Subject: Re: [LPNY DISCUSS] Why Not Read the Whole Thing? Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 00:55:33 -0500 To: From: Bob Armstrong Because I just grabbed the first actual text I found in the links on http://news.google.com . It happened to be CNN . Thanks for finding and posting the whole thing . On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 00:35:56 -0000, Ronald J. Wieck wrote: >=A0March 12, 2004, 12:51 p.m. >=A0Madrid Bluff? >=A0Letter doesn't look like al Qaeda. >=A0By Yigal Carmon >=A0http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/carmon200403121251.asp > >=A0On March 12, 2004, the pro-Saddam pro-bin Laden London daily= Al-Quds >=A0Al-Arabi published the alleged statement by the Abu Hafs= Al-Masri >=A0Brigades of al Qaeda, in which the brigades claimed to be >=A0responsible for the March 11, 2004, bombings in Madrid. ... >=A0"Take your hands off us! Release our prisoners! Get out of our >=A0lands! Then we will leave you alone. > >=A0"The peoples of America's allies must pressure their government= to >=A0withdraw immediately from their alliance with America [in its= fight] >=A0against terror (Islam)... And if you renounce [fighting us], we= too >=A0will stop fighting you. > >=A0COMMENTARY >=A0The concept of conditionality, as in the statement "And if you >=A0renounce [fighting us], we too will stop fighting you" is not a= bin >=A0Laden concept. It certainly isn't a Bush concept either . The discounting of the letter as being real al Qaeda assumes a= very small pool of writers rather than many cells with different personalities . One hopes that this is the group if they mean what they say= about terms of a truce . Striking Spain is brilliantly logical . They say they did it and no one else has . --=A0 =A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- 212-285-1864 Libertarian Presidential Candidates =A0:= http://CoSy.com/Liberty.htm Restore our Right to Relax : =A0http://ny.lp.org/cgi-bin/petition.cgi?Against_the_Smoking_Ban =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A02004/03/13 12:28:41 AM