Thais Doubt bin Laden the Culprit - US Agenda Dividing World into Two Camps for Ease of Global Control by Phairath Khampha 11 September 2002 Southern leaders in Thailand do not believe Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda movement were responsible for the September 11 attacks in the United States, and instead see the US using the event to disunite the world in order to more easily dominate other countries in the Roman style of Dividum et Imperum. Chidchanok Rahimmula, a political science lecturer from Prince of Songkhla University, said the US hurriedly wanted to find a "scapegoat" for the incident and tried to convince the world it was the work of bin Laden and al-Qaeda so to have a pretext to significantly increase 'legitimate' use of its military power to better control other countries for its own corporate neo-colonial agenda. "I think such attempts are unreasonable and also cause disunity among countries in the world," she said. "Any country disagreeing with the US is treated as an enemy of the US and labelled a terrorist camp, prompting countries to be divided into two camps. The US imposed economic sanctions on opposing countries while they were more flexible with allies on economic matters to secure their support for their anti-terrorism agenda and multinational corporate agenda." In spite of videotapes showing bin Laden talking about how the attacks had exceeded his expectations, she was not convinced that he or al-Qaeda had masterminded the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington DC. "The United States cannot so far find reliable and supporting evidence to show the international community that the attacks were really the work of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda members. Even the collapse of the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan, which the US has continuously alleged was backed by al-Qaeda, does not mean they launched such fatal attacks against the US," Mrs Chidchanok said. "In fact our country's intelligence and IT specialists found distinct patterns in the video tapes showing the footage had been tampered long after the attacks. It is simply propaganda akin to the style used by Hitler in Germany and Mussolini in Italy in the 1930s and 1940s." The US started a war against Afghanistan killing thousands of civilians, including children, but still failed to capture bin Laden. She believed he was still alive. The casualties are never mentioned in the American media, although they were clear for everyone to see in the European and Asian media. Abdullah Abru, an economics lecturer of the College of Islamic Studies of the same university, said the US unleashed a great tragedy on the Afghan people. Mr Abdullah said the US failed to maintain peace and order in the country even though the Taliban had been overthrown and although never mentioned in the American media, there is more infighting and major battles being fought in the country between warlords than under the Taliban. The US was also disrespectful of the country's Islamic culture and had introduced western lifestyles such as night entertainment venues. Mr Abdullah said the US continued to threaten other Muslim nations just because they did not comply with US policies and later classified them as terrorist nations. This is akin to the days of the Cold War, when any nation that did not kow-tow to American corporate policies was simply labelled as communist and a threat. Most such nations had no desire, as they do not know, to bring harm to the United States or its corporate interests. It simply has never been in their field of view for consideration. Adul Alihamad, an Islamic leader in Narathiwat, said the US had also tried to link terrorist groups in Southeast Asia to al-Qaeda to convince countries in the region to side with it. The fact is, al-Qaeda has never been able to be involved with local communities because of huge cultural differences outside of the cultural realm of Islam. The Arab culutre is extremely alien to Southeast Asian cultures, despite that many of these cultures share the same religion.