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Jordon’s King Abdullah II confirms, for the delectation of the American Media, that Al-Qaeda is indeed behind the hotel blasts that killed 57 people last Wednesday. How such an esteemed monarch can be privy to the minds and deeds of underworld sociopaths is beyond me. Jordon, long an ally of America, now makes statements which can be interpreted to bolster our administration’s sagging legacy in the War on Terror. ™

I can’t avoid suspicion, here. How much did it cost George Warmonger Bush to get the King to announce their certainty? Reports I’ve been reading about the so-called leader of Al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, is that he’s dead. Many in Iraq, especially in his hometown of Zarqa, believe as much. Yet for months American propaganda has worked hard to create another larger-than-life boogeyman with the same name.

If he is already dead, then is would be easy for the Busheviks to trot out “proof” of his demise when politically expedient – and not a moment sooner. We cannot seem to get our iron grieves on Osama Bin Laden - remember him? - instead we create a new goon, one that is, as Monty Python would have it, “mostly dead”, and pin the anarchy America has created in the region on him. Then when the time is as ripe as a corporate coffer, the Bushheads can show the closed coffin of their alleged demon.

Nice and tidy except for one troubling detail: Americans don’t believe the hype anymore. The Boy Who Cried Terrorist, cried out a few to many times, as he treads a podium made of 2000 dead American servicemen and –women. We just won’t buy it. Hearing the same from a foreign King firmly in the grasp of our administration is not going to sway us, either.