Alive and Kicking

Byline: S.G. Jilanee Let's get it straight at the very outset. What America still calls its war on terror (WoT) was actually a fight between al-Qaeda headed by Osama bin Laden and the United States. The casus belli was U.S. presence on Arab soil, particularly Saudi Arabia, and its blind support for Israel despite the latter's excesses against the Palestinian people. America made the issue global by playing up bin Laden as a threat to its European allies as well and corralled them into a coalition against al-Qaeda.