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Our misguided fight against Somali pirates

Those teenage high-seas renegades are not about to team up with terrorists, so why is the U.S. military devoting so much attention to them?

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  • Thursday, April 23, 2009 08:30 PM

    Missed badly in one respect

    In this article you wrote:

    Unlike al-Qaida, the Somali pirates have no grand desire to bring down the United States and the entire Western world.

    Well, here's some news for you: Al-Qaeda also has "no grand desire to bring down the United States and the entire Western world." In fact, Al-Qaeda, as we know it, is a myth.

    Please find and watch a copy of the BBC program, "The Power of Nightmares." It deals specifically with the lies we have been sold concerning the mysterious (and largely mythical) al-Qaida.

    Links to the BBC writeup and to all three parts of the video of "The Power of Nightmares" can be found at this link:

    http://tabletalk.salon.com/webx?14@@.773dbcf4/2947

    (Or just click my sig)

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