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| Bin Laden's Cult of Terror
by John M. Curtis Copyright September 17, 2001
Seeing himself as the reincarnation of Muhammad, the millionaire 44-year old scion of one of Saudi Arabia’s richest families, Bin Laden launched his own jihad [holy war] against America for defiling Islam’s holy sites, staging military strikes against Baghdad from the sacred Saudi soil during the Gulf War. Inspired to Islamic extremism by charismatic Palestinian professor Abdullah Azzam at Jidda University, Bin Laden left the creature comforts and joined the Afghan resistance known as the mujahadeen during the Soviet occupation in 1979. With Cold War paranoia in full swing, few people accepted that moderate Afghans enlisted Soviet help to resist radical Islamic extremism embodied now by the Taliban regime in Kabul. Back then, the Soviets invasion was viewed by Zbigniew Brzezinsky—President Carter’s national security advisor—as proof of Soviet expansionism. So, outraged at Soviet actions, Carter boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics. Ten years later, with the help of the CIA and $2 billion in aid, Bin Laden and the mujahadeen evicted the Soviets, handing the reins to radical Islamic fundamentalists. Miscalculating threats to the West, Carter and Brzezinsky followed the Truman Doctrine, trying to contain communism, ignoring the Nixon-Kissinger creation known as “détente,” attempting to ascribe benevolent intent to Soviet moves. Setting the tone, legendary journalist George F. Kennan—author of the immortal essay in Foreign Affairs titled “Sources of Soviet Conduct”—recanted his eloquent testimony that containing communism was America’s “implacable challenge.” When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the Domino Theory still guided U.S. foreign policy. Reviving Cold War hysteria, Carter got slapped at the polls by Ronald Reagan for allowing yet another regime to go communist. Little did anyone know that radical Islam—not Soviet expansionism—would become America’s new enemy, leveling in one bold stroke the great icons of a free society. Carter warned in 1980, “The most fearsome of these threats is if one of these nations that believe in terrorism as a policy gets their hands on nuclear weapons . . .” bringing us up-to-date with the current dilemma. Had Bin Laden possessed nuclear weapons, New York City would be a blackened crater filled with Cold War relics and misguided delusions. “In today’s wars there are no morals. We believe the worst thieves in the world today and the worst terrorists are the Americans. We do not have to differentiate between military and civilians. As far as we are concerned, they are all targets,” said Bin Laden in a 1998 interview with ABC News, declaring his ‘jihad’ on America. When Bin Laden’s programmed assassin Algerian Ahmed Ressam crossed the U.S. border on December 14, 1999 with 150 pounds of plastique warning shots were fired. Bin Laden’s terror organization infiltrated U.S. borders and patiently waited for its prey. With election campaigns and scandals stealing the headlines, America let down its guard, opening the window for his brazen September 11 attack. Vowing to fight and win America’s first war of the 21st century, President Bush ‘got it’: terrorism, not obsolete political ideology, is America’s “implacable challenge”—a ‘clear and present danger.’ After defeating the Soviets, bin Laden’s grandiosity swelled to megalomania, believing Azzam’s delusion that a worldwide Islamic state could be attained by violence and guerilla warfare. With professor Azzam, Bin Laden founded Maktab which became “al-Qaeda,” the base—the world’s elite terrorist organization founded to recruit and train Islamic militants in the same methods of guerilla warfare used by Afghan rebels to defeat the Soviets. Like Mao Tse-Tung, Bin Laden refined the art of guerilla warfare—mastering bomb making, infiltration, subversion, and, yes, propaganda. Experimenting with displaced children, Bin Laden currently brainwashes youths to serve Islam as human hand-grenades. Nowhere are his intentions more evil than indoctrinating and molding innocent children into programmed assassins, ready to earn their ticket to paradise by committing suicide. Like Rev. Jim Jones, Bin Laden leads his doomsday cult to feed his twisted obsession with mass murder and destruction. Hiding behind Islam, Bin Laden’s homicidal rampage gains legitimacy, exploiting the appalling misery—yet legitimate yearnings—of suffering refugees. Beyond all the smoke, Osama bin Laden is a psychopathic cult master hiding behind Islam to justify his despicable barbarism. Recruiting, brainwashing and giving false hope to hopeless refugees, Bin Laden programs legions of assassins waiting to fulfill his hallucination of a worldwide Islamic state. Hijacked jetliners filled with fuel are just the beginning to this menace, as he waits patiently for his next opportunity. Nearly disabling the U.S. government, Bin Laden’s already caused America untold damage and loss of life. Trying to get his hands on nuclear and biological weapons, Bin Laden considers it his Islamic duty to deliver living hell to the civilized world. Blaming mass murder and destruction on religion or politics totally ignores that Bin Laden is a dangerous madman that must be stopped. “We’ve never seen this kind of evil before,” President Bush told reporters on the south lawn of the White House, dumbfounded by the enormity of the damage. “But the evildoers have never seen the United States in action before, either, and they’re about to find out”—history’s about to render its verdict. About the Author John M. Curtis is editor of OnlineColumnist.com and columnist for the Los Angeles Daily Journal. He’s director of a Los Angeles think tank specializing in political consulting and strategic public relations. He’s the author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma. |
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eligious fanaticism, bottomless deep pockets, expertise in bomb making and guerilla warfare, and obvious insanity make Osama bin Laden the world’s most dangerous man. Disowned by his family and stripped of his Saudi citizenship, Bin Laden hides behind Islam to vent his rage against the civilized world. Considered a pariah, the reclusive misfit holes up in the mountains of Afghanistan. A fugitive living on the lam after launching numerous terrorist strikes against the U.S., Bin Laden’s running out of room, now staging the deadliest terrorist massacre in history—leveling the World Trade Center’s twin towers in New York City. His diabolical plan attempted to cripple the U.S economy and paralyze the government by directing suicide bombers to attack financial centers, the Pentagon, White House and Capitol. If not for the heroics on United Flight 93 crashing into a remote field outside of Pittsburgh and the vigilance of a flight attendant foiling a possible 5th hijacking at JFK, the maniacal terrorist might have succeeded. Finally getting our attention, President Bush declared war on terrorism, while America awaits massive retaliation.|
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