"The Al Qaeda MYTH": Uncannily convenient whenever there's trouble

[Bluebear]

New reports undermine the Bush administration's campaign to hype the Al Qaeda threat.

by Tom Porteus,a syndicated columnist and author who was formerly with the BBC and the British Foreign Office.
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We now know that Al Qaeda had nothing to do with the London bombings in July 2005. This is the conclusion of the British government's official inquiry report leaked to the British press on April 9.

We now also know that the U.S. military is deliberately misleading Iraqis, Americans and the rest of the world about the extent of Al Qaeda's involvement in the Iraqi insurgency. This was reported in The Washington Post on April 10, on the basis of internal military documents seen by that newspaper.

What do these revelations tell us about the arguments of President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Blair that in Al Qaeda the "Free World" faces a threat comparable to that of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany, a world-wide terrorist network which seeks to build a radical Islamist empire over half the world?

Wherever in the world Al Qaeda crops up, its appearance has often been uncannily convenient for the local authorities—dictators, warlords, occupation forces and elected governments alike. And often the precise nature of the Al Qaeda connection turns out, on close examination, to be tenuous or non-existent. But by that time the message has gone out and sunk in: "Al Qaeda was here".

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/04/12/the_al_qaeda_myth.php

[K-W]

1. Al Queda certainly doesnt exist in any real sense.

Osama Bin Laden is/was an operative, he deosnt have a proper organization, and Al Queda is an invention to place Bin Laden at the top of an organized crime type pyramid, which makes a great propaganda sell.

Bin Laden is/was a financier. Thats why the US worked with him in Afghanistan, he provided Saudi Money to the US program of relocating marginalized fundementalist youth from Saudi Arabia to Afghanistan were they could do some good giving the ruskies trouble instead of giving the government of Saudi Arabia trouble.

Governments around the world have latched onto this idea of Al Queda to terrorize their citizens, as has Bin Laden himself.

[tatertop]

5. Amazing the number at DU who are not aware of this

[Marie26]

2. I'm starting to wonder

if it exists at all in any real sense. Yeah, I've gone tin-foil hat.

[EFerrari]

3. Who are we at war with today?

Really, with all the outed instances of planted stories, why do we invest belief in anything they say?

[leftofthedial]

4. Emanuel Goldstein

[tatertop]

6. Ain't it the truth. And it is working, just like in "1984."

[leftofthedial]

7. torture, lies, "doublethink," fake "boogeymen"

a culture of perpetual fear and hate

institutionalized poverty for nearly everyone except the elite.