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http://www.stratiawire.com/ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 05, 2002 BRIEFING ON AL QUAEDA SEPTEMBER 5. What is al Quaeda? That is a question I have been pursuing for some time. I spoke with a long-time intelligence source of mine, and this is what he had to say. “Al Quaeda is really a generic term that means ‘terrorist.’ It’s like calling someone a Communist. Does that mean [in the 1980s] he has direct ties to the Politburo? Does it mean he has connections to the KGB? To the Chinese secret service? To a small group of Americans who meet in a room, in a basement, and discuss the work of Marx? To his grandmother, who, in the 1930s, attended one meeting of a socialist club in Chicago? To a Hollywood screenwriter who once declared that the government should own all industry?” “Here is what is happening. The US government is using the term al Quaeda to label most terrorist suspects. If a guy in New Orleans, who has bomb-assembly plans off the Internet in his apartment, vaguely knows a man from Libya who is traveling in the US, and that Libyan knows a man in Germany who might be planning to derail a train with a bomb…all these people can be painted with the same brush. They can all be said to be members of al Quaeda, as if they are all operating under orders from Osama bin Laden.” “Al Quaeda is being used as a term to convince people that these terrorists are all connected in a vast, very well organized network that is global in reach, that has a very sophisticated and far-flung communication set-up, that issues orders from the top down to cells all over the world.” “There are a number of people inside the US intelligence agencies who know this is a false picture. They know that false intelligence is being assembled in order to paint this picture which is distorted, so that the American people will have a single focus on the one grand evil enemy.” “There is another piece of fall-out from this kind of distortion. People who work inside US intelligence become demoralized, because they see facts connected in false ways. They see their work used to create a misleading impression.” “There are people within the US intelligence community who doubt that the hijacker list from 9/11 has much truth in it at all. They see it as a more or less invented list. They know that if you start with men showing false passports [or no passports] to get on three planes on 9/11, you can’t assemble a correct list of 19 suspects within a few days—especially since all those men are presumed dead and missing. Untraceable.” “Over half of all intelligence gathered by the CIA and other agencies is slanted, or even invented, to serve a political agenda. That agenda is the creation of an Enemy. A single pervasive Enemy. The whole objective is to keep America on a permanent war-time footing.” I asked this intelligence source whether this OP reminded him of Orwell’s famous novel, 1984. “Sure. You take diverse nut-cases and criminals and terrorists and you weave them all together and you give them a global leader and you say they are all part of the same group. You give the group a name, and you focus the anger of the public on that name.” “To give that name some real punch, you have to make sure that terrorist incidents continue to occur. You can’t stop with 9/11. You have to keep going.” <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om |
