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> I have always doubted the omni-tentacular, ubiquitous, far-reaching character ascribed to Al Qaeda as an all-powerful international terrorist conspiracy In t
by hasenj 16y ago
> I have always doubted the omni-tentacular, ubiquitous, far-reaching character ascribed to Al Qaeda as an all-powerful international terrorist conspiracy
In the Arab world, this image is ascribed to the Zionist-Right-Wing-American conspiracy. Some radical conspiracy theorists even claim that all current revolutions in the Arab world are plans by the Zionists to change Arab regimes without resorting to a full-scale military invasion.
- abalashov 16y agoWhich is strange, given that most of the imperiled or 'changed' regimes are not especially anti-Israeli. I mean in reality, apart from the perfunctory rhetorical barbs for domestic consumption.
- hasenj 16y agoSome of these conspiracy theorists are themselves a part of the propaganda machine for the various ruling regimes, but what troubles me is that some people actually find these ideas plausible: "You know brother, the Americans are not asleep like us, they calculate things well".