Against whom?

[Nabeela Sheikh]

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From: KXX4493553 at aol.com <KXX4493553 at aol.com>
To: fqmorris at hotmail.com <fqmorris at hotmail.com>; pynchon-l at waste.org
<pynchon-l at waste.org>
Date: September 13, 2001 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: Against whom?


>In einer eMail vom 13.09.01 21:25:16 (MEZ) - Mitteleurop. Sommerzeit
schreibt
>fqmorris at hotmail.com:
>
>> The world is not as free today as it was Monday.
>Really? Okay, DM, I can understand your feelings and your hatred since
>Tuesday. I think everybody had these feelings in the last two, three days.
>But singing patriotic songs and a good analysis are two different things.
>There will revenge, there will be counter-attacks, of course, that's the
way
>it is. But: the so called "terrorism" is a hydra, and Bin Laden is the
actual
>personification. If he is eliminated, there will be other Bin Ladens all
over
>the world. Since the first hijackings of planes in the early 70's by
>Palestinian and other organizations I see only a gradual, not a principal
>growing of terrorism and fanaticism. The difference of nowadays to earlier
>forms of terrorism  is that the targets/aims are more diffuse, and the
>justification for these deeds is getting more and more fundamentalist and
>religious. For me this is a consequence of the growing segmentation of the
>hemispheres and cultures; but the "clash of civilizations" has economic
>reasons. It may sound cynical but the U. S. reached the "normality" of the
>rest of the world on Tuesday. This is the sound of globalization, man. The
>terrorism of Mr. Bin Laden, BTW, is no "poor-people-terrorism". These
people
>are well-educated, rich and intelligent. This is the "islamic spirit of
>capitalism", I only can't see yet the Islamic Max Weber. All your glorious
>"think tanks" know NOTHING about the Islam and the sociological structure
of
>this hemisphere. First shoot, then think? Hey man, this is not John Wayne
>fighting against Indians with only one lung.
>
>I repeat: there will be counter-attacks, I'm absolutely sure. But the
>organization structure of the Islamic terrorism is the cell division,
>invented, BTW, by the FLN in the Algerian war. The advantage of this cell
>structure is: most of them are unknown ("sleepers"), and If you destroy one
>of them, you know nothing about the rest. One cell often knows nothing
about
>the other cells. Maybe there was no direct order of Bin Laden to destroy
WTC,
>Pentagon, White House, Camp David or whatever, but they acted in "the
spirit
>of Bin Laden". But this you can only notice when it's too late. As it was
on
>Tuesday. The only fight against this sort of terorism which may succeed is
a
>"structural" fight, a fight against the reasons of terrorism.  But for this
>you need a long, long breath, AND you must reflect you OWN position in the
>"international division of labour" (nowadys called globalization).
>
>Any idea why no communist group ever attacked WTC?
>
>Kurt-Werner Pörtner
>


Maybe they just did. Who's to say (yet)? That was my first reaction. Too
reminiscent of Fight Club.

Nabeela