Posted on 04/18/2002 9:06:38 AM PDT by Bommer
Just reported that a small engine plane crashed into a Skyscraper in Milan Italy
Because:
Would it be okay if we kept andre agassi (tennis player of iranian decent) and kacee kasim (america's top 40 dj)? I like these two.
Professional courtesy, perhaps?
Because they are trying to bring down economies and make governments and citizens fearful. You hit the Vatican and you don't create financial havoc or fear... you create hundreds of millions of really pissed off Catholics.
That isn't what you said. You said:
Either were any of the pilots of the planes that crashed into the WTC buildings on 9/11 or the Pentagon.
I don't see ORIGINAL, I saw and read (wiht 100% comprehension I might add) ANY! That includes the highjackers. Rather be a fool than a blithering dumbass know it all like you! What a dink! (BTW: Read this, don't comprehend it dope!)
Would it be okay if we kept andre agassi (tennis player of iranian decent) and kacee kasim (america's top 40 dj)? I like these two.
Andre Agassi is a arab terrorist =/
Yikes! I think it may be time for Bommer to take an afternoon nap...
Two possibilities : 1. Italy is seen as a fairly conservative EU country, which has been more supportive of GWB than most EU members.
2. Italy has the EU's highest proportion of Muslims at 13% of the population (it and Spain are the highest ; the rest of the EU ranges from 5-8%. This is in contrast to the US, where no more than 2% is Muslim, and even that's been said to be an overestimate.)The high number of Muslims would make it difficult for the Italian government if that 13% , or a fairly large percentage thereof, were to run amuck in response to anything their "muslim brothers" were to do. IOW, they can celebrate in the streets with impunity, same as if they were in Egypt or Iraq.
And all teenage Dutch boys who call in bomb threats to Washington DC banks!
Christians per se are not high on the OBL & Co. rhetoric list. Surely they're on the list, but the primary rallying cry is against "godless" capitialistic corruptors.
Being a capitalist doesn't make you an atheist or agnostic btw.
True, but on the whole capitalism does not blatantly express "Christian" principles, and instead generally operates as if God isn't there or isn't relevant. Supply & demand rules, and OBL & Co. despise that for what it breeds.
Following Occam's Razor here leads to the inevitable conclusion that it wasn't an accident, as it is far and away the simpler explanation.
Pace the hyperventilating media, there are few if any confirmed facts in this matter. We don't know who was flying the plane, what kind of plane it was, who else was in it, etc.
Officially supported peasant uprising in 1900 in China that attempted to drive all foreigners from the country. "Boxer" was the English name given to a Chinese secret society that practiced boxing and calisthenic rituals that they believed would make them impervious to bullets. Support for them grew in N China during the late 19th cent., when China's people were suffering from growing economic impoverishment and the nation was forced to grant humiliating concessions to Western powers. In June 1900 an international relief force was dispatched to deal with the growing threat the Boxers posed. The empress dowager, Cixi, ordered imperial forces to block its advance; the conflict escalated and was not resolved until August, when Beijing was captured and sacked. Hostilities were ended with a protocol that required massive reparations to the U.S., Germany, and other foreign powers. See also U.S. Open Door Policy.
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