King, I'm not disputing the fact that there are numerous terror groups who hate the West and have committed acts of atrocity against us. They'll keep going until we either bomb them out of existence [which doesn't seem to be working] or come up with some way of defeating them politically in their home countries.

The fact is--and it is documented fact--that al Qaeda was created by the West. Ayman Zawahiri created and ran Islamic Jihad, even when he was filmed with bin Laden, that's what he did. The phrase al Qaeda was never ever used by any Middle Eastern terrorist until after it had been used in the West following 9/11.

From 'The Power of Nightmares':

"The reality was that bin Laden and Ayman Zawahiri had become the focus of a loose association of disillusioned Islamist militants who were attracted by the new strategy. But there was no organisation. These were militants who mostly planned their own operations and looked to bin Laden for funding and assistance. He was not their commander. There is also no evidence that bin Laden used the term “Al Qaeda” to refer to the name of a group until after September the 11th, when he realized that this was the term the Americans have given it."

I've done a lot of reading. A lot. And nowhere can I find mention of al Qaeda prior to 9/11. My whole point is that we are now presented with this giant, mass tentacled terror group that can strike anywhere, has comms technology to rival the NSA and so forth. The reality is that we're still talking about disassociated groups with differing interests who are not centrally controlled.

In Afghanistan, there are no recorded arrests or killings of anyone from al Qaeda by either US or coalition forces.

If you're interested, do some research on a guy named Abu Zubaydah. He was an associate of bin Laden and told his interrogators what al Qaeda were planning. Unfortunately, his interrogators realized he was just using plots from movies he'd seen. Like Godzilla!

Are Islamist terrorists dangerous? Absolutely. Do they have the capability of attacking us? Yep. I can't argue with the facts. But I get really mad when the media tell us that al Qaeda can do this and do that, when the reality is that they can't. All I'm suggesting is that we ask more questions, not grab hold of conspiracy theories, no matter who created them.