Is Al Qaeda a Myth – a stalking horse of American Fascism?

Please, do yourself a favor and see these BBC Specials. You will NOT see these in America, due to Political control of the news media.

Marc Perkel Rantz
al-Qaeda is Fiction - The organization doesn't exist as a large terrorist organization
"I came across three films produced by the BBC called "The Power of Nightmares" which explain how various groups use the fear of terrorism to advance their political power. I've spent all day converting them to a smaller format so that they can be ea silly downloaded. But they are an hour long each and are about 75 megs each. They are however extraordinary and it's quite an education into the history of Islamic Terrorism and American neo conservatives. Here are the links:.."
Baby it's Cold Outside
The Phantom Victory
The Shadows in the Cave

http://marc.perkel.com/archives/000753.html

Beware the Holy War: The Power of Nightmares
Peter Bergen
“The Power of Nightmares, a three-hour BBC documentary directed by Adam Curtis, is arguably the most important film about the "war on terrorism" since the events of September 11. It is more intellectually engaging, more historically probing and more provocative than any of its rivals, including Fahrenheit 9/11. But although it has been shown at Cannes and at a few film festivals in the United States, it has yet to find an American distributor, and for understandable reasons. The documentary asserts that Al Qaeda is largely a phantom of the imagination of the US national security apparatus. Indeed, The Power of Nightmares seeks nothing less than to reframe the past several decades of American foreign policy, from the Soviet menace of the 1970s to the Al Qaeda threat of today, to argue that neoconservatives in the American foreign policy establishment have vastly exaggerated those threats in their quest to remake the world in the image of the United States…”

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050620/bergen