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31-01-05, 12:34 AM
@FLOW
Good post on the History but I would also like to point out that not only in UK that civil liberties are undeer threat..its also in East Africa where governments have been under tremendous preassure to keep the so called religious fanatics in order by detaining them without trial.Imagine people from diffrent religions have had a good relations until 9/11. theoretically its a known fact that Eastern Africa has been the starting point of a gradual merger between Africa and the Middle East. Sudan, Somalia and the Swahili Coast have been the vanguard.
and this is due to several tendencies have stimulated new thinking about African-Arab relations one being negative but potentially unifying – the war on terrorism. The new international terrorism may have its roots in injustices perpetrated against such Arab people as Palestinians and Iraqis, but the primary theater of contestation is blurring the distinction between the Middle East and the African continent. In order to kill twelve Americans in Nairobi in 1998, over two hundred Kenyans died in a terrorist act at the United States Embassy in Nairobi.In 2002 a suicide bomber in Mombasa, Kenya, attacked the Israeli-owned and Israeli-patronized Paradise Hotel. Three times as many Kenyans as Israelis died.
African countries like Uganda, South Africa, Tanzania and Kenya have been under American pressure to pass anti-terrorist legislation – partly intended to control their own Muslim populations and partly targeted at potential Al-Qaeda infiltrators. Uganda and Tanzania and others have already capitulated to American pressure.
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