From: "John Thomson"
Subject: [marxist] ATROCITIES  IN  THE  US - socparty text


ATROCITIES IN THE US

As is by now well known, on Tuesday 11th September 2
hijacked passenger airliners were deliberately crashed into
the World Trade Center building in New York, while another
was crashed into the Pentagon building in Washington DC. In
addition a car bomb was detonated outside the State
Department in Washington. It would also appear that 5 other
hijacked airliners were shot down by US forces before
hitting whatever targets were intended. It would seem the
death toll could run to over 10,000, due especially to the
carnage caused in and around New York office buildings where
around 50,000 people worked.

This is a catastrophe on an appalling scale. Socialists
locally, nationally and internationally can only express our
horror and condemnation, along with all other people around
the world, at this hideous and cynical destruction of
innocent human life.

As yet it is not known for certain what forces were behind
this atrocity, though suspicion has fallen on those around
the religious reactionary Saudi billionaire Osama bin Laden
(who has been connected to the previous attempt to destroy
the World Trade Center).

All we can say for certain is that this is another
horrendous symptom of a world system becoming ever more
dangerous and destructive in its never-ending conflicts and
rivalries over strategic and economic issues. The madness of
the Twentieth Century continues into the Twenty First.

John
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