That was when "al Qaeda" was all but defeated and Bush was claiming 75 percent of "known" leaders captured and killed.
Now AQ is back- and stronger than ever in Iraq - heck- is leading the insurgency there- and that is why "we" need to stay there. Uh huh.
"al Qaeda"! The organization that is whatever DC needs it to be at any given moment - weak, strong, weak, strong, almost defeated, re-formed, scattered, highly organized, broken up, mobile, immobile . . . whatever policy of murder, theft, and power consolidation DC needs to justify here at home or abroad the formless gob of nothing that is AQ is there- to be shaped into whatever is required at the moment- and always there as well- is our media to parrot the latest line on "AQ" by DC without blinking.
That was when "al Qaeda" was all but defeated and Bush was claiming 75 percent of "known" leaders captured and killed.
Now AQ is back- and stronger than ever in Iraq - heck- is leading the insurgency there- and that is why "we" need to stay there. Uh huh.
Indeed AQ is anything they want it to be, soon it may include whatever they define as "domestic terrorists" like animal rights groups.
All along there has been a lack of known leaders of AQ, only 2 or 3 and the existence or identity of some or all of them is doubtful.
Normally when there is a real terrorist group the press talks in some detail about the leaders and members, you see them giving speeches on a regular basis, lots of photos (not like Zarqawi who only had that one photo, I believe that guy was a creation of the intelligence services), you just get a lot more real information, not like with these few,sketchy shadow characters that supposedly make up this fakery called Al Qeada.
Normally when there is a real terrorist group the press talks in some detail about the leaders and members, you see them giving speeches on a regular basis, lots of photos (not like Zarqawi who only had that one photo, I believe that guy was a creation of the intelligence services), you just get a lot more real information, not like with these few,sketchy shadow characters that supposedly make up this fakery called Al Qeada.
Not AQ. See AQ exists to kill people and do evil. They are evil doers. That is all they exist for- to be evil.
Yes, other terrorist groups- indeed- ALL other terrorist groups existed because they had a political agenda that they wanted accomplished. Be it the Brits out of Northern Ireland (IRA), West Germany to become Communist (Red Brigades), a homeland for the Basques (EPA), independence for Tamil (Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka). All had very clear agendas and goals that were REGULARY emphasized to the media through direct cultivated contacts with journalists and non governmental third parties- ie- go betweens.
The "Terrorism" these groups committed was NOT THE END- IT WAS THE MEANS OF GETTING THEIR MESSAGE HEARD! The PURPOSE OF THEIR TERRORISM WAS PUBLICITY FOR THEIR CAUSE.
Not this "al Qaeda" though. Nope. Unlike ALL OTHER TERRORIST GROUPS IN HISTORY- AQ - has cultivated ZERO press contacts. Their goals and message and agenda is vaguely known. What we know of AQ comes EXCLUSIVELY FROM GOVERNMENT SOURCES- PERIOD. No middle men- no go betweens. No New York Times reporter with his own AQ contacts. Zilch. EVERYTHING WE KNOW ABOUT AQ IS FROM EITHER ALWAYS UNAMED "GOVERNMENT SOURCES" OR MILITARY PRESS FLUNKIES.
For AQ- killing is their end. They committ terrorism because they like to murder people apparently and are evil doers. That is what we are expected to believe.
AQ "communicates" to us via rambling rarely on topic poorly made video tapes (you would think that this super org could afford video equipment made this decade) sent via mail anonymously to Arab language news channels or through mysterious "known Jihadist" web sites (as if the servers hosting these things couldn't be found) that we are never given the addresses to.
AQ- is just this group of evil people apparently- with no clear agenda- that likes to murder the children cause they are evil and shit. Don't ask questions.