Clues to Hatred

Long Island Newsday | September 27, 2001 | John Riley

[Mr Rogers]

Khalfan K. Mohamed trained in Afghanistan with Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida. When he went home to Tanzania and received orders to help grind TNT to bomb the U.S. Embassy there, he did his duty. And when he was caught in Cape Town, he talked freely to the FBI about the plot.

He hated the United States because it backed Israel, he told FBI agent Abigail Perkins, and because it had troops in the Islamic holy land of Saudi Arabia. He felt it was his Islamic duty to kill Americans.

[Mr Rogers]

We need to understand - bottom line, they are willing to kill us because of who we are & how we live. Their teachers claim Allah will forgive them anything. We can no more negotiate with them than we can negotiate with cancer.

[DailyWonkLists.com]

There can be no compromise between life and poison - save death. Ayn Rand makes this excellent point in "Atlas Shrugged," and we should remember it now. We're so in love with the idea that there are no blacks or whites, rights and wrongs, but there are.

[mrustow]

We can no more negotiate with them than we can negotiate with cancer.

Great line.