Creep of the Week - June 29, 1996

Two Unidentified Terrorists in Saudi Arabia

I've been working feverishly all week to figure out what happened here and determine why the picture above looks so familiar. Except for the names of the perpetrators, I think I've got it all:

Two guys drove a truck containing a 5,000 pound bomb up next to a US Military complex in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. After they escaped in a white car, the bomb exploded, killing 19 and injuring 270 American men and women who were living there. The two terrorists were evidently protesting
The beheading of four Muslim militants who last November set off a car bomb near another military building in Saudi Arabia, killing seven people, five of them Americans. These four extremists were pissed off at
Their own Saudi Arabian government which they described as "hypocritical, corrupt and immoral," a state of affairs they blamed on the influence of foreign infidels like
The United States, which came to be in Saudi Arabia as a result of the 1991 Gulf War which was fought against
Iraq, which has enough crackpots to make Saudi Arabia look like Disneyland which just reinforces the fact that the reason we have any interest at all in whether these madmen kill each other is because the only thing of note this region of the world has besides crazy killers is
Oil, which the US needs to keep its economy going and also provides the fuel for
Racially motivated church burnings, which like every other bad thing in this country is blamed on
Hillary Rodham Clinton, who just the other day was talking to
Eleanor Roosevelt, who was aghast that
OJ Simpson is now hosting anti-wife-beating seminars and feeling mighty lucky that he's not
Michael Irvin, who was the target of a killing-for-hire plot hatched by a Dallas policeman, which is weird enough to give cause to a paranoid pair of wackos like
Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols to blow up a building in Oklahoma City with a truck bomb, killing 168 people and injuring hundreds more because they thought their government was - altogether now - "hypocritical, corrupt and immoral."

Violence, hatred, treachery, stupidity and plain, simple insanity have the same results regardless of where they occur, who they're directed at, or the color of the skin on the head that generates them - People get killed or get injured or lose their loved ones or have their lives twisted so far around that nothing ever looks right again. It's all connected and incestuous somehow, and it's getting pretty ugly out there.

Let me know what you think at montgome@servtech.com

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