'al Qaeda':
A Non-Entity Before 9/11

Many researchers claim the name al-Qaeda was made up in middle ‘90s by a variety of American functionaries (one of them being none other than Richard Clarke) as an all-purpose villain the U.S. could blame as a convenient reason for its military adventurism.

Three days before President Bush's inauguration, Colin Powell at his confirmation hearing discussed for the first time his priorities as the nation's new secretary of state. He spoke on 20 topics - from China and the Balkans to U.N. sanctions and Iraq. He never mentioned the al-Qaida terrorist group. [Capitol Hill Blue]

This Time article, published June 2001, details the hype surrounding Osama bin Laden. It makes no mention of an 'al Qaeda' terrorist network.

Read this article from the Chicago Tribune which is dated September 11, 2001. You will find only one reference to 'al Qaeda' in it, all other references are to bin Laden.

Here are some other quotes from September 11, 2001:

CIA Director George Tenet: 'You know, this has bin Laden's fingerprints all over it.'
[ABC News]

General Wesley Clark: "Only one group has this kind of ability and that is Osama bin Laden's." [Ottawa Citizen]

U.S. officials say there are "good indications" that Saudi militant Osama bin Laden [...] is involved in the attacks, based on "new and specific" information developed since the attacks. [CNN]

This streamed CNN RealVideo clip from 9/11 states "personnel close to Osama bin Laden the fugitive Saudi terrorist [denies] that that group was involved"

How could so many people be oblivious to the name of the 'al Qaeda' terrorist network?

There can only be one reason - the network was a non-entity:

THOUSANDS of FBI agents have rounded up more than 1,300 suspects across America since September 11, but they have failed to find a single al-Qaeda cell operating in the United States. Tom Ridge, the Director of Homeland Security, admitted yesterday that he suspected that there were active cells in the US, but he could not explain why none had been caught. [Times Online 3/11/2002]

A war needs an enemy, so a "War on Terror" needs terrorists...

In early 2002, when [FBI agent Mike German] got word that a group of Americans might be plotting support for an overseas Islamic terrorist group, he proposed to his bosses what he thought was an obvious plan: go undercover and infiltrate the group. But Mr. German says F.B.I. officials sat on his request, botched the investigation, falsified documents to discredit their own sources, then froze him out and made him a "pariah." [New York Times]

It is a proven fact that 7 of the 9/11 "al Qaeda terrorist hijackers" are still alive, therefore the governmental line is a lie, so is "al Qaeda" a governmentally orchestrated terrorist organisation designed to control the population through fear?


See also: Osama bin Laden: A Weapon of Mass Convenience


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