Hi -- I fully know that IETF folk do not want to clutter up the list with political stuff, but... I think shedding just a little more light on this one event should be OK.
I sent that offending spam to a friend in Irvine, California, who likes to dig deeper into things like this and he returned to me the following research results, which you might find interesting. I do not think there is much more to be said. Best;-)...\Stef +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 10:32:09 -0700 Subject: Re: A Stupid Ploy: Fwd: Who Is Bin Laden? Well, he's certainly visible enough. A nicely formatted version of what you sent was posted on the web on Sept. 12: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Who Is Osama Bin Laden? by Michel Chossudovsky Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG), Montréal Posted at globalresearch.ca 12 September 2001 http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO109C.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - If you look at the home page for that organization http://globalresearch.ca/ you will find a whole bunch of conspiracy theory and anti-American items. One of these hits close to home: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Osama bin Laden: Agencies of the US Government "Harbor" International Terrorism, Listen to "RealAudio" of Michel Chossudovsky interviewed by Dan Tsang (30 minutes) at KUCI 88.9 FM, Irvine, California. http://falco.kuci.uci.edu/~dtsang/subversity/Sv010914b.ram See "Subversity" program details. 16 September 2001. http://www.kuci.org/~dtsang/subversity/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Feeding his name as a search term into ixquick reveals that Chossudovsky has been spewing such stuff for at least ten years. I find it fascinating that it only took him a day to write the Osama piece that was posted on Sept. 12. . . . :-) Cheers - Jim +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++