@mendy,
"What does 9-11 have to do with it?"
What
DOESN'T it have to do with it? Think about it. Consider geography, demographics, especially religious and ethnic considerations, geo-politics, especially America's current wars in neighboring Afghanistan and Iraq, and its problems with Iran, the U.S. alliance with Israel, her strategy of precluding the formation of the infamous 'Shiite Crescent' in the Middle East, Russian challenges, nuke proliferation, U.S. neo-con strategies, etc., etc., etc. Sorry......but Mendy is sitting in a cauldron of geo-political intrigue, conflict and subterfuge. If she's Muslim, she needs to know that BOTH Russia and the U.S. do not want her community to triumph in the region. :FU1: