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Black September's first operation was the assassination, in November of 1971, of Jordan's Prime Minister Wasfi al-Tal, who was gunned down as he entered the lobby of the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo. While Tal lay dying, one of the assassins knelt and lapped with his tongue the blood flowing across the marble floor.[found via LGF]
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Mr. Secretary-General, Please assume your responsibilities, by saying and advising the unfair people that their unfairness to Muslims, faithful Arabs, and to all, will be of dire consequences, and that God, the Almighty is capable of doing everything. ... Therefore, we hope, that you will, Mr. Secretary General, advise the ignorants not to push things to the precipice... because the people of Iraq... would rather make their lives the price if that was the only way before them to safeguard what they must safeguard. ...[In a later letter, Iraq shall state that some] measures and procedures, contained in SCR 1441 [are] contrary to international law, UN Charter, the facts already established and the measures contained in previous relevant resolutions of the Security Council.[via Washington Post]
In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful...In brief: Bush and Blair are evil liars. Iraq has NOT produced chemical and biological weapons, nor has it even attempted to produce nuclear weapons.
...is there any good to be hoped for, or expected, from the American administrations, now that they have been transformed by their own greed, by Zionism as well as by other known factors, into the tyrant of the age.[via Washington Post]
Destroying Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq is merely the first step in a needed general reconstruction of the Middle East. In approaching this task it is important the Administration realizes the role anti-Semitism plays in the area's turbulence. Anti-Semitism is the result of the oldest of the world's irrational explanations of why things happen. Like Marxism and Freudianism, it posits one big, simple cause of human behavior that is loosely defined and vague enough that all events, especially malign ones, can be fitted into the theory. Where Marxism used class warfare and Freudianism infantile experience bottled up in the unconscious, anti-Semitism uses a gigantic, worldwide conspiracy of Jews.
Bernard Lewis:
What went wrong? For a long time people in the Islamic world, especially but not exclusively in the Middle East, have been asking this question. The content and formulation of the question, provoked primarily by their encounter with the West, vary greatly according to the circumstances, extent, and duration of that encounter and the events that first made them conscious, by comparison, that all was not well in their society. But whatever the form and manner of the question and of the answers it evokes, there is no mistaking the growing anguish, the mounting urgency, and of late the seething anger with which both question and answers are expressed.[What Went Wrong? Introduction]