Al-Qaeda' Second Front

 

I'd like to hear what some of us has to say about this. Al-Qaeda even learned to bomb the embassies, knowing that inexperienced CIA intelligence start their network in foreign countries from embassies. While this is old news, the fact that Al-Qaeda are understanding how Americans fight kind of scares me.

 

What I said isn't a "conspiracy theory", I stopped believing in them after 9/11. What I meant was simple. Certain western countries have an interest to inflate the threat of terrorism and Al-Qaeda because it is a convinient method to achieve certain goals, like the occupation of Iraq for example. Al-Qaeda is a real organization, yet it was of limited capability, what happened is it was turned into an international franchise because of what happened in 9/11. People in algeria won't support the GIA, so change the name into "Al-Qaeda in the Maghreb" and lo and behold, funds will start coming from ignorant people.

 

There is no coordination between all the groups that claim to be Al-Qaeda not a common goal, except killing as much people as they can. The original goal of Al-Qaeda has been always to topple the Saudi Regime but since such an idea has'nt become popular yet they turned on other targets hoping that one day this would be a plausible idea.

 

Al-Jassas

 

Sorry for not responding earlier. About the long term interests in occupying Iraq, well, have you seen Burn Up? There was a real scare about the size of reserves in Saudi Arabia when a disgruntled high official in Aramco who didn't get the promotion he wanted went and told people that the proven reserves are much less than what was previously thought, what made his claim seem credible was a new seismic survey in the eastern province, the reopening of old wells abandoned for financial reasons and other stuff. Well the guy was a financier and not an oil engineer or a geologists, what he didn't know tht there were 4 massive field all previously unknown were under developement two of them are now in production and the other two are been put in reserve. The proven reserves turned out to be much more than anticipated. However, despite all of this Saudi Arabia will reach peak output somehwere in 2020 with nearly 20 million barrels/day. this won't be for long and the production levels are going to be in 2030 less then what they are today, probably of course. Now if this will happen to the biggest oil produces what will happen to the small ones? Already Oman, the UAE, Qatar and Bahrain consume more than what they export and many wells have dried up in Bahrain, Oman and Iran. Dubai Now imports oil from neighbours. With Iraq and Iran both having as much, or probably even more as some new studies suggest, as Saudi Arabia then securing Oil will be important. If you are dreaming of the return to 4 pound petrol then dream again, those are long gone days.

 

Al-Jassas

Originally posted by Zagros I agree, but I use the term as an umbrella for groups with a similar ideology.

 

Even this is open to debate.  I remember that Zarqaoui and Osama Ben Laden were not actually close in terms of ideology.  Al Qaida is to my eyes a name a terrorist can claim to win a little more credibility.