Originally posted by dontomasso:
I make this prediction because it has enormous historic precedent. The communists began as terrorists. So did the Zionists, the IRA, and the PLO. Some would say all these groups are still terrorists.
I don't know if Al Qaeda will make peace or not, but your statement on historic precedent is right. In Sri Lanka, terrorist organization called LTTE was fighting the government for several decades. Every other day there would be bomb blasts and assasinations. They even killed one of the former prime ministers of India. But today the government has reluctantly made peace with them. A signinficant region of Sri Lanka is "ruled" by LTTE. They have their own army, schools, public food distribution, radio etc. But the peace is only conditional and outward, with all their international peace conferences, ceasefires etc in the presence of mediating european countries. We have to wait and watch what Al Qaeda does.
