by johnny nemo » Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:49 pm
<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,162476,00.html">www.foxnews.com/story/0,2...76,00.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Commenting on the possible role of Al Qaeda, Blair said,<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong> "Al Qaeda is not an organization.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> Al Qaeda is a way of working ... but this has the hallmark of that approach."</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.zaman.com/?bl=national&alt=&trh=20050815&hn=22982">www.zaman.com/?bl=nationa...5&hn=22982</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Al-Qaeda, a Secret Service Operation?</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>By Ercan Gun <br>Sunday, August 14, 2005 <br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>A fire in a house near the docks in the southern Turkish city of Antalya has revealed that al-Qaeda was preparing an attack to target Israeli cruise ships. The security operations that followed this fortuitous incident made Turkish security the focus of security agencies all around the world.<br><br>Countries facing the al-Qaeda threat are awaiting the intelligence Turkish security is to provide.<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong> Amid the smoke from the fortuitous fire emerged the possibility that al-Qaeda may not be, strictly speaking, an organization but an element of an intelligence agency operation. Turkish intelligence specialists agree that there is no such organization as al-Qaeda. Rather, Al-Qaeda is the name of a secret service operation.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> The concept “fighting terror” is the background of the “low-intensity-warfare” conducted in the mono-polar world order. The subject of this strategy of tension is named as “al-Qaeda.” <br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Sakra, the fifth most senior man in Osama bin Ladin’s al-Qaeda that has challenged the whole world from a base in the Afghan mountains, is in the hands of Turkish Justice. Sakra has been sought by the secret services since 2000. The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) interrogated him twice before. Following the interrogation CIA offered him employment. He also received a large sum of money by CIA. However the CIA eventually lost contact with him.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--></em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> <br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000006DFED.htm">www.spiked-online.com/Art...06DFED.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>There is a 'rooted public perception of what al-Qaeda is', says Dolnik, who is currently carrying out research on the Terrorism and Political Violence Programme at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies in Singapore; but, he says, such perceptions are far from accurate. Dolnik argues that where many imagine that al-Qaeda is 'a super organisation of thousands of super-trained and super-secret members who can be activated any minute', in fact it is better understood as something like a 'global ideology that has not only attracted many smaller regional groups, but has also facilitated the boom of new organisations that embrace this sort of radical and violent thinking'. Dolnik and others believe that, in many ways,<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong> the thing we refer to as 'al-Qaeda' is largely a creation of Western officials.<br><br> <br>'Bin Laden never used the term al-Qaeda prior to 9/11', Dolnik tells me. 'Nor am I aware of the name being used by operatives on trial.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->The closest they came were in statements such as, "Yes, I am a member of what you call al-Qaeda". The only name used by al-Qaeda themselves was the World Islamic Front for the Struggle Against Jews and Crusaders - but I guess that's too long to really stick.'<br><br> <br>So where did 'al-Qaeda' come from? Dolink says there are a number of theories - that the term was first used by bin Laden's spiritual mentor Abdullah Azzam, who wrote of al Qaeda al Sulbah, meaning the 'solid base', in 1988; or that it derives from a bin Laden-sponsored safehouse in Afghanistan in the 1980s, when he was part of the mujahideen fighting against the Soviet invasion, again referring to a physical 'base' rather than to a distinct organisation. But in terms of 'al-Qaeda' then being used to define a group of operatives around bin Laden - that, says Dolnik, originated in the West.<br> <br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>'The US intelligence community used the term "al-Qaeda" for the first time only after the 1998 embassy bombings',</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> he says, when suspected bin Laden followers detonated bombs at the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 people. Dolnik says al-Qaeda was used as a 'convenient label for a group that had no formal name'. Prior to the 1998 bombings, US officials were concerned about Osama bin Laden and the financial backing he appeared to provide to Islamic terror groups - but they rarely, if ever, mentioned anything called 'al-Qaeda'.<br> <br>According to British journalist Jason Burke, in his authoritative Al-Qaeda: Casting a Shadow of Terror, 'Al-Qaeda is a messy and rough designation, often applied carelessly in the absence of a more useful term' . Burke points out that while many think al-Qaeda is 'a terrorist organisation founded more than a decade ago by a hugely wealthy Saudi Arabian religious fanatic', in fact the term 'al-Qaeda' has only entered political and mainstream discussion fairly recently:<br> <br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>'American intelligence reports in the early 1990s talk about "Middle Eastern extremists…working together to further the cause of radical Islam", but do not use the term "al-Qaeda". After the attempted bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, FBI investigators were aware of bin Laden but only "as one name among thousands". In the summer of 1995, during the trials of Islamic terrorists who had tried to blow up a series of targets in New York two years earlier, "Osam ben Laden" (sic) was mentioned by prosecutors once; "al-Qaeda" was not.'</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br> <br>Like Dolnik, Burke points out that the name al-Qaeda entered the popular imagination only after US officials used it to describe those who attacked the embassies in Africa.<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong> 'In the immediate aftermath of the double bombings, President Clinton merely described a "network of radical groups affiliated with and funded by Usama (sic) bin Laden"', writes Burke. 'Clinton talks of "the bin Laden network", not of "al-Qaeda". In fact, it is only during the FBI-led investigation into those bombings that the term first starts to be used to describe a traditionally structured terrorist organisation' .</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> According to some experts, it was this naming of al-Qaeda by US officials that kickstarted the public's misunderstanding of Islamic terror groups. Dolnik points out that, while US officials talked up a structured group, this so-called al-Qaeda did not even have 'any sort of insignia - a phenomenon quite rare in the realm of terrorism'.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/march2005/210305alqaedamyth.htm">www.propagandamatrix.com/...damyth.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Russian Intelligence Chief Says Al-Qaeda a Myth</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> <br><br>MosNews | March 21 2005<br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>On the pretext of fighting international terrorism the United States is trying to establish control over the world’s richest oil reserves, Leonid Shebarshin, ex-chief of the Soviet Foreign Intelligence Service</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->, who heads the Russian National Economic Security Service consulting company, said in an interview for the Vremya Novostei newspaper. <br><br>Using the anti-terrorist cause as a cover the United States has occupied Afghanistan, Iraq and will soon move to impose their “democratic order” on the Greater Middle East, Shebarshin said. “The U.S. has usurped the right to attack any part of the globe on the pretext of fighting the terrorist threat,” Shebarshin said. <br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Referring to his meeting with an unnamed al-Qaeda expert at the Rand Corporation, a nonprofit research organization in the U.S., Shebarshin said: “We have agreed that [al-Qaeda] is not a group but a notion.”</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> <br><br>“The fight against that all-mighty ubiquitous myth deliberately linked to Islam is of great advantage for the Americans as it targets the oil-rich Muslim regions,” Shebarshin emphasized. <br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>With military bases in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, Shebarshin said, the United States has already established control over the Caspian region — one of the world’s largest oil reservoirs.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--></em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br> <br><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=johnnynemo>johnny nemo</A> at: 9/18/06 2:56 pm<br></i>