I agree with your columnist Farish Noor in Fighting our

own demons: ' Inside al-Qaeda

that author Rohan Gunaratna

made accusations without giving any proof. Even the amazon.com's review on his book had some

people in the US who had read his book questioning the validity of some of his revelations.

Thus allow me to do a 'Gunaratna' (make accusations

without showing any proof) on Gunaratna. I would like to suggest that

Gunaratna is under Mossad's influence or is in some ways connected to the 'Institute' (Mossad in hebrew means 'The Institute'). I say this because he was a

honorary fellow at the International Policy Institute

for Counter-Terrorism in Israel according to this site (see About the Author).

Farish Noor is right when he said Gunaratna's book shows a bias towards US and Israel as he had "spent so little time on asking the really serious question of

how and why so many Islamist movements the world over

now think of the US government as its main nemesis"

thus "leaving the reader with precious little

understanding of why Muslim-US relations have become

so strained of late" and "does not go deep enough in

his account of the factors behind the phenomenon of

Muslim anger and frustration with the US, and in

particular fails to highlight the most problematic

factor of all: America's support of the Zionist

establishment in Israel, which is the root cause of so

much anti-American feeling in the Arab world today".

In Gunaratna's way, can I assume he is pro-US and Israel and thus a likely Israeli/Mossad agent? Maybe his stay in Singapore is sponsored by the Mossad to evaluate the

situation in South East Asia as this region has a few Muslim countries.

My apologies for trying to insinuate that Gunaratna is a Mossad agent but I just want to show how grossly unfair it is to make assumptions or accusations without properly checking the facts first.