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‘Al Qaeda’: A Figment
Of The Fear- And War-Mongering Propagandists' Imagination
Damian
Lataan
Wednesday April 25, 2007
Yesterday the Australian Prime Minister John Howard and his band
of fearmongering lunatics warned Australians gathering at Gallipoli
for ANZAC Day to be aware of a ‘terrorist
threat’. In the UK Guardian today
it is reported that the ‘head of Scotland Yard's counterterrorism
command said yesterday that al-Qaida had survived the six-year long
"war on terror" launched by President George Bush and Tony Blair,
and its central leadership had retained the ability to order devastating
attacks on Britain.’ As well as Gallipoli that is. And in Iraq,
where it seems the Iraqi franchise of ‘al Qaeda’ has claimed responsibility
for the deaths yesterday of nine US troops.
So good is the ‘al Qaeda’ franchise business that even the Israelis
have tried to set up an ‘al
Qaeda’ shop in Palestine. Unfortunately the locals soon discovered
that the business wasn’t genuine (apparently Mossad hadn’t paid
bin Laden the franchise fee) so the business was quickly shut down.
Of course al Qaeda exists, or at least existed, (indeed, it was
set up with the assistance of the CIA as part of their covert
war against the Soviets in Afghanistan before the Taliban took over
there) but it doesn’t exist in the way that the western neocon-dominated
press would have us believe. Despite the continued references to
‘al Qaeda’ everyday as we are told that they are responsible for
every conceivable atrocity that occurs on our planet, there has
not been any evidence whatsoever that ‘al Qaeda’ per se has ever
been responsible for anything beyond the borders of Afghanistan
and the remoter parts of Pakistan.
The western propagandists have presented to the world a picture
of an ‘al Qaeda’ as being a massive and extremely well disciplined
international organisation that has branches everywhere. Yet nowhere
is there any prima facie evidence to suggest that they even exist,
let alone in such an organised and disciplined way. As the piece
in today’s UK Guardian demonstrates, we are expected to simply believe
what we are told with the total lack of evidence being conveniently
explained away as; ‘for security reasons we can’t divulge the source’.
In Iraq the US and their allies are currently busy trying to wedge
the Sunni
and Shi’ite factions by blaming ‘al Qaeda’ for the friction
between the two groupings. This is nothing new; they’ve tried it before,
but now they are putting more effort into their blame game because
they see it as away of polarising
the rest of Islam in the Middle East and beyond thus diverting
attention away from the Israelis and their efforts to subdue Palestine,
Hamas and Hizbollah but, at the same time, demonising further an
Iran that has a predominately Shiite population (as against the
rest of the Islamic world which is around 80% Sunni).
The problem for the US, Israel, and their western allies, is that
all this propaganda is for consumption in the west only. The Middle
Eastern peoples, Sunni or Shia, are very much aware that their relationships
with each other are quite secure and have been for decades. For
them the myth of ‘al Qaeda’ remains just that – a myth, and that
the struggles that exist between various Sunni and Shiite groups
in Iraq are mainly a combination of political and criminal secular
differences in a post-Saddam lawless era and that such violence,
as bloody as it often is, is contained within Iraq and has nothing
to do with the battles that Islamic peoples and Arabs generally
are fighting against Israeli right-wing Zionism in Palestine and
US hegemonic colonialism in the Middle East and Central Asia.
‘Al Qaeda’ remains, as it has since the US decided that they were
to blame for the events of 9/11, a myth that exists solely to perpetuate
fear and the illusion that there is always an enemy to justify the
continued ‘Global War on Terrorism’.
INFOWARS:
BECAUSE THERE'S A WAR ON FOR YOUR MIND
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