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At a time when the al-Zarqawi's and Basayev's are dying and being killed and the deaths trumpeted across our newspaper headlines
(a story here reports the latter terrorist slash freedom fighter was outed from the inside)
and at a time when the Australians newspaper is asking its readers and themselves to consider the question : Why are we assisting a suspected terrorist?
when Canadian soldiers die overseas in Afghanistan ...it behooves any citizen to ask themselves why indeed.
Well, heres what I see...
I see that at the same time that Pakistan digs in and offers more help to help capture terrorists
days after attacks in the city formerly called Bombay
(first arrests in blasts made)...
that a flight from Lahore Pakistan to Uzbekistan which used to take 24 hours now takes 2.5....
and
while the latter country cuts off gas to Tajikistan for unpaid debts
"The energy infrastructure in Central Asia was built in Soviet times, when borders between the now-independent countries were virtually meaningless. [creating] a complex system of interlocking dependencies, which is still in place 15 years after the fall of the Soviet Union. "
and opens a diplomatic mission in Shanghai
all at the same time that an intelligence chief of an Afghan district on a major drug trafficking route to Tajikistan was caught with 33 kilograms (73 pounds) of heroin.
We do have to ask why.
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But heres a look at the world shortly after nine eleven 2001...heres a snippet from the Press on international reaction..about a month afer the towers were bombed
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Chechen MD: West ignores brutality
LONDON - Khassan Baiev, a Chechen doctor who has treated victims on both sides of the lines in Chechnya, said in an interview published in The Independent on October 18 that the West has failed to pay attention to Russian brutality in Chechnya. The same day, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell told journalists that during the talks in Shanghai, Washington will press Moscow to seek a political settlement in Chechnya, Agence France-Presse reported.
U.S. envoy thanks Uzbekistan's Muslims
TASHKENT - Meeting with staff members of the Muslim Spiritual Board of Uzbekistan, U.S. Ambassador John Herbst thanked Uzbekistan's Muslim community for their support of the U.S.-led anti-terrorist strikes against neighboring Afghanistan, Interfax reported on October 17.
Russians don't support alliance
MOSCOW - A survey of recent polling data published in Izvestia on October 15 suggested that most Russians do not support President Vladimir Putin's decision to ally Moscow with the U.S.-led counter-terrorism effort. That is not because Russians are ignorant or supportive of terrorism, but rather because they do not trust the United States and believe that Washington will try to exploit the campaign for its own broader geopolitical and economic interests, according to a commentary on the poll findings. The article noted that this should not surprise anyone because most Russians have still not decided whether Russia should be part of the West or pursue a special course with the East.
Commentators: U.S. faces tough going
MOSCOW - Former Prime Minister Yevgenii Primakov told ITAR-TASS on October 15 that the United States may find itself sinking "into a quagmire" in Afghanistan much like the one in which the Soviet Union found itself in the past. Meanwhile, an article in Parlamentskaya Gazeta on October 13 suggested that Osama bin Laden is likely to prove difficult and perhaps impossible to capture. Russian ecologists believe that it is completely possible that the Taliban and the other terrorists may have and use biological weapons, Interfax reported on October 15.
Paper says U.S. guilty of terrorism
MOSCOW - An article in Nezavisimaya Gazeta on October 13 said that the U.S. has been guilty of provoking and carrying out terrorist acts against Cuban leader Fidel Castro and his regime. It suggested that the U.S. might use the cover of the anti-terrorist campaign to attack Castro again. The same issue of the paper carried another article suggesting that American intellectuals are concerned that the war against terrorism will give birth to a new outburst of McCarthyism in the United States.
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Whats it all mean? Wheres it all headed? Well, in my view, some people are wondering with the Chechen seperatist leader gone, the war in the Caucaus is over...and if the President of Pakistan is helping to out terrorists maybe he will end up assassinated by America Al-Jazzera asks (attempts have been made before) and some people, like the folks at the LA Times, are wondering if this means World War III. But everybody knows Bill Clinton wanted a oil route across the Caspian Sea to avoid Iran.
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Yeah. So this it. These are the times. Why bother understanding...we are just consumers: of news and of oil. And there are no political solutions. And dont you know thats why war starts.
