I still have a hard time believing the al Qaeda is what they say it is.
The US embassy bombings in East Africa took place in 1998 and the US gov't wanted to prosecute bin Laden, and then they used laws that were meant to
prosecute organized crime groups like the Mafia, where being a member of this group is cruical.
So they found this sudanese militant who was in bin Ladens little group back in the day, he then happily, in exchange of safe haven in the US and a
few hundred grand, drew up this picture about al Qaeda, basicly saying it's an all powerful international terrorist network, that bin Laden is the
leader of it and so forth.
Even Blair said in a interview on Fox News that "al Qaeda isn't a organisation, it's a way of working."
I'll try to find some articles before those embassy bombings, perhaps I'll find some, perhaps not.
EDIT: Well I couldn't find anything on al Qaeda before the embassy bombings in 1998, but I found a article on CNN two months before the
embassy bombings, where they talked about bin Laden and a group of his followers.
In that article bin Laden had vowed to wage a holy war against Americans and westerners in the mid-east.
www.cnn.com...
So two months before the attacks it was "bin Laden and a group of his followers", then a few days after the attacks it's "the international
terrorist network al Qaeda led by bin Laden."
[edit on 20/11/2005 by SwearBear]