Subject: Re: HAB: Keep your mouth shut
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 11:40:03 


Thomas

I do not think Americans are fool. They do not need fools to advise them. 
These fools are for back home. Sometimes they backfire and become uncalled 
for burden!

"American's just can't keep their mouth shut. I like that. It's an
important element of democracy for me."

It is beyond Rushdie's small mind to comprehend the art Americans have 
perfected, the art of 'concealment' through 'revelation', 'limiting' through 
'diffusion', 'controlling' through 'freedom', 'silencing' through endless 
'chatter'. Repetition of non essential ifinitum so that no body would know 
anything essential, even the difference between essential and non essential 
is obliterated.

Obviously Rushdie has no clue about Osama bin Laden. He is just repeating in 
the manner of caricature what Americans have already said, and said better 
than him. He is just hoping,may be, to be recruited for the special Osama 
hunt force. But as I said Americans are certainly not fools. They are very 
smart and they know Osama very well! See for example Michael Scott Doran, 
“Somebody else’s civil war”, Foreign Affairs vol. 81 no. 1 Jan/Feb 2002, 
22-42. There are also other very fine analyses by the Americans. Who cares 
for Rushdies and Co.?


regards
ali
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From: Thomas McDonald
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Subject: HAB: Keep your mouth shut
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 05:59:26 -0800 (PST)
Ananova: Rushdie says loving limelight will be Bin Laden's downfall
Salman Rushdie thinks Osama Bin Laden's vanity will eventually lead to
his capture.
The author thinks Bin Laden shares a flaw Richard Nixon had.
He says he's obsessed with making recordings of himself which will be
his downfall.
He told Spiegel magazine: "This addiction cost Nixon his office, and it
will be the ruin of Bin Laden."
Rushdie says every tape showing the al-Qaida leader has provided clues
to his whereabouts.
"He loves being on television, but he hasn't been for some time, so he
must be suffering under that," he said. "He'll send another tape, which
will offer more clues."
He said it might take years, but Bin Laden and Mullah Omar would
eventually be caught.
Rushdie went on to compare the political system in the UK and the US,
saying he preferred the American version. He said British politicians
usually tried to hide bad news from the people.
"But in American politics, all that is bad eventually becomes public.
That's why I'm convinced Lee Harvey Oswald was indeed John F Kennedy's
murderer - if there had been a conspiracy, it would have emerged," he
said.
"American's just can't keep their mouth shut. I like that. It's an
important element of democracy for me."
Story filed: 23:23 Monday 25th March 2002
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_553240.html?menu=news.latestheadlines
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