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The war on terror – Endgame : Comments

By Kevin McDonald, published 12/5/2011

If the groups claiming allegiance to Osama bin Laden have been fragmenting over the past five years, his death is likely to accelerate this process.

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Yabby
Foreign policies do have an impact on the growth of terrorism and on poverty, economic wellbeing of people worldwide. Foreign policy is nearly always originate from economic interests and in the current global world centre heavily around free trade and economic pressure. Read some of the Wikileaks cables written by US Embassy staff and draw your own conclusions. Just keep an open mind.

Nobody said anything about conspiracy theories. Valid conclusions can be drawn by the actions of governments or any organisation. I think it is pretty certain now that there were no WMDs in Iraq nor did the US government really believe this to be the case. What were the real motives? These questions need to be asked.

Transparency is always preferable in governments that purport to represent the people and who are engaged by the citizenry.
Posted by pelican, Thursday, 12 May 2011 6:41:23 PM
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The reason the USA/ is demonising Pakistan via Osama's so called death,is that Saudi Arabia is seeking a defence pact with Pakistan.The oil rich Muslim world have had enough of Western Imperialists with their naked aggression and political interference.It is the western banking system via the IMF and World Bank that keeps these countries in perpetual debt and poverty,while the few have more money than they could spend in a thousand life times.

Yabby the world is fast awakening to the next world war both the USA and its corporate masters are pushing us towards.Do you want the mushroom treatment Yabby with the mushroom cloud?
Posted by Arjay, Thursday, 12 May 2011 6:57:11 PM
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“The key movements shaping the Arab world are movements for democracy. These, rather than security services, will bring the end of jihadism”

As we all, in all parts of the planet are constantly and unsuccessfully trying to get into democracy, jihadism will have a long life.
Posted by skeptic, Thursday, 12 May 2011 7:26:49 PM
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*I think it is pretty certain now that there were no WMDs in Iraq nor did the US government really believe this to be the case. What were the real motives?*

So Pelican, stretch your memory back. After the UN imposed no flight
zones over the Kurds, as Saddam had gassed them. UN inspectors
were constantly thwarted when trying to inspect Iraq for nuclear
materials. They were hamstrung at every turn, as Saddam decided to
bluff that he might have the bomb. He figured that if he could
convince the West that he did, nobody would dare attack him.

Nobody really knew if he did or he was bluffing. He certainly went
through a whole lot of effort to pretend that he did.

He gambled and lost.

If you really want to know what bin Laden's brand of Islam believes,
check out what the Salafists believe. Read a copy of "Milestones",
by Sayid Qutb. Qutb's brother educated bin Laden in Saudi Arabia,
after Qutb was killed in Egypt.

The global Caliphate is very much the aim.
Posted by Yabby, Thursday, 12 May 2011 8:01:36 PM
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Yabby: you have the gall to call others "conspiracy theorists". Global caliphate!!
If you must insist on rewriting history do some research beforehand so that your arguments are at least halfway plausible. You might like to start with Hans Blix' book on his experience with Iraq, rather than relying on the neocon's justification on why they had to attack Iraq: we thought he had nuclear weapons!! Give me a break.
Posted by James O'Neill, Thursday, 12 May 2011 9:33:23 PM
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*If you must insist on rewriting history do some research beforehand*

Ah, there you go James, that is what I actually did. Now go and
do your homework and learn what Sayid Qutb actually believed,
wrote about and in the end preached and why his version of Islam,
along with a few other scholars, is what has driven the extreme
militant agenda.

No photographs, tv, videos, no girls schools etc, did not happen
in Afghanistan by accident. Omar follows the same school as
bin Laden, that is why they got on. And yes, a global Caliphate
is their version of the world as it should be.

Religious nuts they may be, be we all pay a price for that.
Posted by Yabby, Thursday, 12 May 2011 9:59:57 PM
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