On 8/1/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> rejoined:
> So, which party made the first use of the term > Al Qaeda in the sense of a hierarchical international > terrorist organization -- the CIA, the 1993 WTC > bombing prosecution, or those who claim to lead or > be members of Al Qaeda? When after many years of being called "Queer" gay men and lesbian activists adopted (and, granted, in so doing in part transmuted while also incorporating) that term, yet in light of the now widespread use of "Queer" to refer to persons who identify themselves as that (however they would define that "that" to be), does it matter who first used the term or whether some uses are motivated differently (much less signify that, in fact, there are not men and women and transgendered folk who identify themselves as "Queeer")? In evaluating whether and, if so, how to use word "Queer" especially in the context of political organizing, how (if at all) does it matter that whatever/whoever might be described as the "Queer"-related equivalent of Claire Sterling analogous to Sterlin'gs use of "terrorist" and "terrorist networks also used the term "Queer"? And whoever first used "Al Quaeda" (in whatever context) what (if any) form of understanding was advanced by the OP's questioning as if a "myth" the use of that term?
