The Axis of Evil

Abdulmalik Rigi, the captured leader of Jundullah, was en route to a meeting about the setting up of a British and American-backed base as near as possible to Afghanistan's border with Iran. As in Bosnia, as in Kosovo, as in Chechnya, as in Xinjiang, and as for all practical purposes in Iraq, nothing could be further from the truth than that neoconservatism, still running the State Department in the person of one of the Saudis' favourite hired help, is in any sense opposed to the most viciously violent manifestations of the most hardline reactions within Sunnism.