[Nettime-bold] A view from Pakistan

["Ivo Skoric" <ivo@reporters.net>]

I also think that there is a distinction between Palestinian suicide 
bombers in Israel and highly organized, well endowed Osama's 
terrorist network. Making money by selling short stocks of the 
industries that would lose due to his targeted suicide bombing 
attack, lifts all the 'rubbish of the humanity, abandoned by 
civilization' justification from him. Afghanistan might be abandoned 
by civilization. Osama abandoned civilization, he was well born into 
it, but he decided to make a business of creating rubbish from 
humanity. Here is another view from Pakistan - and their real 
dissatisfaction with the U.S.:
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/9/17/182705.shtml
ivo

Date sent:      	Mon, 17 Sep 2001 14:46:39 -0400 (EDT)
From:           	Andras Riedlmayer <riedlmay@fas.harvard.edu>
To:             	Ivo Skoric <ivo@REPORTERS.NET>
Subject:        	Re: The view from Pakistan/Pervez Hoodbhoy

Below, an excerpt from the latest of the 1000s of commentaries on
last week's horrors, "The View From Islamabad," by Pervez 
Hoodbhoy.
The full article is available on Z Magazine's website at
http://www.zmag.org/hoodcalam.htm

I must say I find myself unconvinced by the "wretched-of-the-Earth"
rhetoric presented here.  The WTC hijackers identified and profiled
in the media thus far have all come from comfortable, even privileged
backgrounds -- not one of them appears to be the product of what 
the
writer calls the "rubbish dumps of humanity, abandoned by 
civilization
and left to rot" ...  I suspect that, despite all the facile talk about
the revolt of the hopeless underclass striking back at its tormentors,
what we're really seeing is a Middle Eastern/"Islamic" version of the
sick romanticism that fuelled the radical Left bombers in America 
and
Western Europe in the 1960s and early 70s -- not one of whom had
anything in common with the oppressed workers and third-world 
peasants
they claimed to champion.

Andras


> Only a fool can believe that the services of a suicidal
> terrorist can be purchased, or that they can be bred at will
> anywhere. Instead, their breeding grounds are in refugee
> camps and in other rubbish dumps of humanity, abandoned
> by civilization and left to rot. A global superpower,
> indifferent to their plight, and manifestly on the side
> of their tormentors, has bred boundless hatred for its
> policies. In supreme arrogance, indifferent to world opinion,
> the US openly sanctions daily dispossession and torture of the
> Palestinians by Israeli occupation forces. The deafening silence
> over the massacres in Qana, Sabra, and Shatila refugee camps,
> and the video-gamed slaughter by the Pentagon of 70,000 people
> in Iraq, has brought out the worst that humans are capable of.
>



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