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Subject: That's My Boy!
Written By: zcrito on 07/24/05 at 3:43 pm
From CNN...
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Atta's father praises London bombs
Wednesday, July 20, 2005; Posted: 8:57 a.m. EDT (12:57 GMT)
CAIRO, Egypt (CNN) -- The father of one of the hijackers who commandeered the first plane that crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, praised the recent terror attacks in London and said many more would follow.
Speaking to CNN producer Ayman Mohyeldin Tuesday in his apartment in the upper-middle-class Cairo suburb of Giza, Mohamed el-Amir said he would like to see more attacks like the July 7 bombings of three London subway trains and a bus that killed 52 people, plus the four bombers.
Displayed prominently in the apartment were pictures of el-Amir's son, Mohamed Atta, the man who is believed to have piloted American Airlines Flight 11 into the north tower of the World Trade Center as part of the attacks on the United States.
El-Amir said the attacks in the United States and the July 7 attacks in London were the beginning of what would be a 50-year religious war, in which there would be many more fighters like his son.
He declared that terror cells around the world were a "nuclear bomb that has now been activated and is ticking."
The man, who gave his age as "at least 70," said he had no sorrow for what happened in London, and said there was a double standard in the way the world viewed the victims in London and victims in the Islamic world.
Cursing in Arabic, el-Amir also denounced Arab leaders and Muslims who condemned the London attacks as being traitors and non-Muslims.
He passionately vowed that he would do anything within his power to encourage more attacks.
When asked if he would allow a CNN crew to videotape another interview with him, el-Amir said he would give his permission -- for a price of $5,000.
That money, he said, would not be kept for himself, but would be donated to someone to carry out another terror attack.
El-Amir said that $5,000 was about how much it would cost to finance another attack in London.
CNN's crew refused to pay for the interview and left after el-Amir's request.
It is CNN policy not to pay people for interviews.
A lawyer by trade, el-Amir had a sign on his apartment door saying he was a consultant.
The security guard for the apartment building said el-Amir had been under surveillance by Egyptian agents for several months after the September 11 attacks, but no one had been watching him recently.
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I guess the fruit really doesn't fall far from the tree ??
Here's the link:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/19/atta.father.terror/index.html?section=cnn_latest
Subject: Re: That's My Boy!
Written By: CatwomanofV on 07/24/05 at 5:57 pm
As one terrorist father said to the another: They blow up so fast.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Cat
Subject: Re: That's My Boy!
Written By: Dagwood on 07/24/05 at 6:26 pm
As one terrorist father said to the another: They blow up so fast.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Cat
And I laughed...couldn't resist either. :)
Subject: Re: That's My Boy!
Written By: MaxwellSmart on 07/25/05 at 1:16 am
As one terrorist father said to the another: They blow up so fast.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Cat
Did you make that up? You could sell that one to the Tonight Show.
;D
So you got the other son, he's driving a cab in Cairo and delivering for Ramez's Falafel-to-Go at night. Every time he goes home he gets an earful from the old man about "why can't you be more like your brother, ya bum!" And he's thinking, "OK, if that's what I gotta do to to get pops to shut his yap..."
:o
Subject: Re: That's My Boy!
Written By: MaxwellSmart on 07/25/05 at 8:53 am
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, does it ??? ::)
More like the nut doesn't fall far from the tree!
::)
Subject: Re: That's My Boy!
Written By: nondiva234 on 07/25/05 at 11:05 am
same here! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Subject: Re: That's My Boy!
Written By: CatwomanofV on 07/25/05 at 12:23 pm
Did you make that up? You could sell that one to the Tonight Show.
;D
Naw, I confess, I stole it from an e-mail my sister sent me. :-[ ;D
Cat
Subject: Re: That's My Boy!
Written By: Don Carlos on 07/25/05 at 3:41 pm
Without condoning most of what the old fool said, there is one thing that is true. The western press does NOT treat Islamic victems of terror the same way they treat westerners. Conservative estimates of Iraqi civilians killed since the invasion puts the number at well over 20,000, and some at 50,000 or more, most 85% by some estimates, killed by us. But these are non-government and non-media sources. The ones we hear about are the comparatively few killed by the insurgants. What's that about?