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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’.
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