Ed Weick wrote: > Some of the discussion sounded very American - like if we don't fight > terrorism over there we'll have to fight it over here - suggesting a very > wrong understanding of terrorism. It's as though terrorism was a country > like prewar Iraq complete with a hostile dictator. I think we should have > learned enough to know that it isn't really like that at all. It's a whole > bunch of little groups or cells in many parts of the world, many connected > but others not, each with their own grievances arising out of interactions > between rich countries and poor countries, exploiting people and exploited > peoples, and those who gain and those who have little left to lose.
So, does Tony Blair now have to bomb Londonistan or the Internet? (and Brazilian electricians better watch their backs...) Chris http://au.news.yahoo.com/060408/2/yjc5.html No al-Qaeda link to London bombs: report Sunday April 9, 09:24 AM A government inquiry into London's terrorist attack on July 7 last year will say there was no direct support from al-Qaeda, even though two of the bombers had visited Pakistan, The Observer newspaper reports. The first forensic account of the attack, ordered by Britain's Home Office, will say the attack was the product of a "simple and inexpensive" plot hatched by four British suicide bombers bent on martyrdom, the newspaper says. The attack was the work of four bombers who had scoured terrorist sites on the internet, not an international terrorist network, the inquiry will reportedly say when it is published in the next few weeks. It will also discount initial suspicions that a fifth bomber may have escaped after the attack, or that an al-Qaeda fixer helped plan the attacks, the Observer says. The bombings on underground trains and a bus killed 56 people, including the four British bombers, and wounded hundreds. It was the worst terrorist attack on British soil and the first by suicide bombers. Three of the four bombers were of Pakistani descent, and two had travelled to Pakistan before the attack. _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
