Re: they are no longer a problem for the United States

[Lueko.Willms@xxxxxxxxxxx (Lueko Willms)]

  in reply to: 

> # Subject: they are no longer a problem for the United States
> # From: "James Daly" <james.irldaly@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> # Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 08:30:58 +0100

  on the web at http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/msg30628.html

  on Ricardo Alarcón's April 29, 2003, article "No longer a problem":

 
> Did Bush actually say this? And was his meaning obvious? (I can
> imagine the leering smirk). Why was there no response (apart from the
> applause)?
> 

  You can read the full speech "State of the Union" at this URL: 
> 
> http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030128-19.html
> 

  and you can also view or download a video or listen to the audio
recording of that speech from that URL, and find out if there was
more of a reaction that simple applause. 


  You will find the following paragraph in the speech: 


>  To date, we've arrested or otherwise dealt with many key 
> commanders of al Qaeda. They include a man who directed 
> logistics and funding for the September the 11th attacks; 
> the chief of al Qaeda operations in the Persian Gulf, who 
> planned the bombings of our embassies in East Africa and 
> the USS Cole; an al Qaeda operations chief from Southeast 
> Asia; a former director of al Qaeda's training camps in 
> Afghanistan; a key al Qaeda operative in Europe; <i>a major 
> al Qaeda leader in Yemen</i>. All told, more than 3,000 
> suspected terrorists have been arrested in many countries. 
> Many others have met a different fate. Let's put it this 
> way -- they are no longer a problem to the United States 
> and our friends and allies. (Applause.)

   My emphasis added. You might remember the murder of all people on
board of a car somewhere in Yemen by a US missile guided from afar by
US forces. 

   One of the human beings in that car was, as far as I understand
it, supposedly this "major al Qaeda leader" mentioned above, maybe
also the person held responsible with the attach on the US military
ship "Cole". 

   Anyway, those people in that car destroyed by a US missle were not
arrested, they were of those who "have met a different fate". 

   So the meaning of that "different fate" is obvious. 

   US imperialism is an international murder organization which
pretends to have the right to kill any human being anywhere in the
world. 


Yours, 
Lüko Willms 
Frankfurt/Main 
/ Lueko.Willms@xxxxxxxxxxx