pinter dan berani banget nih walikota.... bisa gak kita sewa dia buat gantiin sutiyoso di jakarta....?
salam, At 08:34 AM 7/20/05 -0700, you wrote: > > > > > > >Mayor blames Middle East policy > > >Decades of British and American intervention in the oil-rich Middle East >motivated the London bombers, Ken Livingstone has suggested. >The London mayor told BBC News he had no sympathy with the bombers and he >opposed all violence. >But he argued that the attacks would not have happened had Western powers >left Arab nations free to decide their own affairs after World War I. >Instead, they had often supported unsavoury governments in the region. > > >A lot of young people see the double standards >Ken Livingstone >London Mayor > >Mr Livingstone was asked on BBC Radio 4's Today programme what he thought >had motivated the bombers. >He replied: "I think you've just had 80 years of western intervention into >predominantly Arab lands because of the western need for oil. >"We've propped up unsavoury governments, we've overthrown ones we didn't >consider sympathetic. >"And I think the particular problem we have at the moment is that in the >1980s... the Americans recruited and trained Osama Bin Laden, taught him >how to kill, to make bombs, and set him off to kill the Russians and drive >them out of Afghanistan. >"They didn't give any thought to the fact that once he'd done that he >might turn on his creators." >No justice? >Mr Livingstone said Western governments had been so terrified of losing >their fuel supplies that they had kept intervening in the Middle East. >He argued: "If at the end of the First World War we had done what we >promised the Arabs, which was to let them be free and have their own >governments, and kept out of Arab affairs, and just bought their oil, >rather than feeling we had to control the flow of oil, I suspect this >wouldn't have arisen." > > >British voters don't vote in elections on foreign policy, and suicide >bombers won't change this >Andrew, Cirencester, UK > > >He attacked double standards by Western nations, such as the initial >welcome given when Saddam Hussein came to power in Iraq. >There was also the "running sore" of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. >"A lot of young people see the double standards, they see what happens in >Guantanamo Bay, and they just think that there isn't a just foreign >policy," said Mr Livingstone. >Suicide bombers >Mr Livingstone said he did not just denounce suicide bombers. >He also denounced "those governments which use indiscriminate slaughter to >advance their foreign policy, as we have occasionally seen with the >Israeli government bombing areas from which a terrorist group will have >come, irrespective of the casualties it inflicts, women, children and men". >He continued: "Under foreign occupation and denied the right to vote, >denied the right to run your own affairs, often denied the right to work >for three generations, I suspect that if it had happened here in England, >we would have produced a lot of suicide bombers ourselves." >Mr Livingstone also criticised parts of the media for giving too much >publicity to certain figures who were "totally unrepresentative" of >British Muslims. >Tourist impact >Mr Livingstone later took questions about the bombings from members of the >London Assembly. >He said the unity shown by Londoners in the wake of the attacks was a >commemoration to those who died and showed a determination not to give in >to terrorism. >The mayor said most of the Tube would be working normally by the end of >the week and the Underground should be working as before by the end of the >month. >But he warned Tube users they would have to put up with the kind of >disruption caused by packages left on trains which was seen during past >IRA bombing campaigns. >There had been "very, very little" cancellations of existing hotel >bookings and flights to London, said Mr Livingstone. >But there had been an immediate drop in new bookings for long-haul flights >and hotels and a "dramatic reduction" in British people bringing children >into the capital. >'Naming and shaming' hotels >Before this month's attacks, the levels of American tourists visiting >London were only running at 75% of the numbers seen before the 11 >September 2001 attacks in the US. >One way to counter the "turn down" in tourist trade was to attract more >people from the UK and other parts of Europe, said Mr Livingstone. >Mr Livingstone said he did not have information about hotels raising >prices for people trying to stay in London after the attacks. >But if there was evidence of "profiteering", the Greater London Authority >would "name and shame" those hotels involved and refuse to do business >with them in the future, he said. > > >Story from BBC NEWS: >http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4698963.stm *************************************************************************** Berdikusi dg Santun & Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. 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