Al Qaeda, the database

Create an enemy, and ascribe to "him" all that you are against as a "patriotic" culture, and you have a target for all that's wrong with the world: Another (person, country, group or whatever). This takes the attention of the common person off what's really going on and blame a simple person/group. It plays well in Western socity, giving a simple name to a complex situation. But it serves the purpose well: "We" verses "Them". White hats, black hats. And that's how politics works regarding a chosen "enemy". And, of course, the people have to be "saved" from such an enemy. Ergo, our foreign and "defense" policy.

Shortly before his untimely death, former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook told the House of Commons that "Al Qaeda" is not really a terrorist group but a database of international mujaheddin and arms smugglers used by the CIA and Saudis to funnel guerrillas, arms, and money into Soviet-occupied Afghanistan. Courtesy of World Affairs, a journal based in New Delhi, WMR can bring you an important excerpt from an Apr.-Jun. 2004 article by Pierre-Henry Bunel, a former agent for French military intelligence.

"In the mid-1980s, Al Qaida was a database located in computer and dedicated to the communications of the Islamic Conference's secretariat.

"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." (Our emphasis, Ed.)
Al Qaeda, the database.