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> Horrible conditions can lead to someone who fights for human rights (like
at
> least at first glance it seems this woman was) or they can lead to
desperate
> people with little regard for innocent life...
Usama Bin Ladin is a rich Saudi:
http://usembassy.state.gov/afghanistan/wwwhtr01.html
BW
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Haviland" <BHaviland@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 1:54 PM
Subject: OT Afganistan
> Hi,
> Been trying to educate myself a bit about Afghanistan. The country is in a
> dire strait after the war with Russia. Women in particular are at risk.
The
> following link is to a poem written by a woman who founded a woman's
rights
> movement. She was eventually killed by the KGB. In our eagerness to punish
> the terrorists I hope that we will not forget the lessons of Hitler's
> rise -- the severe and unremitting punishment of Germany for WWI led to
> conditions in Germany that made the people long for someone like Hitler to
> deliver them
> http://rawa.fancymarketing.net/ill.htm
> Horrible conditions can lead to someone who fights for human rights (like
at
> least at first glance it seems this woman was) or they can lead to
desperate
> people with little regard for innocent life. Not an excuse for what was
> done, but looking to understand a human being who would do such a thing --
> to say that they are not human is a fantasy as any casual look at history
> will prove.
> Killing lots of terrorists, while satisfying in a basic sort of
> eye-for-an-eye way, may not solve our problem if the breeding grounds of
> desperate acts continue. Need to differentiate between terrorists,
> governments
> that support them, and the people which may not support their government.
> Don't think there's any easy solution.
> Here's some info on Bin Laden
> http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/12/binladen.profile/index.html
>
> Brian
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