Posted on 09/13/2001 6:56:48 AM PDT by vannrox
John Pomfret Washington Post Service Thursday, September 13, 2001 READ THE ARTICLE... Summary: "...China has signed a memorandum of understanding for economic and technical cooperation with Kabul..." "(reported) "... from Afghanistan and Pakistan..." "...The agreement was reported Tuesday, the same day terrorists hijacked four planes in the United States and drove them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon..." RVR Comment - Interesting Timing!!!!! "...the most substantial part of a series of contacts that Beijing has had with Afghanistan over the last two years...." "... Of all non-Muslim countries, Beijing now has the best relationship with the isolated regime in Kabul in the world..." "...the contacts have disturbed high-ranking officials from the West and some of China's central Asian neighbors.." ".... said they worried that Beijing was trying to curry favor with Kabul at the same time it made a public show of opposing terrorism which seemed to be supported by Afghanistan..." "... China has helped form the Shanghai Cooperative Organization that joins Russia and three central Asian nations in a loose grouping..." "... China is quietly dealing with the Taleban as part of an effort to convince its officials to close Afghan-based camps that are used to train Muslim "...China has dangled the prospect of providing Afghanistan with much needed help on its infrastructure and economic development.." "....two Chinese telecommunications firms, Huawei Technologies and ZTE, signed contracts to provide limited phone service for Kabul and Kandahar, near where the suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden is supposedly based..." "...Huawei as one Chinese firm that was involved in helping Iraq bolster its air defenses by selling it communications equipment.." "...Chinese engineers have also held negotiations with Taleban officials about renovating an American-built power station, ..." "...political contacts between China and the Taleban government have grown...." "China has got to make a decision and a decisive one on Afghanistan..."China Strengthens Ties With Taleban by Signing Economic Deal
I am so glad you are ok and your Mrs. Landru will be home soon. Here I thought she was there already. That has to be very hard to be apart,
Mr. Snow Bunny says hi too.
Murderers all sticking together.......
Bill, hillary, RED China, Osama ben laden, PLA,
But, it hardly matters, the points made herein still stand... and China is still our enemy. God help our nation!
This is war. The survival of our nation and its people is at stake. The objective is the utter destruction of our enemy. If that means our enemy takes thirty million dead so be it. I note that a ratio of 10,000 for one sounds like a reasonable rate of retribution.
We are currently focusing on 'the taliban" and osama bin laden, but there are terrorist organizations from a variety of countries in the US and other western nations now. They are from china to cuba to mexico to the list of middle eastern and african and far eastern asian countries. It's time to admit reality on this. There just ARE bad nations and bad people out there that we shouldn't "do business" with.
And our completely lax and bogus immigration and "tourism", "business","educational", and "cultural" travellers policies are completely insecure. Completely. We have been lead down the ostrich headed primrose path by the blood money profiteers.
This latest terror attack is just one of many so far, albeit the largest, but more are coming, and they can and will be be much worse. Until we turn about 180 degres and re-gain national security from the actual human being level it will just continue. Our politicians and business "leaders" have lead us astray. No amount of "profits" are worth these disastrous policies that have been forced on us by the blood money traders. We need independence and security, not the opposite.
Yep...and they will go down in history as co-conspirators against this Country and the whole concept of FReedom and Liberty!!
May Justice Reign ABSOLUTE For Them ALL!!
FReegards...MUD
We may not ever find direct proof that the Chi-Coms had anything to do with the WTC Terrorist Attack; however, IMHO, you are displaying a dangerous naivete if you discount the Chi-Com Tyrants as an enemy of America. I'm not intending to disparage all the Chinese people, so if that's what you meant by your comment, I tend to agree with you. Still, the Butchers of Beijing, the Tyrannical Leaders of the Chi-Coms, well, yes, they are EVIL and very much so the Enemies of FReedom and of America!!
MUD
Americans need all the 'stuff' they manufacture.
Besides, if we aren't friends anymore, who but America is going to supply the PLA with a $40 billion dollar a year trade surplus?
An aside: My Dad was reading the most recent chapter of 'Breath of Fire' the morning of the terrorist attacks, and when the news (and pictures) of the terrorism in New York and DC began to be reported, he said it was almost surreal. He had some difficulty divorcing the story from the 'real life' events that were unfolding before him (said he felt almost as if the news reports he was hearing were a new portion of the ongoing saga). Sometimes truth can be more horrifying than fiction....
Stay well....
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