Al-Qaeda’s Suspect Humanitarianism
Posted on 06. Oct, 2010 by Raja Mujtaba in War On Terror
Is bin Laden’s concern for flood victims a ruse to destabilise Pakistan?
By Maidhc O Cathail
If we are to believe the Associated Press, that demmed elusive Osama bin Laden has spoken again.
According to the world’s oldest and largest newsgathering organization, the fugitive al-Qaeda leader, who some intelligence experts believe has been dead since December 2001, has just released an audiotape in which he calls for the creation of a new relief body to help Muslims affected by this summer’s devastating floods in Pakistan. Bin Laden, AP suggests, is “seeking to exploit discontent … by depicting the region’s governments as uncaring.”
Seemingly unfazed by news of the CIA’s 3,000-strong Counterterrorism Pursuit Teams hot on its trail, al-Qaeda, according to the AP report, has in recent weeks put out three messages, including the one featuring bin Laden, concerning the massive floods that affected around 20 million people in Pakistan, “signaling a concentrated campaign by the terror group to tap into anger over the flooding to rally support.”
AP’s sole source for the 11-minute tape, with the oddly contemplative title “Reflections on the Method of Relief Work,” is SITE Intelligence Group. The U.S.-based group, which purportedly “monitors jihadi forums,” provided AP with a copy of the message that it claims was posted on unnamed “Islamic militant websites.”
There are questions, however, about whether SITE Intelligence is the most objective source of information about terrorism.
SITE co-founder Rita Katz, an Israeli Defense Forces veteran, is an Iraqi-born Jew, whose father was publicly hanged in Iraq after the 1967 Six-Day War as an Israeli spy. Considering Tel Aviv’s obvious interest in having the world’s only superpower fight a “global war on terror” against the Jewish state’s Muslim neighbours, it somehow never occurred to Associated Press, or other mainstream media outlets, to ask the question, Like father, like daughter?
Moreover, there are reasonable grounds for suspicion about al-Qaeda’s other pronouncements on the floods in Pakistan.
In a recent video, presumably also found online by Rita Katz’s SITE, al-Qaeda’s California-born spokesman, Adam Gadahn, castigated Islamabad for its “sluggish and halfhearted” response to the floods, and called on Muslims in Pakistan to join the Islamist militants fighting the government.
Gadahn, who has since 2001 run al-Qaeda’s media wing, As-Sahab, found his way to the Islamic Society of Orange County while living with his grandfather, Carl Pearlman, a board member of the Anti-Defamation League. Ostensibly a civil rights organization set up to fight anti-Semitism, the ADL is a de facto adjunct of the Israeli government which, significantly, has been caught spying on American critics of Israel. Like grandpa, like grandson?
In a previous video, Ayman al-Zawahiri, said to be al-Qaeda’s second-in-command, also incited Pakistanis to rise up against their government due to its “failure” to provide relief to flood victims.
But when Neal Krawetz, a researcher and computer security consultant, analysed a 2006 video of al-Zawahiri for alterations and enhancements, he discovered that the logos of As-Sahab and IntelCenter (the other group supposedly tracking terrorists online) had been added at the same time.
IntelCenter is run by Ben Venzke, former director of intelligence at iDefense, a VeriSign company. VeriSign is a partner of Verint, formerly known as Comverse Infosys, which was founded by former Israeli intelligence officer Jacob “Kobi” Alexander. In 2006, Alexander fled to Namibia after the U.S. Department of Justice indicted him on multiple counts of fraud. Comverse/Verint, one of a number of Israeli eavesdropping and surveillance companies created by veterans of Unit 8200, the technology intel unit of the Israeli Defense Forces Intelligence Corps, has been widely suspected of spying on Americans.
If, as seems likely, the al-Qaeda messages concerning this summer’s floods in Pakistan are fakes, they would seem to provide further evidence of an Israeli-inspired campaign to destabilise the world’s only Islamic nuclear power.
The question then becomes, what, if anything, Islamabad will do to counter such efforts before it too goes the way of Afghanistan and Iraq.
Maidhc Ó Cathail is a writer and educator. Born and raised in Ireland, he has been living in Japan since 1999. In
addition to writing a monthly column for a popular Irish language magazine, his work is regularly published in Foreign Policy Journal, Islam Times, Khaleej Times, Opinion Maker, Salem-News.com and many more. To read more of his writing, see Maidhc Ó Cathail: Writing and Analysis.
He is a regular contributor to Opinion Maker and some other publications.
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Rehmat
06. Oct, 2010
“The truth is there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al-Qaeda. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But, there is propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the ‘devil’ only in order to drive TV watchers to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US….” Former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook.
“Al-Qaeda itself doesn’t exist, except in the fevered imagination of neocon and Likudnicks (Israeli Jew facists), some of whom, I suspect, it’s a myth, but find it exremely useful as a bogeyman to spook the public and the politicians to acquiesce in otherwise unacceptable policy initiatives at home and abroad….. R. T. Naylor, June 21, 2003.
“The myth of Al-Qaeda is built on a expansive foundations of many half-truths and hidden facts. It is a CIA creation. It was shaped by the agency to serve as a substitute ‘enemy’ for America, replacing the Soviets whom the Islamist forces had driven from Afghanistan. Unknown American officials, at an indeterminate point in time, made the decision to fabricate the tale of mythical world-wide network of Islamist terrorists from the exploits of Afghan Mujahideen. The CIA already had their network of Islamic militants ‘freedom-fighters’, all that needed was a few scatered terrorist attacks against US targets and a credible heroic figurehead, to serve as the ‘great leader’….. Peter Chamberlin, January 5, 2010.
http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/whose-al-qaeda/
Toxick1
07. Oct, 2010
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dogismyth
07. Oct, 2010
Here’s my response.
Reuters and Associated Press are one in the same. Both owned by zionists jews. All conventional media outlets get their news from either one of these news sources…for the most part.
I always read their articles with discerning eyes, and never trust them since they have been laying the propaganda groundwork for decades. Plain and simple, they are liars, and at the very best….they stretch the truth into an unrecognizable form.
Stop listening to crap! bin Laden is dead. If he was truely the bad guy, we would have caught him by now with our outstanding intelligence and military prowess. YES…the same intelligence that save us all from destruction on 9-11 (sarcasm added). bin Laden is from Saudia Arabia, where his family resides now. You want a nice target to bomb, bomb the shit out of them brown people.
Like George Carlin says….we are always killing the brown people. Never the white person.
Boycott all conventional news, whether it be radio, TV or newspaper. MOST OF THEM ARE OUTRIGHT LIARS.
Jen
07. Oct, 2010
I am sure we’re all aware that Osama bin Laden most likely died Afghanistan in December 2001 and all pronouncements attributed to him since that time are to be treated with caution or a pinch of salt at least.
The public must be fed continuing propaganda about bin Laden and Al Qa’ida in order to keep on supplying cannon fodder to continue the resources war in Afghanistan. There is no Al Qa’ida, there is only the Afghan people who must be blasted off their lands so that mining corporations can move in and steal the minerals beneath the soil.
It’s convenient also for Israel to have a buffer zone of incapacitated Muslim countries between itself and India. The recent attack on the nuclear energy plant at Bushehr, Iran, by the Stuxnet virus, possibly created by hackers for an Israeli government agency, should be viewed in this context.
Zang
07. Oct, 2010
One countries terrorsist is another countries freedom fighter !
Richard Braverman
07. Oct, 2010
Maidhc,
Pakistan is a mess. Fortuantely, as much as the people despise the army (particularly since it is a punjabi controlled organization), they hate the politicians even more. For that reason, when the security of the nation is in the balance, the public will stand with the Army. The Army is ultra-nationalistic. They may hob-nob with their western counterparts but they will fight to defend the nation. And just like Iraq, they have a two tier strategy for defense. (1) direct confrontation, which would be followed by (2) armed resistance guerrilla warfare. At stage two a huge percentage of the 180 million strong population will join the armed resistance. However, unlike their Arab brethren, they will extend the conflict into the west and, trust me, directly towards the Zionists. The Pakistani people equate to at least fifty million ardent believers who will fight. Having witnessed two hundred years of british (rothschild) interference, sixty years of Israel evil, fifty years of American stupidity, and over a decade of the internet, they are much more aware of the on the ground reality than any other targeted group in history. Israel and her agents will do their best to stir up internicine warfare, but the fifth column of fanatics living in the west and around the world will target the neo-cons and zionist one slit throat at a time. Helping to restore a necessary balance of fear into the equation. Cheers and Bring it On.
argonium79
14. Oct, 2010
Al-Qaeda’s Suspect Humanitarianism Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjZL80ic2Es