The US-Al Qaeda Alliance: Bosnia, Kosovo and Now Libya
July 31, 2011
Twice in the last two decades, significant cuts in US and western military spending were foreseen: first after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and then in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. But both times military spending soon increased, and among the factors contributing to the increase were America’s interventions in new areas: the Balkans in the 1990s, and Libya today. Hidden from public view in both cases was the extent to which al-Qaeda was a covert US ally in both interventions, rather than its foe.