On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, James A. Donald wrote:
> "James A. Donald"
> > > All of the terrorists came from countries that were
> > > beneficiaries of an immense amount of US help. Saudi
> > > Arabia was certainly not under attack. If they were
> > > Palestinians, and they hit the Pentagon but not the two
> > > towers, then they would be defending themselves.
>
> John Kelsey
> > I'm still trying to understand the moral theory on which you
> > differentiate hitting the two towers from the Oklaholma City
> > bombing.
>
> The pentagon did not have a branch office in the two towers.
> BATF had an office in the Murrah building.
Bzzzt! Try again.
There were a number of federales in the towers, INCLUDING atf, all the
various branches of the armed services, and a large number of spook proxy
points.
> > So they killed a whole bunch of people, most of whom had
> > nothing to do with what they opposed, but surely including
> > people who were doing business with Saudi Arabia and Israel.
>
> Was McViegh targeting people who do business with BATF?
>
> Besides which the terrorists did not target them for doing
> business with Israel, but for "World Trade" - globalization and
> all that.
Personal knowledge?
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J.A. Terranson
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"An ill wind is stalking
while evil stars whir
and all the gold apples
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