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DESCRIPTION:THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES -- Part III \n\nThe Neo-Conservatives use the 9/11 
 attacks to launch the War on Terror. This final episode, "The Shadows in 
 the Cave," addresses the actual rise of Al-Qaeda. The director, Adam 
 Curtis, argues that, after their failed revolutions, bin Laden and Zawahiri 
 had little or no popular support, let alone a serious complex organisation 
 of terrorists, and were dependent upon independent operatives to carry out 
 their new call for Jihad. The film instead argues that in order to 
 prosecute bin Laden in absentia for the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings, U.S. 
 prosecutors had to prove he was the head of a criminal organisation 
 responsible for the bombings. They find a former associate of bin Laden, 
 Jamal al-Fadl, and pay him to testify that bin Laden was the head of a 
 massive terrorist organisation called "Al-Qaeda." With the 9/11 attacks, 
 Neo-Conservatives in Bush's new Republican government use this created 
 concept of an organisation to justify another crusade against a new evil 
 enemy, leading to the launch of the War on Terrorism. \n\nAfter the 
 American invasion of Afghanistan fails to uproot the alleged terrorist 
 network, the Neo-Conservatives focus inwards, searching unsuccessfully for 
 terrorist sleeper cells in America. They then extend their war on "terror" 
 to a war against general perceived evils with the invasion of Iraq in 2003. 
 The repercussions of the Neo-Conservative strategy are explored with an 
 investigation of indefinitely-detained terrorist suspects in Guantanamo 
 Bay, many allegedly taken on the word of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance 
 without actual investigation on the part of the U.S. military, and other 
 forms of "preemption" against non-existent and unlikely threats made simply 
 on the grounds that the parties involved could later become a threat. Adam 
 Curtis also makes a specific attempt to allay fears of a dirty bomb attack, 
 and reassurs viewers that politicians will eventually have to concede that 
 some threats are exaggerated and others altogether devoid of reality. 
 \n\nWheelchair accessible at 28th Street \n\nBefore and after the film 
 everyone's invited to indulge in our Humanist Vegetarian Tea House \n\n$5 
 donations are accepted \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/08/03/18522568.php
SUMMARY:The Power of Nightmares -- Part III
LOCATION:Humanist Hall \n390 27th Street \nmidtown Oakland, between Telegraph and 
 Broadway, below Pill Hill \nhttp://www.HumanistHall.org 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/08/03/18522568.php
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