Leonid Shebarshin, former head of the Soviet Foreign Intelligence Service (FSB), claims that Al-Qaeda is a notion, a myth tiec to Islam, to get at the oil in former Soviet muslim states. Here.
It's easy to see that the massive, monolithic AQ proposed shortly after 9/11 was a fiction, but what is there to the AQ story? Pure myth? A loose federation with some Osama and Pakistani Intelligence Service contacts? We were told a lot of fictions, of underground bases and nerve gas and plans to attack most everything. But where is the truth? How do we even find it out?
Posted by duver001 at March 23, 2005 2:08 PM