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Originally Posted by Canuck-Hater
People always lose sight of this. Its a well known FACT that the United States Government funded Al-Qaeda. We already know the US has sold weapons to OBL on numerous occasions. I find it very interesting that the US government and Al Qaeda share the same rhetoric on so-called "outrageous conspiracy theorists".
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Why do you find it interesting?
I find it fairly obvious that Iran is competing for the same individuals that Al-Qaeda is competing for. Namely, impressionable young Muslims that are looking for a group or organization to look up to, follow, and gain a modicum of self-respect from.
Iran has been looking to be the leader of the Muslim world for quite some time now, and have been making many friends and enemies in the Mid-East in their attempt to expand their sphere of influence and interfere with Arab affairs. Their bombastic rhetoric is basically the same as Al-Qaeda's for a reason (this is the part that is interesting). America is the devil, yadda yadda yadda. It's not because it's any sort of conspiracy, but because they're competing for the exact same demographic.
This is Al-Qaeda's turf. They have been working for a long time at being the organization these Muslims look to for leadership. You believe they want to relinquish this position to a country like Iran, that is, basically, while still being Muslim, everything Al-Qaeda despises in a nation?
The shared rhetoric on conspiracies between the USA and Al-Qaeda isn't interesting unless you concoct an outrageous story to try and make it so. As a matter of fact, I have the same rhetoric on this issue too -- do you think I'm a secret American slash terrorist agent because of it?