Al-Qaeda's thumbs up for Bush

[mom cat]

Al-Qaeda's thumbs up for Bush
By Craig B Hulet


A new book by an author going by the name Anonymous (a senior US intelligence official) , contains an outright and strong condemnation of America's counter-terrorism policy. The author argues that the West is losing the war against al-Qaeda and that an "avaricious, premeditated, unprovoked" war in Iraq has played into Osama bin Laden's hands.

The book, due out in the first week of July, titled Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror, dismisses two of the most frequent boasts of the Bush administration: that bin Laden and al-Qaeda are "on the run" and that the Iraq invasion has made America safer.

In Record of Terror, I noted US conventional military force is the vehicle to prosecute these wars, when it was and is US military intervention all over the world that has been a primary cause for individuals to form groups and retaliate against that very intervention. US military intervention has been identified as the major cause for terrorist acts against Americans and American facilities, corporate, military and governmental by none other than the US Pentagon's Defense Science Board DSB):


As part of its global power position, the United States is called upon frequently to respond to international causes and deploy forces around the world. America's position in the world invited attack simply because of its presence. Historical data show a strong correlation between US involvement in international situations and increase in terrorist attacks against the United States.
(Source: October, 1997 Summer Study Task Force on Department of Defense Responses to Transnational Threats, DSB)
In an interview with the Guardian, Anonymous described al-Qaeda as a much more proficient and focused organization than it was in 2001, and predicted that it would "inevitably acquire weapons of mass destruction and try to use them".

He said that bin Laden was probably "comfortable" commanding his organization from the mountainous tribal lands along the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Pakistani army claimed a big success in the "war against terror" last week with the killing of a tribal leader, Nek Mohammed, who was one of al-Qaeda's protectors in the Waziristan tribal belt. (Source: "Bush told he is playing into Bin Laden's hands and al-Qaeda may 'reward' American president with strike aimed at keeping him in office, senior intelligence man says." - Julian Borger in Washington, Saturday June 19.)

http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FF24Ak05.html

[oblivious]

1. This quotation in your para. 3 really does sum up the problem doesn't it.

"US military intervention has been identified as the major cause for terrorist acts against Americans." (from the US Department of Defense)

[Carolab]

2. This is really big breaking news

Watch for a lot of discussion on this in the next few days. Essentially, this does seem to indicate the CIA is blowing the whistle on this administration and saying the war on Iraq was EXACTLY the wrong thing to do...

Here is the interview with Andrea Mitchell and "Anonymous":

CIA insider says U.S. fighting wrong war
Anonymous career officer makes bold claims in book about U.S. war on terror
By Andrea Mitchell
Correspondent
NBC News
Updated: 7:30 p.m. ET June 23, 2004A career CIA officer claims in a new book that America is losing the war on terror, in part because of the invasion of Iraq, which, he says, distracted the United States from the war against terrorism and further fueled al-Qaida’s struggle against the United States. The author, who writes as “Anonymous,” is a 22-year veteran of the CIA and still works for the intelligence agency, which allowed him to publish the book after reviewing it for classified information.

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In an interview with NBC’s Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell, he calls the U.S. war in Iraq a dream come true for Osama bin Laden, saying, “Bin Laden saw the invasion of Iraq as a Christmas gift he never thought he’d get.” By invading a country that’s regarded as the second holiest place in Islam, he asserts, the Bush administration inadvertently validated bin Laden’s assertions that the United States intends a holy war against Muslims.

In his book, titled "Imperial Hubris," he calls the Iraq invasion "an avaricious, premeditated, unprovoked war against a foe who posed no immediate threat,” arguing against the concept of pre-emptive war put forward by President Bush as justification for the Iraq war.

The book also argues that the U.S. focus on bin Laden as a terrorist is the wrong way to fight him and the wrong way to think of the foe. The real enemy, he asserts, is the radical form of Islam that bin Laden and his followers espouse. And he calls for escalating the level of violence in the war against al-Qaida.

Read the complete transcript of Andrea Mitchell’s interview with Anonymous below:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5279743/

[mom cat]

4. Thanks for the post. You should post it separately to be more visible.

[struggle4progress]

3. kick for bush's real supporters

:kick: