THE FORT DIX CONSPIRACY: WHAT IT TELLS US?

JOHN TIRMAN


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May 9, 2007

THE FORT DIX CONSPIRACY: WHAT IT TELLS US


The conspirators are mainly from Kosovo, ethnic Albanians; another is from Turkey, the sixth from Jordan. So the next uncomfortable question: how does ferocious military action in the Middle East--the global front in the long war--deal with this, potentially the most serious threat of violence from Islamic militants since 9/11? Should we bomb Kosovo (again)? Turkey? Jordan? All three countries are supposedly the closest of friends to the United States.

Much is being made of these being illegal aliens, but as usual the reality is far more complex, the remedies wholly unclear. Two were legally here; others came in legally with parents before the 1999 war in Kosovo and overstayed visas. This is far from the usual stereotypes about why our porous borders are a national security threat.

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What is most harrowing, however, is the possibility that our global war on terror is actually stimulating violence in our midst. Several of us expressed this concern long ago, and now we have the first evidence that it's coming to pass.

If anything, from these first reports, we should be ever more skeptical of the human costs of the Iraq war, the pervasive mistreatment of innocent Muslims, and the harsh rhetoric that has America--George Bush's America--at war with all of Islam.

more at:
http://www.johntirman.com/
and:
http://www.juancole.com/2007/05/ft.html

And ignorant people are easily manipulated.

honor Allah, you can't totally discount the appeal of becoming "famous" by this act. If 9-11 taught us anything, it's that being a terrorist gets you air time and a place in history. I fear that there will be wannabe terrorists who will be organizing in the tradition of "Can you top this?" from hereon in. Damn that Andy Warhol for being right.

them over there"? Can't we bring our troops home to prevent any more of these "attacks" ?

He is the same US Attorney who went after Sen Menendez just before this past election almost causing him the election here in NJ. This Christie has a history of going after dems and publicly endorsing Repub candidates despite the obvious ethic questions that raises.

We have been lied to about these terrorist plots before - we shouldn't go round and round about what it means and instead expose where and from whom it's coming from.

and especially not pointless war in a country that previously had nothing to do with terrorism.

It tells us that the bush crime cabal is still planning bullshit distractions.

Oh No!!
terra terra terra!!!!

NPR did a propaganda piece the other morning on how the
army has seen a huge fall-off in African American
enlistment since about four years ago.

They danced around a lot, but they missed one big
issue: It's tough to recruit soldiers from a partially-
Muslim community to go off and kill other Muslims in
a white guy's religious crusade.

The closest NPR came to this was a brief mention of
the problem of convincing blacks to kill brown people.

But yes, *EVERYTHING* thatwe said would happen as
a result of The Conquistador's unbelievably stupid,
misguided war is coming true :( .

Tesha