> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of John D. Giorgis
> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 7:37 PM
> To: Brin-L
> Subject: RE: Johnny Walker
>
>
> At 04:17 PM 12/10/01 -0800 Nick Arnett wrote:
> >I have a couple of questions about Walker... Before September
> 11, how clear
> >do you suppose it was to him (or most of us Americans) that El
> Queda and/or
> >bin Laden were enemies of the United States?
>
> Very clear. What actions has Al Qaeda engaged in that were not designed
> to kill Americans?
I'm not sure you're answering my question. Did you, yourself, know prior to
Sept. 11th, that support of the Taliban was also support of Al Qaeda and
that AQ was responsible for those acts of terrorism? It's not as if much of
our news media was covering the Taliban. And if you, yourself, knew this,
do you also think that Walker also undoubtedly did? I have a very hard time
believing that more than a very small number of people would have known.
For myself, I don't think I had even heard of Al Queda, couldn't have come
up with bin Laden's name, though I'm sure I saw news reports, and didn't
know much about what was going on in Afghanistan. Sadly. (And still have
trouble spelling some of these names...)
Nick
