Shadow Wars: the Secret Struggle for the Middle East

• Autores: Douglas Little
• Localización: Middle East Journal, ISSN 0026-3141, Vol. 71, Nº. 2, 2017, pág. 328
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • After the attacks on September 11, 2001, US president George W. Bush and UK prime minister Tony Blair, with help from pro-Western Muslim autocrats in Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf shaykhdoms, launched a global crusade against terrorism designed to undermine Islamic reformers, reinforce the neoliberal Washington Consensus, and rev up the military-industrial complex on both sides of the Atlantic via massive amounts of defense spending and arms sales. Most controversial of all, Davidson suggests that there is evidence of "camera trickery" and other video "inconsistencies" (pp. 425, 500) in two of the most gruesome acts committed by ISIS, the beheading of James Foley and the burning alive of Royal Jordanian Air Force pilot Mu'adh al-Kasasiba, adding for good measure that some "experts" believe that pictures of the graphic murder of a Japanese hostage were enhanced by a set of "Photoshopped images"