Lebanese intellectual: The Arabs are not completely innocent; the terrorists must be extradited

MEMRI ^ | Posted: Monday, September 17, 2001 | Hazem Saghiya

[TheOtherOne]

An opinion from the Mideast that I can actually digest as an honest assesment from the Arab perspective.

[Weirdad]

bump - great post - we need to know this stuff

[cerberus]

A damn good article from the Arab perspective. Maybe they aren't (quite) all nuts.

[vannrox]

Something to really consider...

Point 1
Spies and Terrorists never use their real names. NEVER. The amount of work that went into this last WTC bombing showed an exceptional amount of planning and sophiscation. It is unbelieveable that these people would use their real names.

Point 2
The country that angered Iraq in 1991, was the country that supported the US efforts. That country was Saudi Arabia. It seems to make sense that the large number of terrorists and spies that have been caught and identified all are identified as Saudi Nationals. I wonder if this is an effort to divide any US support with the Saudi Government.

Point 3
My final point. Iraq seems to have their thumb prints over all of this. Directly, due to the equipment and duration and planning, to the indirect such as the preferred nationality of the fake identifications used.

[Ethrane]

"The liberal Lebanese intellectual Hazem Saghiya, who resides in London, wrote a column in the Al-Hayat daily placing some responsibility for the attacks in the US on the Arab world, and calling for the extradition of the terrorists..."

ALL RIGHT..WHO'S KEEPING THAT LIST OF THE DECLARED JIHAD'S??? ABDUL??

Abdul, add Mr Saghiya....JIHAD!

[Centurion2000]

Lebanese intellectual: The Arabs are not completely innocent; the terrorists must be extradited

That's ok .... extradition not needed.... they are going to be hunted down and destroyed.

[untenured]

As far as I can tell, noticeably absent from this list is the idea that they should simply be given up because they are criminals.

[garbanzo]

We drew the playing field, and they came to play in it

Yep. That's about it.

[riley1992]

Would that more thought this way. A lot do, but not enough.

[TheOtherOne]

We drew the playing field, and they came to play in it

I agree - that it the current situation for the Arab countries.

[Kermit]

Sadly for Arabs, the only Arabs, who can speak and write with honesty live outside of the Arab lands. I'd be real curious to read, what this author was saying before 9-11.

[denydenydeny]

What we must not do is to combine all of this with the dichotomy of life and death. If we do, we will be viewed as a race that is against the human race. The racists in the West will turn this image into theory, and the theory into action.

The day after the WTC atrocity, I asked one of my liberal friends--who has never missed a chance prior to now to label all Republicans as "racists"--what he wanted to see happen in the Middle East. He gave a one-word reply: "Genocide."

[ET(end tyranny)]

And we continue looking for these other cells that are out there!!!! Otherwise this is moot and posturing! We still have many terrorists running around. Not just here but all over the world.

Once they hand over bin laden etal... then what? o more bargaining power and we already know their true intent, it won't go away. It still lives all these thousands of years!

[ET(end tyranny)]

When did Russia join us? I thought they declined...

[ET(end tyranny)]

What we must not do is to combine all of this with the dichotomy of life and death. If we do, we will be viewed as a race that is against the human race. The racists in the West will turn this image into theory, and the theory into action.

Theory? Theory??? I think it is beyond THEORY at this point!

This isn't directed at you, but you gave quote in making a different point.

[Lurker]

""Let us extradite them..."

Dear Hazem,

We'll save you the trouble.

L

[Abn1508]

Arabs are like the old timey Presbyterians: Every friggin preacher's got the right to tell everybody what God says and whoa betide anyone who objects. There's a thousand mullahs pronouncing Jihad on everyone and every thing. Bin Laden's just really well known. And very, very good operationally. I think he just f**ked himself by not realizing the difference between operational and strategic capacity.

[Abn1508]

And by the end of it we're gonna kick your ass, f**k your daughters and spray you with bacon-grease. You have no _idea_ the can of whup-*ss you just opened. The Palestinian cause is deader than Abraham's Ghost.