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Published on Sunday, September 8, 2002 in the Toronto Sun
Uncertainties Abound in Pinpointing the Real Enemy
by Eric Margolis
PARIS -- A year after the 9/11 attacks on the United States, we know
remarkably little about the attackers, or about who really organized the
complex operation that seems well beyond the capabilities of amateur
terrorists. Among the major questions:
The suicide attackers were apparently middle-class Saudis, though some
identities are still in question. They were quiet, well-educated,
"westernized" technical students living in Hamburg, Germany, whose links to
the bin Laden Afghan-based al-Qaida remain uncertain. Part of the attack
planning was done in Spain. The men who piloted the doomed aircraft were
trained at American flying schools. Some may have briefly visited
Afghanistan, but none resided there or were known al-Qaida members. Were
they sent by Osama bin Laden? Bin Laden lauded the attacks that murdered
3,000 civilians, but denied involvement, though a trail of circumstantial
evidence leads to him.
Al-Qaida is portrayed by the U.S. government and media as an octopoid,
world-wide conspiracy with thousands of members. In fact, Qaida - which
began as a guest-house for holy warriors during the 1980s anti-Soviet
struggle in Afghanistan, never numbered more than 1,000 men, and usually
much less. Today, there are probably only 300 or so hardline Qaida members,
scattered mainly in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Europe. But there are numerous
other underground, militant Islamic groups that align themselves from time
to time with Qaida, or draw inspiration from bin Laden's fiery preachings.
Such fighting groups as Egyptian Jihad, Gamma Islamiya, and Algeria's Armed
Islamic Groups, have formed a loose anti-American/anti-Israel alliance of
convenience. But other Islamic groups, notably Lebanon's Hezbollah, have
nothing to do with al-Qaida. Nor do Iraq and Syria, whose rulers have been
targets of bin Laden's wrath for a decade.
Taliban and a variety of Muslim resistance groups - Kashmiri independence
fighters, anti-communist insurgents from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, Filipino
Moros, and Uighurs fighting China's ethnic absorption of Eastern Turkestan
(Chinese Sinjiang), have all been lumped together as "Qaida." Some of these
Islamic International Brigades were trained in old Afghan camps originally
funded by CIA. Others went through two service support and commando training
camps run by al-Qaida - a sort of Islamic version of Ft. Bragg, home of the
U.S. Green Berets. The biggest camps were not run by Qaida, but by ISI -
Pakistani intelligence - preparing holy warriors, or "jihadis," for combat
in Indian-held Kashmir. Many of the 1,000 prisoners captured and murdered by
Uzbek forces of Gen. Rashid Dostam - assisted by U.S. Special Forces - were
from the international brigades.
President George Bush claimed America was attacked because the assailants
"hated" democracy and America's way of life. He describes terrorism as pure
evil, unrelated to any specific political events. This is nonsense. The U.S.
was attacked because of its deep involvement in Mideast affairs, and total
backing for Israel's iron-fisted repression of the Palestinians. In July,
Washington agreed to Israel's request to replenish huge amounts of heavy
munitions used in crushing the Palestinian intifada. These included $80
million US worth of TOW heavy anti-tank missiles to be fired at buildings,
tank shells packed with thousands of razor-sharp flechettes, and Hellfire
air-to-ground missiles. Israel reportedly used more heavy munitions against
Palestinians in one week last April than it expended in the previous 20
years. American money and weapons kill Arabs, Arabs kill Americans.
Bin Laden arrogated to himself the right to champion revenge against the
United States for the bloodbath in Palestine. "There will be no peace in
America," bin Laden warned, "until there is peace in Palestine." These
frightening words were never widely reported in the North American media,
which is filled with uninformed commentators explaining why Muslims are
inherently bloodthirsty or anti-western. America's virtual military
occupation of Saudi Arabia, its punishment of Iraq that caused at least
500,000 civilian deaths, and Bush's planned jihad against Iraq have enraged
the entire Islamic world against the United States. There is little doubt
more attacks against American targets will be coming. Such is the cost of
empire.
Did the 9/11 perpetrators foresee the immense damage they would inflict on
the United States? Besides the 3,000 Americans murdered, $70 billion in
property losses; $10 billion so far of airline losses; insurance rates
across the U.S. soaring by up to 300%. 9/11 helped puncture the stock market
tech bubble that brought $3 trillion in equity losses that cost 160,000
jobs. The next attack on the U.S. may be designed to cause more economic
mayhem rather than kill people, targeting telecommunications nodes, power
systems and airports.
9/11 triggered a psychotic episode in the Bush administration, producing a
futile invasion of Afghanistan; plans for war against Iraq, and possibly
Iran, spurred by the embarrassing failure to find bin Laden or crush
al-Qaida. A massive, $32-billion increase to a preposterous $396-billion
defence budget - 36% of total world military spending - as the deficit soars
towards $150 billion. And Bush's crass rejection of international accords on
criminal justice, free trade, environmental protection, disarmament, and
human rights has damaged America's good name abroad. The rest of the world,
deeply dismayed, wonders when the Bush administration will recover its
senses.
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