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In every human skull, including those of the current protagonists, Osama bin Laden and George II, house ten thousand million nerve cells or neurons, which are operating as information processors. They are coded by life experiences. Bush is the rich kid from Houston, Texas. Bin Laden the rich kid from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Try to imagine the difference of input into their respective brains.
Bush went to Harvard and Yale, entered the petroleum business with the sheiks and royalty of the Middle East, those notorious pro us Quislings, who sell out the riches of the East to the nouveau riches of the West, just as the Bushes, Cheney's, Rumsfelds and their cronies. George II made enough of a mess of trying to become an oil tycoon, that the family bought him a baseballteam hoping he would for ever after keep quiet. However, in 2001 the Bush clique engineered their crown prince into the White House in a desperate effort to regain what was lost when Clinton and Gore won the 1991 Presidential election. George II, the prince Charles of Houston, entered the American version of Buckingham Palace and now decides on matters of War and Peace.
Osama (44) studied management and economics at King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah and was all set to join his father's construction company that worked closely with the royals too. In 1973, the company was asked to rebuild and refurbish the two most holy shrines in the Muslim world. Young Osama became during this restoration works spiritually inspired by Islam. It was the Yom Kippur War (1973), when Egypt and Syria attacked Israel, and were defeated, that the young Saudi drew further into the direction of what he perceived as an ultimate goal, the restoration of Arab independence and honour. The oil embargo against the West followed, while in 1975 King Faisal was assassinated.
For a number of young Saudis, including Osama, the seventies were a turning point. "The shock of the assassination brought home the real and communal ramifications of the Westernisation of the Saudi educated and affluent youths sending many back into the fold of Islamism," wrote Yossef Boudansky in Bin Laden: The man who declared war on America. (Random House, New York, 1999). Boudansky is a military analyst in Washington and director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and unconventional Warfare in Washington. In fact, this American writer produced a lucid and sometimes even flattering account of bin Laden's gradual evolution towards placing himself in direct confrontation with the rich kid from Texas. When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1980, bin Laden was among the first Arabs, who dashed down to Kabul to offer assistance. The Saudi Court, realising the direction which Osama's mind was taking, called the young civil engineer to the palace. King Fahd personally offered him the construction job to expanding the Prophet's Mosque at Medina. Bin Laden would have received a personal fee of ninety million dollars. He refused. Instead he succeeded in convincing King Fahd, Crown Prince Abdallah, Prince Turki, the Chief of Saudi Intelligence, and other high officials, to do more to support the Mujahideen, who were fighting the Soviets. And he went straight back to the East.
Boudansky wrote: "Mujahideen who served with him described him as fearless and oblivious to danger. He was a hero to us because he was always on the front line, moving ahead of everyone else "He not only gave his money, but he also gave himself. He came down from his palace to live with the Afghan peasants and the Arab fighters. He cooked with them, ate with them, dug trenches with them. That was bin Laden's way." The other rich kid is spending his weekends flying by helicopter to Camp David ordering his pilots in the East to search for the Afghan caves and target his opponent with the latest laser guided us missile weaponry. Most people know as much about the business of their own nervous system, as most automobile drivers understand the combustion process of the engines in their motor vehicles. Bush' world-wide war against terrorism will go down in history as a head on collision of nervous systems derailing into a mortal struggle between devout Muslims and western crusaders for freedom and democracy. The bin Ladenites sees the Bushites as immoral murderous infidels who are turning the world into a never-ending string of gambling casinos, brothels, and hamburger stands. The 21st century locks mankind in a life and death battle between God and Satan as seen from Afghan mountains.
The neurons of simpletons like Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Powell keep telling them that what is good for the United States is good for mankind. Ever since 1945, us foreign policy has been based on the self-serving, egotistical concept of two main streams of influence: Good, the us and partners, and Evil, formerly the Soviet Union, lately the Taliban, and the latest arrival of super criminal, Osama bin Laden.
During the second half of the 20th century Washington unilaterally declared a long list of popular foreign leaders as evil rogues, thus assigning the god given right to Washington to do as they pleased with them. Considered evil boys were Castro, Lumumba, Sukarno, Sihanouk, Bhutto, Ortega, Noriega, Allende, Nasser, Qadaffi, Saddam, Assad, Milosevic and dozens of other naughty ones, whose nations were bombed or blockaded, or both. In other cases foreign leaders were directly assassinated on the cia murder assembly line. Some were hacked to pieces. Others were overthrown by cia coups d'état, exiled for life, or replaced by fascist cia Quislings, who murdered and terrorised their peoples in the same way as Hitler had ordered his underlings to do in the occupied territories, like my own country, Holland. Suharto, Mobutu and Pinochet are foremost examples of how the cia installed pathological murderers to terrorise Asians, Africans and Latinos, while receiving advise from Henry Kissinger and the likes, to set up Hitler style concentration camps in Chilli and Indonesia. All efforts by their successors to bring Suharto or Pinochet to trial failed. The cia guarantees its stooges lifelong protection. Milosevic, a man who is incomparably less guilty of war crimes than either Pinochet or Suharto, is sweating it out in a jail in The Hague to be judged by the so-called un Tribunal for war criminals, which in fact is nothing more than a nato instituted Kangeroo Court.
Bush steadfastly discusses with the us public on television the War on Terrorism in terms of good and evil. In 1885, Friederich Nietzsche devoted one of his major essays, Beyond Good and Evil, (Henry Regnery Publishers, Chicago, 1955) to the subject. The most famous of German philosophers concluded a century ago, that these notions had become so worn-out, their real meaning was no longer distinguishable with the naked eye. The Texas oil chic never heard of Nietzsche either.
The discussion of who are the evil terrorists and who are the good defenders of freedom and democracy is as old as the story in the Old Testament of Methuselah, who is said to have died in the year of the Flood at the age of 969. During the apartheid struggle in South Africa, Pretoria accused the anc of being terrorists. Nevertheless, at the end of the day Nelson Mandela became an international idol of a true freedom fighter.

II

The cia began studying the serious possibility that Saudi Arabia could be lost to Arab fundamentalism, the same way Iran went the opposite way in 1979. What is forgotten is that General Norman Schwarzkopf, later the us commander in the Gulf War had been asked by the Shah of Iran to set up his secret police. In Teheran, this created a climate reminiscent of Gestapo police methods. When Washington decided to act, preserving its Anglo-American oil interests in Iran, the opposite of the desired result was achieved. If Saidi Arabia eventually falls to the bin Ladenites, the Americans will have nobody to blame but themselves. Along with the Saudi monarchy, the other royal dominoes, and related fiefdoms of sheiks and crooks, will also fall, and with it, America having lost its willing royal puppets, will simultaneously loose its monopoly over Mid-East oil.
The Saudi royals are already a shaky bunch. The National Security Agency in Washington has been monitoring them for many years. In 1995 the King had a severe and crippling stroke. He receives permanent medical attention ever since. "He is able to sit in a chair and open his eyes, but is usually unable to recognise even his oldest friends," reporter Seymour Hersh noted in The New Yorker (November 5, 2001). Fahd is only being kept on his throne in name, and because of a power struggle within the royal family. Some do not want Crown Prince Abdullah to succeed him.
Abdullah is suspected of wanting to make a serious effort to stem the reckless corruption and gangster practices of the royal house of Saud. This would seriously curb the present privileges of the thousands of princes who now have free access to the treasury. As long as Washington goes along with the crooks and the thieves in Ryadh, it will indeed safeguard its oil interests, at least for the moment. But it is bin Laden, who rides the wave of history, because the royals, sooner or later will collapse. Osama stands on the side of reform. The monarchy will fall, if not to bin Laden, to his successors.
Abdullah, notes Hersh, is also considered to become the kind of King, ready to penalise the us, and its oil and gas companies, because of Washington's blind support for Israel. So, for the time being Fahd stays. This represents only a stay of final execution. The Texas oil-supply company, Halliburton, up until the end of last year was run by the present vice-president, Dick Cheney. It operates various subsidiary companies in Saudi Arabia. Cheney's advice is probably, hang on in there, for in our lifetime, we will survive and cash in on the basis of old rules.
Hersh obtained transcripts of nsa electronic intercepts of conversations between members of the Saudi royal family. It becomes clear from these secretly tapped contacts how corrupt, alienated from the people and frightened this cabal of blue bloods really is. For years they have channelled hundreds of millions of dollars to the opposition, including bin Laden, hoping this protection money would delay the overthrow of the Saudi monarchy. But as Elaine Sciolino has already asked in the New York Times, "Is Saudi Arabia heading for an Iranian-style Islamic revolution?" (November 5, 2001)
The National Security Agency in Washington, which listened in on Saudi royals, became convinced, that the hypocrisy within the family and the constant stealing of billions of dollars from the state budget for private uses, estranged them from the vast majority of their subjects. Bin Laden's principal goal remains to purify his fatherland from this disgusting coterie of profiteers and Mafioso. Because Washington has been collaborating with the enemies of the Saudi masses, the us itself helped to create bin Ladenites all over the Muslim world, who rejoiced that at last the death and destruction of 09-11 had finally brought home, what America had been doing to others. The vast majority of Muslims, as well as millions in Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Yugoslavia, you name it, felt as we did during World War II, when with our explosives we were able to sabotage the Nazi enemies. Our resistance did not make us terrorists. Neither does Al Qaida.
The royals in Riyadh screamed "foul" in a reaction to the Hersh article, because it revealed that the nsa was spying even on its own allies. Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Azis called the present stream of bad publicity coming from the us "slander and treason". Journalists were reminded of the fact, that the Saudi's had played a large part in the 1991 Gulf War bill against Iraq. Also the stationing of us troops in the kingdom had been a high-risk policy, since a large majority of Saudis don't want them there.
This semi occupation by the us military was for bin Laden and friends the prime reason to launch a crusade against the royal regime. Billionaire prince, Al Waleed bin Talal, handed a cheque of ten million dollars to the mayor of New York. The prince added unsolicited advice for American policy in the Middle East. It was not accepted, nor was the money. Presently, relations between Riyadh and Washington are at an all time low, which only works to the advantage of Al Qaida, which intends to overthrow the monarchy, and cut all ties with the Bushes, Cheney's, and all the other imperialist bloodsuckers from Wall Street.
What must be understood in relation to the so-called terrorists, is how each assault on pride and confidence - by a super power versus oil producing states ruled by an oligarchy of indigenous sheiks - increases a sense of vulnerability and generates a quantum of useless anger in the minds of masses who feel, and are indeed powerless against a superior force. For many years they have managed to suppress feelings of alienation and humiliation, which causes the physiology of a repressed and maladaptive anger. Finally the flash point is reached. That is what now is occurring in both Afghanistan and Gaza. Palestinians have had it with Israeli state terrorism. They no longer accept helicopter assassinations of their prominent leaders. They finally shoot back.
Fear and anger are part of a larger emotional complex of responses. New York psychiatrist, Willard Gaylin, explained how fear and anger were designed to serve as responses to threats to our survival, not our pride, status, position, manhood or dignity. "Yet, somehow," he wrote, "we have developed in our minds a crucial linkage between affronts to our status of even minimal measure and the very sense of our survival. We respond to an affront with biological defences appropriated for assaults. We experience these affronts as though they were threats to survival." (The Rage Within, Anger in modern life, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1984).
The bin Ladenites in this world of the 21st century feel threatened and enraged by the trampling of their basic human rights, and constant violation of their basic freedoms. The vast majority of public opinion in the entire Middle East, or for that matter the entire Muslim world, is on the side of bin Laden, Saddam, Qadaffi and so on. Yet, it is solely and uniquely us super power rogue behaviour that casts a dark shadow of imperialism and raw exploitation of the precious black gold of the region, by us support for disgusting cliques of royal extortionists of public funds. They have us made modern arms shoved down their throats to keep the masses suppressed and their police states functioning. Hosni Mubarak would have been long gone, like his predecessor Anwar Sadat, if there had been one single free democratic election in Egypt. Mubarak systematically kills and imprisons everybody, who is in his way. Since Abdel Gamal Nasser, a bin Ladenite at heart, Egypt has played ball with the west. Millions of people in that country are currently suppressing this deliberate affront to their dignity and self-respect as imposed by the present traitor regime. But the day will come, when their emotions will spillover onto the streets.