Why the name change from al qaeda to al qaida?
Predominantly, it's so that the narrative of al qaeda/qaida being a powerful terrorist organisation can be preserved.
Al qaeda has been outed as being nothing more than a CIA / DIA database called in Arabic "the toilet". As this information became better known, and as the fiction about Osama Bin Laden (who originally was called Usama Bin Laden or UBL - another name change) being some mighty supervillain faded, rebranding was required.
Al qaida doesn't exist, any more than al qaeda exists. But that name change to al qaida is useful. Anyone who uses the new spelling is a disinfo agent or a dupe. It's the Zeta Reticuli of terrorist espionage.
Predominantly, it's so that the narrative of al qaeda/qaida being a powerful terrorist organisation can be preserved.
Al qaeda has been outed as being nothing more than a CIA / DIA database called in Arabic "the toilet". As this information became better known, and as the fiction about Osama Bin Laden (who originally was called Usama Bin Laden or UBL - another name change) being some mighty supervillain faded, rebranding was required.
Al qaida doesn't exist, any more than al qaeda exists. But that name change to al qaida is useful. Anyone who uses the new spelling is a disinfo agent or a dupe. It's the Zeta Reticuli of terrorist espionage.
