Posted on 11/12/2004 3:16:15 PM PST by Kitten Festival
A quiet terrorist victory, one which has completely escaped the notice of the mainstream press, is affecting your life. It has significance in both practical and symbolic terms. In the short run there is little we can do about it. But in the long run the factors propelling the terrorists' triumph contain the seeds of their defeat.
Do these names mean anything to you?
Stephen LaGuardia, 62, and Philip Coplen, 53, Americans; Michael Hardy, 44, and Michael McGillen, 52, Britons; Anthony Mason, 57, Australian.
You might have a vague memory of five Western engineers killed last May in Saudi Arabia. They were shot dead in cold blood outside a vast ExxonMobil petrochemical plant in Saudi Arabia by al-Qaeda. The killers then ghoulishly dragged one of their bodies through the streets. After that, an exodus of expatriates from the Kingdom followed, including 90 Western petrochemical engineers from their company who were working on the same project. The project was shut down.
Another day, another handful of deaths in the war on terror. There have been so many deaths since then. Not even their company, ABB Lummus, seems to remember them much, at least not in more than a short press release buried on their site. But as time passes, it’s gradually coming to light that the loss of their lives had a significant impact. It sounds farfetched that five terror deaths could matter so much to how we live. But who they were and what they did mattered enough for us to see it throughout the world.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Not to diminish what happened to these engineers, but I'm an engineer and I'd collect garbage in Detroit for a living before I ever worked in an Islamic sh!t-hole like Saudi Arabia.
The engineers pulled up stakes and went back to Texas, so they felt the same way, too, though they didn't have any problem getting more brain-work elsewhere. People who can think don't tolerate oppression and barbarism very well. It's just some thing they have. /sarcasm
I hope each one of them took a dump in the nearest water treatment plant before he left.
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