From: Tony Williams 

Adam > wrote:
> Tony Williams wrote:
>>
>>
>>I still don't get it. If AQ want something they should be shouting it
>>loud. I can see why our own governments would want to avoid giving the
>>terrorists a platform to sway public opinion, but not AQ themselves.
>>Still, all we get from them are incoherent, rambling video messages
>>about how we've upset their invisible friend in some unspecified way.
>>
>
> The rambling incoherance is all part of appealing to the messianic.
>
> There is a history to this in the "mad Mahdi" of Sudan.
>
> But I'd say Bin Laden is brighter than the Mahdi.
>
> However his appeal is basically messianic.

Ok, so they really are just religious nutters. Thought so.

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Tony

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