One question that is completely missing in the discussion is "Why did they attack?" ... I think to most people this is still a deep mystery, it just came out of the blue for no reason at all. Very few see the connect to the (still ongoing) US foreign policy against the peoples of the Middle East.

Afghanistan does not have any training facilities for flying large civil aircraft. Not then and not now. Bin Laden lived there, and - well, that's about it. He lived there.

I never do, so no ..

If you want full civil rights in Israel, yes, you'd have to serve in the army. I believe that you too are well aware of this and deceptively pretending otherwise is just plain foolish!

Agreed

About Technion:

http://uprootedpalestinians.blogspot.com/2010/10/montreal-activists-launch-campus.html

... "an academic institution that not only places a major amount of its efforts in military technology, but also in promoting student/soldier cooperative programs, is therefore deeply implicated in the occupation and crimes committed by the military." ...

This is by some complicated ancient accounting where only those in favor of the rulers (ie: Settlers in the territories, but not Palestinians) are allowed to vote, and where even larger parts of the population in the diaspora (ie: Palestinians but not Jews) will be shot on entry. And you will of course have to serve in the Army, which for Palestinians means you must be willing to expel your own relatives if this has not already happened. Yes, it's different, very

Although I have no idea what software the author is using, I had no problem following his line of thought ... More bars are better, no?

This is like the Internet going into retirement

You mean "big one" like O(1^inf) ..

- Who is the chief engineer ...

Homer Simpson!

"Inventing a Jewish past", here in the sense that most modern Jews have no relation whatsoever to the Israelite Jews of ancient Palestine - whom as we all know were Christened around the year 300 ...

What exactly did the Palestinians do to deserve being deported by Jewish terrorists?