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2005-03-09 International-UN-NGOs

International moot to identify terrorism causes begins today

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Posted by Fred 2005-03-09 00:00:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [11123 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 As a matter of fact, I did get the invitation a few weeks ago. Guess I forgot to let you know. It was tastefully engraved and embossed at the Quetta IdentiFactorium, and hand-delivered by diplomatic pouch to the Yemen consulate here in DC. The conference itinerary notes there will be a pot luck dinner and door prize raffle after the first plenary session. The hospitality committe asked me to bring some warm milk and cookies!

Posted by Seafarious 2005-03-09 12:20:38 AM|| 2005-03-09 12:20:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Brilliant. You've got an international movement dedicated to the destruction of the West, and what do you do? Form a committee.

That is the brilliance of The Plan of the Islamists. They take the Peter Principle, amalgamate it with Parkenson's Law, and run with it, and you get a terrorism conference in Madrid.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-03-09 12:23:17 AM|| 2005-03-09 12:23:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Anti-terror experts and heads of state are converging on Madrid to identify the causes of international terrorism and explore ways of reducing the threat.

I didn't notice the category name "International-UN-NGOs" initially, but when I saw the first sentence about meeting in Madrid to identify causes and "explore ways" I thought, "that sounds so UN-ish". Sure enough...

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-03-09 12:44:13 AM|| 2005-03-09 12:44:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 âThe consensus is a âsoftâ power approach based on prevention - not like the US has in mind, but (rather) with engagement with North African Muslim nations, economic development, assimilating and integrating immigrants into host nations,â

Let me get this straight:

Emmigration from North Africa and disengagement from those nations is a cause of terrorism. It sounds more like a cause for war

Posted by badanov 2005-03-09 4:06:34 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2005-03-09 4:06:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 "Is Bono going to be there?"

Lol! Only if it needs window dressing.

"former US President Bill Clinton"

Only if the money's good enough. Are Soros & his fellow Tranzis backing this deep-dish confab of losers?

Posted by .com 2005-03-09 4:13:28 AM|| 2005-03-09 4:13:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 BTW, I do empathize with Gonzalez - he's paying his dues, I guess.

Posted by .com 2005-03-09 4:16:38 AM|| 2005-03-09 4:16:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Isn't the 'soft power approach' what Rome used when it itself had gone soft wrt the barbarian hordes in the years before Rome got sacked? That was successful - for a while...

PCism/multiculturalism/anti-Christianity is to today's Europe as Christianity was to Rome?

Posted by Bulldog 2005-03-09 4:25:05 AM|| 2005-03-09 4:25:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 More Information the meeting is organized by people from PRISA the leftist media group (Cadena SER, EL Pais, Canal + Spain) who brought down the right wing governemnt through a campaign of smearing, lies and manipulation after the 3/11 bombings

In fact most ~~non left-wing~~ right wing experts on terrorism like Daniel Pipes or Bat Yeor have cancelled their attendance when learning the restrictions they would have on speech. Plus on the case of Bat Yeor she would not be entitled to protection.

You will find more details (in Spanish) at
http://libertaddigital.com/opiniones/opi_desa_23630.html

Posted by JFM 2005-03-09 4:51:00 AM|| 2005-03-09 4:51:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Are we sure this isn't the conference probing the safest and most rapid way to cave into terrorism? That is what "soft power" is regarding terrorism, a total caving into it. You give in, they win. You don't negotiate, you study them, you track them, you cut them off and, you kill them. That is the successful method to deal with terrorists. Screw these fools. The real method scares the hell out of these vapid pansies. All they are fit for is conferences.

Posted by FlameBait 2005-03-09 6:18:23 AM|| 2005-03-09 6:18:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 This is just so Euroweenian. I think the the EUros have forgotten that to do something means to act, not hold a conference. In The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, there's a great scene where Tuco says: If you have to shoot, shoot! Don't talk.

Posted by Spot 2005-03-09 8:54:08 AM|| 2005-03-09 8:54:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Causes? My initial reaction is: "Islam." My reaction after due consideration is "Euroweenie and U.N. responses to Islamic terrorism."

Posted by Tom 2005-03-09 11:53:10 AM|| 2005-03-09 11:53:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 "Soft Power" == "Peace in our Time!"

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-03-09 11:57:44 AM|| 2005-03-09 11:57:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 All the Euroweenies can do IS talk. They have no credible military. Even the UK's is being cut to the bone. So they will try to figure out a way to bend over in such a way as to expose as little of the fruitbasket as possible.

Posted by Remoteman 2005-03-09 4:42:13 PM|| 2005-03-09 4:42:13 PM|| Front Page Top

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