Tuesday, January 04, 2005

Terrorism Knows No Class

I usually read things like this...

WASHINGTON - A rise in the number of Muslims in Western Europe, many of them poor and uneducated, is contributing to an increase in already deeply rooted anti-Semitism there, the State Department said in a report to Congress.

...yet continue to see things like this...

CAIRO, Egypt - The suicide bomber who killed 22 people when he blew himself up in a U.S. mess hall in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul was a Saudi medical student, an Arab newspaper reported Monday.

Saudi-owned Asharq Al-Awsat identified him as 20-year-old Ahmed Said Ahmed al-Ghamdi, citing unnamed friends of the man's father. The friends said members of an Iraqi resistance group contacted al-Ghamdi's father to tell him his son was the suicide bomber who carried out the Dec. 21 attack, the deadliest on an American installation in Iraq.

Islamist terrorism is not fueled exclusively by the poor and downtrodden. They are just its victims. Like any revolution, Islamist terrorism is driven by educated, wealthy elites - most of them Saudis.

What would we do without our friends the Saudis.

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