In the past 150 years, even the past 100 years, most have been white males,
although there have been Asian, Black, and Arab terrorists in lesser
numbers.
Jewish Hagganah and that other Zionist group,
Serbs,
French Resistance,
White Orchid,
Anarchists,
several outlawed Unions,
Trotskyites,
Communists,
Mafioso,
the myriad groups from 1870 to 1914, etc.
- not to mention Timothy McVeigh and his buds.
And the militaries
- US in the Dresden bombings to force civilians to turn on Hitler;
- Israeli IDF bombing Palestinians and Lebanese to force civilians to turn
on Hamas and Hezbollah;
- from the west's viewpoint, the Japanese occupation forces in China and
Philippines;
- Nazi Germany in the eastern regions to force civilians to turn on the
resistance;
- etc.
- And the Stone Agers who picked off men to frighten the group into
turning out their leader,
- the Bronze Age Greek Spartans who sent out young men at night to randomly
kill slaves, to keep them in line,
- good ole' boys in the American South who burned out coloreds who looked
like they weren't kow-towing enough,
- Stalinists snatching "enemies of the state" off the streets, holding
secret military trials, and holding them for years without anyone knowing
where they were, the effect of which was to cow the population and stifle
speech.
-Bushites snatching "illegal combatants" off the streets and holding them
for years without anyone knowing where they were, the effect of which was to
cow the population and stifle speech.
Because Terrorists are anyone who attempts to influence a group's actions
using fear.
You will never win a war on humans causing fear any more than you will win a
war on humans wanting sex.
"Gandalf Grey"
infectedmail.com> wrote in message
news:44ef267b$0$24205$9a6e19ea@news.newshosting.com...> Macarena Hernandez: 'What, precisely, do terrorists look like?'
>
> Macarena Hernandez, The Providence Journal
>
> IN THE PREDAWN HOURS after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, a Saudi radiology
> resident, still wearing his blue pajamas, was handcuffed and whisked from
> his San Antonio home by FBI agents. While Dr. Al-Badr M.H. Al-Hazmi sat
> alone in a New York City jail, local and national media spread his
> stoic-looking passport photo across the country. News stories speculated
> about whether he was the 20th hijacker or what role he may have played in
> the deadliest terrorist attack in U.S. history.
>
> At the time, I was a reporter for The San Antonio Express-News, and I
> remember standing in our newsroom, watching televisions flash Al-Hazmi's
> photo and hearing a co-worker near me mutter, "The guy looks like a
> terrorist."
>
> But what do terrorists look like?
>
> Do they look like the three North Texas men, all Palestinian-Americans,
> charged the other week with collecting or providing materials for
terrorist
> acts after they bought 80 prepaid cell phones at Wal-Mart?
>
>
>
> Do they look like the two dozen suspects, believed to be mainly British
> Muslims, arrested after being implicated in a plot to blow up as many as
10
> transatlantic jetliners with liquid explosives?
>
> One thing is certain: They do not look like Al-Hazmi, who spent 12 days
> sitting through countless interrogations and bearing America's suspicion
> before he was cleared and released. Overnight, a string of coincidences
> turned the soft-spoken devout Muslim into a main suspect.
>
> I met him shortly after he returned to San Antonio. A thin, slight man not
> much taller than I, Al-Hazmi told me how he cried, prayed and read the
Koran
> during his detainment. When he began to question God about why this was
> happening to him, he thought about the victims of 9/11 and knew his pain
> couldn't compare to that of the families who had lost loved ones.
>
> Even though he was cleared, Al-Hazmi understood that there would always be
> those who would consider him guilty because he had been accused. He tried
to
> resume his life in San Antonio but decided that he had to send his wife
and
> three children back to Saudi Arabia. He had to change his phone number and
> move out of his two-story townhouse. Nine months after the ordeal, he,
too,
> returned to Saudi Arabia.
>
> "Know that in every society you have people who are extreme and people who
> are in the middle," he told me a few days before he left the United
States.
> "We need to minimize the extreme and maximize the mainstream."
>
> No doubt there are ruthless terrorists out there relishing our collective
> panic and fear, plotting their next attack. But since Sept. 11, 2001, too
> many cases trumpeted as major breaks in the fight against terror end up
> turning into next to nothing. Remember those wannabe terrorists in Florida
> who asked an informant for uniforms?
>
> And the case involving the three North Texas men has quickly unraveled.
> Looks like they bought the phones to turn a profit from resale, rather
than
> to blow up a bridge, as authorities originally suspected. Though cleared
of
> terror charges, the three men have since been arraigned on federal
> conspiracy and money-laundering charges.
>
> Similarly, in a separate incident in Ohio, two American-born men of Arab
> descent were arrested after their bulk purchase of cell phones. Charges
> alleging terrorism have since been dropped there, too.
>
> It's a dangerous combination -- law-enforcement officials who've been
> sensitized to jump at anything out of the ordinary and a hungry media
> filling pages and airtime with speculation. When suspects are finally
> cleared, the story is often buried.
>
> Meanwhile, it's no wonder that so many in this country have begun to look
at
> Muslim-Americans as one giant sleeper cell. In the process of all this
> craziness, an entire community that should be an essential ally ends up
> marginalized.
>
> After the London arrests, news reports indicated that it was a Muslim who
> had tipped British authorities after overhearing a disturbing
conversation.
> This sort of brave act -- not our own fear -- is what we should be
> encouraging.
>
> "We understand that America is scared," Diana Houssaiky, the sister of one
> of the two men arrested and released in Ohio, told the Associated Press.
> "But America needs to understand that we're part of America."
>
> Macarena Hernandez writes for The Dallas Morning News.
>
>
