http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11487


Global Research, December 24, 2008
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Former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook says:

The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And
any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign
to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing
the 'devil' only in order to drive the
 TV watcher to accept a unified
international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this
propaganda is the US. Cook has previously written:

Al-Qaida, literally "the database", was originally the computer file
of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the
CIA to defeat the Russians. Cook is merely confirming what others have said.
Former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski told the Senate that the
war on terror is "a mythical historical narrative".

And see this Los Angeles Times Article, reviewing a BBC documentary entitled
"The Power of Nightmares", which shows that the threat from Al Qaeda
has been vastly overblown (and see this article on the people within the U.S.
who are behind the hype).

Not only has the U.S. government hyped Al Qaeda, but it has issued numerous
fake terror alerts to scare people.

There is a word for
 intentionally creating fear in order to manipulate opinion
for political ends: terrorism.