On December 7th, 1874 four bad guys, a modern day axis of evil, robbed the Tishomingo Savings Bank in Cornith Mississippi. Credit for this dastardly dead was given to the James Gang. The next day in Muncie Kansas the Kansas Pacific Railroad was robbed of $55,000, also credited to the James Gang. We now know that the James Gang received credit for many crimes they never committed. Things haven't changed much since then the President and his right-wing minions are blaming every act of terrorism on al-Qaeda often within moments of the act taking place.

Brendan O'Neill in Spiked does a nice job of pointing out the opportunism and inconsistencies of Dubya in his campaign to convince us there is terrorist behind every bush and his name is bin Laden.

The Bali bombings may have been carried out by the Indonesian group Jemaah Islamiyah, and that group may have links with al-Qaeda. But the spontaneous response of Western officials and commentators to the events in Bali captures the place that al-Qaeda now holds in the Western, and particularly the American, imagination - where every problem or attack around the world is instantly linked to al-Qaeda, a grouping which is said to become more dangerous the more amorphous and disparate it is.
'Everyone tries to tie everything into 9/11 and al-Qaeda', said an FBI official recently (13), criticising the way that US officials 'shout al-Qaeda' at the hint of trouble abroad. Now the same thing is happening in response to Bali.

I'm sure Jesse was amused by the attention he received and bin Laden is no doubt also laughing, perhaps from the grave.