hap0206 -- you really ought to at least glance at the links I give you -- won't kill you, you know -- WE started it all (ever heard of 'blowback'?):
Beginning at least as early as 1979, the US, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia orchestrated a massive international recruiting campaign of Islamic fundamentalist to engage in a "Jihad" against the "atheistic communist regime." Tens of thousands were recruited, armed by the US, financed by Saudi Arabia and trained by the CIA and Pakistani Intelligence.
and re your 'you are going for the killing ? [. . .] frankly, assuming you do go for the killing' -- uhh, WHAT? -- kindly explain what you meant by that
Greensburg, KS - 5/4/07
"Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty." from John Philpot Curran, Speech upon the Right of Election, 1790