Hello,
to further my complaint about the theft
of my userid, I include the message that
I just received.
There are many those, also by other forged
userids, and many more delivery msgs.
Please help me solve this incident.
regards,
Klaas Punt
PS. sorry in my agitation I forgot to include the file.
Here it is.
I hope you will help me find the bastards!
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You may think you know what happened on Jan. 3, when Israeli Navy Seals seized
the Karine A, a cargo ship carrying 50 tons of contraband Katyusha rockets,
anti-tank missiles, mortars, mines, explosives, and sniper rifles.
You may think the ship's captain acknowledged on TV that he is a Palestinian
Authority (PA) employee acting under military orders, that he was dispatched to
the Iranian shoreline to load the arms onto his ship. You may think he was
heading to the waters off Gaza to release the arms in watertight cases for a
pick-up by small Palestinian boats.
If you thought this, you would be in good company. "Unequivocal" was how
Israel's chief of staff called the evidence of this being a PA smuggling
operation. Condoleezza Rice, the U.S. national security advisor, said her
government "seriously suspects" PA Chairman Yasser Arafat himself knew about
the shipment. And Arafat, while denying personal culpability, acknowledged that
his officers were implicated in the scheme.
But the Middle East media knows better. "The story of the arms ship is but a
licensed fabrication by Israel," announces the editor-in-chief of the Egyptian
government's daily, Al-Akhbar.
Saudi media agree that the episode was a hoax, with Arab News calling it "an
elaborate trap" and Ar-Riyadh alleging that it "was necessary to fabricate the
ship story" to implicate other Arab and Muslim countries as sponsors of
terrorism. Qatar's Ash-Sharq interpreted it as an Israeli "pretext for more
oppression and terrorism against the Palestinians" and a story that "no sane
person can believe."
In other words, Middle Eastern media engaged in a bald, flat-out, and blatant
denial of reality.
This fits into a well-established and important pattern. The home-video showing
Osama bin Laden smirking as he described the devastation at the World Trade
Center struck many Muslims as a fake. "I think this recording is forged . . . I
don't believe this tape is authentic," announced Muhammad Salih, a Saudi
religious figure.
The head of Jordan's Islamic Action Front, 'Abd al-Latif 'Arabiyat agreed: "Do
the Americans really thing the world is that stupid to think that it would
believe that this tape is evidence?"
Hani Siba'i of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad accused the Pentagon of using
technology to simulate bin Laden's laugh. "It's a fake," he told Al-Jazeera.
"The Americans fabricated it."
Muhammad Rizieq of the radical Indonesian Defenders Front called the tape "U.S.
propaganda to cover up their war crimes in Afghanistan."
Of course, the Muslim world also refused responsibility for the attacks on
Sept. 11: Gen. Hameed Gul, former head of Pakistani intelligence, deemed
Israeli and U.S. agents "the obvious culprits. . . . This was clearly an inside
job."
The father of Mohamed Atta, the alleged ringleader of the 9/11 attacks,
completely refused to acknowledge his son's complicity, calling the evidence "a
farce . . . a forgery, a fabrication."
Such willful denial is not new. Just last year, Iraqi Defense Minister Lt.-Gen.
Sultan Hashim Ahmed declared that because the U.S. government did not
accomplish its goals in the 1991 Kuwait war, it had "lost the war," a sentiment
shared by many in the region.
Likewise, the Egyptian government claimed victory over Israel in the October
War of 1973 - and even built a museum dedicated to this fantasy. One Egyptian
diplomat acknowledges, "I never knew we lost the war until I was 26." As his
experience suggests, these lies are so often repeated that they become widely
believed.
This pattern of avoiding unpleasant facts offers an insight into the problems
of Muslim society. Turning defeat into victory, evidence into forgery, and
terrorism into an "inside job" creates an alternate and more hospitable world.
But this denial avoids problems rather than dealing with them. Not
acknowledging who carried out the 9/11 atrocities, for example, means ignoring
its many causes, from a radicalized school curriculum to the use of Islamic
"charities" for money-laundering.
Part of the U.S. war on terrorism, therefore, has to be working with Muslim
governments and pressing them to face reality. This will not be easy, but so
long as they remain in denial, the stage is set for fresh disasters.
