"More often than not"?
Hmph. They seem pretty universally antagonistic and violent against just about every possible aspect of Western civilization to me. What's a "more often" example of "pawn"?
We all know how our government, under Clinton, enlisted Al Qaeda to fight against CHRISTIANS in the Balkans. And of course the origins of Al Qaeda during Operation Cyclone. It just seems to me every time there’s pressure on the government, some kind of flimsy terror warning comes out (today’s terror color is magenta BTW). Hell, the FBI had an informant inside the blind sheik’s inner circle and knew about the plan to bomb the WTC a year before it happened.