The middleeastern nations are fighting over some cold war idea. In fact the fight they have among each other is based on two things.
1 Territory
2 Religion
Put those together along with the history of those people and it becomes clear there are fight is older than even the mccoys and hatfields grudge.
Hmmm, but the terrorists are possibly decended from cold war groups. As was described by leaked CIA reports, but that is more of a recent thing, As I
believe the first global affect terrorism took was during the olympics in the 70s. But that was what got the world to open its eyes for a very brief
moment, and through it's ignorence they closed them. Only to reopen them ever few years since then. Terrorism as we know it may have started with the
cold war, but I am sure its been around alot longer.
Here is a record of terror made public.
1942: six German saboteurs hanged without trial [cite]
1947: National Security Council [Consortium]
1954: CIA instigates coup in Guatemala [Consortium] [NYT connection]
late 1950s: COINTELPRO created [cite]
1964: CIA creates counter-terror program in Vietnam [cite]
1967: Feb: Robert Scheer in Ramparts magazine reveals CIA has suborned leadership of National Student Association [cite] (FBI considers him under
Soviet influence)
1967: Israel's Six Day War [cite]
1967: June: ICEX (Intelligence Coordination and Exploitation Program) [cite] (later renamed Phoenix Program)
1967: Aug: MHCHAOS founded for 'Operation Chaos' within CIA under Richard Ober (himself under James Angleton) [cite] [cite]
1968-72: PLO airplane hijackings [cite]
1969: Jun: Nixon directs CHAOS against dissidents [cite]
1969: Oct: CHAOS begins recruiting double-agents from anti-war and black-power movements [cite]
1970: May: 7-10,000 CHAOS dossiers on US dissidents transferred to HYDRA computer [cite] (eventually number 300,000)
1970: 15Sept: Nixon orders CIA to make Chile's economy 'scream' [cite]
1970: Dec: Nixon forms Intelligence Evaluation Committee under Robert Mardian [cite]
1971: Liddy and Hunt direct CHAOS to spy on Nixon's political enemies [cite]
1971: 15Jul: NYTimes reports 26,843 non-military executions by Phoenix Program in previous 14 months [cite]
1972: PLO assault at Munich Olympics [cite] [Yahoo links]
1972: Jul: new CIA director Colby makes Ober head of International Terrorism Group [cite]
1973: Sept: Chilean military coup, planned by CIA [cite]
1973: Sept: Colby scapegoats Angleton for illegal CIA activities [cite]
1974: abolition of 'Bomb School' in Los Fresnos, Texas [cite]
1974: Mar: MHCHAOS officially dissolved [cite]
1974: Mar: Ober replaced as head of ITG [cite]
1975: Apr: John Ryan new head of ITG (still no Chaos files destroyed) [cite]
mid-70s: terrorism widely adopted as strategy [cite]
1976: George HW Bush, DCI of CIA, directs campaign of terror in Latin America [cite]
mid-1976: anticipating Ford's losing election, CIA terror operatives move underground, resigning to work for private firms, especially under Edwin P
Wilson [cite]
1977: Howard Bane new head of ITG [cite] buys black helicopters [cite]
1977: Edwin Wilson sells C4 explosive to Gaddafi [cite]
1977: Oct: 600 CIA ops fired in 'Halloween Massacre', Air America dissolved [cite]
1977: Nov: Wm Sullivan killed in 'hunting accident' before he can testify on illegal FBI wiretaps [cite]
1977-1980: 'CIA privateers' continue operations in shadows; Delta Force and Navy Seals' Team Six organised [cite]
1979: 04Nov: US Embassy in Tehran, Iran taken over by Islamic fundamentalists, all CIA records compromised [cite] [Consortium]
1980: 25Apr: hostage rescue fails [cite]
1980: Sept: Iraq/ Saddam Hussein invade Iran [cite] [Consortium]
1980: 19Oct: GWH Bush makes secret deal with Iran [cite] [Consortium]
1980s: Oliver North runs Iran-Contra scam [cite]
1981-1992: US covert ops in El Salvador [Consortium]
1981: Casey expands Office of Domestic Terrorism into Counter-Terror Network [cite]
1981: Oct: Anwar Sadat assassinated by CIA-trained bodyguards [cite]
1982-1991: School of the Americas trains Latin Americans in torture [Consortium]
1982: Israeli double-agent Michael Ledeen suggests arms sales to fund covert ops [cite]
1982: Casey engineers legal change so CIA assets can smuggle coc aine [Consortium]
1982: May: Ariel Sharon invades Lebanon and slaughters Palestinians [cite]
1982: FBI's Domestic Terrorism Group organised [cite]
1983: Israeli intelligence agency Mossad begins spying on foreign intelligence services via PROMIS software [Consortium]
1983: Korean Airlines disaster [Consortium]
1983: Casey conscripts Ollie North as CIA's man in National Security Council [cite]
1983: Feb: North develops secret Crisis Management Center [cite]
1983: Wilson convicted of selling C4 to Gaddafi [cite]
1983: 23Oct: Beirut Marines bombed [cite]
1984: NSC's Michael Leeden proposes illegal arms sales to Iran [cite]
1984: 16Mar: Hezbollah kidnap Beirut CIA-chief Wm Buckley [cite]
1984: Apr: North forms Terrorist Incident Working Group [cite]
1985: Jonathan Pollard arrested for spying for Israel
1985: Mar: carbomb kills 80 Lebanese, probably a CIA operation [cite]
1985: Jun: GHW Bush forms Terrorism Task Force [cite]
1986: 20Jan: Ollie North heads Office to Combat Terrorism [cite] [Consortium]
1989: 03Nov: Ari Ben-Menashe arrested for selling arms to Iran [Consortium] (acquitted Nov1990)
1994: 24Dec: Bush pardons Clarridge, Weinburger, Abrams, McFarlane, Fiers, and George [cite]
2001? General Wayne Downing appointed Deputy National Security Adviser [cite]
2001: Jan: Hart and Rudman's Commission on National Security [cite]
2001: 01Oct: Michael Ledeen (bio; Mossad?) blames Clintons in National Review Online [cite] [etext]