Is Al Qaeda a fabrication by Washington?
Is Al Qaeda a fabrication by Washington?
1/17/2005 10:00:00 AM GMT
Osama bin Laden, the man the U.S. sees as its number one enemy.
Is it possible that Al Qaeda, the group on which Bush has built his 'war on terror' campaign and defined as being the hub of a vast, well oiled, well organised international terrorist machine does not exist?
For one to even suggest such a theory would be branded as being 'on the other side' of those who are 'battling' to rid the world of 'terror groups'.
But a new film produced by the BBC challenges the Bush Administration's theory and raises questions on other issues which most of the world has accepted with no questions asked - just blind faith, believing them to be part of the so-called 'war on terror'.
The BBC film "The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear" argues that most of what the public has been told regarding the dangers of international terrorism is nothing but mere "fantasy that has been exaggerated and distorted by politicians. It is a dark illusion that has spread unquestioned through governments around the world, the security services and the international media."
And that's just for starters.
The film probes and asks far more pertinent questions. Bush claims that Osama bin Laden is the head of this huge international terrorist
organisation with trained agents in more than 40 countries. Yet despite the interrogation and torture information-extracting methods used on Al Qaeda prisoners, why has Washington failed to produce any form of hard evidence which proves his claims?
Since September 11, nearly 665 people have been arrested in Britian, yet how come only 17 have been found guilty and none proved to be members of Al Qaeda?
Furthermore, why did Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld claim on a US tv news show in 2001 that Al Qaeda controlled massive high-tech cave complexes in Afghanistan, when British and U.S. military forces later found no such thing?
The BBC film does not doubt that Osama bin Laden has helped finance several groups, but it does challenge that the Bush administration, "led by a tight-knit cabal of Machiavellian neoconservatives, has seized upon the false image of a unified international terrorist threat to replace the expired Soviet empire in order to push a political agenda."
The documentary raises serious doubts on how big a threat 'terrorism' really is. Though it acknowledges terrorism does exist, it strongly disagrees with the accepted notion that it is centralised saying it is much more fragmented and complex than the U.S. would like the world to believe.
"There are dangerous and fanatical individuals and groups around the world who have been inspired by extreme…ideas and who will use the techniques of mass terror...But the nightmare vision of a uniquely powerful hidden organization waiting to strike our societies is an illusion. Wherever one looks for this Al Qaeda organization, from the mountains of Afghanistan to the 'sleeper cells' in America, the British and Americans are chasing a phantom enemy."
What information one learns about the 'threat of global terrorism' has come from two sides only: the agents of groups such as Al Qaeda and the military and intelligence agencies who have a beneficial interest in maintaining the impression of there being a highly dangerous enemy out there, somewhere.
...
Emailed by Carlos Ixquiac
Los Angeles, CA.
1/17/2005 10:00:00 AM GMT
Osama bin Laden, the man the U.S. sees as its number one enemy.
Is it possible that Al Qaeda, the group on which Bush has built his 'war on terror' campaign and defined as being the hub of a vast, well oiled, well organised international terrorist machine does not exist?
For one to even suggest such a theory would be branded as being 'on the other side' of those who are 'battling' to rid the world of 'terror groups'.
But a new film produced by the BBC challenges the Bush Administration's theory and raises questions on other issues which most of the world has accepted with no questions asked - just blind faith, believing them to be part of the so-called 'war on terror'.
The BBC film "The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear" argues that most of what the public has been told regarding the dangers of international terrorism is nothing but mere "fantasy that has been exaggerated and distorted by politicians. It is a dark illusion that has spread unquestioned through governments around the world, the security services and the international media."
And that's just for starters.
The film probes and asks far more pertinent questions. Bush claims that Osama bin Laden is the head of this huge international terrorist
organisation with trained agents in more than 40 countries. Yet despite the interrogation and torture information-extracting methods used on Al Qaeda prisoners, why has Washington failed to produce any form of hard evidence which proves his claims?
Since September 11, nearly 665 people have been arrested in Britian, yet how come only 17 have been found guilty and none proved to be members of Al Qaeda?
Furthermore, why did Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld claim on a US tv news show in 2001 that Al Qaeda controlled massive high-tech cave complexes in Afghanistan, when British and U.S. military forces later found no such thing?
The BBC film does not doubt that Osama bin Laden has helped finance several groups, but it does challenge that the Bush administration, "led by a tight-knit cabal of Machiavellian neoconservatives, has seized upon the false image of a unified international terrorist threat to replace the expired Soviet empire in order to push a political agenda."
The documentary raises serious doubts on how big a threat 'terrorism' really is. Though it acknowledges terrorism does exist, it strongly disagrees with the accepted notion that it is centralised saying it is much more fragmented and complex than the U.S. would like the world to believe.
"There are dangerous and fanatical individuals and groups around the world who have been inspired by extreme…ideas and who will use the techniques of mass terror...But the nightmare vision of a uniquely powerful hidden organization waiting to strike our societies is an illusion. Wherever one looks for this Al Qaeda organization, from the mountains of Afghanistan to the 'sleeper cells' in America, the British and Americans are chasing a phantom enemy."
What information one learns about the 'threat of global terrorism' has come from two sides only: the agents of groups such as Al Qaeda and the military and intelligence agencies who have a beneficial interest in maintaining the impression of there being a highly dangerous enemy out there, somewhere.
...
Emailed by Carlos Ixquiac
Los Angeles, CA.
posted by Red por la Paz y Desarrollo de Guatemala at 9:05 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home