In the last four years, Pakistan has played a key and active role in Weltpolitik. The War on Terror can be seen as the biggest test to be thrown at humankind at the turn of the new millenium and the events of 9/11 have caused a ripple effect throughtout the world. It is my personal opinion that it is important in these times of media propoganda, corruption and imperialism we must be completely aware of our reality and make sure that there no illusions.
A movie review by Robert Scheer in the Los Angles Times on January 11th 2005 does a good job to support the BBC documentary’s claims that pose thought-provoking questions for the viewers:
Is Al Qaeda Just a Bush Boogeyman?
Is it conceivable that Al Qaeda, as defined by President Bush as the center of a vast and well-organized international terrorist conspiracy, does not exist?
To even raise the question amid all the officially inspired hysteria is heretical, especially in the context of the U.S. media’s supine acceptance of administration claims relating to national security. Yet a brilliant new BBC film produced by one of Britain’s leading documentary filmmakers systematically challenges this and many other accepted articles of faith in the so-called war on terror.
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