To: sea_urchin who wrote (15522 ) 6/18/2007 2:32:53 PM From: sea_urchin Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 22250 > whenever "Al Qaeda" appears Uncle Sam cannot be far behind (9)rebelion.org >>Where has Al Queda disappeared? Where has the “terrorist conspiracy” gone? James Petras At the very least we can conclude that whatever existed in the caves of Afghanistan is today inoperative, incapable of organizing any major act, let alone carrying out widespread 'holy war', even when millions of Iraqi Muslim lives are at stake. Bin Laden's commands fall on sterile soil: between his message and action - there is a big nothing. Certainly the provocation is there for all to see on Arab television - anger and indignation runs high and is almost universal in the Arab countries; one would expect some major incident. The logical hypothesis is that without organization there can be no action. More specifically, there is no action because Al Queda as an effective international terrorist organization never existed - nor has it even come into existence under conditions of maximum Western terrorist assault on a Muslim population. The idea of an 'international terrorist conspiracy' was completely fabricated by Washington and embellished by the empty bellicose rhetoric of Bin Laden, a leader without a following, a leader created by the mass media, a leader incapable of directing a single operative terrorist attack. If there is no evidence of the operative existence of Al Queda, and if Bin Laden has no effective following, it is clear there never was any terrorist conspiracy. The idea was fabricated by Washington to justify previous plans designed by Wolfowitz and Perle (1992, 1998) to conquer the Middle East.The fact that the 'worldwide terrorist conspiracy' is a clear fabrication, raises fundamental questions about the event which triggered the US drive for military conquest - 9/11. <<