Who Is Running al-Qaeda?
Executive Intelligence Review
5-22-3


It is EIR's assessment, at this time, that the hideously destructive terrorist attacks which occurred over May 11-14, against both Chechnya and Saudi Arabia, were probably carried out-as Russian President Vladimir Putin has charged-by al-Qaeda. But the important question remains: Who is running al-Qaeda?
 
The widespread view in the Arab world is that this terrorist network is comprised of misguided adherents of Islam, who are simply choosing a counter-productive method to express their rage against the overwhelming injustices being carried out by the United States, in particular, or by Russia. That opinion would appear to be buttressed by the fact that an explosion of terrorism against the United States, had been widely anticipated, in the wake of the hated Iraq war.
 
But it would be a terrible mistake to chalk these actions up to simply another "sociological phenomenon."
 
Start by taking a look at the pattern of terrorist incidents, for example. Look at the way in which the Israeli-Palestinian situation, for one, has developed. At virtually every point that promising prospects for peace were on the agenda, with the extremists on both sides being put under control, a new terrorist incident would break out. How convenient for those who never wanted to proceed with the peace process to begin with!
 
In the Israeli-Palestinian case, EIR has undertaken considerable study of this "coincidence." Lo and behold, it became apparent that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, whose entire career has been devoted to preventing a peaceful solution to the conflict, actually set up one of the most radical "Palestinian" terrorist groups, Hamas, in the 1980s. And whenever it was convenient for Sharon, the Hamas terrrorists would emerge to do their dirty work. This pattern continues to this very day.
 
A similar point of analysis has to be taken in the case of the biggest "terrorist" incident of the recent era, the Sept. 11, 2001 assaults on the United States. No one actually knows who carried out these assaults, although it can be said with surety that a network of Arabs headquartered abroad, could not have had the capability to carry out this sophisticated operation, without decisive help from forces inside the United States.
 
But there is no question but that Sept. 11 was "convenient," one might even say indispensable, for those in the Anglo-American financial establishment who were determined to instigate a war against Islam, a "Clash of Civilizations" war which would pave the way for a New American-Roman Empire, and prevent the consolidation of a new just international order based on collaboration between sovereign nation-states.
 
So, one crucial question to ask about the recent bombings in Saudi Arabia and Chechnya, is: For whom is this bloody carnage "convenient"?
 
You don't have to go far to find an answer. The "Clash of Civilizations" crowd in Washington is continuous with the grouping which produced the "Clean Break" document for Israel's then-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu back in 1996, a document which laid out a scenario for redrawing the map of the Middle East by overthrowing most of the Arab governments in the region. Among those, as the leading Chickenhawks have made very clear in recent months, has been the Saudi government. The Wall Street Journal has even editorialized in favor of the United States seizing the Saudi oil fields.
 
As for the Chechen violence, that also serves a "convenient" purpose for those who are trying to ensure that Russia sits back and permits the United States to carry out the imperial mission upon which the Utopians have decided.
 
You say al-Qaeda carried out these atrocities? Fine. But who runs al-Qaeda? Back in the 1980s, al-Qaeda was part of the U.S. intelligence operation in Afghanistan. When did the U.S. stop running al-Qaeda? Whose strategic purpose is this wave of bombings serving, and who will be smart enough to escape the trap which is being laid?
 
The above editorial is appearing in the May 23, 2003 edition of Executive Intelligence Review.
 
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What evidence can you provide to your assertions that Sharon created Hamas?

Typical left wing radical drivel. The article above us just about as credible as Spiderman.

What I love about the left is that they're so willing to fall on their swords and thereby eliminate their own arguments. No need to debate the left, they'll defeat themselves.

The above article is a prime example. Zero credibility, zero substance, and zero arguments adds up to, well, zero.

A lot like Bush Admirer. Zero Facts, Zero Thought, Zero Credibility.

Of course if you actually took the time to research it out you would find that Likud Provided the funding to start Hamas as a counter to Arafat.

And no doubt your idea of 'research' amounts to reading left wing spin zone crapola, listening to Pacifica Radio, and sniffing coke. Hahaha. What a joke.

"Back in the 1980s, al-Qaeda was part of the U.S. intelligence operation in Afghanistan. When did the U.S. stop running al-Qaeda?"

Except for the fact that bin laden formed al queda at the very end of the '80s and the US never "ran" it.

Osama bin Laden left Saudi Arabia in 1979 to fight the invading Soviets in Afghanistan.
By 1984 he was running the front organization known as MAK, (Maktab al-Khidamar) which eventually mutated into Al-Qaeda, consisting of the more extreme members of the former group.
During the war MAK was nurtured by Pakistan's Inter-services Intelligence Agency, ISI.
The ISI was the CIA's covert ally and conduit against Moscow's occupation. Via the ISI the initial Al-Qaeda were trained, armed, funded and empowered by the CIA.
The new covert U.S. assistance began with a dramatic increase in arms supplies -- a steady rise to 65,000 tons annually by 1987, as well as a "ceaseless stream" of CIA and Pentagon specialists who travelled to the secret headquarters of Pakistan's ISI on the main road near Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
There the CIA specialists met with Pakistani intelligence officers to help plan operations for the Afghan rebels, bin Laden included.
The Central Intelligence Agency, using Pakistan's ISI, played a key role in training the Mujahideen.
In turn, the CIA sponsored guerrilla training was integrated with the teachings of Islam.
Mainstream analysts now engage in reductionism by stating that these horrific mistakes in foreign policy were purely accidental, and yet we see the same pattern repeat itself over and over with our lineage of elite "bogeymen".
Furthermore, the consensus media tells us that after the Soviets were defeated, bin Laden and his network severed any relationship with western forces and laid the groundwork for the agenda he initiated with the bombings of the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania along with the USS Cole a decade later.

...created Hamas.

He was born Jewish. That's enough to totally piss off most radical Islamists.

We agree on something Failure.
Your history is fine and it seems we agree that the US never "ran" Al Queda.
Thanks for the post.

Even if Israel had created Hamas - it would not be possible for then to "control it" since we all know it is based on hatred for israel.
EXCEPT in the standard political area where they dont need subdifuge. for example Sharon goes on TV and calls the hamas leader the son of a pig or somthing he will probably find a renewed terrorist attack (ok maybe its a little more complex but you get the drift).