Ayoon Wa Azan (Al Qaeda, As an Organization, Has Expired)
Jihad el-Khazen Al-Hayat - 05/11/06//
America's misunderstanding of what is happening in our country cannot be ascribed to innocence. I know that people are idiots; however, I do not believe that they are that ignorant. I hope the reader will excuse me for repeating an important subject that came back to the fore last week.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki visited Washington last July, and met with President Bush. He addressed a joint Session of Congress that was boycotted by some members, because Mr. Maliki condemned Israel's aggression and refused to condemn Hezbollah.
At the time, I wrote that the Iraqi Prime Minister is a Shiite of the Daawa Party. He spent his years of exile in Iran. He is supported by the young Shiite leader, Muqtada al-Sadr. I said that Mr. Maliki is so close to Hezbollah, that all he lacks is a membership card.
I broached the subject on October 11, after the Iraqi Premier came under the lash for failing to crush the Shiite militias. I reminded the Americans that to begin with, he belongs to that particular Iraqi group.
I neither criticized nor defended Mr. Maliki, but I mentioned a fact that we all know, but that is denied by the Bush administration, which refuses to admit who the Prime Minister is or acknowledge the consequences of the deteriorating disaster in Iraq.
Last week, Mr. Maliki re-affirmed what we all know: he denied that he agreed with President Bush on a timetable for handing over security to the Iraqis. He said that Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad had not been accurate when talking about specific dates. Most important, he brushed aside the US' conviction that the Shiite death squads are the greatest danger to Iraq, and said that he and Muqtada al-Sadr agreed that all political groups must focus on the most serious challenge: al-Qaeda and the Baathist Saddamists. This also underpins Maliki's status inside Iraq.
I claim to be more objective than both the Bush administration and the Iraqi government. I would add that the Shiite death squads, al-Qaeda and the Saddamists are a threat to Iraq's future. Nevertheless, I would conclude that Mr. Maliki represents a group in Iraq that has deep-rooted convictions. The Americans, therefore, must stop trying to make him play a role he was not cut out for if they really want to stem the upsurge of violence.
I have other examples to offer:
The Web-based 'Front Page Magazine' is a publication of the extreme right, which includes some of the pro-Israeli warmongers on its staff. A few days ago on the Magazine's Website, I found a news story entitled: 'Symposium: Al-Qaeda's Nukes', which reminded me of the Iraqi 'nuclear weapons'. The article falls in ten pages. I skipped the first page, because it listed the names of the participants. On the second page, the first speaker says that the danger of these weapons is real, and that al-Qaeda purchased them from Chechnya, the Russian Mafia, and black market arms dealers from Ukraine.
I say that this is an impudent lie. Individuals cannot know what the intelligence services in the West and the East are unable to know. The whole issue aims to intimidate people into supporting every future war under the pretext of combating terrorism.
I also say that al-Qaeda, as an organization, has expired, and nothing is left of it except an ideology represented by terrorist cells around the world, most of which we do not know.
Israeli extremists will find al-Qaeda's nukes when they find Saddam Hussein's.
In the last few days, the 'Washington Times' published some despicable articles. I will only speak about two of them on Hezbollah. The paper suffers from nightmares about the Lebanese Resistance, following Israel's military fiasco.
One of these article's says, 'Iran, Syria rebuild Hezbollah'; and the other speaks of 'Hezbollah's Deadly Chess Match'. It claims that Hezbollah deliberately targets civilians - not Israeli, but Lebanese.
The writer of the first article attributes the claim to the Israeli Deputy Prime Minister, Shaul Mofaz - as if Mr. Mofaz could have said something else. The writer of the second article tries to hold Hezbollah culpable for all the Nazi-like crimes committed by Israel against Lebanese civilians, and which angered the civilized world. We only have to believe that Israel now knows what the war proved it is ignorant of, and that Hezbollah fighters sacrifice their families and children.
These are not mistakes, but a contribution to Israel's crime by covering it up.
I conclude with a different subject and the reference to more intentional 'ignorance'. The pro-Israeli Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) published a feature entitled: 'New Saudi Rules on Succession: Will They fix the Problem?'
What problem? There is a history within living testimony. The kings of Saudi Arabia were rapidly succeeded several times without any problems. Heirs were immediately appointed by kings. The 25-article allegiance Law explains itself. However, some still insist that there is a problem, because having a problem serves their interests, although the problem did not emerge when the founding king passed away more than half a century ago, or when his son, King Fahd, died last year. And there were no problems with all the kings that came in between.
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