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11/01/05
- Terrorisme -
Et si Al Qaeda n'existait pas ? - And if Al Qaeda does not
exist ?...
Is
Al Qaeda Just a Bush Boogeyman?
LATimes 11/01/05
"Is it conceivable that Al Qaeda, as defined by President
Bush as the center of a vast and well-organized international
terrorist conspiracy, does not exist?
To even raise the question amid all the officially inspired
hysteria is heretical, especially in the context of the U.S.
media's supine acceptance of administration claims relating to
national security. Yet a brilliant new BBC film produced by
one of Britain's leading documentary filmmakers systematically
challenges this and many other accepted articles of faith in
the so-called war on terror.
"The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of
Fear," a three-hour historical film by Adam Curtis
recently aired by the British Broadcasting Corp., argues
coherently that much of what we have been told about the
threat of international terrorism "is a 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."
Stern stuff, indeed. But consider just a few of the many
questions the program poses along the way:
• If Osama bin Laden does, in fact, head a vast
international terrorist organization with trained operatives
in more than 40 countries, as claimed by Bush, why, despite
torture of prisoners, has this administration failed to
produce hard evidence of it?
• How can it be that in Britain since 9/11, 664 people
have been detained on suspicion of terrorism but only 17 have
been found guilty, most of them with no connection to Islamist
groups and none who were proven members of Al Qaeda?
• Why have we heard so much frightening talk about
"dirty bombs" when experts say it is panic rather
than radioactivity that would kill people?
• Why did Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld claim on
"Meet the Press" 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?
Of course, the documentary does not doubt that an embittered,
well-connected and wealthy Saudi man named Osama bin Laden
helped finance various affinity groups of Islamist fanatics
that have engaged in terror, including the 9/11 attacks. Nor
does it challenge the notion that a terrifying version of
fundamentalist Islam has led to gruesome spates of violence
throughout the world. But the film, both more sober and more
deeply provocative than Michael Moore's
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"Fahrenheit
9/11," directly challenges the conventional wisdom by
making a powerful case 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.
Terrorism is deeply threatening, but it appears to be a much
more fragmented and complex phenomenon than the
octopus-network image of Al Qaeda, with Bin Laden as its head,
would suggest..."
"...Consider, for example, that neither the 9/11
commission nor any court of law has been able to directly take
evidence from the key post-9/11 terror detainees held by the
United States. Everything we know comes from two sides that
both have a great stake in exaggerating the threat posed by Al
Qaeda: the terrorists themselves and the military and
intelligence agencies that have a vested interest in
maintaining the facade of an overwhelmingly dangerous enemy.
Such a state of national ignorance about an endless war is, as
"The Power of Nightmares" makes clear, simply
unacceptable in a functioning democracy."
The
Power of Nightmares
BBC News 19/10/04
Voir, See :
Let
Bin Laden stay free, says CIA man
Times 09/01/05
"THE world may be better off if
Osama Bin Laden remains at large, according to the Central
Intelligence Agency’s recently departed executive director.
If the world’s most wanted terrorist is captured or killed,
a power struggle among his Al-Qaeda subordinates may trigger a
wave of terror attacks, said AB “Buzzy” Krongard, who
stepped down six weeks ago as the CIA’s third most senior
executive..."
"...Several US officials have privately admitted that it
may be better to keep Bin Laden pinned down on the border of
Afghanistan and Pakistan rather than make him a martyr or put
him on trial. But Krongard is the most senior figure to
acknowledge publicly that his capture might prove
counter-productive.
Krongard also acknowledged that the CIA was still having
trouble planting spies in Islamic militant ranks. “There are
hundreds and hundreds of (Al-Qaeda) cells — it’s like a
living, moving bit of protoplasm,” he said..."
Lire également, Read also :
Al-Qaeda
still a threat to Saudi Arabia: report - The News
Al-Qaeda's
Diminishing Returns in the Peninsula - Jamestown
Vanished
fear of an al-Qaeda attack - Asia Times
Congress
passes `doomsday' plan - BostonHerald
Millions
in al-Qaida Assets Stopped - AP
UN
sanctions 'hitting al-Qaeda' - BBC
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