US media won't show BBC's POWER OF NIGHTMARES

[ClayZ]

Published on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 by The Nation
The Power of Nightmares
by Katrina vanden Heuvel

Last week, the BBC re-broadcast a provocative documentary series which challenges the idea that al-Qaeda is the center of a uniquely powerful, unified and well-organized international terrorist conspiracy.

"The attacks on September 11th," according to the film's director Adam Curtis--one of Britain's leading documentary filmmakers--"were not the expression of a confident and growing movement. They were acts of desperation by a small group frustrated by their failure which they blamed on the power of America. It is also important," Curtis adds, "to realize that many within the Islamist movement were against this strategy." (This view accords with those held by terrorism experts--like Peter Bergen--who argue that al-Qaeda is largely a spent force that has changed from a tight-knit organization capable of carrying out 9/11 to more of an ideological threat with loose networks in many nations.)

The film also challenges other accepted articles of faith in the so-called war on terror, and documents that much of what we have been told about a centralized, international terrorist threat "is a fantasy that has been exaggerated and distorted by politicans. It is a dark illusion that has spread unquestioned through governments around the world, the security services and the international media."

SEE IT HERE:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1037.htm

[HereSince1628]

1. It includes a good history of the rise of the neocons

Although much of the information on neocons is widely available it is also very damning, which probably explains American MSM to show it.

[moobu2]

2. Yet the MSM will give the Swift Boat Liars any amount of time necessary

surprised? I'm not.

[Warpy]

3. PBS last night

aired a program right after Frontline in which interviews of Jihadist clergy throughout Europe and a few in the Middle East were interviewed. These men speak openly of world conquest, of restoring the Islamic empire that has been in retreat since the late fifteenth century.

Al Qaeda is a group of mostly autonomous cells, all of whom share the ideology they first learned from local Jihadist clerics and which was later cemented at the training camp in Afghanistan. We've destroyed their training camp, but that's not going to slow them down for long.

What is needed is international cooperation, meticulous police work, pressure against the 3 main hotbeds of Jihadism (Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan) to recognize the threat and deal with it, and strict banking laws to close the funding conduits.

Bush's gang are fighting all three of those things out of a misplaced mawkish trust in the 3 countries as allies, a desire to protect their contributors' money laundering capabilities, disdain for police work instead of military action, and a lack of trust of our traditional allies.

I'm afraid this may eventually be what causes our next world war. I am afraid we will not win it, thanks to the way multinational corporations have looted our strategic industry base.

[Emillereid]

4. I urge everyone to watch this documentary --

you can see it on your computer from informationclearinghouse. It's probably the best I've seen. I'd be shocked if they allowed it to be shown here -- it reveals the right wing's fear and manipulation tactics, etc.

[ClayZ]

5. "Whispering (SHOUTING) harm where harm is not!

"What are fears but voices airy?
Whispering harm where harm is not.
And deluding the unwary
Till the fatal bolt is shot!"
Wordsworth

[Emillereid]

6. I forget sometimes in all the flurry of news and comment that

some poet somewhere has already spoke the truth, simply and beautifully ... and with sufficient subtlety to stir the mind.

Thanks for the beautiful offering.