[iwar] [fc:Why.doesn't.America.fight.its.own.terrorists?..(Pravda)]

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Subject: [iwar] [fc:Why.doesn't.America.fight.its.own.terrorists?..(Pravda)]
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Why doesn't America fight its own terrorists?  (Pravda)

Well, it is not only America. There are a lot of terrorists in Western
Europe, and not only terrorists, but also organizations that can become
terrorist organizations. Extreme right and nationalist organizations are
referred to this category first and foremost. The list of such organizations
is very long; it would fill several pages, but some of them are worth
mentioning. Let's take the most infamous organization in Europe, the Basque
separatists in Spain , the ETA. The gunmen from this organization perform
acts of terrorism all too often: a week without news of such events is
rather rare. The victims of their acts of terrorism are in thousands
already, not in the hundreds. The Scotch National Liberation Army has
recently announced its existence in Great Britain, having sent 15 or 16
packages with natrium hydroxide to well-known British politicians and public
figures, including Prime Minister Tony Blair. Scotland Yard is still looking
for some of the packages. 

There are separatists operating in Corsica who fight for the separation of
the island from France. Their methods cannot be called humane, although they
are far behind ETA's guerrillas. Then there are the Albanian terrorists, who
are considered to be Milosevic's victims in the West; the West is so used to
this idea that it is ready to forgive them of anything anything, even
obvious acts of terror. 

Nationalist and even racist organizations are gradually becoming a part of
the political establishment in some countries of Europe. There are a lot of
examples for that: Jorg Heider's Freedom Party in Austria, Italy's Lega Nord
(Northern League) with its leader Umbetro Bossi, and so on and so forth.
Heider's appearance in the Austrian government caused a big scandal in
Europe's political life, but Bossi's activity in the position of the
minister for the issues constitutional reforms does not seem to be a concern
to anyone. Bossi has urged people to fight the European Union, comparing it
with the USSR. Well, it is no use to speak about Bossi if Italian Premier
Berlusconi thinks that the union with Italy's right-wing parties will lead
to prosperity. Italy was also "prospering" too when Mussolini was in power.
What about Germany, in which the government cannot ban a nazi party? That
party is one of dozens of the kind that are live and kicking over there. 

There are also big problems with extreme right-wing organizations in the
USA. These organizations have been using terrorist methods for a very long
time already, in contrast to their "colleagues" in Europe. An explosion
killed 168 people in 1995 in Oklahoma City's federal building. Timothy
McVeigh was found guilty, and he was sentenced to death by lethal injection.
As McVeigh said, he committed that horrid crime because of the events of
1993, when Branch Davidian religious sect members barricaded themselves in
Waco, Texas. Eighty people were killed during the assault on the building.
In his address to Americans, McVeigh wrote that when American aircraft or
missiles are sowing death in other countries, the nation is delighted with
it. However, when the nation approves the bombing of other cities, they
approve explosions similar to the one in Oklahoma City, like it or not. In
McVeigh's opinion, he was standing up for American traditional liberties
with that tremendously horrible act of terror. The press surely mentioned
McVeigh's possible links with radical organizations, but nothing was done so
that the American extremists seriously suffered. 

The latest information says that there was a conspiracy unveiled in Montana,
the participants of which were going to kill state officials and the
National Guards soldiers. It is too early to say anything on the subject, as
the investigation is continuing. However, there is no information to prove
that members of that terrorist group maintained contacts with the Muslim
terrorists. They did not have anything in common with them; it is totally an
internal American problem. 

Therefore, extremist organizations in the USA are alive and growing. One may
not say there are a lot of them, but not many people are needed to blow
something up. These groups have the funds to purchase explosives and
weapons, so one may assume that they have a certain support in American
society. Therefore, America is not protected from the repetition of the
events in Oklahoma City, taking account of the fact that George Bush and his
team are basically fighting with international terrorism. 

The threat from domestic terrorist groups is much more real for the USA than
the threat from Iran, Iraq, or from North Korea. However, it's about time
that the American special services pay attention to their own potential
domestic terrorists. They have enough energy to organize something like the
September 11 terrorist attacks, and if you want to wage war against the
international terrorism, then this war should be started from your own
country first, whether it is America or not. 


Vasily Bubnov 
PRAVDA.Ru 

Translated by Dmitry Sudakov 

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