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   BA>> That said, observing current events in the Middle East I cannot help   
   BA>> but feel that the   
   BA>> trouble has been organized/sponsored by al-Qaida.  That   
   BA>> organization's goal, after all,   
   BA>> is to establish a multi-national caliphate and set human development   
   BA>> back by at least   
   BA>> a millenium.  Having not had much luck here and in Europe over the   
   BA>> past several years   
   BA>> I think they're looking for softer targets.   
      
    RW> OF course, and one must remember that wahhabism, which is   
    RW> the root of al qaeda also has close ties to the muslim   
    RW> brotherhood in Egypt.  I've had much the same thoughts.   
      
    Except this arose so fast Al Qaeda didn't have time to set it   
    up. And the secularists are behind it in Egypt, the MB is   
    keeping a relatively low profile.   
      
    The Caliphate would be another dictatorship, and the people want   
    democracy.   
      
    RW> Which is why I would never support a war to defend Saudi   
    RW> Arabia and Kuwait.  A young man or woman serving over there   
    RW> for the U.S. must have his/her reading material censored to   
    RW> satisfy these barbarians and that isn't what we stand for   
    RW> in this country.   
      
    During the first Gulf War I was ranting how a Christian can't   
    even carry a bible in public. Our troops were built up in Saudi   
    Arabia over nearly a year. I was of the opinion we ought to take   
    out the Saudi Govt first.   
      
    ...   
      
   BA>> I'd forgotten about the trouble those folks have caused in Indonesia   
   BA>> and elsewhere in   
   BA>> southeast Asia (including the Philippines).   In any case,   
   BA>> developments in Egypt and, to   
   BA>> a lesser extent in Jordan, seem to be right up their alley.   
      
    RW> OF course they are.  Which is why I still don't understand   
    RW> how it was that our great federal bureaucracy could miss   
    RW> all the signs before 9/11/2001.   
      
    The FBI was investigating the tie between Saudi Arabia and   
    funding for Al Qaeda before 2001. The Bush administration shut   
    down the investigation.   
      
    RW> Sayyid Qutb and some of the   
    RW> founders of modern wahhabism were directly tied to the   
    RW> Muslim brotherhood in Egypt.  IT all is of a piece, and our   
    RW> so-called experts missed it.  They missed it because they   
    RW> chose to ignore it.   
      
    They missed it because it's Saudi, and the Saudis have the oil.   
    Therefore they buy the politicians.   
      
      
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