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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Djuana
> Sent: Monday,
October 01, 2001 10:42 AM
> To: 'MAKarim'; Bhara Poernomo B.; Mihri
Safya
> Subject: FW: something to read
>
>
>
> Dear friends,
> it's just something to read, not to say that I
completely agree with it.
>
===============================================
> "TRUTH IS ALWAYS
BITTER"
>
> Written by an American (EPISODE 3)
>
>
>
> THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE APPARENTLY STRUCK A
RESONANCE AROUND THE WORLD. IT
> HAS BEEN TRANSLATED INTO MANY
>
LANGUAGES AROUND THE GLOBE. IT IS LONG BUT WORTH READING!!
>
>
>
> A MOMENT OF REFLECTION
>
>
>
> On September 11th, four teams of hijackers
walked past the security at
> three major metropolitan airports
and
> hijacked four aircraft. Two were crashed into the World Trade
Towers, one
> into the Pentagon, and one was
> apparently and
thankfully shot down before it could reach its target.
>
> The
media call these perpetrators terrorists. Given that we don't really
>
know exactly who they were and
> what belief systems they were slaves
to, we cannot know whether they
> called themselves holy
warriors,
> freedom fighters, or something else. I doubt they call
themselves
> terrorists for using unconventional
> tactics, no
more than the American colonists who used unconventional
> tactics that
the British found morally
> repugnant called themselves terrorists.
>
> But what we do know about these people is that they were
educated. They
> were pilots. They were equipped to
> survive in
modern American culture. Minus their hate,they could have been
>
prosperous and successful here.
> With their hate, because of their
hate, they were willing to throw their
> education, their
prosperity,
> their futures, and their lives away in a blinding flash as
aluminum
> ploughed into concrete with hundreds
> of innocent
lives following just a few feet behind.
>
> How could anyone
hate America enough to throw their own lives away in
> their attacks on
the symbols of our
> nation's economic and military power? I mean it's
not like someone just
> wakes up one morning and decides to
>
hijack a jet passenger liner and use it to knock down a skyscraper and
is
> willing to die in the process
> because there's nothing good
to watch on TV. Nobody wakes up and says,
> "Gee the baseball game got
rained
> out, let's go blow up a building." Anyone willing to commit
such a crime
> as we have seen this week is
> seriously pissed off
about something, and in order to stop more attacks we
> need to face up
to what that
> something is.
>
> We're not talking "lone
nuts", but entire teams of people willing to die
> in their attacks on
our
> buildings and against our citizens. What makes these people so
hate us
> that they would sacrifice their
> lives in their
eagerness to strike at us?
>
> Maybe it's because America,
despite lovely speeches about bringing freedom
> and democracy to the
world, has
> a record of backing some of the worst dictators to be
found. The US
> Government, for reasons of commercial
> interest,
backed men like Batista and the Shah of Iran, despots who drove
> their
people into poverty to
> enrich American corporations until their people
rebelled. Then we
> befuddled Americans scratch our
> heads and
wonder why those people don't seem to like us very much.
>
>
Maybe people hate us because what we call Peacekeepers still looks and
>
feels like an invading army to those
> who stop the bullets, step on the
landmines, and catch the bombs.
>
> Maybe it's because the US
Government has executed its foreign policy by
> tricking nations into
fighting each
> other. Saddam was our buddy once, when he was useful to
our policy towards
> Iran. We The People paid for the
> Super gun.
Our government sold Saddam the first of his biological weapons.
> Then
our government decided they
> didn't need him any more, told him it
would be okay if he invaded Kuwait
> and declared war on him, blowing
up
> the Supergun and the biological weapons (we hope). Think maybe
Saddam
> carries a grudge? I sure would if I was
> double crossed
like that.
>
> We played the same double cross with Osama Bin
Laden,our ally and a CIA
> contract agent in Afghanistan,
> funded
with $6 billion of YOUR tax dollars, now branded a supervillian
> worthy
of a comic book.
> Remember the last time our government decided to
"take care of Osama?" We
> blew up an aspirin factory in
> Sudan.
Big joke, that was. You, the taxpayers, not only got to pay for the
>
million-a-shot cruise
> missiles, you also got to pay to rebuild the
aspirin factory when the
> owners sued the USA, with Vernon
>
Jordan as their attorney! Think the people who worked in that
factory
> (the ones who survived at any rate)
> like us? I doubt
it.
>
> Maybe the reason people in the middle east are willing
to conduct holy
> wars against us is because so many
> holy wars
were conducted against them in the past,going back to the
> so-called
"Holy" Crusades.
>
> Jerusalem was conquered on 7/15/1099 and
60,000 non-Christians were
> killed. Bodies were slit open to
>
search for gold coins they might have swallowed. Jews who had taken
refuge
> in the city's synagogue were
> burned alive; thousands of
Muslims were chopped to death in Al-Aqsa
> mosque. According to the
Archbishop
> of Tyre, who was an eye-witness, "It was impossible to look
upon the vast
> numbers of the slain without
> horror; everywhere
lay fragments of human bodies, and the very ground was
> covered with
the blood of the
> slain. It was not alone the spectacle of headless
bodies and mutilated
> limbs strewn in all directions
> that
roused the horror of all who looked upon them. Still more dreadful
> was
it to gaze upon the victors
> themselves, dripping with blood from head
to foot, an ominous sight which
> brought terror to all who met
>
them. It is reported that within the Temple enclosure alone about ten
>
thousand infidels perished." Christian
> chronicler Eckehard of Aura
noted that "even the following summer in all
> of Palestine the air was
polluted by
> the stench of decomposition".
>
> After rude
behavior like that, nobody would be welcome again.
>
> Maybe
people are willing to use terror attacks against us because we use
>
terror attacks against them. In
> 1985, authorized by William Casey, the
CIA planted a car bomb near a
> mosque in Beirut to kill Sheik
>
Mohammed Hossein Fadlallah, a Muslim cleric. The bomb missed the Sheik
but
> killed 80 people, including
> children. Is it really okay
for us to use tactics we condemn in others?
> No, it isn't. If they are
morally
> wrong to use car bombs that kill innocent people, then so are
we.
>
> Or maybe the reason so many people hate us enough to die
attacking us is
> something as simple as growing up
> watching
your playmates blown to bloody bits before your eyes, and picking
> up a
piece of shrapnel stamped,
> "Made in the USA". It is silly to think
that anyone could endure a
> childhood like that and remain
entirely
> positive about the USA. Because for all its public talk of
peace, the
> United States remains the largest
> exporter of
mechanized death in the world. And if it is acceptable for the
> victims
of guns to blame the gun
> makers for their injuries, it must be equally
acceptable for the victims
> of bombs, missiles, and
> mines, to
blame the weapons makers as well.
>
> It is far less than clear
just who is behind the attacks in New York and
> Washington DC. Fingers
have
> been pointed at Saddam Hussein, Arafat, and ex CIA agent Osama
Bin Laden.
> It may be any one of them. It
> may be all three. It
may be none of them. It could be the work of a third
> party, unknown
and unseen, with
> the goal of triggering yet another war where the
blood of innocents will
> be bartered for greater wealth and
>
influence. We do know that those who hijacked the planes went to a
great
> deal of effort to steal
> identities of Middle Eastern
Arabs and use them on their forged
> identifications.
>
>
What also know is that wars are often started with deceptions. Sun Tzu
>
states in "The Art Of War" that
> all warfare is based on deception, and
that rulers must cultivate the
> appearance of moral rightness
in
> order to persuade their nations to fight.
>
> When
Hitler needed the support of the German people to invade Poland, he
>
got it by staging a phony attack
> complete with dead bodies in Polish
uniforms on the German side of the
> border. Recently
declassified
> documents prove that Pearl Harbor wasn't quite the total
surprise it was
> claimed to be. And the story
> about stolen
incubators that angered America into support of Desert Storm
> turned
out to be a complete
> fiction created by Hill & Kowlton, a public
relations firm that has grown
> rich lying to people on behalf
of
> governments, ANY governments, and whose executives have bragged,
"We would
> represent Satan, if he paid
> us."
>
>
Forget for a moment who was hurt in these attacks, and study who
>
benefited.
>
> A few weeks ago the USA was fictionalized, her
people justly critical of
> the policies of the government,
>
questioning even if that government's taxes were legal, questioning
the
> support of Israel, questioning
> the handling of the Condit
case, questioning Waco, questioning a
> self-critical nation demanding
answers
> to some tough questions; answers the government did not have.
>
> Now, the United States has been transformed. All criticism
is gone,
> Criticism itself is now deemed to
> be, instead of the
right of the people, an act of treason.
>
> In the blink of an
eye our nation has gone from being 266 million thinking
> citizens
wanting to know if the
> government is right to 266 million conscripts
willing to follow the
> government into war even if it is wrong.
>
In the blink of an eye the people have stopped blaming the government
for
> the worsening economy and shifted
> that blame to the
"terrorists".
>
> The government of the United States has
reasserted its power over the
> people. It is stronger, much
stronger,
> because if this attack. And any educated student of history
would know
> ahead of time that this strengthening
> of the US
government's power would be the result of horrendous attacks
> such as
we have seen..
>
> Israel, criticized by the world for its
treatment of displaced
> Palestinians, now finds that criticism
>
silenced. For the foreseeable future, Israel can do what it will with
the
> Palestinians, immune from the
> censure of the world's
press, burying the Palestinian cause under the
> rubble of the World
Trade Towers.
>
> Unless he is still working for the CIA, Osama
Bin Laden would not have
> wanted to cause any of the
> changes
which have resulted from the horrific attacks on New York and
>
Washington DC. The attacks made the US
> government stronger. Who
benefits from that? That stronger US Government
> is now ready to wage
war
> against the Arabs. Who benefits from that?
>
> Who
really gained from the attacks in New York and Washington DC? Whose
>
political agendas were advanced
> by the attacks? That is where to look
for the planners of the World Trade
> Towers attacks.
>
>
That we have been attacked is certain. But before we send out the
cruise
> missiles to prove how big our
> national dick is, we had
better make sure we are aimed at the right party,
> and not just being
suckered into
> bombing someone that the real planners and perpetrators
of the World Trade
> Center attack want to
> trick us into
bombing. Because if, in the heat of the moment and the lust
> for
vengeance we surrender our
> basic American principles such as demand
for proof beyond a reasonable
> doubt, then we ourselves will
have
> damaged America and what it stands for far more than those who
attacked
> the World Trade Center could ever
> do themselves. What
the hijackers could not knock down, we will have
> thrown down
ourselves. If we do
> that, then those who planned and carried out the
attacks against the World
> Trade Towers and the
> Pentagon will
have won, even if we hunt them down and kill them.
>
> Don't be
a slave to your beliefs about what a government could or could
> not do.
History is full of
> governments that perpetrated monumental frauds upon
their own people to
> trigger a war. Governments HAVE to
> commit
fraud to start a war because most people, especially Americans,
> refuse
to initiate a war of
> conquest. They have to have the illusion they
have been attacked first.
>
> 5,000 lives are a lot. But to a
government, ours or anyone else's, it's a
> tiny fraction of a percent
to
> sacrifice to bring 100% of the nation under control, isn't it? And
if we
> go into a protracted war in
> Afghanistan, a region that
has resisted invasion for the last 2000 years,
> we will soon long for
the days
> when our dead could be counted in mere thousands.
>
> The World Trade Towers cost a billion dollars. That's 1/10th of a
percent
> of what the Department Of Defense
> misplaced last year,
and a drop in the barrel compared to the worth of the
> oil sitting
under the lands we are
> about to attack.
>
> Are you
really so sure you have been told the truth about what is going
> on?
>
>
>
>
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>
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