From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Mon Aug 05 2002 - 11:12:09 MDT
On 5 Aug 2002 at 10:46, kharin wrote:
>
>
> Your list of terrorist organisations conveniently ignores the IRA, and
> with it the rather obvious observation that the unversalism of
> recourse to terrorism is not something I could be oblivious to. If I
> may quote back to you an article you once referred to me:
>
> http://www.janes.com/security/regional_security/news/usscole/jir001020
> _1_n.shtml
>
It also ignores the Pakistani-based terror groups operating in Kashmir,
as well as the Chinese Uighur terrorists and the Chechens.
>
> " There are now 10 religious and secular terrorist groups that are
> capable of using suicide terrorism as a tactic against their
> governments and/or foreign governments. They are: the Islam Resistance
> Movement (Hamas) and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad of the Israeli
> occupied territories; Hizbullah of Lebanon; the Egyptian Islamic Jihad
> (EIJ) and Gamaya Islamiya (Islamic Group - IG) of Egypt; the Armed
> Islamic Group (GIA) of Algeria; Barbar Khalsa International (BKI) of
> India; the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) of Sri Lanka; the
> Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) of Turkey; and the Osama bin Laden
> network (Al Quaida) of Afghanistan. "
>
> That said, a movement of any description will be at least partly
> characterised by the cultural (and religious) norms within which it is
> situated, which is what I was referring to. If you don't accept my
> observations concerning the complete uselessness of suicide bombing
> then you could try asking the group of Palestinian intellectuals who
> recently signed a petition to that effect.
>
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