Does Al Qaeda exist?
10/17/2005 1:30:00 PM GMT


Why hasn't Osama Bin Laden, the alleged leader of Al Qaeda network, been captured up till now?

Does Al-Qaeda exist or not?- Several analysts tried to answer this question- But a previously published editorial on Pravda Website suggests that there’s no such thing as Al Qaeda- it doesn’t exist and never has.

Al Qaeda, a fake enemy created by the United States and its ally Britain, was produced for the sole purpose of using it as an excuse to invade and terrorize Arab and Middle East nations to swallow the world’s oil resources, the editorial said.

We never heard of such a name "Al Qaeda", defined by President Bush as the center of a vast and well-organized international terrorist cell, before 9-11- Nor did hear about the network’s alleged leader Osama Bin Laden, or his family, believed to have huge business with President Bush’s family.

Bush is trying to tell his nation that “your enemy is a well-known maxim, but one that is difficult to observe in practice,” and expects them to digest this lie.

• The Power of Nightmares

If we’re criticising the supine acceptance of the American President claims, we must as well mention Adam Curtis’s brilliant three-hour film that came to light earlier this year, challenging those lies and many other accepted articles of faith in the so-called “war on terror”.

According to "The Power of Nightmares", aired on the BBC, much of what we have been told about this mega threat labeled by the world super powers as 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."

Simply, if Osama bin Laden, the alleged leader of Al Qaeda network, does lead such a huge and dangerous international organization with trained “terrorists” operating in some 40 countries, mostly Arab countries, as stated by Bush, why has the American President and his powerful and influential administration failed to produce hard evidence of it? Why hasn’t he been captured up till now?

Britain arrested 664 “terror suspects” since 9/11 attacks, only 17 have been found guilty, most of them with no connection to extremist groups or Al Qaeda network?

Why despite claims made by the U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld "Meet the Press" in 2001 that Al Qaeda network controls massive high-tech cave complexes in Afghanistan, British and U.S. occupation forces never found such thing?

If "Al Qaeda" was such a huge and group of well-trained operatives, or “terrorists” why haven’t we ever been told about such a threat when the U.S. Cole was bombed a few months before 9-11?

"Al Qaeda" has become a euphemistic umbrella classification, the U.S. president uses to group any Middle Eastern fighter as an enemy. Now Bush can label any group he deems necessary to attack an organised “terror group” with links to Al Qaeda.

Going back to the U.S. President’s questionable motivations that were used to convince the Americans and the world that attacking Iraq was a necessity, you’ll get the feeling that Bush’s persistent rhetoric about Al Qaeda and the terror threat is nothing more than a smoke and mirror illusion.

When you come to think of it, how can a group of people, with very primitive equipment ever have any real central organization structure? If they were that powerful, high-tech equipped operatives as we’re being told, they would have certainly attacked the U.S. again after September 11.

Also if Al Qaeda was such a well-organised terror group, it’s supposed to have numerous cells on the soil of its foremost enemy, the United States- There has never been a single domestic terror cell captured since Bush has been in office! Also most of the terror suspects the U.S. arrested in the immediate aftermath of Sep. 11 attacks haven’t been charged with crimes in anyway associated with terrorism.

The only “really suspicious” activity of people detained after Sep. 11, were a group of Israelis caught in New Jersey filming themselves in the foreground of the burning World Trade Center with "looks of jubilation on their faces".

It later turned out that two of the gentlemen arrested had link to Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency. The men, however, were released from jail weeks later and were allowed to go back to Israel.

"Al Qaeda", if it really existed to anywhere near the extent that we have been told then there would have been another attack on the U.S. But unfortunately, the information we receive comes from two sides that both have great benefit in exaggerating Al Qaeda threat: tapes by the group’s members and the military and intelligence agencies that have great interest in maintaining the facade of an extremely dangerous terror cell.