[1323] in peace2
Re: The Bin Laden Tape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joseph Reagle)
Fri Dec 14 11:21:34 2001
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From: Joseph Reagle <reagle@MIT.EDU>
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To: Rhett Creighton <rhett@MIT.EDU>, peace-list@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 11:20:18 -0500
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On Friday 14 December 2001 07:28, Rhett Creighton wrote:
> How this tape says something that he didn't admit to outright?
The other thing I don't yet understand (I need to re-watch it) is the
pundits keep making a big deal that some of the terrorists didn't know of
their mission until the last minute. This is typical of any successful
clandestine operation. Keep your cells small and don't learn what you don't
need to know. They know they were going on a "martyr" (suicide) mission and
were only briefed on the details immediately beforehand. So what?
We already know bin Laden doesn't worry about life in general (consider all
the innocent Muslims killed in the African bombings) but the
administration/media is putting some new spin on this to generate an
emotional response that doesn't fit my understanding of the events.
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