Mark & Juanita wrote:

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and it was an absolutely brilliant strategic attack --- NOT. Here they
picked a time to attack when the western leaders were meeting to pressure
one another and particularly the US into adopting some policies that could
help derail western civilization (e.g., reducing CO2 emissions by 60% in
the UK by 2010(?)

These assholes could care less about the environment or anything similar
to those types of issues. They are bored, ****ed off, & hungry (they
live in a freaking desert where they can't grow food!) have little
water, not future and they want attention. They get it by targeting
places where large gatherings of people are and blowing them up in the
name of Allah. Allah my ass! Allah didn't tell them to do that. If
you could actually sit down and talk with one of the extremists I
suspect they couldn't tell you what would make them happy, except to
kill other people perhaps. Nuke the whole damned place and turn it into
a huge glassland, then shatter it by dropping a large rock on it.
John