best thing I've read on the Moussaoui trial--Sad-sack terrorists no threat


"In all the terrorist attacks since 9/11 by people who are in some way linked with al-Qaeda and its various clones and affiliates (apart from those in Afghanistan and Iraq, which are directly linked to foreign occupations), the total fatalities around the world are well under 1,000 people. Less than one person a day worldwide is being killed in so-called Islamist terrorist attacks. More people than that are dying of dog bites.

This is not a global crisis, however much President Bush strives to define it as such. From the start, the “war on terror” has served as a cover for various plans for asserting U.S. military and political hegemony around the world; these plans were on the neoconservatives’ agenda for years before they took control of U.S. foreign and defence policy with the inauguration of George W. Bush in January 2001. It has been one of the longest and most successful hoaxes in history—but the strategies that hide behind it are still doomed to end in failure."