Al Qaeda and the "Strategy of Tension"

[reprehensor]

The American people have been seriously misled about the origins of the Al Qaeda movement blamed for the 9/11 attacks, just as they have been seriously misled about the reasons for America's invasion of Iraq.

The truth is that for at least two decades the United States has engaged in energetic covert programs to secure U.S. control over the Persian Gulf, and also to open up Central Asia for development by U.S. oil companies. Americans were eager to gain access to the petroleum reserves of the Caspian Basin, which at that time were still estimated to be "the largest known reserves of unexploited fuel in the planet."

To this end, time after time, U.S. covert operations in the region have used so-called "Arab Afghan" warriors as assets, the jihadis whom we loosely link with the name and leadership of al Qaeda. In country after country these "Arab Afghans" have been involved in trafficking Afghan heroin.

America's sponsorship of drug-trafficking Muslim warriors, including those now in Al Qaeda, dates back to the Afghan War of 1979-89, sponsored in part by the CIA's links to the drug-laundering Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). It was part of CIA Director Casey's strategy for launching covert operations over and above those approved and financed by a Democratic-controlled Congress.

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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. thank you for this information

We all need to look carefully at every international situation to attempt to ascertain the real reasons some things happen.

[FreedomAngel82]

2. And now don't they have that control?

http://rense.com/general69/busshe.htm

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. Personally,

I am beginning to think that many of the incidents happening recently to stir up elements of the Muslim world have been crafted and enacted with the blessings of both the Muslim fundamentalists/ Arab ruling class/Bushco, because the results help them all. The fundies get more power to silence moderates; the ruling class redirects the rage of their people from disgust with their government to disgust with the West;Bush gets to paint all Muslims as bogeymen and that makes it so much easier to sell the idea of nuking Iran.

[RufusEarl]

4. Check this link

It's video and very informative IMHO.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2324388902129396093&q=The+Rise+of+the+Politics+of+Fear