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Al-Qaeda and the US

luckat · 2005-01-09 11:12:12

Fascinating article in the New York Review of Books: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17676 (Snippet: "In 1996, Jamal al-Fadl, the defecting Sudanese embezzler, had told his American interrogators whatever they wanted to hear. They needed a network; he gave them a network. They needed a mastermind; he gave them bin Laden.…

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09-01-2005 12:12pm

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Fascinating article in the New York Review of Books:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17676

(Snippet: "In 1996, Jamal al-Fadl, the defecting Sudanese embezzler, had told his American interrogators whatever they wanted to hear. They needed a network; he gave them a network. They needed a mastermind; he gave them bin Laden. Wanting to prosecute bin Laden under US law as it related to organized crime, the Americans required a company name for bin Laden's organization: they called it al-Qaeda, or the base of operations. So, in Curtis's account, al-Qaeda began life as a US-manufactured legal fiction.")

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#2 09-01-2005 12:38pm
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http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=195095&highlight=power+nightmares

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