America - Hijack 'suspects' alive and well

"Perhaps they weren't Muslim at all. Just a thought."

Golly gee, you're probably right. I suspect that they were a team of little old lady lawn bowlers from New Zealand. (apologies to Ladies of all age, size, nationality and sports preference all over the world).

They really hate us for the US hegemony over lawn bowlers the world over. To say nothing of our deadly and imperialistic croquet skills.

Perhaps they were a radical offshoot of Presbyterian nudists or insane Church of England cucumber sandwich lovers willing to die for mayonaise over butter.

I didn't say they weren't middle eastern. I said that they weren't necessarily Muslim. I should have also said they may have nothing to do with bin Laden. It's a fact that we don't know who they were. So if we don't know who they were, how can anybody legitimately say who put them up to it? Obviously bin Laden has been involved with past terrorist attacks, so I'm not saying that they weren't tied to bin Laden. It's just that something about this doesn't seem to add up...

They are doing this to fellow Muslims?

I understand that bin Laden and his followers hate "Westernized" Muslims; one of their goals is to overthrow "corrupt" Middle Eastern regimes.

They probably figure that airline pilots and people who worked at the World Trade Center were not pure enough to worry about.

Sarcasm aside, this whole false identity thing worries me a lot.

Sure, there are excellent reasons to take out bin Laden and his network, so let's do it: but for the excellent reasons, not for the rotten ones.

The absolute worst case is we blame bin Laden, take him out, go back to sleep, and be wrong. What's the message there? First, if you plant a good enough false paper trail, you can mastermind a terrorist attack at minimal risk. The rank and file will die for Allah (or whomever), but the big guys are very anxious not to join them. So we've provided them with massive encouragement to go ahead, by showing them exactly how to get away with it.

And secondly, if you can plant a false trail pointing at your own bad guy, you can get the US to do your dirty work for you. So every pissed-off tyrant on the planet, from Albania to Zimbabwe, now has a task force planning to bomb the US and get the US to bomb their enemies in retaliation.

Call me an alarmist, but this really, really worries me. And I see a lot of people with axes to grind busy spinning disinformation to keep us distracted from what should be our number one priority: identify the bastards, hunt them down, and kill them. But in that order, please.

Understand your concerns, BUT, I think President Bush's plan is to get all or as many as possible terrorists. The order in which they are gotten is not important unless it's because picking off the ones with the most money or largest organization would make getting the others easier.

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