O Intermitente
(So long, farewell, auf weidersehen, good-bye)

quinta-feira, maio 22, 2003

O Fim de Um Ciclo?

O mestre (como lhe chamam os infames) Andrew Sullivan, a propósito dos atentados em Marrocos e na Árabia Saudita, avança a hipótese de estarmos perante uma nova tendência do terrorismo islâmico que poderá, esperemos, levar ao corte das suas tradicionais bases de apoio:

"What might be happening is the reverse of what happened in the 1990s. In that decade, crackdowns on Islamist militants in the Middle East led them to export their terror abroad to the West. Now that the U.S. and its allies have fought back hard, these murderers may by default be turning their attention back to the Arab autocracies that helped spawn the terrorism in the first place. Could this finally force the Saudis to take the threat seriously? Could the murder of fellow Muslims and Arabs undermine al Qaeda's appeal among disaffected young men in the region? Here's hoping on both counts."
posted by Miguel Noronha 11:23 da manhã