From: klausm@bruderhof.com (Klaus Meier).

Warm greetings to you and many thanks for your words regarding peace and standing above all violence whatever its name. I would be glad to hear more of what you are doing and how you see things. I live in the UK on a Brderhof (place of brothers and sisters) . We seek that peace you speak of in each heart, marriage, family, group of people. We work together and respect all human beings even though we might not agree with all they do. But this is different than bombing someone for thinking differently or being different. Warm greetings.

I agree with all that Dr. Shurdom is saying in this letter. I feel that it not only applies to the several recent bombings in Africa and Ireland but equally to the US raids in Sudan and Afghanistan.

What troubles me are the "couched"messages within the message. Retaliation is an act of terrorism? Well, it may be if executed by terrorists, but if one attempts to punish the evil doer, should that be "terrorism". Failure to take decisive action in the face of continued terrorism merely appears as weakness and further encourages the terrorists. And, when one attempts to remove the cancerous growth, a small portion of the good flesh will necessarily have to be removed. With the removal of cancerous terrorists, it is impossible to incise that growth without some possible damage to the non-infected fringe.

We must all live in peace. No mercy for terrorists. Nations must be friends and live as decent, freedom loving, human beings.

It is the source of evil in promoting and financing Moslem Brotherhoods and Gamaa Islamia as well as Islamic Azhar militant who promote hate and murder. This is an anti- civilization.

A terrorist group known as Terror Against Terror (TNT) comprised of Jewish settlers operating underground, functioned with the financial support of many sympathetic American Zionists and the Kach movement (under Meir Kahane). The article states that "Some American members received paramilitary training organized by the Jewish Defense League. Such paramilitary training of right-wing Zionists by the Kahane Chai (Kahane Lives) organization for"work" in the West Bank is still going o Saddam is a superior, comparing him to the Israeli Prime Minister, Netanyahu.

While the Zionists are crying about Islamic suicide bombers, they fail to mention the fact that they themselves are guilty of savage terrorist acts against civilians. Take a look at the massacre by Burauch Goldstein, the TNT attack in a crowded market in Hebron that injured civilian Palestinians and children, the TNT bombing in a soccer stadium in Hebron, TNT attempt to bomb six Arab-owned buses with four-kilo bombs potentially killing many including tourists, and the list against civilians goes on and on. Their hands are not free from the blood of innocents and their claims of being the victim falls on deaf ears.

To drag the world to the desert no mad culture. The bearded desert rats are trying to terrorize the world into submission to their evil will . It is a war against civilization .

Soil from Sudanese Plant indicates VX

See the Guardian Newspaper. England. UK. 26-08-1998.

'Scientists at the Sudanese pharmaceuticals plant hit by American missiles secretly worked with Iraqi counterparts on chemical weapons projects, according to US intelligence claims. The claims are disputed by employees of the plant who say it only made medicine. Intercepts of phone conversations between scientists at the plant in Khartoum and dome top officials in Iraq's chemical weapons programme influenced President Bill Clinton's decision to order a cruise missile strike on the plant. A key factor in the strike was a soil sample from the plant site that showed traces of an artificial chemical that is a key ingredient in the deadly nerve agent VX, a US intelligence officer said. The chemical was named as a O-ethylmethylphosponothioic acid, a substance better known as EMPTA.' -

Forget moral. From the American Heritage Dictionary, terrorism is the unlawful use whose laws? or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing

societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons. You mean a threat that may start with the words"" When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation". To terrorize is to fill or overpower with terror; terrify. To coerce by intimidation or fear. Sounds like the American colonists to me.......

Is it really the nature of middle east people or it is the Islamic religion that sponsors terrorism &consider them heroes and martyrs .I am seeing this horrible pattern in all Islamic nations and wondering why did god allowed those devils to intimidate his people .May the lord open their eyes and souls so they can stop torturing each other and other people

Dear MECRA,

I think we should all be very pleased to see American missiles raining down on Arab murderers. However this must be an on going effort on the part of the US military. President. Clinton, I?tm)m sure, would want to minimize our effort. However, several weeks of thorough bombing are necessary to get the body counts up to the desired levels. Arab terrorists may be ignorant dirtballs but they are just smart enough to comprehend American Tomahawk� missiles.

Islamic oil was never used to industrialize other Arab countries and raise their social conditions which could have been of mutual . It was used in evil ways to finance militant Islamic movements and discouraging freedom of religion. Islamic oil money was use to corrupt any needy unstable women in this needy world.

Mecpeace,

Complaining is not enough. What can we do to stop this world wide madness? In my opinion, we need to concentrate on the origin of the problem. The Media. Yes, The Media is the number one creator of terrorism. All functions and states rely heavily on their media to send out their messages. There is always another side to the story that remains hidden. Today's Media is a Nationalistic Media, which means they work for the state of origin and their own interests. What we need is a neutral Media, which it doesn?tm)t exist. Another problem is the definition of the word terrorism. Blowing up innocent people is not the only form of terrorism, it is the political form of terrorism which by itself comes in many different forms and shapes. For example, sanction is also a type of political terrorism that kills by thousands and nobody is aware of of theon media. Killing is killing,there is no difference. Using your means to keep a corrupted government in power is another type of terrorism that kills so many innocent political people. Having a strong military force and show that force and act as a corrupted police man to gain your own interest with support of your media is also an act of terrorism. Time is ripe to sit around a round table and act like civilized human beings and, find out that we all are the bad guys and the good guys. To find out that nobody has the saying on the truth and we all have made our mistakes many times over. Till that time misunderstanding and false impression will prevail and, selfish and egocentric action will continue ,So, to summarize: media, the definition of terrorism, and selfish human nature are the biggest obstacle to peace that exist in our world today. Good luck;

The American people begin to loose patriotism, and approach revolution, when the presidency, and Government as a whole, commits illegal and unethical acts of conduct. As a counter measure the people involved in the Presidency instruct and support the President's decision to go to war in order to generate patriotism again. Only they will not admit that it is to increase patriotism, but for some other "Noble" purpose that we have some kind of responsibility to fulfill. Just watch how things proceed in the next year regarding our new "wonderful", war.

There are many terrorist camps in Sudan so finish the job you started and blow them up to hell . beam them directly to the hell they all deserve .While you are doing this do not forget to blow up the fanatic in Sudan Government specially Turaabi- Bashier ultra fanatic blood thirsty slave traders to relieve Sudan from their evil. Sudanese will love you for doing this.

The edict announced a new coalition of extremist groups from Egypt, Pakistan and Bangladesh called the International Islamic Front for Jihad Against the Jews and Crusaders. "For over seven years the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of places, the Arabian Peninsula," the edict begins, "plundering its riches, dictating to its rulers, humiliating its people, terrorizing its neighbors, and turning its bases in the peninsula into a spearhead through which to fight the neighboring Muslim peoples." Muslims everywhere should kill Americans wherever they find them, soldiers and civilians alike, the edict proclaims, "in accordance with the words of Almighty God." Now the Arabs are into hating America . What is it about Islam that causes such hatred among their ranks ? Why do they hate everyone but themselves ? Muslims are the most hateful people on earth

People are not pawns. Governments play their games pitting one against the other, when all the average person wants to do is survive. Religions are run under the guise of governments - the three major being Christian, Islamic and Judaism - all striving for world economic power in which only the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. So at times like what we are experiencing now, who do you think will be the real winners and who do you think will be the real losers find it strange that as we approach the 21st century, many of the inhabitants of this planet are just as vile, paranoid, and full of hate as they were in the 21st century B.C. Many posters are rooting for violence and death, and are attacking one another foolishly, instead of trying to understand what is really going on. A small group of fundamentalists have attacked U.S. embassies, yet many of you are taking it out on all Middle-Easterners. This is your basic prejudice. And this is wrong. People are dying, yet you are rooting like you are at a football game. This is not a game, this is an atrocity. I know I will receive hate mail notes for this article, but I don't care. I have just as much right to express my opinion and views and as anyone else. The funny part about it is that I will receive hate mail because I am incapable of hating.

Why not remove the hatred from your hearts and pray to your God, whomever you perceive him or her to be, that we may soon have world peace and respect for one another.

I propose that Congress pass an International Terrorist Act which would supersede existing laws and would state in effect that we will declare any threat of violence to Americans as a violation of that law and that we will pursue the perpetrators of that threat in whatever territory they reside and bring them back for trial. This would send the signal for those nations that harbor terrorists that if they do not turn over for trial anyone accused of breaking the law that we will not recognize their sovereignty in our pursuit.

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