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Newsday Reporter's 'Spilled' Email
by Rattle at 9:25 pm EST, Feb 28, 2003 |
] I was in a dinner with heads of Saudi and German FBI,
] plus the foreign minister of Afghanistan. They all said
] that at its peak Al Qaeda had 70,000 members. Only 10% of them
] were trained in terrorism -- the rest were military recruits.
] Of that 7000, they say all but about 200 are dead or in jail. Supposedly this is from a compromised private Email, from a Newsday reporter at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. There's a thread on slashdot about how the Email was compromised, and the various privacy implications, etc. etc. But I have to say, now that it's public, I still found the Email fascinating! Slashdot thread here:
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/02/28/1823256.shtml?tid=158 |
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RE: Newsday Reporter's 'Spilled' Email
by flynn23 at 3:49 am EST, Mar 1, 2003 |
Rattle wrote:
] ] I was in a dinner with heads of Saudi and German FBI,
] ] plus the foreign minister of Afghanistan. They all said
] ] that at its peak Al Qaeda had 70,000 members. Only 10% of
] them
] ] were trained in terrorism -- the rest were military
] recruits.
] ] Of that 7000, they say all but about 200 are dead or in
] jail.
]
] Supposedly this is from a compromised private Email, from a
] Newsday reporter at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.
] There's a thread on slashdot about how the Email was
] compromised, and the various privacy implications, etc. etc.
] But I have to say, now that it's public, I still found the
] Email fascinating!
]
] Slashdot thread here:
] http://slashdot.org/articles/03/02/28/1823256.shtml?tid=158 I was really surprised to find the world's 'leaders' so down and out. C'mon people! You're leaders! That means that you're supposed to have your chin up and be confident that we're going to get out of this mess without 'faith-based' initiatives and 'unilateral' imperialism. That and the fact that even China admits that 3/4th's of it's population will never be able to afford McDonalds. |
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Newsday Reporter's 'Spilled' Email
by Decius at 3:07 am EST, Mar 2, 2003 |
] The global economy is in very very very very bad shape.
] Last year when WEF met here in New York all I heard was,
] "Yeah, it's bad, but recovery is right around the corner".
] This year "recovery" was a word never uttered. Fear was
] palpable -- fear of enormous fiscal hysteria. The watchwords
] were "deflation", "long term stagnation" and "collapse of
] the dollar". All of this is without war.
]
] - If the U.S. unilaterally goes to war, and it is
] anything short of a quick surgical strike (lasting less
] than 30 days), the economists were all predicting extreme
] economic gloom: falling dollar value, rising spot market
] oil prices, the Fed pushing interest rates down towards zero
] with resulting increase in national debt, severe trouble in
] all countries whose currency is guaranteed agains the dollar
] (which is just about everybody except the EU), a near
] cessation of all development and humanitarian programs for
] poor countries. Very few economists or ministers of finance
] predicted the world getting out of that economic funk for
] minimally five-10 years, once the downward spiral ensues. |
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