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?Pulp Fiction? The New Osma bin Laden Tape | Poem

?Pulp Fiction?

by Umm al-Asafir

13 December 2001

Pulp Fiction: anyone can be depicted to say/do anything at all.
It matters less if the Osama bin Laden tape is authentic, than it matters what the effects of broadcasting to the world are:

1) The Hawks are more Hawkish; one might say spitting nails.

2) Each side is calling the other infidels and evil.

3) Real or not, what we got was a misspeak of what we did get:

"Bin Laden says on the tape that while the hijackers knew they were on a "martyrdom operation," some did not know anything about the plot until just before they boarded the planes."

The martyrs knew they were martyrs; they didn't know the details.

But the most damning that matters is the the depiction of this unholy conflict as solely a religious war.

Why do we forget in the authentic tapes Palestine was mentioned as part of the justification?

World Trade Center/Pentagon?
something like the Military/Industrial Complex
Dwight David Eisenhower warned us about?

Terrorism is evil.
The cause of terrorism is evil.
"Inequity is a form of violence"
 

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