Professor Terje Tvedt klagar på västliga intellektuella som inte begriper att de andra är annorlunda och att de inte kommer att förena sig med oss om våra fina värden.
JEAN-PIERRE PERRIN, Liberation 26.8.: "... l’homme qui a pris Tripoli à la tête des rebelles libyens et en est aujourd’hui le gouverneur militaire de fact... La CIA l’a pisté, traqué, et, finalement capturé en Malaisie en 2003. Elle l’a ensuite transféré
Newsweek Aug 15 (via archive.org): "CIA field commander for the agency's Jawbreaker team at Tora Bora, Gary Berntsen, says he and other U.S. commanders did know that bin Laden was among the hundreds of fleeing Qaeda and Taliban members. "
This essay is excerpted from the first chapter of Patrick Cockburn’s new book, The Jihadis Return: ISIS and the New Sunni Uprising, with special thanks to his publisher, OR Books. The first section is a new introduction written for TomDispatch "The Underrated Saudi Connection " (underrubrik) "The “war on terror” has failed because it did not target the jihadi movement as a whole and, above all, was not aimed at Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, the two countries that fostered jihadism as a creed and a movement. The U.S. did not do so because these countries were important American allies whom it did not want to offend. Saudi Arabia is an enormous market for American arms, and the Saudis have cultivated, and on occasion purchased, influential members of the American political establishment. Pakistan is a nuclear power with a population of 180 million and a military with close links to the Pentagon."