Did al Qaeda strike again?

[uppityperson]

Poll question: Did al Qaeda strike again?

I woke with a zit next to my mouth. On the right side. I am too old to have zits. Did al Qaeda strike again?

Edited to add a couple more choices

[bryant69]

1. I don't know

I'm not sure you should rule out Karl Rove as a potential suspect.

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[Wetzelbill]

2. yeah, now it's time to bomb Granada

Damn those Granadians. (Bushism)

[justinsb]

3. Probably but it could still

be a case of LIHOP or MIHOP

[obnoxiousdrunk]

4. I'm pretty sure that

it is Al-CIAda.

[Beam Me Up]

5. Define "again". You are referencing which previous attack?

[uppityperson]

7. they ran out of my favorite creamer at the store last wk

I know that was al Qaeda too. They bought it all. Or maybe they sabotaged the delivery truck bringing more.

[Minstrel Boy]

6. The question is, what is al Qaeda?

It was contracted by MI6 in the mid-90s for an assassination attempt on Qaddafi. Paid them one hundred thousand pounds for the job. (Former MI5 agent David Shayler broke the story and had a Sibel Edmonds-like gag order slapped on him. It was corroborated by French Intelligence in the book Forbidden Truth.)

Omar Saeed Sheikh, bin Laden's "favourite son" who lured Daniel Pearl to his death, was raised in London, and only left the UK in the mid-90s. Besides being a member of al Qaeda, he was also an agent of Pakistani intelligence, the ISI, and wired $100,000 to Atta at the direction of the ISI chief, Mahmood Ahmed, who was meeting with Porter Goss in Washington on the morning of Sept 11. Since the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the ISI has served as the CIA's proxy go-between with jihadist groups in Central Asia. (See the book, Who Killed Daniel Pearl?)

This isn't a black and white issue, and "what is al Qaeda?" can't be given a simple, black and white answer. "Al Qaeda" is both us and them. Even if "al Qaeda" bombed London, we're not off the hook.

[applegrove]

8. Al Qaeda is just a name. Whoever the Islamist militants are - they did

it. They tried bombing their own ME countries to get power - and the population didn't go for it in the 1980s and early 1990s. So they turned the focus onto the West. And it is doing wonders for their popularity.

Of course if Bush had not used 9/11 to further their neocon goals... the terrorists in the ME would have paid a huge price for bombing New York. But Bush ignored the sympathy because all his neocon pals could see was endless opportunity to exploit the situation for political and philosophical goals.