Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden's terrorist organisation, driven out of Afghanistan and defeated in Iraq, is re-emerging in strength in three alternative safe havens for training, operational planning and recruiting - Pakistan, Somalia and Algeria - according to Western intelligence and defence sources.
Posted Jul 1, 2008 05:12 PM PSTCategory: CURRENT EVENTS
You mean THESE "Al Qaeda" (nudge nudge wink wink)? (Ahem)
It is baldly obvious where the propaganda is going here.
Pakistan is being demonized for not hitting their radicals hard enough to keep them from cross border attacks in Afghanistan.
The US and NATO are hoping to step up pressure on the Pakistani government to have a very strong Western military presence on Pakistani soil, something that they have heretofore refused, and something that would compromise any sense of being a sovereign government to the Pakistani people
And what do Somalia and Algeria have in common that this articlerefuses to mention?Oil, and natural gas.
In 2006, oil and natural gas exports made up 98% of Algerian exports.
And the West wants those resources...badly.
In an article by Carl Bloise out of "thirdworldtraveler.com", from www.zmag.org, January 16, 2007, the following facts were stated:
"Currently, the US gets about 10 percent of its oil from Africa, but, the Monitor story said but 'some experts say it may need to rely on the continent for as much as 25 percent by 2010.' Reportedly, nearly two-thirds of Somalia's oil fields were allocated to the U.S. oil companies Conoco, Amoco, Chevron and Phillips before Somalia's pro-U.S. President Mohamed Siad Barre was overthrown in January, 1991."
And the people in these three countries?
Generally living in grinding poverty, with only a few of the elite enjoying the good life at the top.
When people believe that they have a possibility of a better future, and more sharing in the wealth these countries are producing, they generally aren't going to be picking up rifles or setting off bombs.
But what countless administrations seem to be continuing to do in these countries - in a way that is almost terrifyingly pathological - is to support tinpot dictators for as long as they can, extract what they and the corporations who support them want, then are suddenly amazed when citizens of these countries want some of the rewards their natural resources are bringing to actually return to the citizens of those countries.
It is baldly obvious where the propaganda is going here.
Pakistan is being demonized for not hitting their radicals hard enough to keep them from cross border attacks in Afghanistan.
The US and NATO are hoping to step up pressure on the Pakistani government to have a very strong Western military presence on Pakistani soil, something that they have heretofore refused, and something that would compromise any sense of being a sovereign government to the Pakistani people
And what do Somalia and Algeria have in common that this articlerefuses to mention?Oil, and natural gas.
In 2006, oil and natural gas exports made up 98% of Algerian exports.
And the West wants those resources...badly.
In an article by Carl Bloise out of "thirdworldtraveler.com", from www.zmag.org, January 16, 2007, the following facts were stated:
"Currently, the US gets about 10 percent of its oil from Africa, but, the Monitor story said but 'some experts say it may need to rely on the continent for as much as 25 percent by 2010.' Reportedly, nearly two-thirds of Somalia's oil fields were allocated to the U.S. oil companies Conoco, Amoco, Chevron and Phillips before Somalia's pro-U.S. President Mohamed Siad Barre was overthrown in January, 1991."
And the people in these three countries?
Generally living in grinding poverty, with only a few of the elite enjoying the good life at the top.
When people believe that they have a possibility of a better future, and more sharing in the wealth these countries are producing, they generally aren't going to be picking up rifles or setting off bombs.
But what countless administrations seem to be continuing to do in these countries - in a way that is almost terrifyingly pathological - is to support tinpot dictators for as long as they can, extract what they and the corporations who support them want, then are suddenly amazed when citizens of these countries want some of the rewards their natural resources are bringing to actually return to the citizens of those countries.
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