Catastrophe or curse?

Catastrophe or curse?

From Koran Tempo

Terrorists attacks on the twin towers of the World Trade
Center and the United States (U.S.) defense ministry building,
the Pentagon, have really stunned the world. These might be the
worst terrorist attacks that have ever been dealt the U.S.

The twin towers, billions of U.S. dollars in value, were
reduced to rubble. The Pentagon, an icon of U.S. supremacy and
might, also partially fell apart. A very simple question may be
asked about how the U.S., which claims to be a superpower country
and the world's "policeman", and boasts the best intelligence
agents, could have been taken off-guard so completely that
fateful Tuesday by these highly embarrassing attacks?

The U.S. weeps! The U.S.'s allies are outraged and condemn
these attacks. The U.S.'s enemies, however, laughed, cheered and
celebrated the tragedy.

These attacks have claimed thousands of lives, the lives of
innocent workers who every day earned a living there. They were
people who probably ignored the impact of U.S. foreign policies,
which frequently support Zionist Israel in fighting innocent,
heroic young Muslims armed only with stones.

Is the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001 a disaster or a curse ? The
U.S. was greatly startled! These attacks have deeply traumatized
the U.S. people. Many countries have condemned these frenzied
attacks, which may have claimed thousands of lives, but,
unfortunately, only a handful of countries have condemned the
massacres of heroic young Muslims in Palestine.

Our sympathy goes to thousands of innocent lives that have
been lost as a sacrificial offering for the U.S. The consequence
of war cannot be otherwise.

ROBINAND ERHAM

Cilegon, Banten