This conflict will create a hundred bin Ladens, Mubarak warns US - April 1, 2003

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article1125657.ece

April 1, 2003

THE invasion of Iraq will backfire spectacularly, igniting Islamic fanaticism and creating “100 new bin Ladens”, President Mubarak of Egypt told the United States yesterday.

Mr Mubarak, accused by many of his countrymen of being a White House stooge for maintaining Egypt’s increasingly unpopular peace treaty with Israel, voiced the fear of moderate Arab states that America was playing into al-Qaeda’s hands by waging war.

“When it is over, if it is over, this war will have horrible consequences,” Mr Mubarak told Egyptian soldiers in Suez.

“Instead of having one bin Laden, we will have 100 bin Ladens.”

His warning followed the suicide bombing in Iraq at the weekend in which four American soldiers were killed, and the claim by Islamic Jihad, the Palestinian extremist group, that it has sent 4,000 volunteers for suicide missions to Baghdad. The linking of Iraq with the Palestinian conflict was made explicit when Islamic Jihad leaders dedicated a suicide-bomb attack at the Israeli coastal resort of Netanya on Sunday as “a gift to the heroic Iraqi people”.

[bullwinkle428]

1. Far too many people willing to turn a deaf ear to stuff like this.

K&R.

[snagglepuss]

2. Wrong.

Mubarak is wrong to use the future tense.

[Don Caballero]

3. Mubarak is a ruthless dictator

He speaks with a forked tongue.

[blindpig]

4. But he's 'our' ruthless dictator.

Nonetheless, it doesn't take a abacus to figure that one out. Of course he's right about this.

[Javaman]

5. yes, indeed.

when this whole bullshit started, I said to myself, "self, If I were in charge and wanted to get rid of the crazy ass nuts out there, the places to start would be: Egypt, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, but alas, they are our "friends" so that won't happen".

And here we are, quoting one of the movers and shakers in the terrorism trade as some sort of profit.

Anyone paying attention over the last 60 years of this nation could and has made that same statement.

Mubarak is a dictatorial thug.