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Old 10th Oct 2001, 21:21
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gaunty

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We are in heated agreement.

I watched Foreign Correspondent on ABC with a BBC report which basically covered this subject.

There was a subsequent interview with a prominent British historian who basically said that there was only one solution and it wasn't the courts, it was to kill them.
The reporter as usual tried the PC line, but was promptly but politely put in her place by him saying that it wasn't the point it was not him it was history speaking. Deal with it now explicitly or spend the next 20 years in the courts.
He was careful to make the point that these people just dont care how many or how they kill. He also pointed that Bin Liner is vigourously looking for nuclear weapons and that it wouldn't be out of the question for him to order, without any compunction, whatsoever, simultaneous nuclear attacks on 6 or 7 of the worlds great cities.
He also suggested that the method was "very Arab" and if one understands the history of Islam and Arabic Islam war making, it is always "surprise" and without regard for life.

Then on Lateline there is film of a woman radio talk back host, with Reith in the studio, holding a photograph of the kids in the water, saying inter alia;

Mr Reith... there's nothing in this photograph that proves that these are people that you say jumped of the ship
In effect calling him a liar and suggesting that it was some government propaganda concoction.
I think it was the most Reith could do to stop himself from punching her out.

These people just don't get it.
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