The 'War on Terror' Is Over
It's unlikely you will find many informed, credible intelligence experts, or realistic 'terror experts' who will dispute the claims of former CIA officer Mark Sageman, who said yesterday that Al Qaeda is now headed by a mere two dozen or so people, who are mostly cut off from those who they are trying to convince must carry out their orders.
So why do politicians, security corporations and the mainstream media tell us that Al Qaeda threatens the lives of everyone, and could tear the social fabric of entire nations apart?
Well, why do you think?
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Former CIA case officer turned psychiatrist Marc Sageman told the Safeguarding Australia Summit in Canberra yesterday the typical profile of a terrorist had changed since the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the Iraq invasion.
Dr Sageman said al-Qaeda's leaders had been all but cut off from the current crop of jihadists and comprised no more than two dozen people.
The threat was now coming from home-grown young men in their early 20s who recruited mostly on the internet.
Dr Sageman said there were "potentially thousands" of these "new" terrorists, although they were incapable of replacing older terror networks because of their self-organising, independent structure. Many were petty criminals or gang members who eventually drifted back to their Islamic roots.
Their actions were inspired by a sense of "moral outrage" at perceived grievances against Muslims, usually focusing on Iraq, reinforced by personal experiences of alienation in their host countries.
According to Sageman, and a host of other realistic experts and threat assessors, there is no worldwide network of Al Qaeda terrorists and 'terror cells' lying in wait to nuke cities.
There is, instead, just a couple of dozen leaders now cut off from viable communications with their supposed 'cells', and struggling to remain relevant in a world where more than a billion Muslims have totally rejected their insane ideology and appalling violence.
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When the dust finally settles on the 'War on Terror', the next generation will look back on the politicians, media and security corporations mega-hyping of the Al Qaeda threat, and view it all in a similar way to how we now look back on those who claimed their nations were infected with witches in the 1600s and 1700s. That is, with disbelief and disdain.
Future generations will also probably wonder why leaders like President Bush, former British prime minister Tony Blair and soon-to-be-former Australian prime minister John Howard expounded so much energy, money and fear-mongering in hyping the "worldwide" threat posed by Al Qaeda.
Other credible intelligence experts have claimed the worldwide leadership of Al Qaeda numbers in the dozens, and the total number of wannabe Islamist terrorists in the entire world numbers perhaps 20,000 or so, many of whom will never go beyond thinking of waging terror-soaked jihad.
The 'War on Terror' must be refocused to a policing battle against criminal elements who desire to use terrorism for revenge or to alter the political landscape of their home countries.
The 9/11 attacks were not "acts of war". They were horrific and deadly attacks by criminals, and should always have been treated as such.
If one nation doesn't like the way another nation allows extremist ideology and hatred to ferment, then they shouldn't be doing business with them. Don't by their oil, don't soak up their gas and minerals, and don't stoke the fires of hatred.
As recent terror attacks in India, Pakistan, the United Kingdom and Afghanistan have shown, acts of terrorism now do little, if anything, to change the political status quo.
The terrorist violence makes the masses simply hate violent terrorists, and those who encourage them or give them publicity, whether that be ridiculous religious leaders, desperate politicians or supplicant media, all feasting on the misery of human misfortune and brutal hatred.
The 'War on Terror' has seen more than a trillion dollars poured into the bank accounts of arms contractors and security corporations around the world, and the "We're Pursuing Terrorists" excuse has allowed countries like the United States, Russia, China, the United Kingdom and Australia, to name a few, to wind back the civil rights of its people, and to ramp up a cloying atmosphere of repression, anti-free speech and security overload.
Al Qaeda and the terrorists it inspires pose a threat. But the actual level of threat to the majority of the people in any nation is clearly minimal, regardless of what the media or politicians tell you, or what some security corporation, hoping for another $50 million contract to install thousands of security cameras and 'screening' technology, claims.
The snouts-in-the-trough feasting and splurging of taxpayers money on the 'WoT' and security state implementation has to stop.
