posted 19 years ago
Ummm... we don't have a military base in Egypt. We do hold joint exercises with them and many other nations ocasionally (Bright Star), but I'm not sure when the last time we did that was. To my knowledge the only places we have troops deployed are Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and possibly Qatar. All at the request of their governments I might add. There are naturally countries from other nations in these areas as well.
By the way do you know that what this whole thing is basically about is that bin Laden is pissed because we are in Saudi Arabia? Because Saudi Arabia asked us to be there, because the Saudi government stripped him of his citizenship and made his family disown him, this is pretty much why he feels we must die. He is upset because we are in the "holy land" where non-muslims are supposed to be forbidden.
As for the terrorists who follow him, do you know that the core of them aren't on a crusade as much as they just like killing? After the Soviet-Afghan war, the Mujahadin, very many of whom were not even Afghanis, basically wandered around the world looking for wars to join. They fought in Israel, Bosnia, Africa, the Phillipines, anywhere they could get a chance to do what they liked to do best.
On a personal note I was shocked to learn today that up to seven of the animals who carried out the attacks on us stayed just down the road from me in the weeks prior to the events of last week. They were living like two miles from me, in motels that as a volunteer firefighter/emt I have responded to on numerous occasions. Man that is scary.