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Originally posted by Morgeruat:
Werent the bombers in Spain primarily from Morocco?
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Yup, but that was my point. If we take Africa as being another place with an axe to grind as a result of Western interference then it would also explain why there's been a fair number of terrorists from the likes of Algeria and neighbouring countries.
I would still say that the impact upon the Middle-East of the West has been much greater though - simply as a result of technology making it much easier to do. We really didn't make much inroads into the non-coastal areas of Africa (the odd railway aside). Slavery, whilst devastating to coastal regions, didn't extent to most of the interior in my understanding (except when trafficked to the coast by natives) and in any case Africa was not even composed of homogenous countries.
The Middle-East however owes its current existence to the West - the Ottoman empire never really got to grips with it, it's states are largely artificially created during the last century and whole governments were entirely supported financially by the West. (eg. Syria by Britain pre-WW2 and America post-WW2 until they discovered oil.
Not to mention that the West planted a country in the middle of it, fought several wars (both directly and by proxy)in the region - both pre-WW2 and during the Cold War...I'd say they've had their fair share of interference.