Posted on 07/04/2010 6:23:10 AM PDT by ventanax5
Shortly after the 9/11/2001 attacks, that have entered history under the too-casual shorthand of nine-eleven, the American government began to plan to conduct a war against those whom, it correctly believed, were those most immediately involved in the attack. These were the members of an identifiable group called Al Qaeda. Its head was a mediagenic son of a Saudi billionaire, Osama Bin Laden, ably seconded by the scion of a prominent Egyptian family, Ayman Al-Zawahiri (his great-uncle Azzam Pasha had been the first Secretary of the Arab League), with others who had, from their lairs in Afghanistan, been plotting against the West at least since 1993, when the first attack on the World Trade Center took place. And within months it carried out that plan, directed not only at Al Qaeda but at the Taliban that had given Al Qaeda refuge and succor in Afghanistan.
For the first few years of that war, the word Jihad was seldom used. Instead, the Americans had set out, so American political leaders said, to defeat a handful of extremists, those who had hijacked a great religion. The two most important leaders in the West, Bush and Blair, both assured the world that Islam was a religion of peace and tolerance though no historical evidence for this absurdity was adduced. Blair even let it be known that he carried a Quran around in his pocket, which was meant to suggest his appreciative familiarity with its contents.
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Does this guy know that the title “What is to be done” was used by another author? Named Lenin..
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