Reading Al Qaeda into Madrid: K. Nimmo

[teryang]

http://www.counterpunch.org/nimmo04022004.html

Wherever Bush Goes, Osama is Bound to Follow
Reading al-Qaeda into Madrid
By KURT NIMMO

<It's almost laughable the way our corporate media reads the shadowy presence of al-Qaeda into nearly every terrorist incident around the world.

I said almost.><snip>

<Adam Dolnik of the International Center for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies in Singapore believes al-Qaeda is big on myth and small on substance.

The scheming Bushites, according to Dolnik, made the al-Qaeda mole hill into a gruesome mountain by "the automatic attribution of credit to the group for disparate attacks; by making unintelligent and unqualified statements about the group's very basic 'weapons of mass destruction' programme; by treating al-Qaeda as a superorganism; by creating the impression that al-Qaeda can do just about anything," when in fact it cannot be demonstrated they did anything at all.>

Nimmo's opinion piece relies heavily on:

Madrid 'blueprint': a dodgy document
by Brendan O'Neilly

http://globalresearch.ca/articles/ONE404A.html

<How did an unsigned document about Iraq posted on to an open website by an unknown individual, which makes no mention of terror attacks in Europe, come to be seen as a 'blueprint' for Madrid, as an 'instruction' from on high that Spain should be bombed, as evidence that al-Qaeda, no less, plotted the train attacks in Madrid as a means of deposing Aznar, and that it was, in the words of Andrew Sullivan, 'stunningly successful'?>

This is a big story but its significance is not well appreciated because it attacks the very sloppy world view of the all embracing war on terror.

[bemildred]

1. Nice piece.

Don't see this sort of sophisticated talk much.

On the one hand, you have the utility of "al Qaeda" as a global
bete noire used for political purposes to keep the sheep
scared and inattentive to how they are being misruled.

On the other hand, you have the obvious disincentives for "al Qaeda"
to be a coherent, hierarchical organization, and the obvious fact that
it does not need to be anything of the sort. It is a decentralized
web of like minded individuals, a popular resistance. One can argue
that is comprises a sub-set of the sheep that have decided to resist
being misruled.