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By Pepe Escobar

Washington has already destroyed the social fabric of Iraq. Now it s helping to destroy Syria s.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35654.htm



US Government Protection of Al-Qaeda Terrorists and the US-Saudi Black Hole

By Peter Dale Scott

More and more, it is becoming common to say that America, like Turkey before it, now has what Marc Ambinder and John Tirman have called a deep state behind the public one.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35690.htm



Washington Thinks You Are Stupid

By Paul Craig Roberts

Officially, the US has been at war with al Qaeda since October 7, 2001. The 'superpower' has been battling a few thousand lightly armed al Qaeda for almost 12 years, and what is the result?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35777.htm



The United States as Global Midget

Closing Embassies and Running Scared

By Doug Bandow

Reports of threats from a movement said to be on the run caused the world s dominant military power to cower in fear.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35771.htm



10 Ways to Reduce the Threat of Terrorist Attacks on Americans

By Medea Benjamin

After a decade of wielding the military stick, it s time for some carrots.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35767.htm



Saudi Rulers Pour Money Into Arming Militants in Region

By Finian Cunningham

This is not the first time that the Saudi loose cannon has swung around on its Western patrons.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35817.htm



Saudi Arabia Sponsoring Terrorists Who Kill Muslims

By Finian Cunningham

While King Abdullah was spilling Saudi coffers to ostensibly help fight terrorism, Ramadan was ending with thousands of Muslims having their blood spilled by terrorists funded by Saudi Arabia.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35905.htm

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The New Al-Qaeda Menace

Eugene Robinson, Washington Post Writers Group: If the new, decentralized al-Qaeda is still a major threat that warrants the shuttering of 19 American embassies, consulates, then we have a decade of wrongheaded US policy to blame.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/17998-the-new-al-qaeda-menace

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Al Qaeda in perspective

Antiwar.com
by Patrick J. Buchanan

08/06/13

By the time this column appears, America may have been hit. Yet is it not time to put al-Qaeda in perspective and consider whether our Mideast policy is creating more terrorists than we are killing? In 2010 America lost 15 citizens to terrorism. Thirteen of them died in Afghanistan. The worst attack was the killing of six Americans at a Christian medical mission in Badakhshan Province. Yet, in 2010, not one death here in America resulted from terrorism...

http://tinyurl.com/l74cfsh


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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