If you are still shaken by the horrifying scenes of September 11, please observe a minute of silence for the 5,000 civilian lives lost in the New York, Washington, D.C. and Pennsylvania attacks.

While we're at it, let's have 26 minutes of silence for the 130,000 Iraqi civilians killed in 1991 by order of President Bush Sr. Take another moment to remember how Americans celebrated and cheered in the streets.

Now another 40 minutes of silence for the 200,000 Iranians killed by Iraqi soldiers using weapons and money provided to young Saddam Hussein by the American government before the great eagle turned all its power against Iraq.

Another 30 minutes of silence for the Russians and 150,000 Afghans killed by the Taliban troops who were supported and trained by the CIA.

Plus 20 minutes of silence for 100,000 Japanese killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the Atomic bombs dropped by the USA.

We have just kept silent for 117 minutes: one minute for the Americans killed in NY, DC, and Pennsylvania, and 116 minutes for the American victims throughout the world.

If you are still in awe, let's have another hour of silence for all those killed in Vietnam, which is not something Americans like to admit. Or for the massacre in Panama in 1989, where Americans troops attacked poor villagers, leaving 20,000 Panamanians homeless and thousands more dead. Or for the millions of children who have died because of the USA embargoes on Iraq and Cuba. Or the hundreds of thousands brutally murdered throughout the world by USA-sponsored civil wars and coups (Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Guatemala, El Salvador to name a few).

Maybe, and although the memory of Americans claims otherwise, someone may remember the USA attack on Baghdad where 18,000 civilians were killed. Did someone see it on CNN? Was justice ever served? Or was there even any retaliation?

Especially, do not forget the Palestinians and the daily massacres the Israelis are committing under the American protection and full blind support. We should note that the WTC towers are much less expensive than the huts in Gaza and the buildings in the West Bank which the Israelis are destroying on a daily basis; America can afford to rebuild the towers, but the owners of the huts and houses in Gaza and the West Bank cannot afford rebuilding theirs.

The dead in other places around the world hurt as much as the dead of the Towers.

We hope that the Americans will finally begin to understand (and before it is too late) their vulnerability and that the cowardly attacks and other tragedies that they have been causing around the world will not help them solve their problems. The big powerful America is so weak to the extent that it is unable to conquer its own made enemy: one Bedouin in the desert.