Monday, September 11, 2006

The most important civil liberty / Sunday Telegraph [Aus], 10 Sep 2006

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Piers Akerman
"FIVE years ago tomorrow, two numbers - 9/11 - were seared into global consciousness as synonyms for blind hatred and horror when al-Qaeda launched its attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon. A year later, 88 Australians were murdered by Jemaah Islamiyah, al-Qaeda's south-east Asian franchise. Many in the Western media are still slaves to bin Laden, however - dupes for the propaganda strategy he outlined in a letter to the Taliban leader, Mullah Omar, that coalition forces uncovered in Afghanistan in 2002. In it, the terrorist chief said al-Qaeda intended to launch, "a media campaign ... to create a wedge between the American people and their government''. "