On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 23:52:21 GMT, "-=jd=-"
wrote:


The *only* way they will stop attacking is if we all convert to islam or
submit to being slaves under islam. Otherwise, they have no choice but to
endeavor to slaughter us. That's not *my* rules; that's *their* rules. You
have absolutely no comprehension of radical islamic terrorists, other than
what the Bush-bashing web sites tell you. Wow! I *STILL* have you pegged!!
LOL!


-=jd=-

That's not what they say.

''WHAT THE CIA’S BIN LADEN EXPERT SAYS

The Commission’s analysis may have drawn on the writings of Michael
Scheuer, who served in the CIA for 22 years, and who headed the CIA
Counter-Terrorism Centre’s bin Laden task force (1996-1999). Scheuer,
who retired in Nov. 2004, wrote two recent books as ‘Anonymous’:
Through Our Enemies’ Eyes and Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing
the War on Terror. (He was unmasked in the Boston Phoenix.)

Scheuer contests the view put forward by George W. Bush and Tony
Blair: ‘We in the United States and the West make a mistake when we
argue, as has [New York Times columnist] Thomas L. Friedman, that bin
Laden’s attacks are “not aimed at reversing any specific U.S. foreign
policy,” or, as Steve Simon and Daniel Benjamin did in Survival in
early 2002, that bin Laden has “no discrete set of negotiatiable
political demands“.’ (Through Our Enemies’ Eyes, p. 256)

Scheuer argues that Osama bin Laden has ‘clear, focused, limited and
widely popular foreign policy goals’, including:

‘the end of U.S. aid to Israel and the ultimate elimination of that
state; the removal of U.S. and Western forces from Iraq, Afghanistan,
and other Muslim lands; the end of U.S. support for the oppression of
Muslims by Russia, China, and India; the end of U.S. protection for
repressive, apostate regimes in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, Jordan,
et cetera; and the conservation of the Muslim world’s energy resources
and their sale at higher prices.’

Scheuer observes that, ‘Bin Laden is out to drastically alter U.S. and
Western policies toward the Islamic world, not necessarily to destroy
America, much less its freedoms and liberties. He is a practical
warrior, not an apocalyptic terrorist in search of Armageddon.’
(Imperial Hubris, p. xviii)

Scheuer wrote, while still a serving CIA officer, ‘Bin Laden has been
precise in telling America the reasons he is waging war on us. None of
the reasons have anything to do with our freedom, liberty and
democracy, but have everything to do with U.S. policies and actions in
the Muslim world.’ (Imperial Hubris, p. x) Scheuer goes further,
arguing that ‘the United States, and its policies and actions, are bin
Laden’s only indispensable allies’. (Imperial Hubris, p. xi)''

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