British Intelligence Hedges Bets on Al Qaeda©

So our seniors continue to perpetuate the notion of a monolithic, centralised, Hollywood-style, terror network.

Obviously, to our sound-byte media, the Al Qaeda© concept helps to save time, avoiding the complications of explain the myriad versions of islamic fundamentalism.

This helps them dodge the possibility that the little pricks who committed the atrocities on 7th July 2005, may have been a bunch of home grown losers who, although inspired by world events, chose to revenge their own inability to fit in by gaining the (posthumous) approval of the Al Qaeda© types they'd been led to believe in.

What concerns me about this nonsense is that a British government and its civil service could allow itself to be so heavily influenced by the dictates of Washington; and particularly a Washington currently led by half-wits.

Yes of course there's going to be terror, and most of it in the coming years will come from islamic fundamentalists, some of whom will be British, and possibly inspired by the great terror scare of the early Twenty First Century (as historians will record it.) But will it be Al Qaeda©? No, they're only saying that because that's what Washington wants them to say.

Remember, for every Bin Laden would-be, there's an equally ambitious police chief eager to make his name too.