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July 12, 2005
Would Withdrawal From Iraq Curb Terrorism?
Salim Lone, a former spokesman for the U.N. mission in Iraq, thinks," The Gleneagles summit's grand stage might well have shown up George Bush's hypocrisy in proclaiming an "ideology of compassion" over African poverty and global warming. Instead, the London bombings allowed the president and [British Prime Minister] Tony Blair to strut as anti-terror champions again, when in fact their policies continue to produce thousands of new terrorists," he wrote in the July 12, 2005 issue of Guardian Unlimited. Mr. Lone also said:One hardly expected British and US officials to admit the Iraq-terror link. Blair and Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, denied this linkage by recalling that the 1998 east Africa US embassy bombings and the 9/11 attacks took place before the 2003 Iraq war. But not one interviewer or reporter pointed out that both those attacks were preceded by another war against Iraq, following its 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
"Indeed," he added, "it was that war and the accompanying UN sanctions, plus the stationing of US troops in Saudi Arabia, that ushered in our age of global terror with the attempt to blow up the World Trade Centre in 1993."
Mr. Lone also wrote: "You would think the pair of them [Mr. Bush and Mr. Blair] had never hurt a soul. There appeared to be no memory of the half a million Iraqi children killed by sanctions ruthlessly maintained by the US and UK. Indeed, this slaughter was defended as necessary to advance US interests by Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state. It was "worth it", she told CBS in 1996." For more of Mr. Lone's analysis, see "Withdrawal would curb terrorism."
Posted by Munir Umrani at July 12, 2005 06:24 AM
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