Terrorism has many faces!

[silkworm]

Terrorism has many faces; some think that those who are armed with guns and automatic rifles are the only ones who can be labeled as “Terrorists”. The world conference should also declare that since the “Old Terrorists” have become world power, they only label those as “terrorists” who live in the Middle East and are Moslems. Anybody who is Non-Moslem should not be considered a Terrorist.



**)…as when U.S. Whites bent on wiping out “belligerent” Native Americans sent them gifts of blankets previously used by smallpox patients. (Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond, Pp 199)

**) Whites have been responsible of spreading deadly microbes of syphilis, gonorrhea, tuberclosis, influenza, typhoid, smallpox, measles, plague or bubonic plague, diphtheria, malaria, mumps, pertussis, yellow fever to the different lands they invaded. Because of this, the local population was infected and perished in the course of time.

**) for instance the Indian population of Hispaniola declined from around 8 million, when Columbus arrived in A.D. 1492, to ZERO by A.D. 1535 [8 million in just 43 years].

**) US authorizes Indonesian invasion of East Timor to pre-empt national independence after Portuguese withdrawal. By 1989 the occupying armies will kill over 200,000 Timorese, imprison several thousand, institute a form of slave labour, and loot the country.

**) US supports military coup in Argentina. General Videla declares that the enemy is within and the country must be purified.

**)Closer links established with new Iraqi leader Saddam Hussain, who is armed and supported during the war with Iran, in the course of which he used chemical weapons against a Kurdish village. Close relations continue till 1990 invasion of Kuwait.

**)US marines invade and occupy the tiny Caribbean island of Grenada, whose Head of State (the Queen of England) is irked that she was not informed. Reagan’s Secretary of State George Shultz arrives on the island and announces: “At first sight I realized that this island could be a splendid real estate project.”

**) Only the French were fighting in Vietnam, without any provocation to US and without any eminent danger to US soil from Vietnamese forces {who were some 10,000 miles away from US soil, the US jumped into war. The senseless massacres carried out proved the US has the power to put its men and material in danger and can do everything in the book to save its reputations.

Public Opinion??? Who cares???