It’s a universal truth among the unhinged that when the world refuses to fit their understanding of reality, it’s due to a massive conspiracy. Here at home, those who believed Islamic fanatics were nothing more than a minor nuisance were jarred by the ugly reality of 9/11. Unwilling to accept that reality, they dismissed the attacks as the work of George W. Bush and the CIA. In the dysfunctional Islamic world, nut-cases ascribed 9/11 to the same goofy conspiracy theories but added the usual anti-Semitic spin – that the international Jewish conspiracy aided in the plot.
In Pakistan, where the government is finally battling the Taliban it helped install in Afghanistan, the terrorist organization is beginning to loose support among the primitives living in Pakistan’s autonomous tribal regions. And the reason, you ask? The mountain dwellers are convinced the Taliban is a creation of the CIA.
According to the Times of London, a Sunni cleric named Sarfraz Ahmed – who aided Pakistan’s government in forming an alliance with 22 Islamic groups to fight the Taliban – told the Times his peculiar conspiracy theory:
Halfway through the interview, however, he [Ahmed] suddenly added that the Taliban was also being funded and trained by the CIA, Mossad, and the Indian RAW intelligence agency. Why? As part of a strategy to carve out an independent statelet in northwestern Pakistan to help to contain China’s growing military and economic power. And to capture Pakistan’s nuclear weapons.
We have obviously been fighting the war on terror foolishly all these years. I think that our best shot at getting bin Laden for 9/11 is to make it look like he was on the U.S. and Israeli payroll all along; it may be the only way to get his primeval crackpot followers to give him up. Memo to CIA: start firing-up Adobe Photoshop.
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