were a significant people in their day along with Mesopotamians,
Babylonians, Assyrians and Akkadians. All right there in the Iran, Iraq,
Turkey areas. It's part of the whole Tigris and Euphrates, cradle of
civilization thing.
-Kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Densmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 10:01 AM
Subject: RE: Bin Laden's Iraq Plans
> The founder of Hittite is of middle eastern descent. I believe he is
> from Turkey? Somewhere around there. Is Hittite a middle eastern word?
> I'll have to look it up. I never gave much thought to what name of the
> company had to do with. I have only been here a couple of months now so
> it never really dawned on me.
>
>
>
> Ben
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 10:54 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: Bin Laden's Iraq Plans
>
>
>
> Hrm. Remind me again why we went into Iraq instead of concentrating on
> the
> real terrorists?
>
> And since I'm almost completely naive about the languages in the region,
> what is the grammatical difference between "Qaeda" and "Al Qaeda"? The
> article uses both.
>
> And slightly more tangentially, how much similarity do modern
> middle-eastern
> languages bear to Hittite? And at an even more oblique tangent, why does
> a
> microwave communications company use the name "Hittite"?
>
> -Kevin
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ben Densmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 8:47 AM
> Subject: Bin Laden's Iraq Plans
>
> > I didn't see this posted here yet so I thought I'd pass it along. This
> > stuff needs to end soon or we'll be running short on troops.
> >
> > http://www.msnbc.com/news/1002197.asp
> >
> >
> > Ben
>
> _____
>
>
>
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