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From: tan@ihlpg.UUCP (Bill Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: American Hostages
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Date: Fri, 23-Aug-85 17:12:56 EDT
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> > [Unknown]
> > Personally, I think anyone voluntarily travelling to most of the middle east
> > has to be out of their minds. That place is an insane asylum...
> > -- 
> [Ray Frank]
> I don't think anyone goes to 'those' parts of the middle east on purpose any-
> more.  If they do, they must realize that almost anything can and probably will
> happen to them, especially if they're Americans.
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The above are gross exaggerations.  Outside of parts of Lebanon and the
war zone on the Iran-Iraq border, Americans are safer in the Middle East
than in many American cities after dark.  This has been true even in countries
with hostile governments, such as Libya.  The danger to Americans in
Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, etc. etc. is statistically
slight.  Remember, the famous hijacking took place in GREECE.
-- 
Bill Tanenbaum - AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville IL  ihnp4!ihlpg!tan