Al-Qaida does not exist

cansouth · 04-07-2006, 11:37 AM

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2...25-assad_x.htm
5/25/2003

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Assad doubts existence of al-Qaeda
KUWAIT CITY (AP) - Syrian President Bashar Assad said in an interview published Sunday that he doubts the existence of al-Qaeda, the terror group blamed for the Sept. 11 attacks and recent strikes in Saudi Arabia and Morocco.

"Is there really an entity called al-Qaeda? Was it in Afghanistan? Does it exist now?" Assad asked, according to the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Anba.

Such speculation is popular among some in the Arab world who say Washington has manufactured or exaggerated the threat posed by al-Qaeda in order to paint Muslims as dangerous.

http://www.zaman.com/?bl=national&al...50815&hn=22982
August 14, 2005

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«Countries facing the al-Qaeda threat are awaiting the intelligence Turkish security is to provide. Amid the smoke from the fortuitous fire emerged the possibility that al-Qaeda may not be, strictly speaking, an organization but an element of an intelligence agency operation.

Turkish intelligence specialists agree that there is no such organization as al-Qaeda.

Rather, Al-Qaeda is the name of a secret service operation. The concept “fighting terror” is the background of the “low-intensity-warfare” conducted in the mono-polar world order. The subject of this strategy of tension is named as “al-Qaeda.” »

http://www.turkishweekly.net/comments.php?id=1604
2005-08-01

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There is no Terrorist Organization Called Al Qaida

…Nese Düzel from Radikal (a Turkish newspaper) asked this question and more on Al Qaida to Mahir Kaynak, a former academic and a former intelligence officer. He has suggested different and debateful views, which will be summarized in this article.

Further more he argued that there is no Al Qaida. According to Kaynak, Al Qaida is the name of the operation carried out by an intelligence service, which is CIA…With this operation an anti-Islam front among the peoples of the world is tried to be created.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/...327904,00.html
Friday October 15, 2004

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The Power of Nightmares seeks to overturn much of what is widely believed about Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida.

The latter, it argues, is not an organised international network.

It does not have members or a leader.
It does not have "sleeper cells".
It does not have an overall strategy.
In fact, it barely exists at all, except as an idea about cleansing a corrupt world through religious violence.

Talibans
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2897137.stm

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According to Dadullah, al-Qaeda did
not exist in Afghanistan and he said he did not know
the fate or whereabouts of Osama bin-Laden.

http://english.pravda.ru/mailbox/22/...1_AlQaeda.html
08/19/2004

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«Al Qaeda does not exist and never has»

«The basic truth is that Al Qaeda does not exist and never has. Al Qaeda is a manufactured enemy who was created by the Bush Administration in order to have an excuse to wage a war for the control of the world"s oil resources.»

Norwegian professor Johan Galtung
http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/ur...icle396241.ece

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- Al-Qaida er en amerikansk fiksjon

Terrororganisasjonen Al-Qaida er noe USA har
funnet på, mener den omstridte fredsforskeren
Johan Galtung.

- Etter min vurdering er al-Qaida noe Washington
har funnet på, en typisk Pentagon-projeksjon,
sier Galtung.

På spørsmål fra Spiegel Online om han virkelig mener
at al-Qaida ikke eksisterer, svarer Galtung at Vestens
forestilling om organisasjonen er gal.

- Men det finnes en stor kraft, som stort sett er
organisert i celler, som i Hamburg, og som holdes
sammen gjennom troen, sier han.

Indonesian Bashir
http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=3054299

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Bashir selv skylder på CIA og USA for å
stå bak angrepet mot Bali.
Han benekter også at gruppene Jemaah
Islamiyah og al-Qaida eksisterer.

http://www.gsmpro.com/article/articl...?hArticleId=39

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Bashir on Friday accused the United States of inventing both al-Qaida and Jemaah Islamiyah to portray Muslims as terrorists.

Qazi Hussain, member of Parliament in Pakistan
http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/ir...icle844875.ece

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«Qazi Hussain har kritisert den pakistanske regjerings samarbeid med USA i kampen mot Taliban-regimet i Afghanistan. Han har snakket pent om Taliban-ledelsen og Osama bin Laden og benektet eksistensen av terrornettverket Al-Qaida.»

http://www.usefulwork.com/shark/qazi021013.html

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Qazi Hussain Ahmed :
«I've never been sure whether the so-called Al-Qaeda has ever even existed. »

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Ian Blair, London, United Kingdom

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,162476,00.html

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July 15, 2005

Commenting on the possible role of Al Qaeda, Blair said, " Al Qaeda is not an organization . Al Qaeda is a way of working ... but this has the hallmark of that approach."

This link needs registration to be followed:
http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/...21030082.shtml
October 29, 2002

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''Al-Qaida is not an organization anymore, it is
a concept,'' said Jordanian political analyst Labib Kamhawi.
''There is a lot of appeal for the concept itself.''»

«''On balance, I would be surprised if there wasn't any
foreign participation,'' he said. ''Al-Qaida does not have
membership cards, and as such, linkages can occur
on many different levels.''

intangible child · 04-09-2006, 09:52 AM

Yes it does you just spelt it wrong! Al-CIA-Duh

Dylan · 04-09-2006, 05:36 PM

I think now would be a good time to bring up the HUGE errors in your sources. I wrote my high school thesis paper about this subject a few years ago, although it was about preventing terrorism through economics, not whether al-Qaeda exists not not.

al-Qaeda, or "the Base" in Arabic, is a decentralized organization. Osama bin Laden started it, but that doesn't mean he's always in control. Most members are self-identified, and have no idea what's going on with the other people involved. That being said, your sources are EXTREMELY flawed.

Firstly, I don't think the dictators of Islamist countries are the best sources of intellegence on an Islamist terrorist network. These are the same guys that say Israel doesn't exist, or that the Holocaust never happened.

Pravda is a notoriously unreliable source of information. They also claim that space aliens exist. They are basically the Russian Weekly World News.

I've read "The Power of Nightmares" and you are misrepresenting the book. It doesn't claim that there is no al-Qaeda, it just explains that al-Qaeda is not a highly organized, centralized network. You are also misrepresenting Ian Blair in the same way.

Jemaah Islamiya definitely exists, and it is far more centralized than al-Qaeda. Interestingly enough, the organization was one of the first to set up relief efforts in Pakistan after that earthquake.

Johan Galtung seems interesting, although since I can't read whatever language that's in, it would be nice if you posted an English language link.

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