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SOLIDARITY CELEBRATIONS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD

Extremist | 12.09.2001 11:44

Today millions of people throughout the world, particularly in the West Bank, celebrate the offensive by martyrs in New York and Washington. A symbol of militant resistance against the U.S. empire.

12 Sept. 2001

The Terrorist Times

Special Report

Millions today have celebrated the martyr operations in New York and Washington D.C. throughout the world.

In the first world people have done so in privacy, in their own homes or in the work place, in the wake of a multinational effort of corporate U.S. propaganda containing hypocrisy, racism, orientalism, victimization and slander attacks onto unknown suspects.

In the third world, where astronomical numbers of people have died from malnutrition, disease and war as a result of U.S. foreign policy since the formation of the U.S. empire, have done so more openly, largely ignored by the U.S. corporate media.

In the West Bank, thousands of Palestinians celebrated chanting ``God is Great'' and distributing candy to passers-by, even as reformist leader, Yasser Arafat, said he was horrified. To many Palestinians, Arafats comments came as a betrayal while his people are being massacred by U.S. artillery and ammunition by its Israeli police state proxy.

The U.S. government is unpopular and has many enemies. It is hated and despised by the vast majority of intelligent and educated people in the world.

In the West Bank town of Nablus, about 3,000 people poured into the street shortly after the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and government targets in Washington.

Demonstrators distributed candy in a traditional gesture of celebration. Several Palestinian gunmen shot in the air, while other marchers carried Palestinian flags. Nawal Abdel Fatah, 48, wearing a long, black dress, threw sweets in the air, saying she was happy because ``America is the head of the snake, America always stands by Israel in its war against us.''

In traditionally Arab east Jerusalem, there was a smaller gathering of about two dozen people, many of them young children led in chants by adults. Some drivers passing the scene honked their horns and flashed victory signs from their windows.

Although, not all was bright, some, have taken on an apologist stance for U.S. imperialism, denouncing the operations of the martyrs as "inhumane", "unprovoked" and "unthinkable".

Many U.S. puppet regimes throughout the world, and client states have also folded in the wake of today's historical events, but this must be expected living in a "free world" led by the U.S. empire in today's New World Disorder.

For The Terrorist Times, this historic day is regrettable, but joins the celebrations of a very important day expressing its solidarity to the martyrs.

Extremist

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"Such a perfect democracy..."

12.09.2001 11:55

"Such a perfect democracy constructs its own inconceivable foe, terrorism. Its wish is to be judged by its enemies rather than by its results. The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive. The spectators must certainly never know everything about terrorism, but they must always know enough to convince them that, compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic." Guy Debord in 'Comments on the Society of the Spectacle' (1988)


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Regrettable?I've got dust all over my pinstri

12.09.2001 15:51

I just don't think that targetting an office building in a densely populated area is a very good idea at nine o'clock in the morning when the employees (not employers) have just arrived. Now the bosses don't have to make them redundant instead of giving them a pay raise, demonise evey scapegoat going and get off scot free, maybe this is the new model for an alternative to redundances, get rid of the flab and the burden on state welfare as well demolishing old buildings (imagine the size of the insurance claim, a win-win situation for those running the show and a fitting payoff for not metioning anything about those nice men in the black suits/shades/car who recently payed a house visit).

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The US isn't the only sick nation

12.09.2001 18:38

To celebrate the deaths of innocent human beings is at worst barbaric and at best a sign of psychological disorder. Of the hundreds or thousands of people in the World Trade Centre, some few were no doubt active capitalists, some others probably rather unpleasant in their own right (wife-beaters etc), but most were just people doing jobs - temps doing data-entry on another week's posting to pay the rent, recent immigrants cleaning the loos to earn enough to feed their kids - as innocent and ordinary as the citizens of the West Bank bombed by Israel. This is a strike against the US (the Great Satan, etc) only to the same degree that bombing the West Bank is a strike against Hamas.
It is horrible that these American lives are 'valued' so much more highly by the 'international community' than the lives of Palestinians, or Kenyans, or Pakistanis, or anyone else non-white-English-speaking, but this is no cause to rejoice in their deaths and the orphaning of their children.

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it's a symptom of a sick world

12.09.2001 21:28

barbaric to rejoice in the deaths and the orphaning of their children ?!

yours, and others with you, problem is that this is now happening in the open, close to you - it's happening to and by your 'own' people. which has been rightfully acknowledged - that these 'white' lives are more 'valuable' than others, it seems. but this goes also for the 'rejoicement'. when people enjoy the decrease in price on for them desirable products, most important oil and gold prices e.g., - this is also a rejoicement of the deaths behind that every drop of oil or among the gold mine worker in the southern hemisphere etc. it goes all the way into people's life for fight of work - in 'our' part of the world. this is also the cause of poverty and death worldwide but on our side of the arena, the more visible one, it gives us (or your neighbours rather) the satisfaction of working, doing business.

it's needed that the weaping, mourning, victimising and barbarian consequences of the system 'we' have 'choosen' gets unveiled from it's neglected, ignored and hidden topicality, however sickening and unacceptable it is. it's there, innocent people die every day, we rejoice it every day and it's only us to change it, do you not want a world which breeds imperialism and it's consequences, as we have seen it yesterday, showing a little more of it's true face to the world.

orange


Murder is STILL murder

12.09.2001 21:58

These same terrorists claim to be "god's" chosen people and commit murder in the name of "Allah". They accomplished nothing short of the slaughter of people who have NO IDEA of what political nonsense, hatred, and rhetoric these people spew on a daily basis.

How much damage to the economic and military infastructure have they affected? .000000001% ? In the process killing men, women, and children. I know I don't want to live in a country where women can't vote or drive, or the penalty for being Jewish is death. They are no better than the SS of Nazi Germany in my eyes.

They have made the U.S. Government and most of it's population so angry, that there is a possibility for an all-out war.

Murder is murder.

Anonymous

Anonymous


Islamic Jihad

13.09.2001 09:27

"He who when he dies has never campaigned, or even intended to campaign, dies in a kind of hypocrisy."

14th Century Muslim scholar, Al-Mutaqi al-Hindi

This is very true, but there are lots of different ways of campaigning, my friends!

Anarchist Rioter


At last a sane opinion...

13.09.2001 12:48

To describe the persons as 'martyrs' - as the first report does - speaks of a quasi-religious complex where those who give their lives to a 'cause' are venerated and mystified, while reason is left in the gutter. Apart from the fact that any - repeat any - cause that requires violence to achieve its aims has palpably lost the argument, we are still very much in the dark as to exactly who planned these attacks.

If it was a terrorist group from the Middle East - it is still far from certain - and they were wishing to 'cut off the head of the Great Satan' or whatever, I can see their reasons, given the list of crimes that the USA has committed over the years. But an understandable reaction is not necessarily the same as a reasonable or, dare I say it, a forgiveable one. When an eye is exchanged for an eye, the whole world goes blind, I believe Gandhi said.

'Extremist' obviously forgives them but it doesn't mean we all should. I note that he / she adds a hasty note at the very end that it was a 'regrettable' day. If they were truly regretting Sept. 11 they should have sidestepped the celebratory tone of the story. Or they should have dropped the last paragraph. Either way they should have been more honest.

The US' many crimes need to be punished, yes - Kissinger as the first person to go on trial at the World Court, perhaps? - but just using violence to achieve a 'cause''s ends brings them down to the oppressor's level and makes it easier for the US to sweep many 'incidents' under the carpet. Reasoned and sensible talking will make the US far more uncomfortable than any amount of bombs will. I await that day with impatience.

Ed

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s and Fundamentailists are opposed.

13.09.2001 23:08

the sype of oder that usama bin laded and his formly us becked cronies would inpose on the world would diametricaly opposed to the order any kind of would want. They are militantly oppsed too any kind femanism or gay rights. They kill working people indiscriminatley for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. They heat athiests with a passion. He gates some of his aid from the sudan which eslaves black africans.Usama bin laden made his money off the oil trde which destroys the enviroment

John


Celebrating Death or Comuppance?

14.09.2001 14:14

I think that the deaths are shit - however the fuss over them is out of proportion compared to the fact that something like 17,000 babies die EVERY DAY on this planet due to poverty - poverty caused by a system perpetrated by many of the companies who worked in those buildings. The outrage of these deaths (of mainly white, middle-class americans) is basically rascist - it also bears a disturbing resembalence to the death of Diana - a single person. It seems death is more important the richer the person is (and the whiter and more western).

No-one who was in those buildings can be considered wholly innocent - they could all have done more improve the world and themselves than spend their lives working in a 100 floor skyscraper for rich financial instituions who were busy raping the third world. They probably weren't guilty enough to deserve what happened to them though. All of us who live in the west and participate in any form in the capitalist system are in one way or another guilty of perpetrating its continuation - this guilt must be taken in context though and there is no need to go round flagellating ourselves over it - the system is currently a fact but it doesn't mean we can't strive to sort it out.

Unfortuneately the description of TV stations, chemical works and power stations in Serbia as "legitimate targets" by NATO has in effect meant that (for anyone opposed to Western neo-liberal capitalist hegemony) buildings such as the "World Trade Centre" immediately hit the top of a list of "legitimate targets" - what else was J18 about - admittedly tactics are slightly different and so is the amount of "collateral damage" but compared to fears of nuclear/chemical/biological weapons this was a pretty good "surgical strike".

I also wish Bush and Blair would shut the fuck up about "democracy" - we all remember the farce of their elections.....

Dubious
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