Is it possible that Al-quieda is a political tool for scare mongering?
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I have often wondered the same thing... \n\nThere are very strange coincidences, after all:\n1 - During the 9/11 WTC attacks, Dick Cheney was in an important bussiness meeting, which included investors of the Carlyle Group, among them Saudi relatives of Osama Bin Laden. \nLet me rephrase that: "Dick Cheney was a bussiness partner with Bin Laden's family, until October 2001! \nThey were both investors of the freakin Carlyle Group, an international corporate group that acts as a military contractor!"\n2 - Bin Laden's brother owns a construction company (Bin Ladin Construction Group), and it's responsable for the construction of almost all US bases in the Middle East.\n3 - Isn't it strange that Bin Laden's family was allowed to leave the US in a private jet on 9/12, while other commercial and civilian flights were cancelled?\nWhy didn't the CIA consider them as possible suspects? \nThey weren't not even interrogated!\n4 - Bussiness relations between the Bush and Bin Laden family go a long way back.... Not to mention that the CIA actually funded the first Afghan islamic groups in 1989, to counter the soviets. (The US is actually responsable for creating the talibans)\n5 - Just check out Google Earth! If any miserable pundit like you or me can have access to such advanced satellite imaginery, then imagine the technology that the US military must have! How is it possible that they cannot find him? Do they really want to find him?\n6 - If you watch the BBC documentary "The Power of Nightmares", they mention there how Al-Qaeda is not properly portrayed by western media. They want us to believe that Al-Qaeda is in fact a single, unified terrorist organization, while the truth is that Al-Qaeda is just a political base that has no links to the individual, independent terrorist cells that carry out the attacks.\nIn other words, catching Bin Laden won't end terrorism, since the terrorist cells (in Iraq, London, Spain and elsewhere), often act independently.\n7 - Despite claims that Al-Qaeda is an old organization, it's never mentioned by the CIA's internal reports before January 2001.\n\nPersonally, I believe that there's something fishy behind the whole affair. It would not surprise me that Bin Laden is actually working for the American neo-conservatives and large corporations, by providing them with an excuse to scare the population, introduce a curtailment of civil rights and engage in pro-bussiness wars and military interventions.
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He's the bogeyman the Bush Administration uses to keep dim-witted Americans rallying to the anti-Muslim cause. If they capture him they'll lose their best asset (and they ain't got many other assets to rely on)!\n\nOsama may exist as a man (and a bit of nutter) but can anybody out there be sure he's the evil genius the neo-cons make him out to be? Maybe America invented the persona of this monster to justify their total incompetence before, during and after 911. That goes for Al Quaida too. What is it and where is it? Quite possibly it started as a fiction in the mind of some Pentagon propagandist to justify a vicious retaliation against the Muslim World, but then it span out of control as Islamist fundamentalists realised they could adopt this media-friendly name and turn it into the monster now so feared by the US and the West.
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This may apply to you.\n\nJust look at your post where you got basic factual information wrong regarding Al Quaeda and the US and Iran.
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This administration has been fear-mongering since 9/11, its getting pretty tired, but its the best they've got.  FOX News is the deliverer of their propaganda.  If people hear the same crap over and over, they will eventually accept it as truth.  I wouldn't believe anything you see on that network.  I've seen a complete interview of a Democratic congress member, then seen the clip they aired on Pat O'Riley's show.  They had cleverly edited it to look like he said the exact opposite of what he actually said, then Pat took the Dem's ideas and claimed them as his own.  \nAs far as being a terrorist organization, since they don't actually take part in violence, I'm not sure they qualify.
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No that is like asking if I would invade my neighbors home because I was afraid of them... makes no sense to me. But then again this is a Republican administration and they are known for their war mongering ideas... it is certainly not over yet and I will along with many others be looking forward to the day of change.....
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Unfortunately the story is mentioned in Islamic history. This is the problem when faith gets mixed with politics. Assissanation and killing opponents is very common among politicians, but it was not supposed to be for a prophet.
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Yes I am somewhat worried that our war leaders (the administration) don't have any restraints on them and don't seem to care about re-election or what anyone thinks of them.  They are also unaccountable and in my opinion at least partially insane.  Maybe it's an act to scare the Iranians, but maybe not.  I'm afraid this adminstration just does what it pleases which amounts to damn the public, damn the country, and damn the world, we are in power and there is nothing you are going to do to stop us.  That is the scariest thing I have ever seen in any political leadership in the West for my entire life.
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*Chuckling for as paranoid as the american government is I dun know if that is a good idea* But the link below should do...
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Oh baby...I believe so, but you never know... \n\nKnowing today's politics, they might be a weapon, just like water balloons are (* rolls eyes)
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what many american don't realize that they have been ruled under politics of fear . goverment and media brainwashes their citizens by showing them nightmares and fear and promises them to protect from fantasy enemy like osama, iraq and now possibly Iran . so it's the matter of self conciousness to think, is iran  really a danger or just one more fantasy .
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Are you guys really that clueless?\nI agree that the media puts it's own swing on it especially during rating time or lack of other doomsday news. but come on have you not realized terrorism is very real and an even bigger deal then you apparently are able to grasp. by no means should we walk around being afraid but waking up and dealing with it would be nice.
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Wow! I wasn't aware that everyone knew about the terrorist attack prior to it happening.\n\nDemocrats & the Liberals would have you believe that it was only the government that knew.\n\nCan you guys get your stories straight please. Its no wonder you are all so messed up with your thinking, you can't even coordinate consistancy with your lies.
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Sorry libs are afraid of guns and loud noises except screaming at conservative speakers at Graduation. They might throw painty on the conservatives that are wearing animal skins tho, and chain themselves to the wheels of planes! \n As for Ding Dong (well named) The British, French, Italian, Spanish, and Russian Governments all believed the same things American intelligence did. Not to mention the United Nations! So I guess your from?
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So the current political party, which considers ITSELF to be the ONLY cure for terrorism, can eavesdrop on opposition candidates and their supporters and interfere with their advertising, speeches and fund raising to cheat at elections and better stay in POWER!!!\ngOOD hUH?
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Yeah, it tells the world that al Oaida believes that the democrats will offer them no challenge, and the war is all but won.  They fear the conservative movement in the US, but the liberals are just a bunch of Clintonians, or gutless wonders with no stones!\n\nI sure hope the mindless wonders in the US, who voted out the conservatives, know what they are doing, which I doubt that they do.  I fear that another bloodbath is on the horizon, one that will challenge the heart and soul of these weakneed liberals.\n\nWhat the fools in the US don't realize is, the pleasure and happiness the insurgency is feeling is, because they know they can rattle the liberals all day long.  Something they wouldn't dare try on the conservatives.
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is this a scare?  \n\nFrom 1894 to 1896 Abdul Hamid, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, killed 150,000 Armenian Christians.\n\nIn India, Sikh Guru Tegh Bahadur along with his disciples was burned to death by the Moghul ruler Aurangzeb in 1675.\nAnother Sikh, Bhai Mati Das was sawn into right and left halves while he was still alive.\n\nFrom 1843 to 1846 10,000 Assyrian Christians including women and children were massacred by the Muslims.\nFrom 1915 to 1918 750,000 Assyrians were killed in the name of Islamic Jihad.\nIn 1933 thousands of Assyrian villagers were murdered by the Iraqi soldiers in Northern Iraq.\nOver 30,000 Mauritanians have been killed by the Islamic dictators since 1960.\nIn July 1974, 4,000 Christians living in Cyprus were killed by Fahri Koroturk, president of Turkey and his Islamic army.\nOver 280,000 Ugandans killed during the reign of Idi Amin from 1971 to 1979.\nGenocide committed in the name of Allah: 3,000,000 Bangladeshi Hindus Killed during the Pakistan-Bangladesh war in 1971.\nIn 1980, 20,000 Syrians were murdered under the rule of Hafez Al-Assad, President of Syria.\nSince 1990 more than 10,000 Kashmiri Hindus have been brutally murdered by Islamic fundamentalists.\nSince 1992 120,000 Algerians have been murdered by the Islamic fundamentalist army.\nonce you realize that all muslims are capable of this, then you'll know what must be done.\nIt is not the terrorists that have hijacked Islam, rather it it is ISLAM that has hijacked the arab world.\n******************************...\n<>The following are muslim attacks against free nations\nor what they call, "the Infidels."\n\n1972 Munich Olympics Sep-5,1972 (Black September)\n1976 Entebbe Hostage Crisis, June 27, 1976\n1979 Iran Hostage Crisis, Nov. 4, 1979 444 days\n1979 Grand Mosque Seizure, Nov 20,1979\n1981 Assassination of Egyptian President, Oct 6,1981\n1981 Attempted Assassination of Pope John Paul the Second\n1982 Assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister, Sept 14, 1982\n1983 Bombing of US Embassy in Beirut, April 18,1983\n1983 Bombing of Marine Barracks, Beirut, Oct 23,1983\n1984 Hezbollah Restaurant Bombing, April 12,1984\n1985 Egyptian Airliner Hijacking, Nov 23,1985\n1985 Rome Airport murders\n1985 TWA Flight 847 hijacked, U.S. Navy diver murdered\n1985 Achille Lauro hijacking, Homicidal maniac lived in saddams Iraq\n1986 Aircraft Bombing in Greece, March 30, 1986\n1988 Pan Am 747 Flight 103 Bombing, Lockerbie, 100's murdered\n1988 Berlin Discotheque Bombing, Dec 21,1988\n1990 A Muslim Named El Sayyid Nosair Murders Israeli Political activist Meir Kahane. Nov 1990\n1992 Bombing in Israeli Embassy in Argentina, March 17,1992\n1993 Attempted Assassination of Pres. Bush Sr., April 14,1993\n1993 First World Trade Center bombing, February 26th, 7 Killed, Hundreds injured, Billions\n1994: A small bomb explodes on Philippine Airlines Flight 434, killing a Japanese businessman. It is later discovered that Ramzi Yousef planted a bomb on the aircraft to test a bomb for his terrorist plot.December 11, 1994\n1994 Air France Hijacking, Dec 24,1994\n1994 A Muslim Named Rashid Baz shoots at a van filled with Hasidic boys, on the Brooklyn bridge murdering one of them. FBI calls it "Road Rage". March 1, 1994\n1995 Attack on US Diplomats in Pakistan, Mar 8,1995\n1995 Saudi Military Installation Attack, Nov 13, 1995\n1995 Kashmiri Hostage taking, July 4,1995\n1996 Khobar Towers attack\n1996 Sudanese Missionaries Kidnapping, Aug 17,1996\n1996 Paris Subway Explosion, Dec 3,1996\n1997 At Empire State Building; Ali Abu Kamal shoots at tourists, kills one and wounds six before killing himself, Mayor Giuliani informs the public "he had many enemies in his mind".Feb 24,1997\n1997 Israeli Shopping Mall Bombing, Sept 4, 1997\n1997 Yemeni Kidnappings, Oct 30,1997\n1998 Somali Hostage taking crisis, April 15,1998\n1998 U.S. Embassy Bombing in Peru, Jan 15, 1998\n1998 U.S. Kenya Embassy blown up, 100's murdered\n1998 U.S. Tanzan
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thats something that has never been made clear by those who point fingers and scream TERRORIST . in alot of peoples eyes its anyone of the muslim faith. in my eyes its anyone who pushes their political agenda with fear tactics that includes those who would scare americans into voting for a certain party  by shoving fear into their face.