Dear nonhocapito,
you say:
I think the "al quaeda" label is 100% journalistic invention.
In other words, I tend to believe the following: that there is no real organization called al quaeda, infiltrated and inspired by the mossad or whoever, that actually put those bombs in the markets of Kabul or wherever. We are told it is al quaeda, when it is simply foreign agents in drags....
...others like al quaeda are a complete invention from head to toe that serves as an all-purpose container.
But nonho, my dear Sir, this is EXACTLY what I am on about.
Allow me one more thought to add: I wonder what you make of it.
For us, Westerners, "Al Qaeda" is a Media BS. They want us to believe there is this terror organisation, and because of it to approve the "War on Terror", which is, bluntly speaking, killing Muslims abroad and police state at home. That is all they need from us, and to achieve that result, no ground activity is needed, only fake news, faked bombings, etc... Plus advantage: any time an Arab lets loose a few bullets from an AK somewhere on the planet, in the news he can be branded as "Al Qaeda", his shooting in the air as a terror attack.
BUT. There is the Muslim audience, and from that audience, what they wish is something else! They want them to believe in "Al Qaeda", as a legit action group expressing the grievances of the Muslim world with terror attacks. They want them to "join the jihaad", and while doing so, they can single out those young men who have leadership ability and willingness to fight for their people, and eliminate them.
So, that is why I think that in the Middle-Eastern theatre they are actually utilising the "Al Qaeda"-(brand)name in ground activities.
They built up the "Al Qaeda is existing"-myth with 9/11, "Al Qaeda" gained "credibility" as a Muslim terror group with the "succesful terrorist attack". And ever since all young Muslim studs with a grievance against the Americans, the Israelis, or the West in general, just can not wait for "Al Qaeda" to appear in their city, to join up. So they send in the Mossad/CIA/MI-6/whoever operators playing Arabs impersonating "Al Qaeda" recruiters, and da yout' flocks to the cause under the "Al Qaeda"-banner... And then, the recruiters snitch them off, and a trip to Guantanamo follows for the applicants. Or they send them to the USA with a bomb in their underwear, although I'm more inclined to think that probably these idiotic failed terror attemps are also happening in the journalists imagination only.
They prop the shit up with jihadist blogs and websites, probably to wait if some young Muslim idiot registers, thus buying himself an early death or a ticket to Gitmo. It's also for the westerner internet readers to get horrified about the open threats from Islam on the internet. They make the videos with our heavy-metal jew mate Adam Gadahn Pearlman, mouthing off how they would behead each and every one of us un-believers in the name of Allah the Merciful, with a blunt-edged scimitar, if they can put their hairy hands on our filthy necks etc...
And there are the war theatres, where it is Counter-Insurgency warfare. There are the pseudo-terrorist units, up to all sorts of mischief. Death squads, mosque-bombings, blowing up lots of local civils to incite sectarian hatred and violence, that sort of shit-under the name of "Al Qaeda", to ram home the message in the news to the locals of the Middle East that Muslim jihaadists, contrary to their general belief, are baaad people, who are intent of killing them instead of the Americans. Or they are blowing up a few Humwees with IEDs to gain street-cred in an area, advertising themselves as an "Al Qaeda"-cell in the neighborhood, so the local insurgents cozy up to them-and then on the sly they kill all the local insurgents who were stupid enough to befriend them. The classic pseudo-terror modus operandi.
An article to your noble attention about pseudo-terrorism and the best pseudo-terrs of all time, the Selous Scouts:
http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/the-grea ... f-all-time
And a PDF file, titled: "The Use of Pseudo-Operations in the AF/PAK", written by one Dr. Ronald Holt.
Dr. Ronald Holt is a tenured Professor of Anthropology and Fulbright Scholar. He was the senior social scientist for Human Terrain Team AF-1 at FOB Salerno Afghanistan in 2008.
http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/journa ... 4-holt.pdf
And it seems this smallwarsjournal webpage has a few articles on the topic, like this one, too:
http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/ps ... terrorists
A lenghty PDF file on pseudo-terrorist groups in different countries:
http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.ar ... pub607.pdf
Of course the official version of the pseudo-terrorist gang concept has a positive spin, ie. battling real terrorists/terrorism. But I am sure we, hardened, cynical males over 30 year of age, can very well imagine a much more sinister application of pseudo-terrorist units: namely in lack of a real one (lack of real "Al Qaeda" for example), acting as real terrorists to kick-start an escalation of violence which will result in multiple wars and thus in the formation of real insurgent groups, and the new, real ones can be battled with-pseudo units...
As per Mista'aravim: I am sure the israelis are up to their choosen necks in these operations. They are doing it since ages, since the old Palmach days, Stern-group, etc... The only question is, how strongly the israelis, the americans and the brits co-operate and communicate with each other in this field.
What do you think?