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2004-05-02 Down Under

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-05-02 1:53:47 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Very interesting if true.

Posted by Paul Moloney 2004-05-02 5:56:17 AM|| 2004-05-02 5:56:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 It actually makes more sense (to me atleast) for a country like China to support Al Qaeda, than someone like Saddam to do so. China has its own small Muslim minority of course, but Al Qaeda's primary regional focus would be countries like Pakistan and India, both neighbours of China, both countries whose weakening and instability would favour China.

Russia and China (with North Korea as a satellite state of China ofcourse) are among the side-supporters of the Islamofascist axis, no matter how much Russia pretends that her butchery at Chechenya is part of the "War on Terror", and no matter how much China pretends the same about the oppression of Xinjiang (east Turkestan).

Posted by Aris Katsaris 2004-05-02 9:23:48 AM|| 2004-05-02 9:23:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 This isn't all that surprising (if true). The PRC has closely studied indirect warfare against powerful targets and would have been happy to fund a group like al Qaeda, which is more a terrorism clearinghouse than anything else. Moreover, I read somewhere that PRC strategists actually wrote about using commercial jetliners as cruise missiles. So they make natural allies.

Posted by Jonathan 2004-05-02 7:29:44 PM|| 2004-05-02 7:29:44 PM|| Front Page Top

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