[lit-ideas] Re: the bombing blues
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 13:41:57 -0700
The government held huge news conferences to announce a major blow to
terrorists.
But later that day, a few reporters got copies of the actual indictments. Minor
stuff.
You get the feeling that this is all they could find. Islamic dad-and-Lad go summer camping
in Pakistan.
I seriously doubt there are any big fish. Bin Laden himself is summer camping in Pakistan
and nothing has happened to him yet.
The London bombing are noticable for several things:
- The Madrid bombing killed about 200 people. It was only 50 in London. Whomever did this
was unable to do more damage, which means it was a small group with very limited ability.
- This is the third action (if indeed it was Islamic fundamentalists) in four years and only
the seond since 9.11. Clearly, al Qaeda is not very active.
- They used explosives, not biological or nuclear weapons.
- It's a good guess as to who did this. I've heard from various people that it could be the
IRA, factions of Islamic fundamentalists, the Russian Mafia, and (repeatedly) the Bush White
House.
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Enns" <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 1:13 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: the bombing blues
Andreas Ramos wrote:
"Last month, a father and son in California were arrested for attending a
madras in Pakistan. That's ALL the FBI/CIA/NSA/DOT/FCC/whatever could find.
And they would LOVE to find more, to prove they're doing something."
This doesn't seem right. First, the arrest of the father and son strikes me
as being largely political, as showing that "they're doing something."
Second, the father and son appear to be small fish and perhaps that is why
they were arrested. It seems to me that if the relevant agencies had found
big fish, they wouldn't be arrested because there would be the chance of
getting even bigger fish. Andreas may be right, and no other 'terrorists'
have been found, but there is a certain logic to keeping the big fish in
play while arresting the small fish for political purposes. Sort of like
arresting the street dealers in order to keep the locals happy but watching
the mid-level conduits in order to get to the druglords.
Sincerely,
Phil Enns
Toronto, ON
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