-Caveat Lector-
On Wed, 3 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>I heard a "terrorism expert" on Fox News state that taking
>credit for terrorist acts is a thing of the past. The Echelon
>system, he alleged, makes it very difficult to for anyone to
>"take credit" without setting-up an electronic trail for the
>authorities.
But then the whole "raison d'etre" for the act itself disappears....
an act of terrorism only makes sense if the ones responsible can point to
it and say "See what we are capable of?", and then use that to blackmail
whatever government or society they are seeking to overthrow...
>Then, the morning host asked a great question: What
>would our government's response be to terrorism under
>these conditions of "no credit being taken". The expert
>refused to answer! He said he would rather not speculate.
>
>How about "denial that terrorism happened?"
Again, such a stance then negates the whole reason for terrorism in the
first place...it then becomes just a random 'act of God', 'fluke of
nature', or 'possible incompetence'...
Terrorists themselves would have nothing to gain by not taking credit for
successful acts, but the government/society against which such acts are
perpetated definitely has much to gain by discounting such events as
being the works of terrorists.
June ;-)
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