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Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 00:34:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: Andre Gunder Frank
Subject: HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF? BY DEFINITION!
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THE DEFINITION:
THE CONCISE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF CURRENT ENGLISH sixth edition 1976, page 1196, defines
TERROR:
1. extreme fear
2. Person or thing that causes terror
TERRORIST:
One who favours or uses terror-inspiring methods of governing or coercing government or
community; hence or cong[itive]~istic.
TERRORIZE: Fill with terror; coerce by terrorism: hence-[terrori]zation.
EXAMINE THE READILY AVAILABLE AND VIRTUALLY INDISPUTABLE EVIDENCE FOR WORLD AS A
WHOLE AND BY WORLD REGIONS TO COMPARE TERROR, TERRORIST, TERRORIZE, TERRORISM by
- individual is bad
- individual and state harbored is worse
- [by] state is still worse
- state in region is worse yet
- state around the whole world is worst of all
THE HISTORY:
A letter in today's Independent [London Oct. 9, 2001]
Sir: Wow, it's just like when the Spanish bombed our airbases in retaliation for our
failure to extradite the terrorist Pinochet, in spite of the fact that we'd been shown the
evidence against him. How history repeats itself ...
HISTORICAL STATISTICAL APPENDIX
Tuesday, September 11, 2001
Bombing of WTC in NYC and Pentagon in Washington DC, USA
DAMAGE: Human and Pysical, Economic and Political Dead and Missing 7,000 [later revised
down to 3,000] - more than half NON nationals of the USA. WTC destroyed, Pentagon damaged
existing economic recession deepend,existing political power strengthened
RESPONSIBILITY personal : Unknown.
Suspected: possibly Osmana bin Laden, but unproven
Behind the Scenes [not much] : possibly Al Quata State
responsible: None proven, nor even to anybody's knowledge
RESPONSE: Massive bombing of Afghanistan by US & UK
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Tuesday, September 11, 1973 Bombing of Presidential Palace La Moneda in Santiago Chile
DAMAGE : Human and Pysical, Economic and Political Dead and Missing - about 30,000, almost
all Chileans. Thousands tortured, 100,000 plus driven into exile. Moneda Palace damaged
[by destruction and fire]. Economy seriously damaged, unemployment trippled, inflation
quadrupled, income vastly lowered and very much more unequally distributed political power
changed by military coup and decade and a half military dictatorship
RESPONSIBILITY personal:Chilean General Augusto Pinochet and Military Junta, [behind the
scenes but very visible] U.S. President Richard Nixon & Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger - all self declared and proven, eg. in their files, US Senate Church Committee
Hearings, recently summarized by Christopher Hitchins in Harpers Magazine and demanding
that Henry Kissinger be indicted as War Criminal to be brought before International Court
of Justice or new International Criminal Court
Responsible State : Chilean and United States of America
RESPONSE: Car bomb in Washington DC, killing ex Chilean ambassador to US and a US
national,
proven responsibility: Chilean DINA secret police with CIA backup
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