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Spreading the Fire
"Kuwait fighting leaves six dead," Gulf Daily News, http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=103300&Sn=WORL&IssueID=27318, 1 February 2005 (from Informed Consent).
"Egypt, Militants Clash in Sinai Peninsula," Associated Press, http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=721&e=9&u=/ap/20050201/ap_on_re_mi_ea/egypt_clashes, 1 February 2005 (from DU).
George Bush is a very brave man.
He talks of spreading the fire of freedom. He has destroyed the status quo ante bellum. But so are the Salafists.
It is ironic that so much of the Bush agenda for the Greater Middle East is coterminus with Osama bin Laden
In his Declaration of War Against the United States, Mr. bin Laden listed the following grievences
- U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia
- The Iraqi Oil Sanctions
- The Israeli Occupation of Palestine
Bush has removed the army from Saudi Arabia, pressed for rapid trade normalization with Iraq, and is seeing Ariel Sharon withdraw from the Gaza and parts of the West Bank.
While bin Laden and Bush have radically different views of "freedom," they both agree that the decrepit Arab states do not provide it. So it is no suprise that Bush is not the only one spreading the fire, whether in Kuwait...
KUWAIT CITY: Kuwaiti security forces fought their biggest battle yet with suspected Islamist militants yesterday, killing five including a Saudi and arresting the radicals' spiritual leader, the interior ministry and state TV said. One Kuwaiti civilian was also killed in the gunbattle that raged for nine hours in Al Qurain district, also known as Mubarak Al Kabir, about 25km south of the capital, the ministry said in a statement.
or Egypt...
CAIRO, Egypt - Security forces clashed with Islamic militants in the mountains of Sinai on Tuesday, killing a suspect in last year's deadly bombings of beach resorts on the peninsula, the government said.
In Iraq the Salafists and Ba'athis view each other as useful idiots. In the rest of the Greater Middle East, the Salafists and the Americans both wish transformation. This is the nature of the Global War on Terrorism.
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