Bombers alienate Arab opinion by killing Muslims

[54anickel]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/11/10/wsaud10.xml&sSheet=/portal/2003/11/10/ixportaltop.html
These are snippets from the article. Gotta wonder is it spin, wishful thinking, something else?


Al-Qa'eda appeared yesterday to have unwittingly alienated a vast spectrum of Arab opinion and helped America's war on terrorism by attacking Muslims it considers traitors to the faith, intelligence sources in Riyadh said.

The attack has engendered unprecedented condemnation throughout the Middle East and will have damaged al-Qa'eda's appeal as anti-western and pro-Islamic.

The killings will have also alienated conservative Muslims in largely tribal Saudi Arabia and boosted efforts to identify and weed out terrorist "sleeper" cells by winning over many more people willing to act as informants, Saudi officials believe.


After the deaths of up to 1,000 people in a wave of terrorism that culminated in the 1997 Luxor massacre, which killed 67 tourists, Egypt's security forces were able to turn the tables on the terrorists. Exploiting public aversion to the atrocities, police were able largely to ignore civil rights in a relentless pursuit of extremists.


On Edit...Found related link, sounds like Georges spin:
"Saudi envoy says al Qaeda desperate"

http://news.google.com/url?ntc=01SA2&q=http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml%3Ftype%3DtopNews%26storyID%3D400973%26section%3Dnews

[Military Brat]

1. Might be true, maybe not. What about that last bombing?

There was no outrage against al Qaeda when Riyadh was bombed the last time. If anything, it will make Muslims more inclined to hate the West, if they perceive that al Qaeda is targeting those Muslims sympathetic to the West, or if they perceive that innocents are being killed because of interference by the West.

Anything can be spun to suit anyone's policy. Remember, Muslims died in the World Trade Center attack, too, and I don't mean just those in the airplanes. We didn't see the Arab world rising up against al Qaeda back then, either.

[DUreader]

2. Isn't the Telegraph one of Perle's Mouthpieces?

Him or some other PNAC CrackHead

[burrowowl]

6. The Telegraph

is probably worst than the Washington Times. It is very rightwing and has been off the mark a high percentage of the time.

[Maple]

3. Lots of spin...

the revolution in Saudi Arabia has begun...and all the idiotic finger pointing in every direction but the palaces isn't going to change that.

[mhr]

4. What If The Bombings Were Carried Out By Others, Not Al Qa'eda

Wouldn't this be the besy way to muster animosity toward Bin Laden and deflect crticism away from the US.

Devious minds and governments think this way to get what they want.

One is left to speculate about which parties might benefit from such a policy.

[DuctapeFatwa]

5. Yes now all Muslims love the Crusaders

Few people besides bush regime loyalists in the US are unaware of who is likely to bomb a bunch of Palestinians and Syrians in the middle of Ramadan.