Bin Laden is the face of the enemy and the ghost that America is fighting for more than six years.
Laden and US fuel each others ambition...no one can say who’ll upstage the other and hence warlines will remain drawn for a long time, inspite of all other crisis in the world.

THE bin Laden is the bogeyman of this well-funded so-called War on Terror. He seems to be losing a little media mileage, so maybe the legendary cliche should take some rest now.

Did Bin-Laden ever exist? That is the question that runs through my mind these days. his name and the Al-Qaeda tale could have been used as catalysts to encourage other countries in the West to participate in their ’War OF Terror’

Media is most unpredictable weapon in this modern world. They’ll resurrect Bin Laden over and over again...
Some videotape will surface soon with renewed threats and US will despatch more troops after him to Afghanistan...

Exactly.. Just when the people stat wondering why they are sending their soldiers to Iraq or elsewhere, they are dutifully reminded of Osama. Media is business just like any other. A war mongering nation with Media as it’s sycophant is enough to destroy lives

Yes, Jaiyant, this thing about bin Laden does attack our credulity. The seams are starting to show, in fact.

I read somewhere that there isn’t a single terrorist crime that was proven or tried in court to have been directly linked to bin Laden.

Really, an eccentric fanatical Muslim billionaire seems to be the perfect bogeyman.

The U.S of A is not only using Osama is a bugbear to fund its war but also to scare other countries into buying weapons from them. Isn’t that how most western countries make money? When there are no wars, there wouldn’t be a need for weapons. The article also says that most jihadis do not have a leader and work independently. This lack of direction and unity among the jihadis is being exploited by the US while the jihadis continue to cause bloodshed all over the Muslim world.

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Yes, Madhuri, media is the most crucial ingredient when one wants to play up some scare.

Good point, Jaiyant, war is business. And everyone on this planet seems to be paying for that.

I don’t think jihadis are leaderless. They wouldn’t be active without some command.

Probably, but nothing at the level of a global leader like Osama right? Most Jihadis are tribal leaders who are influenced by the Taliban version of hatred and continue to slaughter in the name of religion. What I meant was, these pockets of jihadis are all not united. In fact, they might fighting each other for a sort of supremacy and attention from the locals, and in order to recruit more Muslim boys.

And what I have noticed is, there are different versions of Jihadis and some for the Sunnis and some for the shias. In Iraq, Iraqis are being killed by Iraqis. And these so called Jihadis are rival factions

This thing about jihadis baffles me. I can still say I should respect what they’re fighting for, but really the strategies they employ are tiresome.

In the process, this thing called jihad, supposedly a sublime stance, is diluted and adulterated.

Well, there’s an antithesis to every thesis. :)

Jihad is supposed to mean ’struggle’. A struggle for truth or a personal struggle to achieve spirituality. The word has been twisted by fundamentalists and turned into a reason for all the reasons. The West found it very convenient to call every Muslim a Jihadi. I’m tired of all the violence that religions bring upon people. Why have a religion when it causes so much of bloodshed..

turned into a reason for all the violence they indulge in*

My typing is really bad..

It’s all an image. A perception. To each his own perception. I guess that’s how it has been. The Muslims have the right to jihad, and we respect that. It’s in the Q’ran.

I don’t know how it got convoluted.

I think it got mired up in definition when non-Muslims attempt to use the collective imagination as collective paranoia.

It just might be as they say ’selective perception’ and ’selective retention’ :)

He should not be but he matters because he is heart of the matter for Bush

Hehe... Your one-liner deadpan humor comments do wake me up from my sleep-deprived state. :)

I wonder who started all this...
Why fundamentalist gave a call for jihadi and became a threat to the world?
Why US finds no other way except ’war on terror’ to curb them and terrorism?
I shall not be surprised if War campaign is being done some corporate lines...
Maybe only business of weapons and aid is the driving force to keep conflicts of the world going...