> My argument is that the Al-Qaeda 'movement' has much more in common with the
> latter than with the national liberation movements. It is a loosely-based
> coalition of usually western-based or cosmopolitan intellectuals, who are
> characterised by their distance from popular struggle.
> To consider this as a popular reaction against Western policy seems to me to
> be wholly deluded. It is quite distinct from, in fact isolated from, the
> militant opposition to American and British forces in Iraq, even.
>
Agreed, although current western(US/UK) foreign policy has created the conditions for Al-Qaeda to thrive and previous Cold War/oil policies encouraged it's existence. The bombing may not be a popular reaction now but if we continue how long before it is ? Any individual/group angry with western hypocrisy has a focus now.
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