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| Zawahiri invited to take part in Islamic conference in Cairo... |
| 2002-09-02 |
| The right-hand man of suspected September 11 mastermind Osama bin Laden has been invited to take part in a Cairo conference this weekend on the future of Islamic movements -- by telephone or the Internet. Islamist lawyer Montasser al-Zayat told Reuters he issued an invitation this week on Islamic Web sites to top bin Laden aide Ayman al-Zawahri to join in Sunday's seminar in a Cairo hotel. What a perfectly marvelous idea. I think he should go... "We told him (Zawahri) he should speak. He should write his reasons, his view on September 11 and the way out of the crisis the Islamist movement is now in," said Zayat, who condemns violence and says militants should make peace with the state. "Do we stay with the same methods, do we only shout and curse the United States? Is that the only thing that will realize our objectives?" Zayat said, adding he had little doubt al Qaeda was behind the September 11 attacks. Shouting and cursing the United States seems to be a way of life for some people... "We don't want just to criticize. We want an objective evaluation of the way out. I hope there will be a response (from Zawahri)," he said. I've got a way out for you: don't kill people. Really. If all you do is argue, even if you call names, then other people can argue with you, even call you names back. When you start killing people because they don't agree with you, then that makes other people want to defend themselves. So you go from the exchange of ideas to the exchange of high explosives. We have more high explosives than you do, thank God. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |