[Nettime-bold] global civil war

["Ivo Skoric" <ivo@reporters.net>]

Al Qaeda would be most happy if people around the world would 
fear to leave their homes and if their leaders would tremble in terror. 
The goal is to have world political leaders make decisions to 
appease Al Qaeda. Particularly the Middle Eastern political 
leaders. Key countries like Algeria, Sudan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, 
UAE, Pakistan, where the infiltration by Al Qaeda political viral 
infection is the strongest, in the "ideal" scenario would have puppet 
leaders that would answer to Bin Laden, who would thus excersise 
control over the world's most important commodity (oil) and who 
would be the Calif, the Sheikh of the Mountain from the ancient 
legend of Alamut, that he so succesfully revived by uniting various 
terrorist groups in his umbrella 'foundation' type organization, 
sharing intelligence and resources among them. "Cells" are 
perhaps spread everywhere around the planet - well trained 
individuals who are ready to give their lives for Al Qaeda at any 
moment. Anything would do. Fake hijacking in India. Derranged 
individuals in buses in Midwest US. Outbreaks of hemorragic fever 
in Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan. A lone case of anthrax 
infection in Florida (first in 25 years). Destruction of a Russian 
airplane full of Israeli passengers over Black Sea. On purpose, I 
didn't yet open CNN today.

Suddenly, all those events, that otherwise would be viewed as 
unrelated, or that even may be unrelated, and even coincidental, do 
not seem so, despite the insistence of the authorities and 
mainstream media that they are. Perhaps, to avoid widespread 
panic, Ukrainian misfired surface-to-air missile would do better than 
yet another mem-with-box-cutters scenario. But then, there is also 
the TWA flight 800 - which was never fully solved and in which case 
the US misfired surface-to-air missile was suspected but officially 
denied. Could that airplane have been destroyed in some sort of 
rehersal operation? Al Qaeda wants us guessing - what? where? 
and how? it would strike next. But, eventually, the 'cells' will 
exhaust themselves, some will be caught, some will unfortunatelly 
carry their assignment to the gruesome end. New cells will be 
harder to build if "the base" is cut off from the world. The only thing 
that can defeat the world in a long term is the fear build-up 
(something that in 11th century with no TV was not possible). 

Meanwhile, most of Afgnanis are trying to flee the country fearing 
American aerial onslaught - some of them are even afraid of nuclear 
strikes. While those were never considered by the US, or anybody 
else, this testifies that Afghanis do understand the extend of global 
rage their leadership caused by hosting Al Qaeda's headquarters. 
On the other hand, the US government is essentially bending over 
backwards to show that it changed its ways and that it wants to be 
a friend and a benefactor of the world. At home, Bush is showering 
people with money (where is he getting all those trillions from?), 
bailing out businisses, raising minimum wage, extending 
unemployment benefits, making it easier to apply for social 
services, healthcare, etc. Abroad, the US is patiently building 
coalition with some of the previously most unlikely allies, suddenly 
recognizing Islam as a major religion, lifting up trade restrictions, 
rescheduling loans of the poor nations, talking about Palestinian 
state and planning to 'bomb' Afghanistan with bread. Wouldn't it be 
so much better if those policy changes occurred before the 
September 11 disaster?

ivo


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