Mark my word … I mean what I say

0 Comments | Insight on the News, Dec 3, 2001

"I will kill every American I see in Afghanistan."

-- Mohammad Junaid, on his way to join the Taliban from his home in New York City, where his mother was among those rescued as the World Trade Center twin towers collapsed.

"These sick experiments are absolutely despicable."

-- Wendy Higgins of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection complains about scientific experiments using loud music to kill drugged mice, the conclusion being that such music enhances the effects of methamphetamine, or "speed."

"The council did not think through what impact or consequences there might be to their action, and that's unfortunate."

-- Berkeley, Calif., Mayor Shirley Dean on the dire economic results of a tourism and trade boycott prompted by the city council's resolution opposing bombing in Afghanistan.