Qaeda’s Continuance Unexplained

[Devil Soul]

THE so-called War on Terror, launched 12 years ago in response to 9/11 attacks, has turned out to be as ineffective as the War on Drugs. Despite billions of dollars being poured into eradicating the terrorist disease targeting innocents going about their daily business, al-Qaeda, its associates and clones have not only survived but are flourishing in different guises. In 2001, al-Qaeda was a relatively small group of ‘Afghan Arabs’ disenchanted with US foreign policy, primarily based in Afghanistan. Now it has franchises in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, the Sahara, Pakistan’s tribal areas, the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula, Indonesia and the Philippines.


Each franchise is motivated by a variety of localised goals but all adhere to the same core belief that the life of any man, woman or child, who doesn’t share their extremist convictions, is disposable, as we recently witnessed when Al Shabaab sent its ruthless murderers into a Kenyan shopping mall where 68 people were gunned down in cold blood.
President Barack Obama may have patted himself on the back for assassinating the doddery, out of touch, Osama bin Laden, but he’s had little
success in eradicating his ideological spawn that seemingly enjoys a cockroach-like longevity, able to withstand drone attacks, bombs, advances in surveillance, communications-monitoring, facial recognition technology and global intelligence sharing.
Terrorism experts lead us to believe that most al-Qaeda founders are either dead or imprisoned; the latest ‘catch’ was Abu Anas Al-Libi suspected of involvement in the 1998 US embassy bombings, grabbed by US Special Forces outside his Tripoli home earlier this month. Bin Laden’s Egyptian sidekick Ayman Al Zawahiri is still out there somewhere issuing poisonous, rambling edicts urging Egyptian Islamists to “unite against the Americanized butcher of the military coup” and jihadists in Syria to form an Islamist Caliphate.

His brother Mohammed was arrested by Egyptian security forces in August, but the man said to be the brains behind 9-11 remains elusive. Where is he and who is giving him protection?
So many questions remain unanswered to this day. Where does al-Qaeda’s funding come from? Where are its training camps? Who is issuing its travel documents? How are its foot soldiers able to travel around the world unimpeded and undetected when border controls are so tight? al-Qaeda’s breadth of influence and activities are so extensive that it’s beyond belief it’s merely bankrolled by sympathetic individuals. Similarly its sophisticated intelligence capabilities suggest cooperation with insiders at the highest levels.


In the aftermath of 9-11, the West was convinced al-Qaeda was being funded by Sunni Arab sources. If that were true, then Sunni Muslims would not be among the organisation’s prime targets. Are there governments or powerful non-state actors manipulating al-Qaeda’s strings and if so, what agenda does that support serve? Follow the money and the true maestros of death will be unearthed.
When major powers have access to satellites that can zoom in on an individual digging his garden or enable a vehicles number plate to be read - and when those nations have the reach and the firepower to wipe terrorist organisations from the face of the earth - why do they hesitate?
Are we to conclude that the mighty US isn’t up to the task? Former NSA contracted employee Edward Snowden continues to reveal America’s spying on phone calls and emails, even those that are encoded, so must we assume that al-Qaeda communicates by carrier pigeon? Rather than listen-in to the mobile calls of allied world leaders, why doesn’t the NSA concentrate on the phone calls and emails of known jihadists? I can only suppose that a destabilising entity like al-Qaeda has its uses; what they are is anyone’s guess.
Here’s what we do know.


Superficially Iran and al-Qaeda are on opposite sides, yet the 9-11 Commission report states that in the early 1990s “senior al-Qaeda operatives and trainers travelled to Iran to receive training in explosives. In July, 2011, the US accused Iran of giving safe haven to al-Qaeda operatives and assisting al-Qaeda to transit weapons, fighters and cash.
Further, the fact that most al-Qaeda leaders were also members of the Muslim Brotherhood is well-documented. Ousted Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi is believed to have allowed al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups to gain a foothold in the Sinai and lobbied the Obama administration to release Omar Abdel-Rahman better known as the “Blind Sheikh”, serving a life sentence in the US for seditious conspiracy in connection with the 1993 World Trade Centre bombings.
There are also unconfirmed reports that the Muslim Brotherhood was connected to the attack on the US embassy in Benghazi, yet, mysteriously the Obama administration has sought to punish Egypt for its failure to include the Brotherhood in its new political roadmap, never mind that the organisation considers the interim government illegitimate and rejects any participation in the political process going forward.


The presence of al-Qaeda and other foreign jihadist groups attacking regime forces as well as the Free Syrian Army is another mystery. How do they get there? Where do their weapons come from? Who is granting them access? One thing is certain, they’ve succeeded in muddying the waters; they’ve polluted the courageous, clean-hearted opposition making it more difficult for countries supporting Assad’s downfall to supply much-needed heavy weapons to bring the civil war to a swift conclusion. At the same time, their interference ‘conveniently’ permits Assad to claim that those fighting against his army are foreign-sponsored terrorists.
The US and its NATO allies have had their turn. They’ve expended blood and treasure but have been unsuccessful in eradicating al-Qaeda or deterring new recruits. It’s about time the Arab World adopts its security obligations in this regard and takes a resolute approach to this evil threatening us all before its stranglehold on our region proves unbreakable.

www.khalafalhabtoor.net

By Khalaf Ahmad Al-Habtoor
UAE Businessman
http://www.arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/200875/reftab/36/Default.aspx

 

[PeaceGen]

nice try, no prizes though.

see, plenty of terrorists went to see their maker before they could strike. the fact it aint over yet is coz muslims keep advertising their violent resistance and world-domination ideas to new young muslims, and blame their enemies for all the problems they brought onto themselves with said 'strategies'.

 

[GTR66]

This is just getting awkward since this article is posted by a Gulf businessman and i'm pretty sure he knows the Gulf states is the main backer of Al Qaeda. Aside from the government who dislikes them, their civilians is the real 'money sucking' who flow their cash to Al Qaeda because they are sympathizers. Now, how did Al Qaeda rose to power since Osama Bin Laden's death, why they are effective and who helps them?

It depends where they are. Starting from the Arab states, from Iraq to Syria is well known that the main key backer for funding is clearly pointed to the Gulf businessmen alongside with people who sympathize them who have an organization of sort of charity fundraising that sends to Al Qaeda affilitated that gives them the opportunity to purchase weapons, increase salaries to boost their reputation toward civilians and other aids that benefit their interest or needs. As the US said, despite their sucess of tackling the Qatari policy on obession with jihadi funds, Kuwait had overtaken the role and it is impossible to ease their policy because the people from the Gulf states sends their money directly to Kuwait organization namely "Ummah Fundraising" where they send their money to extremist groups via wiring because from Qatar, now believed to continue secretly to Kuwait have unrestricted their policy and fears it would destroy their reputation among their people if they restrict it. Not to mention, most natural resources i.e oils in Syria is under control of extremist groups who used for exchanges with regime force like giving the regime oils while the regime gives them weapons and for Iraq, stolen, captured and purchased weapons from former Sahwat members used from both sides of the war.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news...let-funds-flow-to-al-qaeda-in-syria/?page=all

Take a look at Libya now for example, now have been a country for a weapon store for Al Qaeda in the Maghreb and the Middle East who can go for a little shopping and it's where they flooded their weapons throughout the region and in particular, it also flooded to Somalia through Sudan to Somalia because Al Shabab has control of the port so how close is from Somalia to Yemen, the same country where the Al Qaeda has control in the South? Tunisia and Algeria admits this and faces difficulty handling them as a neighbour in post Ghaddafi Libya because now it is in the hand of Al Qaeda sympathizers except part of Tripoli (transitional government) who have less presence but possible won't exist due to numbers of assasination of officers and ranking military commanders now. Kidnapping of Libyan prime minister after Al Qaeda suspect was kidnapped is a best example of how much power Al Qaeda sympathizer has.

As for the training, the post Afghan Soviet war led to the beginning of Al Qaeda because they were trained by the US during the war in pan eight years with small weapons including manpads and understanding geographically and strategically in Afghanistan and it is where they, particular foreigners had their confidence going to Bosnia-Kosovo and Chechyna afterward and continued taking as senior role in Iraq and Syria for training then repeating with recruits who do the same thing when they become experienced. They were proper trained and trained, the list goes on whenever there is a civil war in a Muslim countries. For Pakistan, large numbers joined the Afghan-Soviet war who had experience, trained one by one when recruits come until now against the US. Some says Pakistani tribals is also trained and funded by ISI (intelligence) in Pakistan, the same goes to Afghanistan which TTP (ISI backed) has a good connection with Afghan Taliban.

Another two line on the Muslim Brotherhood alligned by al Qaeda and Iran supports Al Qaeda is completely false. Firstly, the Muslim Brotherhood is a democrate movement whereas Al Qaeda is an extremist movement who have their ambition for a global Caliphate and recently memebers of Al Qaeda had used harsh comments against the Brotherhood who had accused them for stooding idle while SCAF kills. Secondly, Iran is a Shiite majority state who had three Shiite allies and have shown unity among themselves which is Syria, Lebanon and Iraq and the same countries used for targets by Al Qaeda who place tonnes of bombs in a vehicle to detonate Shiite populated areas so eventually doesn't make Iran happy does it?

 

[elis]

Ineffective for who? the zionists banks? They've won billions with the wars.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...raq-and-Afghan-wars-could-hit-6-trillion.html