Lis­ten: One Seg­ment

Con­tin­u­ing dis­cus­sion of the dev­as­tat­ing attacks of 9/11, this pro­gram high­lights con­nec­tions between intel­li­gence oper­a­tions of the 1980s and the ter­ror­ist blitzkrieg.

1. The chief sus­pect in the ter­ror­ist attacks of 9/11, Osama Bin Laden had his gen­e­sis as a war­rior in the Afghan war against the Sovi­ets dur­ing the 1980’s. (“Blow­back Chron­i­cles” by Giles Folden; The Guardian, 9/15/2001; p. 2.)

2. Among the ele­ments that fig­ured in both the Iran-Contra scan­dal and the Afghan muja­hadeen sup­port net­work was Keenie-Meenie Ser­vices, a British secu­rity firm with strong con­nec­tions to the intel­li­gence com­mu­nity. (Idem.)

3. Another ele­ment that fig­ured in both the Iran-Contra scan­dal and the Afghan sup­port effort was BCCI. (Ibid.; p. 3.) The milieu of BCCI fig­ures heav­ily in the Iran-Contra scan­dal and also looms large in the con­nec­tions of George W. Bush, James R. Bath and the Bin Laden fam­ily. (Robert Mueller, appointed as head of the FBI in July, was less than vig­or­ous in his inves­ti­ga­tion of BCCI when he was with the Jus­tice Depart­ment of the elder George Bush.)

4. The Afghan muja­hadeen sup­port effort was heav­ily under­writ­ten by the Saudis. (Idem.)

5. The broad­cast under­scores the fact that Bush’s father has strong ties to Uno­cal, which was plan­ning to put a pipeline through Afghanistan. (Ibid.; p. 4.)

6. Next, the pro­gram details the sig­nif­i­cant role of the World Mus­lim Con­gress in the muja­hadeen sup­port effort. (The Beast Reawak­ens; Mar­tin A. Lee; copy­right 1997 [HC]; ISBN 0–316-51959–6; pp. 225–226.)

7. The WMC was founded by Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, a major in the SS and a key Axis spy. (Ibid.; p. 225.)

8. Funded by the Saudi royal fam­ily and the Saudi gov­ern­ment, WMC has retained all of its fas­cist char­ac­ter. Pro­vid­ing speak­ers for the Holocaust-denying Insti­tute of His­tor­i­cal Review, the WMC has mailed holo­caust denial lit­er­a­ture to mem­bers of con­gress and the British par­lia­ment. (Ibid.; p. 226.)

9. It should be noted that the Saudi gov­ern­ment hired Amer­i­can neo-Nazi William Grim­stead as an Amer­i­can lob­by­ist. (Idem.)

10. Next, the pro­gram high­lights the alleged con­nec­tions of Imad Muganiyeh to the milieu of the Sep­tem­ber 11 attacks. (“Two New Names Sur­face as Sept. 11 Ring­lead­ers” by Chris Black­hurst [Lon­don Inde­pen­dent]; San Fran­cisco Chron­i­cle; 9/21/2001; p. A20.)

11. Allegedly a key player in Bin Laden’s net­work, Muganiyeh was a key fig­ure in the tor­ture and kid­nap­ping of CIA offi­cer William Buck­ley (an inci­dent cen­tral to the machi­na­tions of the Iran-Contra scan­dal.) (Idem.)

12. He also was piv­otally involved in the bomb­ing of the Israeli embassy in Argentina in 1992 and the AMIA, a Jew­ish cul­tural cen­ter, in 1994. (Idem.)

13. The remain­der of the broad­cast con­sists of an excerpt from FTR 109, detail­ing con­nec­tions between the Iran-Contra scan­dal, the Argen­tine secu­rity ser­vices and the two bomb­ings allegedly mas­ter­minded by Muganiyeh. Argen­tine inves­ti­ga­tors have allegedly linked Monzer Al-Kassar to both bomb­ings. (“Gov­ern­ment Wor­ried About Visit of Al-Kassar;” Clarin; 8/2/98.)

14. Al-Kassar, a Syr­ian intel­li­gence offi­cer close to him, for­mer Argen­tine pres­i­dent Car­los Menem’s first wife and Menem asso­ciate Alfredo Yabran are all from the same city in Syria. (Idem.)

15. Swiss inves­ti­ga­tors have also linked Al-Kassar to the bomb­ings. (“Syr­ian Linked to Bomb­ings” [Jew­ish Tele­graphic Agency]; Jew­ish Bul­letin of North­ern Cal­i­for­nia; 6/21/96.)

16. In addi­tion to Al-Kassar, a for­mer Argen­tine intel­li­gence agent (Leonardo Sanchez Raisse) con­nected to the Iran-Contra affair appears to be an evi­den­tiary trib­u­tary to the two bomb­ings in which Muganiyeh was involved. (“For­mer Spy Released from Jail After 34 Days;” Clarin; 8/2/98.)