[Wallaby]

On my browser, the spanning in the second paragraph obscures a sentence. It should read: "There are scores of ambulances ferrying the wounded and the dying to the city's hospitals. "

[FITZ]

It's interesting to read about these brainwashed robots. None are described as "poor" which puts to lie the often repeated Muslim defense that these are poor desperate people, and bin Laden is a multi-billionaire so this has nothing to do with poverty and hardship.

Most of them are single men, and in the Islamic culture, the better men get 4 wives leaving these men to never pass on genes or be part of a family, their purpose in the culture is to die young to preserve that culture. They have no other purpose in life.

[Slyfox]

This was a good read.

He (bin Laden) denied direct involvement, but said he was glad his teachings might have inspired the deaths.

Sounds just like Charles Manson.

[Lion's Cub]

It's a shame there is no double jeopardy. Wonder how these NY jurors would vote today?

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Bump and a bookmark!

[Feiny]

I must read this tomorrow.....

[thinden]

taken from Wallaby's post above:

"Wadih el Hage, a 40-year-old naturalised American citizen born in the Lebanon and living in Texas, also got life. He was accused of being a key 'facilitator' for both bomb teams.

1. which town in texas did el Hage reside in? surely not San Antonio? Dallas maybe?

would being a key "facilitator" inclulde financing/money raising/support functions for the texas cell?

[thinden]

the jason burke piece from the observer was excellent insight into the mind of a suicidal fanatic.

[PA Engineer]

Bump. Excellent read.

[aruanan]

On 22 February 1998 a new fatwa was issued in the name of the 'World Front for Jihad against Jews and Crusaders'. It was signed by bin Laden and the heads of major Islamic movements in Egypt, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

So much for the myth of Islam considering Jews and Christians as "People of the Book" and not as infidels to be destroyed. Oh, wait, I get it! Islam believes that, it's just all those people who consider themselves Muslim who don't. Well, that's a relief. If Islam really teaches the opposite of what they say they'll do and what they try to do and actually do do, then we don't have anything to worry about. That some people actually believe this just boggles the mind. Who cares whether "true" Islam teaches this or that? That's irrelevant when there are lots of people trying to kill you for what they think is true Islam. Those folks aren't going to care what you say about the 'true meaning' of their religion, because they've already decided that its true meaning is that you should die. The only thing that counts is to find a way to stop them. And it's not going to be through a rap session on comparative religions.