Go one more step - reject Allah and all! : Melbourne Indymedia

During the centuries frightened and confused humans have prayed and made sacrifices to hundreds of "gods". The Sun on Sunday, The Moon on Monday, Thule on Tuesday, Odin on Wednesdays, Thour on Thursday, Freida on Friday, Saturn on Saturday PLUS Diana, Neptune, Rhaa, or even Mao Tze Dong - the list goes on and on and on!!!

The list of discarded "Gods" is as long as human history, so why not take the brave step and "go-one-more" and junk Jehovah, Christ and Muhammad’s Allah too?

Allah is just another man-made invention for the "universal master computer" just like in the film-fantasy “The Matrix". Muslims believe that all that we see and feel is a projection of the superior omnipotent being Allah, just like in the hugely successful film "The Matrix"?

I have always had the feeling Islam is strangely fatalistic and therefore "evil-by-default" and now I see that all this is because Islam believes in a controlled universe just like the "Matrix".

It is depressing, but very much an eye opener to me!

I personally feel that I have now acquired a much better "understanding' of Islamic Dogma and the actions of Muslims since I applied this "Matrix" idea to this strongly politicized "religion".

Any comments? Is Islamic fundamental dogma a variation on the "Film Matrix" or not? Please see the "big picture" and don't worry about the "plot" in the movie "Matrix".

This explains so many strange things:

For example it makes it understandable why both the world of Islam and the world of Matrix are so completely static in every aspect? In Matrix it was always 1999 and in Islamic lands it is always 1499, take or leave a few years.

Nobody that is a "fanatic" true-believer Muslim believe in any degree of personal "responsibility" because it's all a whim and will of Allah, or as in "Matrix" the will of the code "you can't see it, you can't touch it but you know it is there" the quote "Mefistos".

He could not possibly be “wrong” because both the prophet “Mefistos” and the divine “Matrix” is just entertaining fiction, but prophet Muhammad is hopefully wrong because Allah is a figment of deranged fantasy and just damned religious dogma! If Muhammad and Islam is ‘right”, then we are cursed and trapped in an autonomous hell just like in the film Matrix. Hell no, that just can’t be true!!!!!

I believe embracing Islam is exactly like taking the "blue pill" like in “Matrix”. I'm a red pill person myself, and proud of it! What is REALITY?

Well, it is what you believe in, is it not? Perception is the only reality we humans have and to Muslims it is frightfully similar to the nightmarish world of Matrix. Go and see it and just keep the “big picture’ in focus and you to will see the “light” about Islam.

Shut your ears absolutely tight and open up your two sharp eyes when you aim to learn about true ISLAM!!!! What you see is all you get and this is all you need to know about EVIL ISLAM! If you seek answers the big questions then use you common sense and talk to a friend (the nearest voice of real god you’ll ever find!) or study science. If you have no real friends, then a big fat glass of red wine is far better then a big fat religious lie!

I pray to this Goddess every Friday, the God of Friday!

THANK'S GOD IT'S FRIDAY

A senior US official says Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden told the group's Iraq head Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi to plan attacks inside the United States, before Zarqawi was killed in a US air strike last year.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1930729.htm

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And the cow jumped over the moon!

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New, Stunning 9/11 documentary
Reopen 9/11Now Available From Voice in the Wilderness Productions: A Beit
Shalom Ministries Presentation

9/11: The Birth of Treason
This stunning new documentary provides the most comprehensive view of the evidence which proves 9/11 was an inside job. Also contained are the most recent and most in depth interviews with Dr. Steven Jones and Kevin Ryan of Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice. Dr. Jones covers his recent exchanges with NIST, freefall speed of the towers, and his research into Thermite/Thermate explosives. Kevin Ryan goes in depth about being fired by Underwriters Laboratories for blowing the whistle on data falsification. Also Interviewed:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-710213549148507636&hl=en
http://www.beitshalomministries.org

Watchdog tells British police to apologise over anti-terror raids
At least two of the 11 occupants were hit, one over the head, while the IPCC also received complaints about swearing, weapons being pointed and neglect of the arrested men while in custody.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/02/139599.php

"From the Wonderful Folks Who Brought You Iraq": Craig Unger on How the Neoconservatives Are Pushing For An Attack on Iran
“Once again, neocon ideologues have been flogging questionable intelligence about W.M.D.," Unger writes. "Once again, dubious Middle East exile groups are making the rounds in Washington—this time urging regime change in Syria and Iran. Once again, heroic new exile leaders are promising freedom."
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/13/154246

Bush knocked down the towers - 9/11 Truth
Bin Laden didnt Blow Up the projects, BUSH Knocked the towers.. Mos Def, Immortal Technique and Eminem.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/01/138228.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD5WlQ54Sg0&eurl

Ask yourself
http://911truth.org/
http://reopen911.online.fr/
http://www.scholarsfor911tr...
http://ny911truth.org/
http://www.911sharethetruth...
http://www.911truth.ie/

These Are The Facts of September 11th 2001
DISTURBING FACTS ABOUT THE 9/11 ATTACKS
Crimes of the State
http://crimesofthestate.blogspot.com/

3. Faking the 'War on Terror'
The 'War on Terror' is spurious because there is strong evidence that the events to which it is purportedly a response-the terrorist atrocities of September 11, 2001-were orchestrated not by Osama bin Laden (whose partisans or minions served, however, as useful patsies), but rather by high-placed elements within the United States government. There are several converging lines of evidence: taken separately, they cry out for investigation; taken together, they appear seriously incriminating.7 http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/57915

The Power of Nightmares 1 of 3
Great documentary about the illusion of terror and politics
http://video.google.com.au/videoplay?docid=-1002626006461047517&q=The+Power+of+Nightmares

Some suggested listening and reading for you...
Have you come across by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed?
I suggest you listen to the talk he gave a few months ago:
Nafeez Ahmed "INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM: THE SECRET HISTORY"
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/11/356939.html

9/11 need to be considered in context, near the end of the talk Nafeez makes some valid critisisms of the 9/11 Truth Movement, but remember that he is actually a part of it. His big book on this is:

The War on Truth
9/11, Disinformation and the Anatomy of Terrorism
http://www.interlinkbooks.com/BooksW/war_on_truth.html

Yes of course the likes of Shalyer are bonkers, but to dismiss all the independent research that has been done on this and to accept and believe the neocons "war on terror" and "clash of civilizations" is a VERY big mistake.
This mistake is well documented in this interview:
The “War against Terror” is a War against the People
Silvia Cattori interviewing Youssef Aschkar
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/02/361603.html

This is an extract:
"I should point out here that the ideology of the neocons, such as we see it played out on the ground, is the first and only ideology in history that seeks to produce opponents rather than adherents, leaving to its opponents the job of supplying it with its adherents." "Let me explain. This ideology works to produce opponents by pushing them towards fanaticism in such a way as to stir up and nourish every fanaticism on earth, including Muslim and Arab fanaticism, and this enables Muslims to be given a very negative image, so that in the end – and this is the goal – hostile reactions are produced towards Muslims. Even staunchly secular people, on both sides, will imperceptibly find themselves led to question their own secularity, and to see in “the Other” someone who cannot be lived with. That is what is going on now, and what is in the process of destabilizing Europe, of causing a cleavage between the two shores of the Mediterranean basin, and of sabotaging and wrecking the Barcelona projects for a Mediterranean partnership." "If this cleavage worsens, voices will be heard – even in Europe – calling for people to sign on to the neocons’ doctrines of “war against terrorism” and “Muslim fanaticism”. Only at that point will the neocon ideology have accomplished its mission: having helped to provoke the growth of fanaticism among Muslims, it will also have stirred up in the West, in return, adherents to its thesis of a “clash of civilizations”. And Europe, stubborn up to that point, will finally align itself with the ideology of the neocons. Progressives and politicians in general are unaware of these manoeuvres."

Yes the 9/11 Truth Movment seems obsessive from the outside, yes there are cult likes aspects to parts of it, (as there are for socialist and anarchist groups as well) but to throw it all out and swallow the BBC pro-war spin is a bigger mistake than the mistakes that some in the 9/11 Truth Movement have made / are making.

There's Something About Omar:
The Summer 2002 Marketing Plan: Khalid and Binalshibh In The Spotlight
By June of 2002, the contents of the Moussaoui indictment could indeed be viewed as the clear signpost pointing the way to the manner in which the final loose ends of the Official 9/11 Legend would be tied up for posterity. With Ramzi Binalshibh and Mustafa Ahmed al-Hisawi already tied together as unindicted co-conspirators in the Moussaoui case, FBI Director Robert Mueller would, by this time, explicitly weave in Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, pairing him up with Mustafa Ahmed and thereby inserting this newly-christened 9/11 mastermind into the Money Trail Story. The Associated Press' John Lumpkin would reference all three in his key June 2002 article. It is as if the powers-that-be were putting this trio of nefarious characters on notice - from here on, their fates were to be indelibly entwined.

http://globalresearch.ca/articles/KUP310A.html

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: “Confession” or Bush administration propaganda?
Rather than put to rest all doubts about 9/11, the KSM “confession” refocuses all inquiries back on the Bush administration’s role behind the 9/11-Al-Qaeda-“terrorism” military-intelligence propaganda operation, and the manufacturing of the KSM legend.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/03/142265.php

Taking Aim: The Fake Confession of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
One hour radio show from Ralph Schoenman and Mya Shone titled: A Study in Disinformation: The Fake Confession of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
This show was recorded on 20th March 2007.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2007/03//365687.mp3
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/03/142444.php

The Madrid bombing trial: what has been revealed so far
The picture that emerges is of a handful of petty criminals, mostly involved in drug deals, with a sideline in acting as police informants, willing to peddle any stories about each other. At least three of them have claimed that police officers warned them that they would be implicated in the bombings, and offered them some kind of deal. In testimony, a police source denied knowing anything about the house in Chinchon until after the explosions. In return for this information, Trashorras claims, officers offered to put him on a witness protection programme. He says officers told him they would arrange for him to be kept out of jail if he helped implicate some Arab suspects.
http://wsws.org/articles/2007/mar2007/madr-m24.shtml

Hambali denies Al Qaeda link
Alleged Bali bombings mastermind Hambali another political scapegoat, has told a Guantanamo Bay tribunal hearing that he had no link to worldwide terrorist network Al Qaeda. The denial was included in a transcript of Hambali's April 4 questioning by a military commission at Guantanamo Bay, released by the Pentagon. Asked, "Mister Hambali, did you have any association with Al Qaeda while you were a member of JI?" he replied via a translator "No".
http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/node/50652

The political origins and outlook of Jemaah Islamiyah
If asked the question: “What is Jemaah Islamiyah?” just 18 months ago, most people would have been unable to reply. But since the Bali bombings in October 2002, “JI” has become a virtual household word, synonymous with Islamic extremism and terrorist violence throughout South East Asia. Despite its notoriety, however, almost nothing of any genuine substance has been written on the organisation.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/nov2003/jis1-n12.shtml

Indonesian cleric faces trial again over Marriot and Bali bombings
The US Congressional Commission report into of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington released earlier this year cited statements made under US interrogation by alleged JI operations chief Riduan Isamuddin, also known as Hambali, that he acted under the orders of Bashir.
Immediately after the dismissal of Bashir’s terrorist charges last year, Australian prime minister Howard declared: “Because many of us here in Australia believe that he was at least spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiah and therefore at least knew about the attacks in Bali, we are disappointed he wasn’t convicted on that and didn’t get a longer sentence.” Howard visited Jakarta for Yudhoyono’s inauguration on October 20 and would almost certainly have raised the question again.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/nov2004/indo-n12.shtml

Inside Indonesia's War on Terror
Last Wednesday, Dateline aired David O'Shea's video work titled "Inside Indonesia's War on Terror" ... Normally, the Dateline website has a transcript of the work, along with a realvideo file. However, for reasons unknown - the transcript and video clip are unavailable. So, IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST, we have provided the transcript here for you.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/10/97492.php

Are you ready for the truth?
My impression of events in the US at this time is that with the Patriot Act One, and Two, The Military Commissions (torture law) Act, and the more than 1000 presidential orders. The American Constitution and Bill of right are now void….The US has been taken over. The people just don’t realize it. It is the same thing they did to Germany.
http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/node/50682
http://perth.indymedia.org/index.php?action=newswire&parentview=55702

Aaron Russo’s "America freedom to fascism”
http://tinyurl.com/239nfo
http://www.freedomtofascism.com/
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/143630.php

John F Kennedy: With Your Help, Man would be what he was born to be - FREE AND INDEPENDENT
JFK Speech on Secret Societies and Freedom of the Press
http://youtube.com/watch?v=LlEqtaWpKEU

666 THE DEVIL (GEORGE WARMONGER BUSH) on the Oil For Bombs Program in Iraq
by 666 THE DEVIL (GEORGE WARMONGER BUSH)
666 THE DEVIL (GEORGE WARMONGER BUSH) : "Sorry to Oil the Azores Summit, the Forged Niger Uranium Document, the Downing Street Memo, the Dodgy Dosiers, the Phoney Saddam Bio Terror Trailer Photos at the UN, the Phoney Saddam 9-11 Links, the Phoney Saddam Al CIAda Links, Gulf Wars Episode II, the Carpet Bombings of Iraqi Civilians, the Iraq Massacures, 'The Salvador Option' in Iraq, the CIA planted Bombs in Iraqi Cars, the Mosque Bombings, the Church Bombings, the Flag Draped Coffins, the Lost Limbs, the Delayed Stress Syndrome, the Troop Surge in Iraq, and the continuing Oil For Bombs Program in Iraq but Oil comes First. HOOK 'EM HORNS ???????????"

A Call for July 7th Truth & Justice
No-one has yet accounted for the many contradictions and outright lies from the Bliar Regime, nor accounted for the many suspicious facts which point to a military covert op, instead of a "terrorist" act. Meanwhile, Bliar remains in possession of the powers, which the courts had denied him for four years, that he was able to seize through this "useful crisis".
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/369318.html

Blair Rejects 7/7 Inquiry Calls
Afraid the truth will come out? Remember in the week following these still-unexplained attacks, while the Bliar Regime was caught in several blatant LIES about its version of events, Bliar called such an investigation "a ludicrous distraction". Just like Bush and 911 ...
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/369469.html

EU: The myth of Islamic terrorism
If we look at the people arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences, the figures are rather disproportionate; about half of them arrested were Muslim. In plain English: Muslims are a group causing very little terrorism in Europe, while at the same time much more likely to be arrested on suspicion of it. The constant media coverage of Muslims being arrested creates the false image of a serious threat in order to benefit the imperialist world-view Washington wants us to adopt.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/144441.php

The American Empire and 9/11 (full-length Version with Notes)
David Ray Griffin
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2007/05//369678.pdf

A White House Smear
"Naming her this way would have compromised every operation, every relationship, every network with which she had been associated in her entire career. This is the stuff of Kim Philby and Aldrich Ames." If she is not a CIA employee and Novak is reporting accurately, then the White House has wrongly branded a woman known to friends as an energy analyst for a private firm as a CIA officer. That would not likely do her much good.
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames?pid=823

British terror trial raises question of what MI5 knew about 2005 London bombings
In court, Amin’s counsel, Patrick O’Connor QC—who is helping prepare a civil action against the British government—suggested that both sides in the so-called war on terror had come “to share common standards of illegality and immorality.”
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/144793.php

Iraqi infant mortality soars by 150 percent—a damning revelation of US war crimes
“A child in the poorest fifth of a population is more than twice as likely to die compared to a child from the richest fifth,” the study finds. “Eliminating health-care inequities—and bringing mortality rates among the poorest 80 percent of the population down to those prevailing among the richest 20 percent—would prevent about 4 million of the 10 million deaths each year.”
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/144801.php

666 PHONEY BLAIR THE BUSH OIL POODLE ON THE BUSH SPONSORED 7-7 BOMBINGS IN ENGLAND
666 PHONEY BLAIR THE BUSH OIL POODLE : "Sorry to Oil the 7-7 Bombings in England, the Framing of Islam by BUSH NEWS NAZIS CNN, NBC ABC CBS FOX BBC, the Post 7-7 Gestapo Tactics at London Train and Bus Stations, and Bush Push for Police State USSA in England but Oil comes First. HOOK 'EM HORNS ????????"
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/144793.php

The War on Free Expression - by Stephen Lendman
The struggle to save our First Amendment rights.
In a post-9/11 climate, the right of free expression is under attack and endangered in the age of George Bush when dissent may be called a threat to national security, terrorism, or treason. But losing that most precious of all rights means losing our freedom that 18th century French philosopher Voltaire spoke in defense of saying "I may disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." Using it to express dissent is what noted historian Howard Zinn calls "the highest form of patriotism" exercising our constitutional right to freedom of speech, the press, to assemble, to protest publicly, and associate as we choose for any reason within the law.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/370290.html

The Great Betrayal of the British People, by the art of misdirection
The rise of Blair the Dictator
The Great Betrayal of the British People - By the art of misdirection.
The rise of dictator Blair - Please be assured we are not members of The EU and never have been. We only think we are members because we have been duped.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/144887.php

London police escape discipline for innocent's death
Eleven British police officers involved in the fatal shooting of an innocent Brazilian in the mistaken belief he was a suicide bomber will not face disciplinary action, a police watchdog says.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1921135.htm

Menezes family 'furious' at IPCC decision to clear officers
The family of Jean Charles de Menezes express their disappointment at the IPCC decision to not bring any disciplinary action at 11 officers involved in his shooting at Stockwell station in July 2005.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/370390.html

London bombing suspects released
Three people arrested last week in connection with the suicide bombings in 2005 on London's transport system, including the widow of ringleader Mohammad Sidique Khan, have been released without charge.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1924403.htm

There is no such thing as an Indonesian anti-corruption body
I'm looking in the space. This time, this void. I'm making my way through the muddy minutes. The pull is in my muscle. The ache is in my bones. It's hard to be alone.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/11/328795.html

Indonesian A-G signals crackdown on corrupt prosecutors
Indonesia's new Attorney-General has admitted four out of five prosecutors in Indonesia are open to corruption but says he will root out the wrongdoers.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1922751.htm

Bali bombing prisoner released from jail early
An Islamic militant convicted of a minor role in the 2002 Bali bombings has been released from prison 18 months early after a ministerial decree.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1922818.htm

Pakistani denies al Qaeda role, alleges US torture
A Pakistani man held at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay has denied belonging to Al Qaeda and accused US authorities of torturing him, according to a document released by the Pentagon.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1924072.htm

Sole US militant officer charged over Abu Ghraib to face trial?
The only US militant officer charged with mistreating prisoners at Baghdad's infamous Abu Ghraib jail will stand trial in August, amid claims that the government itself is getting off scot-free.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/145083_comment.php#145087

The New Jersey jihadists: another strange alleged terrorist plot
The US Justice Department has charged six immigrants in New Jersey with participating in an alleged terrorist plot to attack a heavily fortified US Army base in the state, according to federal court papers filed Tuesday. FBI officials say the accused—four ethnic Albanians from the former Yugoslavia, one Jordanian and a young man from Turkey who had all lived in the US for years—were planning to kill scores, if not hundreds, of US soldiers at Fort Dix.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/may2007/terr-m10.shtml

US government fans homeland terrorism fear
The US government and Washington elites are aggressively ramping up their "war on terrorism" rhetoric and propaganda, stoking fear and paranoia in order to bolster its war agenda, and reinvigorate the mass public perception of new and growing "homegrown terrorism" threats to the US homeland.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/370797.html

Evil Empire: Is Imperial Liquidation Possible for America?
In politics, as in medicine, a cure based on a false diagnosis is almost always worthless, often worsening the condition that is supposed to be healed. The United States, today, suffers from a plethora of public ills. Most of them can be traced to the militarism and imperialism that have led to the near-collapse of our Constitutional system of checks and balances. Unfortunately, none of the remedies proposed so far by American politicians or analysts addresses the root causes of the problem.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/370806.html

666 THE DEVIL (GEORGE WARMONGER BUSH) on the Bush Genocide for Oil Program in Iraq
666 THE DEVIL (GEORGE WARMONGER BUSH) : "Sorry to Oil the Bush Sponsored Oil For Genocide program in Iraq, the Bush Sponsored planting of Bombs in Iraqi Cars, the Bush sponsored Mosque Bombings in Iraq, the Bush sponsored 'Salvador Option' in Iraq, the Flag Draped Coffins, the Lost Limbs, the Delayed Stress Syndrome, and the Oil For Bombs and Torture program in Iraq but Oil comes First. REVIL WITH THE DEVIL ??????????"
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/145195_comment.php

fuck off zionists, islamists and evangelicals -- u are all the same poison

btw, did i ever tell u that experience i had on the mountain when a shaft of light descended from the heavens; a 'divine' being appeared with a pressing need to suck my cock, i told him to send his wife or daughter as unlike patriarchal faggot religionists not everyone on earth is a homo .. but he said he was God and if i let him suck my cock he would save the world from all its ills -- so i relented for a good cause.

Well i'm still waiting for him to keep his word, the fuckin LIAR.

I shit on God and all his moron followers, chew on that dimwits

btw -- was the worst polish i ever had

No sphere of human life is more theatrical than politics. And seldom
has the world's political stage seemed more Shakespearean than it
does today - in "The Tragedy of King George." To judge by the number
of bodies that currently litter it, we appear to be nearing the end
of Act V. By the concluding scenes of Shakespeare's greatest
political tragedies - "Hamlet," "Julius Caesar," "King Lear" and
"Macbeth" - nearly all the principal characters lie dead. So it is
with King George, the tale of an unworldly fellow who ascends the
throne of a great empire, responds heroically to an unprovoked
attack, then wreaks havoc by turning from retaliation to preemption.

But Act V has only just begun. With war looming between Iran and
Israel, and Pakistan on the brink of an upheaval that could well end
with Islamists in power, the worst bloodshed has yet to come.
-- Niall Ferguson, Prof of History Harvard, Sr Fellow Oxford, Sr
Fellow Stanford

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http://www.latimes.com/news/columnists/la-oe-
ferguson21may21,1,4906304.column?coll=la-news-
columns&ctrack=2&cset=true

Niall Ferguson:
The world as Shakespearean tragedy
Judging by the body count, modern global politics look headed for the
bloody final act of a Bard tragedy.
May 21, 2007

'ALL THE WORLD'S a stage," observes Jacques in "As You Like It." "And
all the men and women merely players."

No sphere of human life is more theatrical than politics. And seldom
has the world's political stage seemed more Shakespearean than it
does today - in "The Tragedy of King George." To judge by the number
of bodies that currently litter it, we appear to be nearing the end
of Act V. By the concluding scenes of Shakespeare's greatest
political tragedies - "Hamlet," "Julius Caesar," "King Lear" and
"Macbeth" - nearly all the principal characters lie dead. So it is
with King George, the tale of an unworldly fellow who ascends the
throne of a great empire, responds heroically to an unprovoked
attack, then wreaks havoc by turning from retaliation to preemption.

The latest corpse to slump lifeless beneath the proscenium arch is
that of Paul Wolfowitz, who last week finally announced that he would
resign as president of the World Bank. Another central character -
British Prime Minister Tony Blair - has taken the political
equivalent of slow-acting poison.

Think back to 2003, to the invasion of Iraq. One after another, the
politicians who most strongly supported the decision have been ousted
from office.

As in "Julius Caesar," the fault is not in the central characters'
stars but in themselves. President Bush's dominant character traits -
his decisiveness and tenacity - at first appeared to be strengths.
But once he had been convinced by his advisors that the attacks of
9/11 furnished a pretext for the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, these
became weaknesses.

As in "Macbeth," King George was soon "in blood, steeped in so far"
that turning back seemed no more attractive than wading onward.
Remember, the corpses that litter this stage can already be counted
in the tens, if not the hundreds, of thousands.

And, as in "King Lear," the whole catastrophe has stemmed from a
fatal confusion at the outset between the true and the false, enemies
and friends. Lear succumbs to the flattery of the ugly sisters, Regan
and Goneril, and casts out the blunt but honest Cordelia (not to
mention the straight-talking Kent).

The mistaken identity in the tragedy of King George was that of the
real enemy in the post-9/11 war on terror. It is almost certain that
the hijackers hailed from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates,
Egypt and Lebanon. The chief architect of the plot, Osama bin Laden,
also was a Saudi. Contrast this list of countries with the "axis of
evil" identified by Bush in his 2002 State of the Union address:
North Korea, Iran and Iraq. Bush was right to target Afghanistan in
the immediate aftermath of 9/11 because the Taliban regime was
sheltering Al Qaeda's leadership. But the decision to overthrow
Hussein was one of history's great non sequiturs.

The real enemy in the global war on terror is not the "axis of evil"
but the "axis of allies." Today, the countries most likely to produce
another 9/11 are not Iran, much less North Korea, but countries long
regarded as (after Israel) America's most reliable allies in the
greater Middle East. Step forward, Saudi Arabia (almost certainly
still the biggest source of funding for radical Islamists) and
Pakistan (definitely their one-stop shop for nuclear weaponry).

There is, in short, a twist in this tale. Before the curtain can fall
on "The Tragedy of King George," we need at least three more scenes
to decide the fates of three crucial characters: the only principals
left standing aside from King George himself.

First, we need a scene in Israel. Since the failure of the war
against Hezbollah in Lebanon, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's popularity
has been in free fall. His current approval rating is about 2%, by
comparison with which King George is a pop idol. Somehow, Olmert is
clinging to political life. But he surely cannot last much longer.
What happens next will be crucial; if Benjamin Netanyahu returns to
power, the probability of a military confrontation with Iran goes
above 50%. Remember, Netanyahu compared Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad to Hitler. "It is the year 1938", he recently declared,
"and Iran is Germany."

Then we need a scene in Saudi Arabia. Here the key figure is Prince
Bandar bin Sultan, who, as Saudi ambassador to the United States, was
one of the leading advocates of the invasion of Iraq. Since October
2005 he has been in Riyadh as secretary-general of the National
Security Council, where he is said to be lobbying hard for another
attack: This time - you guessed it - on Iran.

Finally, the action needs to shift eastward to Pakistan, where it is
the future of President Pervez Musharraf that hangs in the balance.
After eight years of military dictatorship, Pakistan's democratic
forces are stirring. But watch out - these include the Islamist
coalition known as the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal.

You thought this play was nearly over. But Act V has only just begun.
With war looming between Iran and Israel, and Pakistan on the brink
of an upheaval that could well end with Islamists in power, the worst
bloodshed has yet to come.

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nferguson@latimescolumnists.com

Niall Ferguson is Professor of History at Harvard University, Senior
Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, and Senior Fellow of the
Hoover Institution, Stanford.

His latest book, "Colossus", was published by the Penguin Press. In
2003, The Penguin Press and Basic Books (New York) published his
internationally acclaimed "Empire", which was accompanied by a six-
part British television series. Other works include the award-winning
"House of Rothschild" (two volumes), "The Pity of War" and "The Cash
Nexus:Money and Power in The Modern World, 1700-2000." Ferguson was the editor of the pioneering "Virtual History: Alternatives and
Counterfactuals."

A prolific commentator on contemporary history, he divides his time
between the United Kingdom and the United States.

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