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That sound you're hearing is my mind desperately trying to avoid thinking about this.
Phil Dick was right. "The Empire Never Ended."
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What on earth makes them think, "this time, THIS TIME, it won't become a horrible clusterfuck that will follow us back home and completely fuck everything for the next decade!"?
No, no, man... THIS TIME it will be different.
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Oh, right :oops:
I did see that Al-Qaeda connection, but more as a direct result of the secret intelligence network, and that it appeared we were going through the same routine again, which would lead to another fiasco, in the same vein as Al-Qaeda.
Holyshit Cain. Thanks for this, but @_@
Quote from: - on October 23, 2013, 08:39:16 PM
Uh, I don't know what you're both talking about (Syria?), I was talking about Al-Qaeda.
A couple of the 9/11 hijackers had accounts at Riggs bank, and there are strongly suspected links between the organization and Prince Turki. Al-Qaeda made money controlling the heroin trade out of Afghanistan. Al-Qaeda has strong links with several Saudi banks, and obtains extra funds via Islamic charity organizations. More than a few Al-Qaeda members have credentials with one intelligence agency or another (CIA, ISI, MI6, GID, Egyptian military intel etc etc).
Syria fits some of those characteristics, but the insurgency there, despite a certain international flavour (ohai Chechens and Iraqis) is undoubtedly local in focus and because of the direct support from Saudi intelligence, does not need the international linkages which the private American intelligence network did, and which Al-Qaeda eventually found to be so useful.
They could develop in that way, but Al-Qaeda was uppermost in mind. Could it be coincidence that the world's first globalised terrorist organization emerged after a globalised private intelligence network, utilising some of the same personnel and techniques? Sure. But it's more likely that one copied the other, or was "suggested" to develop in that route. Maybe as the vanguard of the Pan-Islamist military capability?
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