A Mask of Terror

The Al Qaeda Mask

The long trial of the Madrid train bombers has finally been concluded. The court took quite a time at reaching a verdict due to the incredible amount of conspiracy theories that had to be addressed. While this may be the sadly inevitable situation surrounding such catastrophes, it is obvious that these conspiracies are (for the most part) the far fetched sort of things that the public loves to thrive on but have no real connection with reality. It is true that the ETA claimed responsibility initially but the people convicted admitted that they really had no connection. The ETA has also admitted that it was not connected. The only conclusion regarding the terrorist cell was that they were "Al Qaeda Inspired". That means that they were not recruited by Al Qaeda, were not trained by Al Qaeda and did not act on Al Qaeda orders. Why then are they related to Al Qaeda? What is hiding behind the Al Qaeda mask?

Behind the Mask

I do not really know what hides behind the Al Qaeda mask. It is certainly not some misplaced terrorist ideals. Perhaps the internal Spanish politics require that a mask of some sort adorn this horrid terrorist act so that someone bears the blame. Perhaps there are people who find that labelling their sheer acts of vile evil with a name of some sort gives them more legitimacy and that is what the Al Qaeda mask provides. If that is the case then this is another example that demonstrates how masks such as these are those which allow terrorism to continue to exist. Abolish the mask and you abolish terrorism.