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Intro­duc­tion: Pro­vid­ing a thought-provoking sup­ple­ment to pre­vi­ous pro­grams on the topic, this broad­cast con­tin­ues dis­cus­sion of the ter­ror­ist blitzkrieg of 9/11/2001. (For more on this sub­ject, see FTR 325–342, 344–346. Note: due to the rapid evo­lu­tion of infor­ma­tion on the attacks, pro­grams ana­lyz­ing the event have been deferred to after FTR’s 342, 343, envi­sioned as pre­sent­ing such analy­sis. Dis­cus­sion of the 9/11/2001 attacks will be con­tin­u­ing indefinitely.)

Pro­gram High­lights Include: The Mus­lim Brotherhood’s align­ment with the Axis pow­ers in World War II; the Brotherhood’s long asso­ci­a­tion with the CIA in the post­war period; the Brotherhood’s adop­tion of the Cor­po­rate State of Mus­solini as its eco­nomic agenda; Bank Al-Taqwa Youssef Nada’s work as a Nazi spy in World War II; the Bank Al-Taqwa’s asso­ci­a­tion with Nazi financier Fran­cois Genoud.

1. This pro­gram sets forth devel­op­ment of the phe­nom­e­non of “Islam­o­fas­cism,” pre­vi­ously dis­cussed in FTR 329, 330, 340, 342. (This should not be mis­un­der­stood as char­ac­ter­iz­ing Islam as fascist—rather, the term refers to a pow­er­ful ele­ment over­lap­ping the worlds of Islam and inter­na­tional fas­cism.) FTR 343 (For more about this topic see FTR 335, 336, 338, 340, 341, 342.) Cen­tral to the analy­sis pre­sented here is an inter­na­tional Islamic fun­da­men­tal­ist orga­ni­za­tion called the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood, believed by many to the involved with ter­ror­ism in gen­eral, and Al Queda in par­tic­u­lar. (It should be noted that the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood denies such involve­ment.) focuses on the milieu of Nada Man­age­ment (for­merly Al Taqwa), alleged by U.S. intel­li­gence and other inves­ti­ga­tors to be involved with inter­na­tional ter­ror­ism and Al Queda.

2. Begin­ning with the quote from which the broad­cast derives its title, the pro­gram high­lights an inter­est­ing obser­va­tion by an Egypt­ian ana­lyst. Dis­cussing the dias­pora of the Broth­er­hood fol­low­ing its expul­sion from Egypt, he dis­cussed the estab­lish­ment of Munich as a pri­mary base of oper­a­tions. “ ‘Why Munich, why Ger­many?’ I asked Rifaat Said. ‘Because there, one finds old com­plic­i­ties that go back to the late 1930’s, when the Mus­lim Broth­ers col­lab­o­rated with the agents of Nazi Ger­many. . .By soak­ing up the sav­ings of these Mus­lim work­ers, Yussef Nada, like Said Ramadan, took advan­tage of an extremely favor­able con­text and used it as a spring­board for the Mus­lim Broth­ers’ eco­nomic activ­i­ties.’” (Dol­lars for Ter­ror: The United States and Islam; by Richard Labeviere; Copy­right 2000 [SC]; Algora Pub­lish­ing; ISBN 1–892941-06–6; p. 153.)

3. The broad­cast sets forth the appar­ent rela­tion­ship between Said Ramadan (of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood) and Saudi Ara­bia, a pri­mary source of fund­ing for the Broth­er­hood. (Idem.)

4. Nada him­self is alleged to have been agent of the Abwehr, the mil­i­tary intel­li­gence ser­vice of the Third Reich. “But Yussef Nada is even better-known to the Egypt­ian [intel­li­gence] ser­vices, who have evi­dence of his mem­ber­ship in the armed branch of the fra­ter­nity of the Mus­lim Broth­ers in the 1940’s. At that time, accord­ing to the same sources, he was work­ing for the Abwehr under Admi­ral Canaris and took part in a plot against King Farouk. This was not the first time that the path of the Mus­lim Broth­ers crossed that of the ser­vants of the Third Reich.” (Ibid.; 140–141.)

5. Next, the broad­cast delin­eates Labaviere’s alle­ga­tions con­cern­ing the pro­found rela­tion­ship between the Saudis, the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood, ele­ments of U.S. intel­li­gence and the Bin Laden orga­ni­za­tion. “Many times over, Amer­i­can, Euro­pean and Arab diplo­mats and pub­lic offi­cials advised me to fol­low the trail of ‘the dol­lars of ter­ror.’ . . Every time, I was brought back to both the offi­cial and the secret struc­tures of Saudi finance. Every time, I stum­bled on the fra­ter­nity of the Mus­lim Broth­ers. . .Where does the money for this dan­ger­ous pros­e­lytism come from? . . . Saudi Ara­bia and other oil monar­chies allied with the United States. The great­est world power is fully aware of this devel­op­ment. Indeed, its infor­ma­tion [intel­li­gence] agen­cies have encour­aged it . . . . The CIA and its Saudi and Pak­istani homo­logues con­tinue [as of 1999] to spon­sor Islamism.” (Ibid.; pp. 14–15.) (It should be noted in this con­text that the CIA and other Amer­i­can intel­li­gence ser­vices are not homoge­nous. There are pro­found fac­tions and divi­sions between, and among them. The CIA, in par­tic­u­lar, is highly fac­tion­al­ized. In other pro­grams about the 9/11/2001 attacks, Mr. Emory has under­scored his belief that ele­ments of Amer­i­can intel­li­gence, allied with Islam­o­fas­cism (or “Islamism”) and the “Under­ground Reich” betrayed and attacked the United States. This fas­cist “Fifth Col­umn” is dis­cussed in FTR 325, 326, 328, 332, 333, 336, 337, 338, 341, 342. One should not for­get that pol­i­tics is a com­pli­cated affair. Pow­er­ful ele­ments in the U.S. sup­ported fas­cism, and yet the coun­try ended up in a very real war against fas­cism. The sit­u­a­tion vis-à-vis the Sep­tem­ber 11 attacks is anal­o­gous. It should be noted in this con­text that Mr. Emory strongly sup­ports the war, although he is not at all sure that it is being pros­e­cuted cor­rectly. The Bush fam­ily is on “the other side,” in his opinion.)

6. High­light­ing the polit­i­cal incli­na­tions of the “Fra­ter­nity” (Labaviere’s nick­name for the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood), the pro­gram sets forth the fas­cist ori­en­ta­tion of this orga­ni­za­tion. “The his­tory of the Fra­ter­nity makes the Broth­ers’ con­cept of the Islamic State clear: a theo­cratic State of fascis­tic inspi­ra­tion. . . .Some of them were fel­low trav­el­ers of the Nazis, and are still try­ing today to resus­ci­tate the old alliance of Islamism and the swastika.” (Ibid.; p. 121.)

7. “Muham­mad Said al-Ashmawy con­tin­ued: ‘All my research always brings me back to the same point: at the begin­ning of this process of the per­ver­sion of Islam are the Mus­lim Broth­ers, an extreme Right cult.’. . . An extreme Right cult? ‘The his­tory of the Mus­lim Broth­ers is infused and fas­ci­nated by fascis­tic ide­ol­ogy,’ Said al-Ashmawy adds. ‘Their doc­trines, their total (if not total­i­tar­ian) way of life, takes as a start­ing point the same obses­sion with a per­fect city on earth, in con­for­mity with the celes­tial city whose orga­ni­za­tion and dis­tri­b­u­tion of pow­ers they can dis­cern through the lens of their fan­tas­ti­cal read­ing of the Koran.’ This ‘Fascis­tic affil­i­a­tion’ would crop up in the analy­ses of sev­eral of our inter­locu­tors, in par­tic­u­lar that of the jour­nal­ist Eric Rouleau, who is a spe­cial­ist in the Mid­dle East, for­mer French ambas­sador to Tunisia and Turkey.” (Ibid.; p. 124.)

8. Next, the pro­gram sets forth tem­po­ral coin­ci­dences between the devel­op­ment of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood and key dates in the devel­op­ment of inter­na­tional fas­cism. The orga­ni­za­tion was cre­ated in 1929, the year that the Lat­eran Treaty between the Vat­i­can and Mus­solini made Roman Catholi­cism the offi­cial state reli­gion of fas­cist Italy and incor­po­rated ele­ments of Catholic dogma into the legal code of the nation. (Ibid.; pp. 125–126.) (For more about the Lat­eran Treaty, see RFA 17.)

9. As noted in FTR 332 and FTR 340, the fas­cists used anti-colonial sen­ti­ment in the Third World to recruit con­fed­er­ates against Britain and France. The Mus­lim Broth­er­hood was uti­lized in this fash­ion. “Lastly, the emer­gence and the rise to power of Fas­cism, hos­tile to French and British colo­nial­ism, gave rise to many analo­gies with cor­po­ratist pro­pa­ganda and the meth­ods of mobi­liza­tion of Mussolini’s gangs.” (Ibid.; p. 126.) (For more on the Cor­po­rate State espoused by Mus­solini, see RFA 1, Mis­cel­la­neous Archive Show M42 and FTR 268.)

10. The theo­cratic fas­cism of the Broth­er­hood was enun­ci­ated by the organization’s founder Has­san al-Banna. “‘Islam is doc­trine, divine wor­ship, the father­land, the nation, reli­gion, spir­i­tu­al­ity, the Koran and the sword.’” (Idem.) In 1933 (the year that Hitler became Chan­cel­lor of Ger­many), al-Banna moved to Cairo and assumed the title of “supreme guide” (leader) of the Broth­er­hood. (Ibid.; p. 126.)

11. In 1939 (the year that World War II began), the Broth­er­hood adopted its Koran-based con­sti­tu­tion. (Ibid.; pp. 126–127.)

12. Fur­ther high­light­ing the com­par­isons between the Brotherhood’s pro­gram and those of Mus­solini and Hitler, the broad­cast con­tin­ues. “Tak­ing Italy’s choices under Mus­solini for inspi­ra­tion, the eco­nomic pro­gram set three pri­or­i­ties . . . The social pol­icy fore­saw a new law on labor, founded on cor­po­ra­tions. This eco­nomic pro­gram would more directly reveal its rela­tion­ship to total­i­tar­ian ide­olo­gies a few years later, with the works of Mohamed Ghaz­ali . . . . Mohamed Ghaz­ali rec­om­mended ‘an eco­nomic reg­i­men sim­i­lar to that which existed in Nazi Ger­many and fas­cist Italy.’ . . . The moral code is also an impor­tant com­po­nent in this pro­gram, which is intended to cre­ate the ‘new Mus­lim man.’ . . . The notion of the equal­ity of the sexes is inher­ently negated by the con­cept of the supremacy of male social respon­si­bil­i­ties. . .the ‘nat­ural’ place of the woman is in the home.” (Ibid.; p. 127.)

13. Next the pro­gram sets forth the sup­port of the Mus­lim Brother for the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. (Ibid.; p. 128.) (For more about the Grand Mufti, see also: RFA-22, L-7, FTR 2, 147, 159, 161, 237, 270, 328, 329, 330, 332, 333, 335, 340, 341.)

14. Next, the pro­gram delin­eates the oper­a­tions of the Broth­er­hood on behalf of the Axis. “. . . in 1942, the Fra­ter­nity clan­des­tinely estab­lished its mil­i­tary branch. This came to light in a spec­tac­u­lar way with the assas­si­na­tion, while the Par­lia­ment was in full ses­sion on Feb­ru­ary 24, 1945, of Prime Min­is­ter Ahmad Maher (he had just declared war on the axis pow­ers).” (Ibid.; p. 129.)

15. The sec­ond half of the pro­gram begins with infor­ma­tion about the col­lab­o­ra­tion of the Broth­er­hood in the post­war assas­si­na­tion of Egypt­ian polit­i­cal fig­ures, as well as the 1947 war against Israel. (Idem)

16. Under­scor­ing the eco­nomic ele­ment of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood, the pro­gram dis­cusses the “Ismail” ref­er­ered to in FTR 342. (“Im Wun­der­land des Has­ses”; by Johannes von Dohnanyi; Welt­woche; Aus­gabe 01/2002 accessed at www.weltwoche.ch/ressort_berichtr.asp?asset_id=7766&category_id=4-37k.)

17. “. . . along­side Yussef Nada, there is another Egypt­ian, I.S. (called ‘Ismail’), who over­sees mat­ters con­nected with sev­eral hold­ing com­pa­nies in which the bank is a share­holder. Direc­tor of the com­pany ‘Spacetronic Salah Inter­na­tional,’ an elec­tronic prod­ucts com­pany that trades mainly with Sudan, this for­mer mem­ber of the armed branch of the Broth­ers fol­lowed the same route as Yussef Nada, his alter ego.” (Dol­lars for Ter­ror, p. 152.)

18. Next, the pro­gram dis­closes that Afghanistan was cho­sen by the Broth­er­hood as the geo­graph­i­cal epi­cen­ter of the Islamic fun­da­men­tal­ist move­ment. “‘At the time, he saw that holy war [against the Soviet Union] as herald­ing the cre­ation of a future Islamic in Afghanistan,’ adds his for­mer coun­ter­part. ‘At the time, the Fra­ter­nity saw that coun­try as the first site for the re-founding of the Caliphate, the only polit­i­cal struc­ture likely to unite all the Mus­lims one day.’” (Ibid.; pp. 134–135.)

19. Much of the rest of the dis­cus­sion of the Labaviere book involves analy­sis of the role of eco­nom­ics in the Brotherhood’s pro­gram. “Noth­ing offi­cial, of course. . .many trades­men, who will never acknowl­edge their links with the Fra­ter­nity, but whose prof­its flow into the Islamic banks and cap­i­tal invest­ment com­pa­nies that, for their part, oper­ated in broad day­light in the 1980’s. . . .The Fraternity’s eco­nomic appa­ra­tus pur­sues the same goal as the mil­i­tary appa­ra­tus: the oblig­a­tory reuni­fi­ca­tion of the Mus­lim com­mu­nity. . . .Islamic finance: the exten­sion of the ‘holy war’ by other means.” (Ibid.; pp. 135–136.) (Lis­ten­ers will rec­og­nize the last quote as adapted from Karl vojn Clausewitz.)

20. Mr. Emory empha­sizes his view that the eco­nomic struc­ture of the Broth­er­hood is part of the Bor­mann orga­ni­za­tion and the Under­ground Reich. The eco­nomic and polit­i­cal com­po­nent of a Third Reich gone under­ground, the Bor­mann orga­ni­za­tion con­trols cor­po­rate Ger­many and much of the rest of the world. [It was cre­ated and run by Mar­tin Bor­mann, the orga­ni­za­tional genius who was the “the power behind the throne” in Nazi Ger­many.] The Bor­mann group is a pri­mary ele­ment of the analy­sis pre­sented in the For the Record pro­grams. For more about the Bor­mann orga­ni­za­tion, see: FTR#’s 87, 90, 99, 102, 120, 122, 123, 125, 127, 134, 145, 152, 155, 158, 177, 179, 180, 187, 189, 193, 194, 195, 200, 215, 216, 218, 219, 224, 226, 232, 233, 234, 235, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 245, 248, 250, 251, 261, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 278, 283, 286, 292, 293, 294, 298, 299, 300, 302, 303, 305, 309, 313, 322, 327, 331, 335, 342.)

21. One of the pri­mary ele­ments of the Bor­mann orga­ni­za­tion is the Thyssen-Bornemisza orga­ni­za­tion, head­quar­tered in Lugano, Switzer­land (the base for Youssef Nada’s operations.)

22. The pro­gram fur­ther explores the career of Ahmed Huber dis­cussed in past pro­grams about Al Taqwa. (Ibid.; p. 141.)

23. Huber has been asso­ci­ated with French fas­cist Jean Marie Le Pen. (Ibid.; p. 142.)

24. Huber is also con­nected to occult fas­cist ele­ments in Europe, with links going back to the early 1920’s. (Ibid.; p. 143.)

25. Among those ele­ments are the Thule soci­ety, in turn con­nected to Adolf Hitler, through his deputy, Rudolf Hess and the Ger­man geopoliti­cian Karl Haushofer. (Dreamer of the Day: Fran­cis Parker Yockey and the Post­war Fas­cist Inter­na­tional; by Kevin Coogan; Autono­me­dia; Copy­right 1999 [SC]; ISBN 1–57027-039–2; p. 69.) (Haushofer is dis­cussed in FTR340.)

26. The Thule soci­ety is stud­ied by con­tem­po­rary occult fas­cist groups. (Ibid.; p. 621.)

27. Most impor­tantly, Huber is asso­ci­ated with Fran­cois Genoud, dis­cussed at length in FTR 333, 341. (Dol­lars for Ter­ror: The United States and Islam; pp. 143–144.)

28. The pro­gram reviews mate­r­ial from past pro­grams con­cern­ing Genoud. (Dreamer of the Day: Fran­cis Parker Yockey and the Post­war Fas­cist Inter­na­tional; pp. 584–5; 589)

29. Genoud was intro­duced to the Iran­ian fun­da­men­tal­ists by Huber. (Dol­lars for Ter­ror: The United States and Islam; p. 144.)

30. Nada’s firm closed fol­low­ing dis­clo­sure of alle­ga­tions con­cern­ing asso­ci­a­tion between Nada and Bin Laden. (“Swiss Firm Closes Amid Inquiry;” [Reuters]; New York Times; 1-10-2002; p. A14.) .)

31. The broad­cast closes with dis­cus­sion of the rela­tion­ship between Saudi intel­li­gence, ele­ments of the CIA, Bin Laden and the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood. (Dol­lars for Ter­ror: The United States and Islam; pp. 117–118.) (Recorded on 1/13/2002.)