiracy in everything. I think the "American agenda" is to maintain 
stability in the region and prevent world terror. The various governments 
have a secret plan to stay in power rather than be strung up by fanatical 
mobs and have their countries returned to 5th century standards of 
living. There it is, I let the cat out of the bag. Now you know the 
secret motivation. Damn, I shouldn't have opened my big mouth. 


Spectro-bin-Laden wrote
>The following is taken from an article which is based on a letter
>sent  to Al-Quds al-Arabi, an Arabic newspaper published in
>London entitled "Declaration of the World Islamic Front for Jihad
>against the Jews and the Crusaders" and can be viewed at:
>
>"Since God laid down the Arabian peninsula, created its desert,
>and surrounded it with its seas, no calamity has ever befallen
>it like these Crusader hosts that have spread in it like locusts,
>crowding its soil, eating its fruits, and destroying its verdure;

Lets see, blaming a group of foreigners for a locust attack - however the 
very first line mentions deserts which are mostly barren by definition. I 
see, so the crusaders brought the locusts in locust cages and then set 
them lose to devour the sand of the desert, and then after that, the dry 
barren desert was changed into ...... a dry barren dessert. Very 
rational. Actually, maybe the locusts were the only source of protein in 
the dessert and these were a gift for the occupiers of Christian holy 
sites. Primitive people always ascribe God to anything they can't 
understand or control. 

Spectro, why don't you try debating with valid issues and sound facts. I 
am wondering why some of the most anti-American speakers are also unable 
to debate using facts and sound reasoning.