Al-Qaeda
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| | by Dr Tanvir Hussain Bhatti, Oct 29, 2008 | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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| | The events that unfolded after 9/11 testify that al-Qaeda gambit is being used by the western countries to safeguard their greater self-centered concerns. |
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| | Words can be powerful tools in certain hands as the much used adage ‘the pen is mightier then he sword’ attests. Few words this century are as emotionally charged as “terrorism” which has been used more then any other in recent times to justify political and military actions. |
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| | Osama Bin Laden, or Usāmah bin Muḥammad bin `Awaḍ bin Lādin, is a household name after the September 11, 2001 attacks on World Trade Center and Pentagon. |
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| | Similar to the Vietnam War, public opinion is building to pull our troops out of Iraq before the job is done. Do we give in to this pressure? What about the American lives we have lost and the massive killing and injuries our military has inflicted in Iraq? Just as it was with Vietnam veterans, if we don’t allow our troops to finish their job, they too will suffer the horrible effects of sacrificing so much for nothing. |
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| | How the current trend in terrorism compares to the tactics of the Vietnamese during the Vietnam Conflict. |
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| | In this final segment we investigate a few more rules that dictate the Geneva Convention's "prisoners of war" definition, we compare terrorism by Hamas, Hizb'allah to the Minutemen and Sons of Liberty. We also follow the money trail and discover who was financially supporting our founding fathers, not unlike Iran and Syria backing Hizb'allah. There's an old saying of "those who do not learn from history are bound to repeat it", and we desperately are ignorant of our own "terrorist" roots. |
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| | An objective and sensible response to the report of Newsweek. |
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