What you have here is what people in the intelligence community call a rogue agent - except this one is a multidimensional psychopath with a self-prophesied ideology to instill fear, terror and hatred in the hearts of human beings.
How can an individual, who for years was on the take from the CIA and other intelligence agencies, proclaim that the killing and maiming of innocent Palestinians, Arabs or other Muslims around the world be wrong and then hideously murder - under the guise of religion - innocents in Africa, Saudi Arabia, and the US? Bin Laden is an individual defunct of a moral compass, and a fatwa (edict) branding him a bigot and a heretic by Muslim clerics the world over is long overdue.
It's not enough to express sorrow every time a child dies or when hostages have their heads cut off, or when a non-Muslim has their throat cut. Are we butchers? Are we barbarians?
Wall Street Journal 's CLAUDIA ROSETT amuses and can write..
Gary North at LeeRockwell.com give a thorough analysis which, despite its arguments, doesn't ultimately satisfy. I like the talk of the Assassins.
This small-minded, spoilt son of a rich father is no prophet. Where are his clay tablets? Moses had the decency to bring down his from the mountain. They were not the massive granite tombstones carried by Charleston Heston but simple, probably hand-moulded, clay objects the size of a small matchbox representing Moses' answer to his peoples problems.
Rober Creelely's
"A suspiciously simple sense of life is that is in, in any one person conclusive... people try with an increasing despair to live, and to come to something, some place or person. They want an island in which the world will be at last a place circumscribed by visible horizons."
comes to mind when trying to fathom this man Osama.
¶ Wednesday, November 03, 2004
