Strive Seek Find

Im currently reading ‘Inside the Global Jihad‘ by author Omar Nasiri (not his real name) In it he discusses what he experienced during his time inside various Al Qaeda training camps. It’s a fascinating account of events as we’ve never known them before. One chapter in particular has really hit home with me.

Each of the camps Nasiri attended was run by a central figure, one in particular was a man named Ibn Sheikh. Nasir claims that following capture Ibn Sheikh purposefully misled his American interrogators and as a result deceitfully pointed them towards Iraq as harbouring links with Al Qaeda.

It’s claimed that Ibn Sheikh did this as a strategic move to destabilise an Iraq he saw as, if fallen would become a key to their plans in destabilising the region.

Quoting from the text pg’s. 230-231

“He was captured early on when the Americans invaded Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks, and he was flown to Egypt where he was tortured by the CIA. There he told his interrogators that Saddam Hussein had given Al Qaeda information about building chemical weapons. It was Ibn Sheikh’s information that George W. Bush and Colin Powell were alluding to when they said they had proof Saddam Hussein was connected to Al Qaeda. They used what Ibn Sheikh told them to justify the invasion of Iraq.

Later, Ibn Sheikh said that the story about Saddam Hussein was not true. In fact, the CIA had known Ibn Sheikh’s story was not reliable long before Colin Powell referred to it in his famous speech in front of the UN. But by the time this fact emerged, it didn’t matter anymore. America was already at war.

Many say that Ibn Sheikh lied to his captors out of desperation, because he was being tortured so brutally. I know that isn’t true. He had prepared himself for interogation … he knew what to do and didn’t crack under the pressure. He handled his interogators with the same skill that he used to handle his gun. Ke knew what his interogators wanted, and he was happy to give it to them. He wanted Saddam toppled even more than the Americans did. As he had told us at Kaldan, Iraq was the next great Jihad.

Somewhere in a secret torture chamber , the Sheikh had won his battle.”

Why do I cease to be surprised at every unfolding fallacy in this whole tragedy?

I can’t comprehed how we as a society have got to the point where such injustice occurs all around us & at such a large levels and we do nothing about it.

I must be the crazy one.