A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

Author:Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed [Ahmed, Nafeez Mosaddeq]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Politics, History
ISBN: 9780745330532
Google: i5LftwEACAAJ
Goodreads: 9204687
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: 2010-10-06T00:00:00+00:00

Hersh’s reporting indicates that al-Qaeda-affiliated networks remain useful as mercenary proxies for Anglo-American regional geostrategy in the Middle East. Even the international structure of state-sponsorship is unchanged, with the US at the helm, Saudi Arabia providing the funds, and Pakistan providing military intelligence support, although the bulk of finances for these operations were being funnelled through Iraq.

In March 2007, Hersh elaborated his findings in New Yorker magazine, citing White House insiders and other US government officials, all confirming in perhaps the clearest terms possible that the US was deliberately attempting to control al-Qaeda terrorist activity through Saudi Arabia (among others), in an attempt to re-direct the network against Iran:

The ‘redirection,’ as some inside the White House have called the new strategy, has brought the United States closer to an open confrontation with Iran and, in parts of the region, propelled it into a widening sectarian conflict between Shiite and Sunni Muslims.

To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has cooperated with Saudi Arabia’s government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is backed by Iran. The US has also taken part in clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda...

The clandestine operations have been kept secret, in some cases, by leaving the execution or the funding to the Saudis, or by finding other ways to work around the normal congressional appropriations process, current and former officials close to the Administration said...

This time, the US government consultant told me, Bandar and other Saudis have assured the White House that ‘they will keep a very close eye on the religious fundamentalists. Their message to us was “We’ve created this movement, and we can control it.” It’s not that we don’t want the Salafis to throw bombs; it’s who they throw them at – Hezbollah, Moqtada al-Sadr, Iran, and at the Syrians, if they continue to work with Hezbollah and Iran.’54

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