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To: longnshort who wrote (241093)	7/12/2005 10:09:41 AM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572860

ANOTHER DAY IN THE EMPIRE Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Does London Actually, I am surprised it took this long: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi—the stuff of legend and ambiguous news reports based on third-hand information and wild supposition—is responsible for the London attacks last week. “Investigators in London are probing whether Iraqi explosives—possibly provided by Al-Qaeda’s top agent in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi—were used in last week’s terror bombings,” reports Yahoo News. “Al-Zarqawi is a potential source since there’s an unlimited amount of explosives and munitions in Iraq that he controls,” yet another unspecified U.S. official told Time magazine. “It’s just a matter of getting it out of Iraq and to the right people.” Nobody knows if al-Zarqawi actually did it—same as they don’t know anything else about the mercurial terrorist—but it makes sense to blame him the same way he is blamed for poison attacks in Europe, releasing a chemical cloud in Amman, 700 plus murders in Iraq during the occupation, the Canal Hotel bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad (killing the UN Secretary-general’s special Iraqi envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello), and various sundry murders, including Laurence Foley, a senior U.S. diplomat working for the U.S. Agency for International Development in Jordan, and the beheading of American-Israeli dual citizen Nicholas Berg. It should be noted there is absolutely no evidence al-Zarqawi had anything to do with any of the above incidents and he is associated with them due to the careless use of adjectives such as “purportedly” and “possibly” habitually employed by the corporate media based on nonsense uttered by “anonymous” and “unnamed” administration officials and other such dissimulators and con artists. Ministry of Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff added fuel to the Abu did it fire by stating he is “concerned about” a possible al-Zarqawi link to the London bombings. “I want to withhold judgment. We haven’t seen any definitive indication of that. It’s something we obviously want to look to, we’re concerned about,” he told ABC. In other words, al-Zarqawi will become the prime suspect in the bombings and another addition will be added to al-Zarqawi’s notorious Goldstein-like colophon, none of it able to stand-up in a court of law, not that Bush and crew even want to capture al-Zarqawi (impossible since he is dead) and usher him into a courtroom. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is serving quite well as an official hobgoblin and dutiful paradigm of the now stereotypical Muslim terrorist, the reason we will be engaged in an “endless war” against Muslim baddies, as Bruce Hoffman of the RAND Corp. (an American “think tank” formed to provide research and analysis to the U.S. military) sees it. “We know that Zarqawi is a very dangerous and evil terrorist, and there’s no question he’s done things in Iraq which are about as bad as you can do,” said Chertoff. Actually there is no evidence al-Zarqawi has done anything but no sense upsetting the myth-making apple cart. “Reflecting back, one cannot help but wonder if al-Zarqawi was used as a lure to trap the Americans into taking this action” in Iraq, explains Scott Ritter. “On the surface, the al-Zarqawi organization seems too good to be true. A single Jordanian male is suddenly running an organization that operates in sophisticated cells throughout Iraq. No one man could logically accomplish this.” But logic does not figure in the al-Zarqawi myth anymore than it does in the Emmanuel Goldstein myth in Orwell’s Oceania. Instead, the purpose of al-Zarqawi is to engender widespread fear of Muslims and rally the masses behind the concept of forever war directed against Islam. Chertoff was careful to note there is not a shred of evidence linking the phantom al-Zarqawi to anything, let alone the London terrorist bombings. Even so, from this point onward, the folkloric al-Zarqawi will be unquestionably linked to the carnage in London.