Lev Navrozov
Friday, Feb. 21, 2003

In 1895, H.G. Wells, author of many futuristic projections, described the terrorism of the future: A terrorist will use not explosives, able to kill only dozens or hundreds or thousands of people at most, but pathogenic microbes, thus infecting the water mains of a city to kill millions of people, who may in turn infect other dozens of millions of people all over a country.

Yet in more than a hundred years after this prophecy, suicidal terrorism by means of explosives has not been replaced by suicidal bioterrorism, though there are far more and better opportunities to buy, steal or produce (in a "home laboratory”) far more potent pathogenic microbes and viruses.

Wells was not a profound psychologist. Like most Westerners, he did not understand the suicidal terrorist’s psychology. Dostoyevsky understood it far better – partly because terrorism was rampant in Russia in his time. As for death, Dostoyevsky himself was sentenced to death, and stood on the scaffold waiting for execution until it was announced that his death sentence had been commuted to hard labor.

A suicidal terrorist is, according to Dostoyevsky, the only absolutely free person on earth – he is independent of anyone and of anything on earth. He lives/dies for his death/murder, and he wants to die in a pyre and with a terrific bang, not a whimper, and, if he is a Moslem, to ascend in a pyre of fire and thunder to paradise, where he will deflower heavenly virgins all the time and forever.

How many millions of Americans could those 19 suicidal terrorists have killed on Sept. 11, 2001, if they had bought (from China, for example) pathogenic microbes or viruses, as Wells had described the future terrorism in 1895? But no! Give them on this earth three giant funeral pyres (with a lot of gasoline!) before their heavenly bliss of the eternal bridal night.

Would the population of Israel have survived if the terrorists had been buying and using pathogenic microbes or viruses? Not to mention that the terrorists using microbes and viruses might well stay alive. No! A terrorist in Israel is ready to kill just one Israeli, but he himself must die in a blast of fire and thunder. His ritual fire-and-thunder suicide seems to be more important to him than the killing of Israelis. Typically, he does not throw his bomb: He’s wearing it.

For about a year and a half, following Sept. 11, American government officials and TV guests with university degrees in the humanities, whose life experiences are confined to their sheltered micro-worlds of "salaries, bonuses and benefits,” have been explaining how they would eradicate global suicidal terrorism.

This is really simple: In their perception, no suicidal terrorist can kill himself and others on his own, without an organization or a government. To imagine that he can act on his own is as absurd as to imagine that a government official does not receive his salary from a government or that a professor is not affiliated with a university but lectures on his own.

The only question is to which organization and government a suicidal terrorist belongs. There are 60 terrorist organizations, but many of them have Arabic names, difficult for those U.S. government officials and TV guests who do not know a single foreign language.

Fortunately, two names have been repeated in the mainstream television many times a day for the past year and a half: Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. Osama is a coward who has been bragging for over 10 years about how he will kill all "Jews and Crusaders [Christians]” (in that order), and U.S. government officials and TV guests have been taking his stupid bragging for a heinous criminal’s confessions.

Out of the fortune he inherited ($300 million) he has been paying $1 a day to whoever will brag with him of their suicidal terrorist exploits. Flashed together onto the U.S. TV screens are the pictures of bin Laden (with his Kalashnikov from the times of the anti-Soviet guerrilla war in Afghanistan), of his $1-a-day hirelings, of the guerrilla camps of 25 years ago, and of terrorist attacks such as that of Sept. 11, 2001.

Hence many Americans believe that the stupid bragging coward and his $1-a-day hirelings are responsible for virtually all terrorist attacks on earth. This is a conditioned reflex. Thus the Pavlovian dog begins to salivate when the bell rings because the poor animal associates the ringing of the bell with meat. In the same way, many Americans associate bin Laden and al-Qaeda with terrorism.

Though bin Laden brags of killing "Jews and the Crusaders” (in that order), I have never heard bin Laden or any al-Qaeda bragging of their terrorism in Israel. Why not?

You see, those Palestinian suicidal boys are quite tough, and should they have heard, at any time in the past 10 years, of bin Laden or an al-Qaeda "terrorist,” bragging of their imaginary exploits in Israel, a Palestinian terrorist would have taken bin Laden by his beard and smashed him against the wall so that the braggart croaked then and there, and a similar treatment would have been given to the $1-a-day al-Qaeda braggart.

While every suicidal terrorist, in the TV perception, kills himself and others strictly on the orders of some organization – usually al-Qaeda, since the name has become the "meat” in the TV-induced conditioned reflex, even bin Laden himself is "linked” with a government.

Thus, in 2001 he was "linked” with the Taliban government of Afghanistan, which called for the war on Afghanistan, but he fled so nimbly that the key goal of the war was not met.

Now he is "linked” with Saddam Hussein’s government in Iraq, which calls for the war on Iraq. You see, Saddam will give bin Laden "the weapons of mass destruction” and then bin Laden is sure to kill all "Jews and Crusaders” with the help of his al-Qaeda.

But surely bin Laden, with his inherited $300 million, could have bought five or 10 or 15 years ago, say, plague bacteria at $100 a vial, the price at which Saddam Hussein bought it from a U.S. company in the 1980s. Another source is, of course, China, which also sells "weapons of mass destruction.”

As far as I know, the U.S. government has never promised to eradicate in the United States common crimes, such as murder. Within one year after Sept. 11, 2001, at least five times as many Americans died as a result of murder than as a result of the "terrorist attack” of Sept. 11. Five Sept. 11 attacks within one year!

No one has heard of measures to decrease the murder rate. But suicidal terrorism? Let us wage enough wars against small and technologically third-rate countries like Iraq, spend enough trillions of dollars on new huge bureaucracies, be vigilant – and suicidal terrorism will be eradicated, in contrast to common crime such as murder.

Yet a suicidal terrorist is much more unpredictable, elusive, hard to catch than a common criminal such as a murderer. He cannot be swayed by any earthly rewards or promises. He is not human – he is a corpse beyond all human weakness, and with only one goal – to die in a suicidal-murderous pyre, ascending him to the eternal bridal night, if he is a Moslem.

A common murderer usually continues to live after the murder, and this is usually when he is caught if at all. A suicidal terrorist dies – vanishes from the earth, and a German friend of mine, writing a book on the subject, has a hard time guessing why 14 out of the 19 terrorists of Sept. 11, 2001, were Saudis and their conspiracy originated at a Hamburg university, in Germany.

Hundreds of my NewsMax.com readers have expressed their wish to receive the link to the Web site that is to serialize in weekly installments my book "Out of Moscow and into New York: A Life in the Geostrategically Lobotomized West in the Age of Terrorism and Post-Nuclear Superweapons.” Unfortunately, the creation of the Web site by a hosting company has been going on for two and a half months, but it is not yet ready.

I wish to thank my readers for their patience, interest and wonderful e-mails, and to tell them that I will let them know by e-mail the link to the Web site as soon as it is ready. I hope that more readers will express through e-mail (navlev@cloud9.net) their wish to know the link to the Web site when it is ready to serialize my book in weekly installments.

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