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Date Posted: 06:55:02 09/22/01 Sat
Author: Anonymous
Subject: The Sydney Morning Herald Saturday 22nd September 2001.

BUSH IS MARCHING STRAIGHT INTO BIN LADEN'S TRAP by Robert Fisk - British jounrnalist - US Foreign Policy expert.

Retaliation is a trap. In a world that was supposed to have learned that the rule of law comes above revenge, George Bush appears to be heading for the very disaster that Osama bin Laden has laid down for him.

Let us have no doubts about what happened in New York and Washington last week. It was a crime against humanity. We cannot understand Anerica's need to retaliate unless we accept this bleak, awesome fact. But this crime was perpetrated - it becomes ever clearer - to provoke the United States into just that blind, arrogant punch that the Pentagon in preparing.

Bin Laden has described to me how he wishes to overthrow the pro-American regimes of the Middle East, starting with Saudi Arabia and moving on to Egypt, Jordan and the other Gulf states. In an Arab world sunk in corruption and dictatorships - most of them supported by the West - the only act taht might bring Muslims to strike at their own leaders would be a brutal, indiscriminate assault by the US.

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