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This is a very good article by Fouad Ajami. He is a man that i have seen many times on television during the past couple years. He is called on to comment on the Arab verses American beliefs, culture and leanings. I respect this man.
A journey without maps
By Fouad Ajami
The anti-American terrorism in, and out of, Arab lands knows no respite. The weapon of choice in last week's terror attacks in Saudi Arabia was the car bomb--a tool not unfamiliar in the brutal landscape of a region in the grip of a crisis that seems never to abate. The terror masters paid no heed to the "road map" Secretary of State Colin Powell had come to promote as a path to peace between Israelis and Palestinians, or to the promise of Palestinian deliverance held out by the Bush administration. "It's a new environment," Saad al-Faqih, a London-based Saudi dissident and physician, said, describing the desert kingdom. "There is a completely different scene as far as the hostility against the United States--and the society itself is providing a natural shelter and protection to al Qaeda members."
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Posted on 5/20/03; 10:07:31 PM by Jack Mancilla
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