Al-Qaeda and Osama Work for "First World Sponsors"
The Tehran Times today published an article titled “Al-Qaeda, the Global Renamo.” For those too young to remember, the Renamo guerrillas were anti-Marxists supported by the apartheid Republic of South Africa to destabilize its neighbor Mozambique. Additional support reputedly came from the United States and Saudi Arabia. The article states:
The article criticizes Al-Qaeda for its lack of “extensive social welfare programs: informal banking, food distribution, basic health service, and, of course, ideological education. I doubt that Osama bin Laden would disagree. The reality is that innumerable Islamist and Jihadist groups supplement Al-Qaeda’s efforts in many of these areas.
Of course the most important allegation in the article is that Al-Qaeda actually works on the behalf of unnamed “First World sponsors.”
Iran, in the international forefront of accusations that the Holocaust was a fraud, now wishes the world to believe that Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri are actually tools of some great power, undoubtedly the Great Satan itself—the United States. The concept is one that we are all familiar with: the “war of terror” is nothing more than a great hoax perpetrated by Bush and Blair so that they can wage war against Islam. Since it’s a bit much, given some of bin Laden’s recent pronouncements, to continue to charge that the attacks on 911 were actually carried out by the CIA or the Mossad, the claim is changing: Osama and company were the guilty parties, but they work for the United States. The concept has the additional advantage of belittling al-Qaeda vis-à-vis the Islamic Republic of Iran in the battle for leadership among the Muslims.
Conspiracy theories run deep and strong in the Islamic world.
Al-Qaeda is in fact another version of the Renamo guerrillas, but a little more global. The basic concept of how it evolved and its core mission are much the same. Yes it doesn’t sound too exciting, but in reality that is all it is.
The article criticizes Al-Qaeda for its lack of “extensive social welfare programs: informal banking, food distribution, basic health service, and, of course, ideological education. I doubt that Osama bin Laden would disagree. The reality is that innumerable Islamist and Jihadist groups supplement Al-Qaeda’s efforts in many of these areas.
Of course the most important allegation in the article is that Al-Qaeda actually works on the behalf of unnamed “First World sponsors.”
The Renamo guerrillas and Al-Qaeda had and have only one primary similarity and agenda, and that is death, destruction, and destabilization on behalf of foreign First World sponsors, nothing more. Most of their members have been provided with training and arms from First World countries. To be brought out of the pocket when convenient, and put back in again when necessary.
Iran, in the international forefront of accusations that the Holocaust was a fraud, now wishes the world to believe that Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri are actually tools of some great power, undoubtedly the Great Satan itself—the United States. The concept is one that we are all familiar with: the “war of terror” is nothing more than a great hoax perpetrated by Bush and Blair so that they can wage war against Islam. Since it’s a bit much, given some of bin Laden’s recent pronouncements, to continue to charge that the attacks on 911 were actually carried out by the CIA or the Mossad, the claim is changing: Osama and company were the guilty parties, but they work for the United States. The concept has the additional advantage of belittling al-Qaeda vis-à-vis the Islamic Republic of Iran in the battle for leadership among the Muslims.
Conspiracy theories run deep and strong in the Islamic world.
