Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:05:43 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: swalker-AT-email.unc.edu ("Scott D. Walker")
Subject: news


Well, I'm going to try to reserve judgment about who's responsible for the
attacks, keeping in mind the anti-Arab and anti-Muslim sentiment expressed in
the immediate aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing--which turned out to be the
work of some home-grown fanatics.

Unfortunately, I agree with you, Omar, about what will happen if the crashes do
turn out to be affiliated with a Palestinian group, or with Osama bin Laden. 
Recent history shows that the U.S. government believes in reprisal as a
legitimate aim of foreign policy, and I'm sure that's even more the case with
the current "leadership."

Scott  

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> From: Omar Guessous <o_guessous-AT-yahoo.com>
> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 11:17:27 -0400
> Subject: RE: 
> To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
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> YES!
> And I am scared shitless that it will have all been done by some
> Palestinian- or Osama-affiliated group... Not only is the whole thing plain
> inhuman and stupid, but if that is the case, there goes the whole Arab
> community, there goes what little is left of the Palestinian cause, there
> goes a further increase in the already-ridiculou American fear/hatred of the
> Arab & Muslim worlds, there go bombs throughout the Arab world, there go
> embargoes, expulsions, retraction of VISA rights, further alienation,
> etc...........
> As an Arab myself, I can only hope I am wrong, but I am most likely not...
> 'vengeance' is near as the blood-loving US so likes to bomb the hell out of
> ppl, and so there go unnecessary lives... for what?
>  Omar
> 
> Omar Guessous
> Community Psychology Ph.D. Program
> Georgia State University
> H: (404) 688-2587    Cell: (413) 222-4913
> Email: o_guessous-AT-yahoo.com
> 174 Cleveland St., Southeat
> Atlanta, GA 30316
> 
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> Has anyone seen the news yet?
> 
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