Al-Qaeda

Al Qaeda ("the Base") - alternatively spelled al Qaida and sometimes al Qa'ida is the catch-all term used in the West when dealing with so-called "Islamic" terrorism (as distinct from say, Christian, Jewish, Bhuddist, Catholic, Protestant etc etc forms of "terrorism"). To the extent that it ever had any genuine terrorism-connected meaning - which is debateable - any such meaning has been transformed into little more than a knee-jerk trigger word meaning something like "Really scary evil MUSLIM baddies"; in much the same way that the word "Communist" was also transformed - and for similar reasons. At a subliminal level, the effect of this transformation has been to demonise Muslims in general and it is arguable that that has been - and remains - the precise intention of the arbiters of real power in the West.

Official Narrative

Wikipedia defines al Qaeda thus:

.... a militant Islamist group founded sometime between August 1988 and late 1989. It operates as a network comprising both a multinational, stateless army and a radical Sunni Muslim movement calling for global Jihad. Most of the world considers it a terrorist organization.

... and it continues with the standard shibboleths - having by now acquired the status of revealed truth - of the carnage "al Qaeda" has wreaked and plans to wreak. It is a good and useful work of reference - provided 'official narrative' blinkers are removed. All this requires, is that reasonable efforts are made to filter the copious facts listed, through the eyes of the countless millions of Middle-Eastern and Central-Asian Muslims that have been on the receiving end of invading Western armies.

Origins

One of the best expositions of the origins of al Qaeda was provided in an interview with Pierre-Henri Bunel and published in Global Research in 2005 . The interview transcript is also available on Wikispooks. Brunel was a former Major in French Military Intelligence and concludes his article thus:

"The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the 'devil' only in order to drive the 'TV watcher' to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US and the lobbyists for the US war on terrorism are only interested in making money."

In part 3 of his film series Power of Nightmares, Adam Curtis tells how the name 'Al Qaeda' was invented by US prosecutors. He explains that they wished to prosecute Osama bin Laden in absentia for the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings under the RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) laws, but that these required that he was the head of a named criminal organisation responsible for the bombings.

A satirical view

From the Wikispooks blog:

Arabic, like English and most languages, has its collections of homonyms and it appears that “Toilet” (loo, khazi, WC, bathroom, john etc etc.) is a particularly populous one – especially since they have to cater for the Western fashion of sitting on a seat with a hole in it, rather than squatting.

And guess what? “al-Qaeda” is one of them – and the seat-type Western one at that!

So question: Can you imagine a group of terrorists styling themselves “The Red Toilet Faction”, “The Toilet Brigades”, “The Irish Republican Toilet” ? - Hmmm; me neither. It sticks out like the bulbous red backside of an Orangutan you might say – and sort of gives the game away.

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Al Qaeda - the Database	article	20 September 2005	Pierre-Henri Bunel
Document:Another Chemical Weapon False Flag on the Eve of Peace Talks in Brussels	article	4 April 2017	Paul Antonopoulos	The Khan Sheikoun gas attack in Idlib province, like that in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta in 2013, can be a very useful means of propaganda
Document:Dropping bombs on behalf of Al Qaeda	article	9 April 2017	Peter Hitchens	On Friday morning 7 April 2017 the United States Navy launched 59 cruise missiles on behalf of Al Qaeda
Document:How Al Qaeda men came to power in Libya	article	7 September 2011	Thierry Meyssan
Document:ISIS Mayhem Being Fueled by Drugs and Arms – Supplied by Saudi Arabia and the CIA	Wikispooks Page	30 October 2015	21st Century Wire 'Burning Blogger of Bedlam'
Document:Interview with Osama bin Laden	interview	28 September 2001	Osama bin Laden	Interview with Osama bin Laden by Pakistani newspaper soon after the 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Centre and Pentagon
Document:Now the truth emerges: how the US fuelled the rise of Isis in Syria and Iraq	Article	3 June 2015	Seumas Milne	American forces bomb one set of rebels while backing another in Syria, and mount what are effectively joint military operations with Iran against ISIS in Iraq while supporting Saudi Arabia’s military campaign against Iranian-backed Houthi forces in Yemen
Document:Russia released statement on British role in attacks on Black Sea Fleet	Article	2 November 2022	Lyndon LaRouche	“Today, the Kiev regime employs unacceptable fascist war methods using terrorist tactics and in doing so is becoming increasingly similar to ISIS and al-Qaeda. This, however, is not surprising, considering that these groups were created by the same masterminds and instructors from Anglo-Saxon countries."
Document:Swedish Medical Association Says White Helmets Murdered Kids for Fake Gas Attack Videos	article	6 April 2017	Gordon Duff	President Trump is now threatening to take America into a war against Syria, Iran and even Russia, a war he says is justified by “evidence” he received from Al Qaeda's White Helmets, a “Deep State” organisation funded by the CIA and MI6
Document:The CIA’s Libya Rebels	webpage	24 March 2011	Webster Tarpley
Document:The Last Bus to Idlib: Terrorist Safe-Haven in Syria About to Face a Cleaning Out	Article	3 August 2018	Steven Sahiounie	One by one, all other areas in Syria under terrorist control have fallen, and now the final battle for Idlib province looms large on the horizon. The liberation of Idlib will begin soon, and the green buses can finally get back to their job of transporting Syrians as they live, shop and work in peace at last.
Document:The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights is a Propaganda Front funded by the EU	article	12 April 2013	'Tony Cartalucci'	New York Times admits fraudulent Syrian human rights group is UK-based “one-man band” funded by EU and one other “European country”
Document:The struggle against terrorism cannot be won by military means	article	8 July 2005	Robin Cook	Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Inexplicably, and with disastrous consequences, it never appears to have occurred to Washington that once Russia was out of the way, Bin Laden's organisation would turn its attention to the west.
Document:Theresa May's personal role in facilitating terror attacks	video	5 June 2017	Dan Glazebrook	Theresa May and her Cabinet are complicit in murder. They are war criminals. If the principles established by the Nuremberg Tribunal after World War II were applied, they would be hung.
Document:We Are The Bad Guys	blog post	12 August 2024	Craig Murray	In the United Kingdom it falls to the Celtic nations to try to break up the state which is a subordinate but important imperialist engine. The paths of resistance are various, depending where you are. But find one and take one.
Document:Who has Committed the Recent Gas Attack in Syria	Article	6 April 2017	Jean Périer	The plan to incriminate the Syrian government for the use of chemical weapons was finalised at a meeting in an Israeli army camp deep inside the occupied territory of the Golan Heights attended by leaders of a number of terrorist groups sponsored by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Turkey, Israel, France, UK and the United States.
File:Sinjar-records final.pdf	report	December 2007	Joseph Felter Brian Fishman
The Power of Nightmares	film	2004	Adam Curtis	A some-holds-barred look at how fear has come to dominate politics in America, Britain and around the world — which observes that much of that fear is based on an illusion.

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