Replies to post #32 on Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

[kumar]

recent terrorist attacks have resulted in a lot more Muslim deaths than deaths of Westerners

I speculate that its only because the attacks been in nations with a large muslim population. Recent targets have been Westerners in SA, and Belgian, Spanish, Jewish people in Morrocco.

I tend to think of it as "collateral damage". The targeting to me is more revealing.

[marcos]

It sounds quite nebulous as to who is 'in' al Qaida ... it's not like they have a bricks and mortar head office, a hierarchy of corporate structure, and neat little membership cards in their wallets ..... more like a religious thing maybe, in the same way there are hundreds of little organisations of born-again christians, all professing more or less the same thing, but unconnected by clerical chain of command

carranza, last night i came across good articles on Cuba, on the Miami Herald site, that chap Andres Oppenheimer who is quite informed and often says sensible things imho ... here is their section on Cuba, they keep it up pretty well - http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/cuba/

Things are pretty bad when your presidente runs the country down to where you can't enter the Miss Universe contest, eh - #msg-1012994 ... this will hit venezolanos hard, as winning here is part of national identity

Am i banned over here? .... it wasn't specifically stated so in the writ of matar corpus .... where's uw, did he find him some peasants? -g- ..... cheers