Re: [silk] Was there really a threat?

[ashok]

there is an interesting parallel in
joseph conrad's 'the secret agent'  (written almost a 100 years back
in 1907).

the book is about the aftermath of a
 suicide-bombing plot on greenwich observatory.  the bombing
fails, 
(or 'it was destined to fail' as one
of the characters implies....) and one of the anarchists involved claims
- 
the objective was not for it to succeed,
but to merely make a statement ....'send a message'

interestingly enough there is no good
or bad character in the book...everybody is depcited as pursuing their
own agendas out of it ...the cops and
the anarchists.....


sastry wrote:
> On Tue August 15 2006 11:25 pm, Kiran Jonnalagadda
wrote:
> > ’some did not even have passports…’
> 
> But what do these guys want? Do they want a couple of airliners blown
up 
> before accepting that there was a threat?
>