So. Wake up call to Muslim governments, or ignored by everyone except us?

No one should allow himself to be confused because some Arab regimes may also be targets of, for example, Al Qaeda. This will, and has already been used, by the Saudis to pretend that the larger, world-wide terrorism is not "Muslim" in nature, nor part of a Jihad, but rather directed by those "extremists" who have "attempted to hijack a great blah blah..." No, the attacks on the corrupt House of Al-Saud, or on the son of the "plucky little king" as Abdulah's father Hussein used to be known, are not seen as attacks on fellow Muslims, but on regimes that are corrupt, and "Infidel" in their refusal to now and again (but very much now and again) help, or at least not comletely hinder, the Infidels.

Should the attacks in Jordan have come off, that would not mean -- as the apologists for Islam would attempt to convince us -- that, after all, this is really just a "war within Islam." Nonsense. It remains a Jihad; the primary target remains non-Muslim Infidels. No Saudis object to a Jihad that confines itself to Infidels, or to such targets as the Lebanese Christians targetted in a previous bombing of a housing complex. What they do find disconcerting, and unacceptable, and as contrary to Islam, is that Muslims should kill fellow Muslims. That is all.

The problem for the Saudis, then, is to reassure their fellow Muslims that despite their liquor, their Western call-girls (taken on board by the boatload for the delectation of assorted Saudi and other Arab yacht-owners vacationing off Monte Carlo or Malaga), despite the coziness of Prince Bandar with some in Washington, they really and truly are Muslims, and should not be considered Infidels, still less bombed as such.

Clarity by non-Muslims is important. The fact that some bombs go off in Muslim countries, almost always, but not exclusively, against Western targets, should not lead us to believe that, for example, the Saudis have ceased to support all sorts of terrorism outside of Saudi Arabia.

Meanwhile, Saudi-financed mosques everywhere, from London and Paris and Rome, to the Comoros, and Capetown, to Bosnia, and Uzbekistan, and even throughoutthe United States, and Saudi-financed madrasas (especially in Pakistan, Malaysia, and Indonesia)remain the most powerful weapon of Jihad, by turning out vast numbers of Jihadis or influencing the beliefs of millions of potential Jihadis, a classic fifth column in posse if ever there was one.

An attack in Jordan would be undertaken only because Abdullah's regime may be seen by some -- despite his unacceptable and arrogant behavior toward the Bush Adminstration in recent days (no Bush-Abdullah meeting should be forthcoming)-- as insufficiently Islamic, so that he can be regarded as an "Infidel" and not a genuine Muslim at all. This whole business of attacks that result in "Muslim" casualties should be correctly understood and not cause for greater confusion.

It's looking more and more as if David Hawkins, an economist who investigates unsavory financial dealings and so calls himself a "forensic" economist, may be right.

I heard a radio interview with him about three or so weeks ago. The paper trail he uncovered read like this:

We place an embargo on Iraq, but in order to prevent hardships to the civilian population, we establish the "oil-for-food" program to be supervised by the U.N.

Saddam skimmed a lot of cash from the procedes of the oil sales. He did more than load up his bank accounts; he also paid off U.N. officials as well as other foreigners who were supportive of him.

This was to take place at the same time U.N. inspectors were trying to find WMDs.

U.N trucks would take food into Iraq, empty their loads, and then ostensibly return for another load of food. However, Hawkins said, not all of them made the trip empty. Some of them were loaded up with WMDs which were then transported out of Iraq.

Some of them were transported into Syria, and from Syria, they were sent to Canada. Once in Canada, they were placed on trucks and the drivers were given "Controlled Goods Certificates."

These certificates allowed the trucks loaded with WMDs virtually free access to anywhere in Canada. Ultimately, many of them crossed our porous borders into the U.S., where they were dispersed and ramain today, awaiting the signal to be used.

David Hawkins' story seems to be coming true. It would appear that at least some of the WMDs went into Jordon; who knows where else in the ME they have gone?

I'm most concerned with the part of the story that talks about how they got into the U.S. Hawkins says that the indications are that the WMDs are biological and chemical rather than radiological.

David Hawkins' website is: http://www.davidhawkinsresearch.com. Maybe someone with greater techie savvy than I have could find out more.

Horrifying, if true.

I believe that the burning question of the location of Saddam's WMDs might have solved. They are in the hands of jihadists and we and they are about to reap the whirlwind.

Muslims have as much to fear from the religion of peace as the rest of us. Instead of cleaning up their own mess, they will indulge in wild-eyed conspiracy theories. Hoodlum jihadis are peering in the shadows for scary "jews" while the mosque fills up with fertilizer and petroleum for the big bang that will certainly come. Of course, when thousands of dead muslims litter the streets of some middle eastern capital, al-Jazeera and the arab "street" will blame the whole thing on Mossad, Bush, and UFOs.

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Damascus, Amman, Riyadh. Besides Baghdad, where will the next bombings occur?
Is the muslim world imploding? Are the chickens coming home to roost?
Or is it heavy metals in the water supply? If so, the bad water stretches from Morocco to Indonesia.

The big bang is yet to come here in the united states; canada has allowed muslims that are directly tied to terrorist groups into their country and have made them canadian citizens; now i ask who is hidding terrorist muslims; answer is canada. is it not strange that canada has said nothing nor done anything aginst muslim islam terrorists; but yet thay don't get bombed?!