Toonbots message board: Sept. 30 '01 blurb

Michael Sun Sep 30 16:47:36 2001 Re: Sept. 30 '01 blurb > "Mapping of" ... goodness, Claire Sterling _again_? Been years. My ever-fresh delight with you, Eric, is that you continually see meaning in my scrivenings even when none's to be found. However, on a search on "Claire Sterling", I found her to be a journalist who wrote _The Terror Network_... exploring the connections between the CIA and Islamic extremists.... http://www.nexusmagazine.com/terror.html Also, http://www.pir.org/main1/Claire_Sterling.html -- in general, pir.org has me positively drooling. That's the kind of concept-mapping work I've been considering in other areas, even though it only concerns itself with names. But -- interesting, interesting, interesting. Thanks, Eric!

Eric Schissel Sun Sep 30 17:40:39 2001 Re: Sept. 30 '01 blurb Interesting - while I'm aware of the connection you mention , I was under the impression that (the now late) Sterling had put forward (years ago) a theory (which I, anyhow, regard as tenuous at best and (hrm. is discredited the word I'm looking for?... politically convenient? something else?...) at worst, but that's another story) connecting the Soviet Union to the "network of" terrorism around the globe. Perhaps I'm thinking of someone else. Quite possible... (Though some websearches suggest that at the very least, that's how her work has been represented by some others whose work I've read; it is possible that they are misreading her work, not necessarily deliberately.) Thanks much for those links, in the event.

Michael Sun Sep 30 17:53:22 2001 Re: Sept. 30 '01 blurb > Sterling had put forward (years ago) a > theory (which I, anyhow, regard as tenuous at best and (hrm. is > discredited the word I'm looking for?... politically convenient? something > else?...) at worst, but that's another story) connecting the Soviet Union > to the "network of" terrorism around the globe. Nope, you're right, I hadn't read very closely. In fact, she appears to have used CIA propaganda as source material -- and the director of the CIA seems to have believed her *over* his own agents, who were able to discern no particular link between the Soviets and terrorists.... Ugh. What a tangled web we weave, and all that.

Michael Sun Sep 30 18:18:21 2001 Re: Sept. 30 '01 blurb > http://www.nexusmagazine.com/terror.html Ay-yi-yi. A closer look at *that* site makes me doubt my own sanity. But it's entertaining!