MCQ exercise created by Brian Turner 10-23-2002
Robert Fisk: Bu__ is walking into a trap
In a wo___ that was supposed to have learnt that the rule of law comes above revenge, President Bush appears to be heading for the very disaster that Osama bin Laden has laid down for him.
Let us have no doubts ab___ what happened in New York and Washington last week.
It was a crime against huma____.
We cannot understand Amer___īs need to retaliate unless we accept this bleak, awesome fact.
But this crime was perpet_____ - it becomes ever clearer - to provoke the United States into just the blind, arrogant punch that the US military is preparing.
Mr bin Laden - every day his culpab_____ becomes more apparent - has described to me how he wishes to overthrow the pro-American regime of the Middle East, starting with Saudi Arabia and moving on to Egypt, Jordan and the other Gulf states.
In an Arab world su__ in corruption and dictatorships - most of them supported by the West - the only act that might bring Muslims to strike at their own leaders would be a brutal, indiscriminate assault by the United States.
Mr bin Laden is unsophisticated in fore___ affairs, but a close student of the art and horror of war.
He knew how to fight the Russ____ who stayed on in Afghanistan, a Russian monster that revenged itself upon its ill-educated, courageous antagonists until, faced with war without end, the entire Soviet Union began to fall apart.
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