Is Al Qaeda an ‘Existential Threat’? What Is the Meaning of Al Qaeda in Arabic?

This incisive article by Pierre-Henri Bunel, a former member of France’s Military Intelligence, initially published by Global Research in 2005, sheds light on the nature of Al Qaeda, an intelligence construct used by Washington to destabilize and destroy sovereign countries, while sustaining the illusion of an outside enemy, which threatens the security of America and the Western World.

What is the meaning in Arabic of Al Qaeda? القاعِدة

According to Major Pierre-Henri Bunel: 

It’s “The Base”, n...