Al-Qaeda and Hizbullah: a match made in Washington

(YellowTimes.org) – The mounting campaign aimed at linking Hizbullah with Al-Qaeda is folly of the highest order, and on so many levels that Stephen Hawking would need a calculator to keep track of them.

In a nutshell, the U.S.-led but Israeli-inspired propaganda effort, crafted with the enthusiastic participation of mainstream Western "journalists," attempts to paint the exceedingly unlikely in the colors of the indisputably certain - all the while making more probable the very outcome that all parties claim to fear.

The facts are these:

Hizbullah is a fundamentalist Shiite organization, while Al-Qaeda is a radical Sunni one. These two strains of Islam mix about as peacefully as Jehovah's Witnesses and hard-line Catholics.

During the 1990s, Al-Qaeda helped the (Sunni) Taliban massacre and otherwise mistreat Shiites in Afghanistan and participated in similar atrocities in Pakistan.

Hizbullah "operatives" were brought in to help the Lebanese Army defeat an offshoot of Al-Qaeda in a pitched battle that took place near the northern port city of Tripoli in December 1999-January 2000.

Iran, Hizbullah's most important backer, very nearly invaded Afghanistan because of the aforementioned abuse of Shiites.

Al-Qaeda has conducted terrorist acts against American targets since the mid-1990s, including the awful suicide hijackings of Sept. 11, 2001; Hizbullah has not targeted an American since 1992 at the latest and never on American soil. It also publicly condemned the crimes of 9-11.