much as i deplore the recent abduction and murder of two french nationals in niger, it seems a
bit rich of president nicolas sarkozy to automatically define the kidnappers as "al qaeda" - even
wikipedia describes
aqim (al-qaeda organization in the islamic maghreb), the regional rebel militia to which the french authorities
claim the bandits
may possibly have been affiliated, as: "commonly believed to be a false flag operation created by the algerian state intelligence agency" ie. either it has been termed
al qaeda to gain the algerian government american support, or it has been radicalized by united states military intervention, such as the
flintlock 2005 exercize, in a similar manner to which
al-shabaab has been radicalized by fanatical-western intervention in somalia. so...given that
aqim are known to be ideologically opposed to the slaughter of civilians, might it
just be possible, mr sarkozy, that these unfortunate aid workers were killed by local nigerien gangsters, who not only resent the discriminatory treatment of muslims in mainland france, but also the pervasive persistence of french colonial rule in francophone africa over fifty years after the murky grey dawn of its supposed independence? after all, it's not only
islamic extremists who hate you bunch of gallic garlic-munching baguette-crunching cheese-chomping
boule-chucking horse-eating bastards, is it now?