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With regard to the so-called claim of responsibility for the London bombings from an unknown Al-Qaeda group which the British government is treating as 'serious,' MSNBC reported.
MSNBC TV translator Jacob Keryakes, who said that a copy of the message was later posted on a secular Web site, noted that the claim of responsibility contained an error in one of the Quranic verses it cited. That suggests that the claim may be phony, he said.
"This is not something al-Qaida would do," he said.
Furthermore, the website posting doesn't even claim personal responsibility, it simply references "the heroic mujahedeen" in the third person. The posting praises the attack, it doesn't even take responsibility for it.
These facts didn't stop countless newspapers and Neo-Con websites automatically assuming Al-Qaeda was behind the attack
Originally posted by Barcs
Of course, reguardless, all you hear about on the news is Al Queda this and Al Queda that......
Originally posted by AlexofSkye
CyberKat, you make a good point. The way the term "Al Quada" is used these days, is often just short hand for pointing at Islamic extremists, as opposed to the "real" organization.
Originally posted by AlexofSkye
EastCoastKid, I'm not going to get drawn into your fantasies. "Maybe" it was all kinds of possible perpetrators, but we shouldn't give credence to anybody who cares to create a mischievous post (which costs nothing). These kinds of musings are nothing new. Some people even used to claim that FDR "caused" Pearl Harbour to happen, just to provide an excuse to enter the US into WW II. Its nonsense. So is the idea that any US administration would wreak havoc on its own allies, never mind its own people. It just doesn't make any kind of sense.
Google is power.
Originally posted by SportyMB
Anyways, Google works both ways
It all depends on who is doing the Googleing
Born in Saudi Arabia to a Yemeni family, Bin Laden left Saudi Arabia in 1979 to fight against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
The Afghan jihad was backed with American dollars and had the blessing of the governments of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
He received security training from the CIA itself, according to Middle Eastern analyst Hazhir Teimourian.
While in Afghanistan, he founded the Maktab al-Khidimat (MAK), which recruited fighters from around the world and imported equipment to aid the Afghan resistance against the Soviet army.
Egyptians, Lebanese, Turks and others - numbering thousands in Bin Laden's estimate - joined their Afghan Muslim brothers in the struggle against an ideology that spurned religion.
Turned against the US
news.bbc.co.uk...