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Ghost_Skeptic
SFN Regular
Canada
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 Posted - 07/04/2007 : 01:25:40
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Since we have had so much 9/11 idiocy here lately, here is an MP3 Podcast of a lecture by Lawrence Wright , winner of the 2007 Pullitzer Prize for non-fiction. He describes why people join Al-Qaeda and what Bin Laden was trying to achieve.
You can subscribe to these at http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/podcast.html
| Lawrence Wright spent five years researching the history of the events leading to the destruction of the World Trade Center Towers in New York City. His book about the subject, The Looming Tower won the 2007 Lionel Gelber Prize, and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize. In this public lecture, Wright analyses the forces that created Al-Qaeda, and adds to our understanding of what we must do to fight them. |
The good news comes near the end - he argues that Al-Qaeda has made too many enemies to get very far and it's memeber's are more interested in martyrdom than effectiveness.
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"You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. / You can send a kid to college but you can't make him think." - B.B. King
History is made by stupid people - The Arrogant Worms
"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism." - William Osler
"Religion is the natural home of the psychopath" - Pat Condell
"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter" - Thomas Jefferson |
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Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
