I think the terms al-Qaida and asshole are completely interchangeable.

Well no, that isn't true, all al Qaida are assholes, but all assholes are
not al Qaida. I think there is an aversion to calling people assholes in the
media, so they call them al Qaida instead.




"Dori A Schmetterling" > wrote in message
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> The OP might be a troll but it is an interesting topic nevertheless.
>
> Actually there were a couple of programmes on UK TV the other week that
put
> forward this contention that 'Al Quaeda' is not all-encompassing
> organisation and that the way it has been built up and used by governments
> to pass laws limiting civil liberties is quite Orwellian.
>
> There are groups of terrorists (obviously) but they act independently or,
at
> least, autonomously. The US and other governments handed certain
terrorist
> leaders a golden opportunity and now quite a few people claim to act on
> behalf of this ubiquitous Al Quaeda.
>
> Frankly, however much I am acutely aware of terrorism and its dangers I
have
> always had my doubts about this 'organisation'. The US and then the
British
> forces found absolutely nothing in Tora Bora (or wherever it was they were
> looking in Afghanistan) and there was no evidence of some network of caves
> in the Afghan hills.
>
> In my opinion it would, in any case, have taken years of construction to
> build such a thing, with great effort, since it was in the middle of
> nowhere. Use of explosives would probably have been detected. Otherwise,
> digging by hand would have taken even longer and perhaps large groups of
> people and that would have been detected also.
>
> Etc etc.
>
> DAS
>
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> "Jeff Strickland" > wrote in message
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> >
> > "tech27" > wrote in message
> > o.verio.net...
> >> Not exactly. The theory is that Al Qaeda does exist, but it is made up
of
> >> all those Holocaust "victims" that never really died.
> >
> >
> > Wouldn't the youngest holocaust victims that never really died be
> > approaching 70 years of age by now?
> >
> > Maybe it's just me, but I am not sure how much damage a person can do
that
> > can barely get out of bed in the morning.
> >
> >
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