John Anthony Patterson,

I don't believe that your post answers my questions.

Perhaps, Pericles would care to attempt to answer at least my first question.

He has already made it clear elsewhere that he doesn't find it at all suspicious that no-one linked to 9/11 has been captured in Afghanistan after 8 and and a half years of occupation.

Not this time, daggett.

>>Perhaps, Pericles would care to attempt to answer at least my first question.<<

But I would just point out that you - like the USSR and the US - simply do not learn from history.

>>Does it strike you as even the least bit suspicious that, after more than 8 years of occupation of the supposed main hotbed of international terrorism, from which all these attacks were supposedly launched, that not one single person with a proven link to 9/11 has been captured?<<

"Occupation" by whom, daggett?

Afghanistan is not "occupied" by the US, any more than by the Soviets before them, or even the British back in the nineteenth century.

So no, it doesn't surprise me at all.

Of course, I am not at all surprised that neither John Anthony Pattison (apologies for my earlier mis-spelling), nor Pericles have attempted to answer my simple straightforward simple question that they supply evidence that Islamist extremists operating from Afghanistan perpetrated 9/11, 7/7, the Bali bombings, etc.

The reason that they won't is that the evidence does not exist.

Even the FBI has admitted that it doesn't have the evidence to charge Osama bin Laden for the crime of 9/11 as anyone can see from the FBI wanted poster at http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/terbinladen.htm

Note how 9/11 has been omitted from the crimes for which he is wanted.

Yet Osama bin Laden's presumed guilt for 9/11 was the pretext used by the invasion of Afghanistan.

Does anyone here fail to grasp the disturbing implications this has for international law?

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People may assume from the way Pericles declined to answer my question:

"Not this time, daggett."

... that he normally does answer questions I put to him.

However, anyone who peruses the other vast forums in which this topic has been discussed at:

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=3330&page=41 http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=2166&page=83

... will search in vain for clear answers to any of my questions put to Pericles (except, perhaps, for one ...)

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Yes, Pericles, Afghanistan was occupied by the Soviet Union for about 10 years after 1979 and it was occupied by Great Britain in the 19th century.

Whatever were the rights and wrongs of those occupations, I don't believe that either of those countries used, as a pretext for invasion, claims that they had been attacked by terrorists from within Afghanistan.

So, I fail to see the relevance of your point to this discussion.

At least, Pericles has once again put on record that he doesn't find suspicious the fact that no-one in Afghanistan with a proven link to 9/11 has been captured after eight and a half years of occupation od that supposed hot-bed of international terrorism.

I think that that should be kept at the back of our minds, when we evaluate the worth of anything else he may have to say about this topic.