UK - Spy lifts lid on al-Qaeda

This is the same al Qaeda the BBC in their program "The Power of Nightmares", said didn't exist.

The most frightening of these is the threat of an international terror network. But just as the dreams were not true, neither are these nightmares.

In a new series, the Power of Nightmares explores how the idea that we are threatened by a hidden and organised terrorist network is an illusion.

It is a myth that has spread unquestioned through politics, the security services and the international media.

The first foiled attempt to attack Britain by al Qaeda was in 2000. On 9/11, 2001, al Qaeda abondoned an attempt to fly a plane into Parliament. On 7/7, this myth, this illusion, blew up on London's underground killing 52 innocent Britons. So it's nice to see the BBC admitting that al Qaeda does exist after all.

Don't worry, the BBC doesn't abondon its anti war and anti American bias.

Recruits were also trained how to resist interrogation and provide false information - Nasiri's mentor at the camps, Ibn Sheikh al-Libi, would go on to provide false evidence of links between al-Qaeda and Iraq after he was captured by the US.

This evidence was cited by both the US Secretary of State Colin Powell and President Bush in the build-up to the war with Iraq.

That and many other things that turned out to be the truth. What the BBC isn't telling you are the well documented connections between bin Laden and Iraq. Richard Miniter devotes four chapters of his book "Disinformation" to documenting the connections. Many of the sources he uses are no friends of the Bush administration. In addition, the al Qaeda ring leader of the cell that made the first strike on the World Trade Center, entered America on an Iraqi passport.

Leaving out important facts is just one of the many ways the BBC deceives the public.