Socialist Resistance

An archive of socialistresistance.org, 2002–2022

BURN ALL REDS

Socialist Resistance no17  |  page 13

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Palestine many in the Middle East and around the world conclude that US foreign imise brupolicy is based on support for the terrorism tal attacks

opponents it does not like.

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This in itself created the 'blowback' Tom lacer where Us it tier

Icy on terrorism been? former ally of the US, this time Osama bin Laden, turned on his former allies by flying two planes into the twin towers of the World Trade Centre; 9/11 as

Bin Laden, leader and world scale. Indeed terUS foreign policy claims not to concentrate only on terrorists but also on their sponsors, the "Rogue States" in the "Axis of

Iran was accused by the US of sponsorYet US

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