[thechat] Bali

[Martin Burns]

On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Martin Burns wrote:

> I really don't think it was an attack against Oz as anything more than an
Damn, there was a line here and I erased it and now I can't remember what
it said. Something like:
a convenient excuse, and I don't think that
> the attack was by Osama (fellow travellers, yes). As far as I can see, the
> only reason anyone's saying Al Quaeda is because
> a) Indonesia's a Muslim country with some extremist groups
> b) Bush said so within a stupidly short time, without waiting for any
> evidence whatsoever to surface. Even the Indonesians went after evidence
> first.

---------------------------
"Names, once they are in common use, quickly
 become mere sounds, their etymology being
 buried, like so many of the earth's marvels,
 beneath the dust of habit." - Salman Rushdie