Remind me again who al-Qaeda is?

[casual hex]

Lebanon exposes deadly Israeli spy ring
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,251-2227831,00.html

In a bizarre twist, Hussein Khattab, a Palestinian member of the spy ring, who is still at large, is the brother of Sheikh Jamal Khattab, an Islamic cleric who has allegedly recruited Arab fighters for al-Qaeda in Iraq.

[Pacifist Patriot]

1. The bad guys?

I'm not sure. What have we been told to think this week?

[baldguy]

2. Who was Bush Sr having breakfast with on Sept 11, 2001?

[Rocknrule]

3. It's Arabic for "liberals"

:sarcasm:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. Gay Mexican Flagburners who speak Arabic and take our jobs.

Rearrange and substitute as necessary.

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” H.L. Mencken

[Virginia Dare]

5. A bizarre twist...

this is only bizarre if you buy into the whole idea that everybody on "our side" is good and everybody of "their side" is bad.

Since the "war on terror" is an abstract concept in itself, it stands to reason that the players wouldn't fall into two neat and tidy categories either.

[Junkdrawer]

6. The Power of Nightmares

From the BBC...

http://www.archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmares

[devilgrrl]

7. I refer to Al Qaeda as "Spector"...

or "C.H.A.O.S" - whichever suits your fancy.

[LaPera]

8. The ones who are free and we let get away, to ensure a war & occupation..

[htuttle]

9. It's names in a database...

...that the CIA compiled back in the 1980's.

Some say it's *actually* a drug cartel masquerading as an international terrorist group.

[leesa]

10. Goldstein. We need them for our hate training.. Keeps the war against .

Eurasia/Eastasia/anything Muslim going. Good fer the economy.