[Skybird]

Afghanistan was attacked over 9/11 and sheltering Bin Laden, SA not. I never understood this. If you have 3000 of your people beign slaughtered, this is not a minor issue, and if a state in any way, actively or passively, assisted in that, knowingly, then this terror strike is more: it is a formal act of war.

And its not as if it is new news that SA actively supports Islamic terror groups. Aaginst Sunni Persia, but against the West as well.

BTW, if I were a America, I would have played tougher against Germany as well back then. The attackers of 9/11 found an all too convenient environment in Germany to hide, to prepare and to get ready. Germany too easily just played down such problems and ignores them (like Belgium, Sweden and some others), for the sake of some social X or Y - anything just as long as the word "social" is included. We may have turned a bit tougher on Muslim terrorism these days and years, but in principle we stick to that old pattern to just look at the other direction when we notice something bad is happening, if we do not try to find excuses for it, that is - thats is also for exmaple with regards to the great holiday ressort and refugium that Germany is for the Italian Mafia and its big names. Germany is the preferred retreat ground for them, since they have nothing to fear from police and state attorneys. Italian state attorneys since twenty years if not longer pull out their hairs over the ignorrance of the Germans, and their warnings not getting heard - it doesn't matter. Some insiders even claim there live more Italian mafiosi bosses in Germany, than in Italy these days.