[thechat] Salon article: An Afghan-American speaks

isaac isaac at members.evolt.org
Mon Sep 17 03:50:18 CDT 2001


> Significance of timing, method and perpetrators of his murder?

Also interesting:

http://www.robertscheer.com/1_natcolumn/01_columns/052201.htm

"Enslave your girls and women, harbor anti-U.S. terrorists, destroy every
vestige of civilization in your homeland, and the Bush administration will
embrace you. All that matters is that you line up as an ally in the drug
war, the only international cause that this nation still takes seriously.

"That's the message sent with the recent gift of $43 million to the Taliban
rulers of Afghanistan, the most virulent anti-American violators of human
rights in the world today. The gift, announced last Thursday by Secretary of
State Colin Powell, in addition to other recent aid, makes the U.S. the main
sponsor of the Taliban and rewards that "rogue regime" for declaring that
opium growing is against the will of God. So, too, by the Taliban's
estimation, are most human activities, but it's the ban on drugs that
catches this administration's attention."



isaac





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