Algeria attack and the al-Qaeda penetration of Africa
It is sincerely mysterious “al-Qaeda” has a knack of showing up in places targeted by the neocons. For instance, Africa, in particular Somalia and, more recently, Algeria. “Terrorist bomb attacks in Algeria yesterday show al-Qaeda and its allies pose a ‘very real threat’ in North Africa, the U.S. State Department said,” reports Bloomberg. “Al-Qaeda is a ‘current and persistent’ threat in the region, department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters in Washington yesterday…. Islamic militants are becoming more active in North Africa, particularly in the Maghreb region of Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria where they have joined forces with al-Qaeda.”
Hmm… this reminds me… I’ve never totally bought into the “al-Qaeda” myth. Goes right back to the very early days of Bush’s “War on Terror”… I recollect reading a number of articles exploring the genesis of this mysterious “terrorist organisation” most of which, as I remember, seemed to tie it in to certain unsavoury types in the American Establishment.
I’ll see if I can locate them. Might make for an interesting “Briefing” page on the main TaW site.
-- fotdmike
