Wednesday, March 09, 2005
Russell Crowe, little Eichmann
Seems that Al-Qaeda was targeting New Zealand-born and current resident of Australia, actor and rancher Russell Crowe, in 2001. If Al-Qaeda carried out the 9-11 slaughter against us because the U.S. is responsible for murdering half a million Iraqi babies, then what in the name of God did this one man do to deserve their ire? I may e-mail Ward Churchill and ask him just that. This article spells out the details, and says:
When asked who might have been targeting him, Crowe replied: "Um ... well, that was the first conversation in my life that I'd heard the phrase al-Qaida."
New Zealand-born Crowe, who won the Best Actor Academy Award in 2001 for "Gladiator," said he was told a French policewoman in Libya or Algeria had picked up the threat in a recording.
"I don't think that I was the only person (targeted). But it was about -- and here's another little touch of irony -- it was about taking iconographic Americans out of the picture as a sort of cultural-destabilization plan," he said.
When asked who might have been targeting him, Crowe replied: "Um ... well, that was the first conversation in my life that I'd heard the phrase al-Qaida."
New Zealand-born Crowe, who won the Best Actor Academy Award in 2001 for "Gladiator," said he was told a French policewoman in Libya or Algeria had picked up the threat in a recording.
"I don't think that I was the only person (targeted). But it was about -- and here's another little touch of irony -- it was about taking iconographic Americans out of the picture as a sort of cultural-destabilization plan," he said.
