While al-Qaida's call for global jihad clearly acted as inspiration, there has been no direct evidence that bin Laden or his No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri, had advance knowledge of those attacks, that they helped plan them, or that they provided financial or logistical help to those who carried them out.
Question: do we care if it's "genuine al-Qaida"? Why this obsession over confirming this? Because we can't face reality?
The reality is this: there are thousands (optimistically) of people who are trying to kill us because of their belief system, not because of an al-Qaida membership. That's all. No ties to terrorist groups are needed - just, for example, a lone gunman who has bought into a religious system. (Whether it's a distorted one or not can be debated at www.answering-islam.org.)
Second, why this tippytoeing about those religious beliefs?
Sky News' Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt said those under arrest are mainly young, British-born men of Asian origin.
As a Chinese, I find this extremely offensive. Journalists are so afraid of offending Muslims that they are willing to cast all Asians in the role of potential terrorist. But why the kid gloves? Doesn't anyone with at least half a brain already know the religious beliefs of anyone wanting to blow up anything with innocent people inside? Do they seriously think they can prevent any sort of backlash against Muslims by describing the terrorists as British-born men of Asian origin?
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