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RETURN OF AL-QAIDA
HOW DID AL-QAIDA, A TINY ANTI-COMMUNIST GROUP IN AFGHANISTAN
THAT HAD NO MORE THAN 200 ACTIVE MEMBERS IN 2001
BECOME A SUPPOSED WORLDWIDE
THREAT?
Eric Margolis
January 11, 2014
How can al-Qaida be all over the Mideast, North Africa, and
now much of black Africa?
This after the US spent over
$1
TRILLION
trying to stamp out al-Qaida in Afghanistan and Pakistan?
The answer is simple.
As an organization and threat,
al-Qaida barely exists.
But as a name, al-Qaida and
“terrorism”
[Brand name]
have become the west’s handy universal term
for armed groups
fighting western influence, corruption or repression in Asia and Africa.
Al-Qaida is nowhere – but
everywhere.
If you’re a rebel group seeking
publicity,
the fastest way is by pledging allegiance to the shadowy,
nowhere
al-Qaida.
Take Iraq, where fighting currently rages between the Shia
government and Sunni militias in Anbar Province.
Interestingly, the Sunni uprising is
centered on FALLUJAH,
WHICH WAS ALMOST FLATTENED BY US
MARINES AND BLASTED APART BY DEPLETED URANIUM SHELLS AND ILLEGAL WHITE
PHOSPHORUS
as a dire warning to Iraqis who
resisted.
After the US invaded Iraq in 2003, over a dozen Iraqi
resistance groups rose to fight the Americans and their new-found Shia allies.
Chief among them were Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath Party and
Iraqi military veterans.
As I kept saying at the time on major US TV networks,
there was no al-Qaida
and no nuclear
weapons
in Iraq.
THANK GEORGE W. BUSH FOR IRAQ’S
SO-CALLED AL-QAIDA.
Thanks to the magic of mass media
manipulation,
Washington was able to divert
attention
from all of the Sunni RESISTANCE
GROUPS – OR “TERRORISTS” AS THEY WERE BRANDED –
to a single group of cutthroats led by a mysterious,
renegade Jordanian, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
The rest of the resistance groups simply vanished from our
view.
A few have now resurfaced in western Iraq, notably the
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Syria), or ISIS.
It is always branded “al-Qaida linked” by western media,
though no evidence is offered.
Iraq’s increasingly brutal regime has also claimed it is
fighting al-Qaida in Anbar Province.
Mention of the al-Qaida buzz-word has sent America’s
conservative Republicans and neoconservatives into a frenzy.
They are demanding that the Obama administration do
something.
Maybe re-invade Iraq?
There are some 10,000 US combat troops just down the road in
Kuwait.
US special forces, drone and manned aircraft, and CIA
mercenaries are already in action around Fallujah and Ramadi.
As in past years, CIA is paying millions to Sunni tribesmen
to fight anti-government forces.
Crazy as it sounds, the US is considering buying attack
helicopters from Russia to give to the Baghdad regime, as it is now doing in
Afghanistan with the Kabul regime.
Speaking of Afghanistan,
former Pentagon chief Leon Panetta admitted that there were no more than 25 to 50 al-Qaida members in Afghanistan.
But now, al-Qaida has popped up in Pakistan, Jordan, Saudi
Arabia, Yemen, across North Africa, Nigeria, Mali, Central African Republic,
and so on.
Somalia’s anti-western resistance group, Shebab, is also
branded “al-Qaida linked.”
BACK IN THE COLD WAR, ALMOST ALL
GROUPS OPPOSING WESTERN DOMINATION WERE CALLED COMMUNISTS.
TODAY,
AL-QAIDA HAS REPLACED
COMMUNISM
AS A HOT BUTTON NAME.
The widespread – but probably
mistaken – belief that Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida was responsible for the 9/11
attacks
has made anything “linked” to
al-Qaida fair game for liquidation.
Branding your foes “terrorists” is a fine way of
de-legitimizing them
and denying them any political or humanitarian rights.
Israel did this very effectively
with the hapless Palestinians, who foolishly cooperated by bombing
civilians.
However, the obvious problem here is that doing so creates an endless supply of “terrorists” and
pressure to take action against them.
That and oil are the reason US special forces are now
beating the bush all over black Africa.
It’s the never-ending “long war” that America’s militarist
and neocon circles want,
and against which President Dwight Eisenhower so
presciently warned back in the 1950’s.
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Military–industrial
complex or military–industrial–congressional complex
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Egypt offers another grim example of propaganda becoming
fact.
The majority of its people who voted for a democratic
government in a fair election and its leaders are now condemned as “terrorists”
by the thuggish generals who overthrew the legitimate government in Cairo.
Anyone daring to oppose the US and Saudi-backed military
junta is a “terrorist.”
They must drive terrorist cars, eat terrorist food, and have
terrorist babies.
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The term Al Qaeda (the base) is
the most overused term with the most mythical ascribed attributes that has ever
been concocted by the west to mislead the people into
believing,
that it is really a danger to world peace and a threat to
America`s safety,
which is the worst hoax ever perpetrated on mankind.
How can the Americans hate this so
called terrorist group so much and at the same time call upon their cooperation
in for instance Syria?
Osama bin Laden was the brainchild of the CIA and his family
was even in the US doing business on 9/11.
Then there was the Taliban, another lesser deemed criminal
group, that was being fêted in the US on a grand scale just before 9/11.
My country of birth was overrun by the nazis for five years
and a lot of people there still hate everything German, even now when there are
hardly any Germans left, who actually fought in that war.
What will the world be like in the future for the Americans,
who for decades have gone around the world slaughtering innocent people, the
examples of which we all know?
And now with the slaughter having taken on a cowardly face
with those drones, which creates ever more enemies, who can taste the
bitterness of their hatred on their tongues, it is going to be a sad future,
when the tides of power turn and the first signs of that are already showing.
Do the Americans not realize, that you can catch more flies
with honey than with vinegar?
America`s casino capitalism has
turned the world stage into a real life Monopoly game,
where one will end up with all the
assets
and the rest is afraid to venture out or resides in jail.
A perfect prescription for a
totalitarian slavery state.
Thanks to the internet we now have access to the entire
story f history, seen and recorded from both sides of the divide and the west`s
side does not look pretty.
In fact it makes you wonder, which
side is the terrorist side.
Cicero says: January 12, 2014 at 12:15 am
