Was this sheer incompetence – or is there something else going on? The scale of the intelligence mistakes surrounding the case of suspected Christmas Day underwear bomber Omar Farouk Abdul Muttalab are such, that many people, particularly Muslims, suspect that there is some “hidden force” behind the story.
According to columnist Hilmi Al Asmar of Jordan’s Ad Dustour newspaper, that unseen force is the “terrorism industry,” which is bent on maintaining public fear of Muslims and therefore, retaining control of U.S. policy making.
For Ad Dustour, Hilmi Al Asmar writes in part:
The smell of the “terrorism industry” reeks from accounts published about Nigerian Omar Farouk Abdul Muttalab’s Christmas Day attempt to bomb a Detroit-bound airliner. A study of the story’s details makes one unsure that the event happened as described and suggests that the scenario is a fabrication.
I was reluctant about revealing such feelings until I read a posting on what purports to be an Internet site belonging to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula – where the group takes credit for the operation. According to the site, al-Qaeda, which vows to slaughter Americans as a response to their “aggression” in Yemen, calls the incident one of its “achievements.”
That statement alone is enough for policymakers to blame it on al-Qaeda, terrorism, and of course, Islam. This is how a system that benefits from the fear mongering surrounding terror succeeds in restoring itself to the center of policy making in the United States and among its allies. Following a reduction of operations they call “terrorist,” this will bring the situation back to square one – where it stood after the September 11 attacks.
By Hilmi Al Asmar
Translated By Nicolas Dagher
December 30, 2009
Jordan – Ad Dustour – Original Article (Arabic)
The smell of the “terrorism industry” reeks from accounts published about Nigerian Omar Farouk Abdul Muttalab’s Christmas Day attempt to bomb a Detroit-bound airliner. A study of the story’s details makes one unsure that the event happened as described and suggests that the scenario is a fabrication.
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