Al Qaeda: The Database.
by Pierre-Henri Bunel
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Shortly
before his untimely death, former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook
told the House of Commons that "Al Qaeda" is not really a terrorist
group but a database of international mujaheddin and arms smugglers used
by the CIA and Saudis to funnel guerrillas, arms, and money into
Soviet-occupied Afghanistan. Courtesy of World Affairs, a journal based
in New Delhi, WMR can bring you an important excerpt from an Apr.-Jun.
2004 article by Pierre-Henry Bunel, a former agent for French military
intelligence.
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Wayne Madsen Report
"I first heard about Al-Qaida while I was attending the Command and Staff course in Jordan. I was a French officer at that time and the French Armed Forces had close contacts and cooperation with Jordan . . .
"Two of my Jordanian colleagues were experts in
computers. They were air defense officers. Using computer science slang,
they introduced a series of jokes about students' punishment.
"For example, when one of us was late at the bus stop
to leave the Staff College, the two officers used to tell us: 'You'll
be noted in 'Q eidat il-Maaloomaat' which meant 'You'll be logged in the
information database.' Meaning 'You will receive a warning . . .' If
the case was more severe, they would used to talk about 'Q eidat
i-Taaleemaat.' Meaning 'the decision database.' It meant 'you will be
punished.' For the worst cases they used to speak of logging in 'Al
Qaida.'
"In the early 1980s the Islamic Bank for Development,
which is located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, like the Permanent
Secretariat of the Islamic Conference Organization, bought a new
computerized system to cope with its accounting and communication
requirements. At the time the system was more sophisticated than
necessary for their actual needs.
"It was decided to use a part of the system's memory
to host the Islamic Conference's database. It was possible for the
countries attending to access the database by telephone: an Intranet, in
modern language. The governments of the member-countries as well as
some of their embassies in the world were connected to that network.
"[According to a Pakistani major] the database was
divided into two parts, the information file where the participants in
the meetings could pick up and send information they needed, and the
decision file where the decisions made during the previous sessions were
recorded and stored. In Arabic, the files were called, 'Q eidat
il-Maaloomaat' and 'Q eidat i-Taaleemaat.' Those two files were kept in
one file called in Arabic 'Q eidat ilmu'ti'aat' which is the exact
translation of the English word database. But the Arabs commonly used
the short word Al Qaida which is the Arabic word for "base." The
military air base of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is called 'q eidat 'riyadh al
'askariya.' Q eida means "a base" and "Al Qaida" means "the base."
"In the mid-1980s, Al Qaida was a database located in
computer and dedicated to the communications of the Islamic
Conference's secretariat.
"In the early 1990s, I was a military intelligence
officer in the Headquarters of the French Rapid Action Force. Because of
my skills in Arabic my job was also to translate a lot of faxes and
letters seized or intercepted by our intelligence services . . . We
often got intercepted material sent by Islamic networks operating from
the UK or from Belgium.
"These documents contained directions sent to Islamic
armed groups in Algeria or in France. The messages quoted the sources
of statements to be exploited in the redaction of the tracts or
leaflets, or to be introduced in video or tapes to be sent to the media.
The most commonly quoted sources were the United Nations, the
non-aligned countries, the UNHCR and . . . Al Qaida.
"Al Qaida remained the data base of the Islamic
Conference. Not all member countries of the Islamic Conference are
'rogue states' and many Islamic groups could pick up information from
the databases. It was but natural for Osama Bin Laden to be connected to
this network. He is a member of an important family in the banking and
business world.
"Because of the presence of 'rogue states,' it became
easy for terrorist groups to use the email of the database. Hence, the
email of Al Qaida was used, with some interface system, providing
secrecy, for the families of the mujaheddin to keep links with their
children undergoing training in Afghanistan, or in Libya or in the Beqaa
valley, Lebanon. Or in action anywhere in the battlefields where the
extremists sponsored by all the 'rogue states' used to fight. And the
'rogue states' included Saudi Arabia. When Osama bin Laden was an
American agent in Afghanistan, the Al Qaida Intranet was a good
communication system through coded or covert messages.
Meet "Al Qaeda"
"Al Qaida was neither a terrorist group nor Osama bin
Laden's personal property . . . The terrorist actions in Turkey in 2003
were carried out by Turks and the motives were local and not
international, unified, or joint. These crimes put the Turkish
government in a difficult position vis-a-vis the British and the
Israelis. But the attacks certainly intended to 'punish' Prime Minister
Erdogan for being a 'toot tepid' Islamic politician.
" . . . In the Third World the general opinion is
that the countries using weapons of mass destruction for economic
purposes in the service of imperialism are in fact 'rogue states,"
specially the US and other NATO countries.
" Some Islamic economic lobbies are conducting a war
against the 'liberal" economic lobbies. They use local terrorist groups
claiming to act on behalf of Al Qaida. On the other hand, national
armies invade independent countries under the aegis of the UN Security
Council and carry out pre-emptive wars. And the real sponsors of these
wars are not governments but the lobbies concealed behind them.
"The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist
group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this.
But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the
presence of an identified entity representing the 'devil' only in order
to drive the 'TV watcher' to accept a unified international leadership
for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the
US and the lobbyists for the US war on terrorism are only interested in
making money."
In yet another example of what happens to those
who challenge the system, in December 2001, Maj. Pierre-Henri Bunel was
convicted by a secret French military court of passing classified
documents that identified potential NATO bombing targets in Serbia to a
Serbian agent during the Kosovo war in 1998. Bunel's case was
transferred from a civilian court to keep the details of the case
classified. Bunel's character witnesses and psychologists
notwithstanding, the system "got him" for telling the truth about Al
Qaeda and who has actually been behind the terrorist attacks commonly
blamed on that group. It is noteworthy that that Yugoslav government,
the government with whom Bunel was asserted by the French government to
have shared information, claimed that Albanian and Bosnian guerrillas in
the Balkans were being backed by elements of "Al Qaeda." We now know
that these guerrillas were being backed by money provided by the Bosnian
Defense Fund, an entity established as a special fund at
Bush-influenced Riggs Bank and directed by Richard Perle and Douglas
Feith.
French officer Maj. Pierre-Henri Bunel, who knew the truth about "Al Qaeda" -- Another target of the neo-cons
Global Research Articles by Pierre-Henri Bunel
BBC: There is no Al Qaeda
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