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This pro­gram presents more infor­ma­tion about the 9/11 attacks. Con­tin­u­ing dis­cus­sion of the inter­sec­tion between the milieux of oil, inter­na­tional finance, fas­cism and “Islam­o­fas­cism” the pro­gram explores spheres of influ­ence in which the forces behind the 9/11 attacks oper­ate. Par­tic­u­lar empha­sis is on the con­nec­tion between the Repub­li­can Party’s eth­nic out­reach oper­a­tions and the Wahhabi/Islamofascist ele­ments behind Al Queda. The title is a ref­er­ence to the Cru­sade For Free­dom, an ille­gal, Nazi-linked, domes­tic intel­li­gence oper­a­tion. This oper­a­tion is described more fully in FTRs 48, 186, 248 and 346, among other pro­grams. FTR 353 and FTR 356 directly presage this pro­gram. Par­tic­u­lar empha­sis is on the numer­ous inter­sec­tions between the Repub­li­can Party, the Bush admin­is­tra­tion and Al Taqwa.

1. The dis­cus­sion begins with the freez­ing of the funds of Ahmed Idris Nasred­din, a key mem­ber of the Al Taqwa net­work. (“Keep­ing Up the Fight Against the Financiers” by Mark Hosen­ball; Newsweek; 4/29/2002; p. 10.)

2. That same arti­cle notes that there has been a recent strug­gle between the Trea­sury and Jus­tice depart­ments over the raids on March 20. (Idem.) Mr. Emory spec­u­lates that this strug­gle may well involve efforts on the part of FBI direc­tor Robert Mueller and John Ashcroft to block the inves­tiga­tive path­ways lead­ing in the direc­tion of the Under­ground Reich. (For more about Mueller, see FTR#‘s 310, 325, 349. For more about Ashcroft, see FTR#‘s 271, 339.)

3. High­light­ing one of the prin­ci­pal focal points of the dis­cus­sion, the pro­gram delin­eates major areas of inter­sec­tion between the labyrinthine net­work attacked in the 3/20 raids, the Al Taqwa milieu, and the Repub­li­can Party. (FTR#342 doc­u­mented the role of six mem­bers of the Bin Laden fam­ily in the found­ing of Al Taqwa.) A recent Wall Street Jour­nal arti­cle described some of the orga­ni­za­tions tar­geted in the raids.

“These include Al-Taqwa Man­age­ment, a recently liq­ui­dated Swiss com­pany the U.S. gov­ern­ment believes acted as a banker for Osama bin Laden’s al Queda ter­ror­ist net­work. . .Two peo­ple affil­i­ated with the com­pa­nies and char­i­ties are linked by records to enti­ties already des­ig­nated as ter­ror­ist by the U.S. gov­ern­ment. Hisham Al-Talib, who served as an offi­cer of SAAR, the Inter­na­tional Insti­tute of Islamic Thought and Safa Trust Inc., another Mirza char­ity, dur­ing the 1970’s was an offi­cer of firms run by Youssef M. Nada, records show. Mr. Nada is a Switzerland-based busi­ness­man whose assets have been frozen by the U.S. for alleged involve­ment in ter­ror­ist financ­ing, and is alleged by U.S. offi­cials to be a key fig­ure in the Taqwa net­work. . .Jamal Barz­inji, an offi­cer of Mr. Mirza’s com­pany Mar-Jac and other enti­ties, also was involved with Mr. Nada’s com­pa­nies in the 1970’s, accord­ing to bank doc­u­ments from Liecht­en­stein. A mes­sage was left yes­ter­day for Mr. Barz­inji at his address in Hern­don. Mr. Barz­inji and Mr. Talib live across the street from each other. A third busi­ness asso­ciate of Mr. Nada, Ali Ghaleb Him­mat (who also has been des­ig­nated by the Trea­sury as aid­ing ter­ror­ism), is listed as an offi­cial of the Geneva branch of another char­ity oper­ated by Mr. Mirza, the Inter­na­tional Islamic Char­i­ta­ble Organization.”

(“Funds Under Ter­ror Probe Flowed From Off­shore” by Glenn R. Simp­son [with Michael M. Phillips]; Wall Street Jour­nal; 3/22/2002; p. A4.)

4. Fill­ing in more detail about the Repub­li­can Party and the Al Taqwa/Al Queda milieu, the broad­cast notes post-9/11 con­tacts between Pres­i­dent Bush and peo­ple who are part of the GOP/Islamofascist milieu under investigation.

“On the After­noon of Sep­tem­ber 26, George W. bush gath­ered 15 promi­nent Muslim-and-Arab-Americans at the White House. . . Unfor­tu­nately, many of the lead­ers present hadn’t unam­bigu­ously rejected it [ter­ror­ism]. To the president’s left sat Dr. Yahya Basha, pres­i­dent of the Amer­i­can Mus­lim Coun­cil, an orga­ni­za­tion whose lead­ers have repeat­edly called Hamas ‘free­dom fight­ers.’ Also in atten­dance was Salam al-Maryati, exec­u­tive direc­tor of the Mus­lim Pub­lic Affairs Coun­cil, who on the after­noon of Sep­tem­ber 11 told a Los Ange­les pub­lic radio audi­ence that ‘we should put the State of Israel on the sus­pect list.’ And sit­ting right next to Pres­i­dent Bush was Muza­m­mil Sid­diqi, pres­i­dent of the Islamic Soci­ety of North Amer­ica, who last fall told a Wash­ing­ton crowd chant­ing pro-Hezbollah slo­gans, ‘Amer­ica has to learn if you remain on the side of injus­tice, the wrath of God will come.’”

(“Fevered Pitch” by Franklin Foer; The New Repub­lic; 11/12/2001; p. 1.)

5. Speak­ing of key GOP oper­a­tive Grover Norquist, the arti­cle attrib­utes some of these events to the influ­ence of Norquist.

“Accord­ing to sev­eral sources, Norquist helped orches­trate var­i­ous post-September 11 events that brought together Mus­lim lead­ers and admin­is­tra­tion officials.”

(Ibid.; pp. 1–2.)

6. Con­firm­ing spec­u­la­tion that Mr. Emory had put for­ward in FTR#‘s 353 and FTR#356, the pro­gram under­scores the point that Norquist helped forge the GOP/Islamist links to coun­ter­act the tra­di­tional Jew­ish links to the Demo­c­ra­tic Party.

“. . . he [Norquist] fig­ured that he could turn Mus­lims into the obvi­ous coun­ter­weight to the rela­tion­ship between the Jews and Dems.”

(Ibid.; p. 2.)

7. Some of the GOP/Islamist links are even more alarming.

“The record of the Coun­cil on American-Islamic Rela­tions (CAIR)-which, like the AMC, sends mem­bers to meet­ings orga­nized by Norquist and Saffuri-is no more encour­ag­ing. When inter­viewed by Salon’s Jake Tap­per on Sep­tem­ber 26, CAIR Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Direc­tor Ibrahim Hooper refused to con­demn Osama bin Laden. CAIR founder Nihad Awad, who appeared with Bush at the Wash­ing­ton Islamic Cen­ter, has argued that ‘there is ample evi­dence indi­cat­ing that both the Mossad and the Egypt­ian Intel­li­gence [ser­vice] played a role in the [1993 World Trade Cen­ter] explo­sion.’ And Siraj Wahaj, who has served as a CAIR board mem­ber, has been described by fed­eral pros­e­cu­tor Mary Jo White as a pos­si­ble con­spir­a­tor in the ’93 bombing.”

(Ibid.; pp. 5–6.)

8. In the con­text of the Ms. White’s state­ments about Siraj Wahaj, con­sider the fol­low­ing dis­cus­sion about the 1993 WTC attack’s mas­ter­mind (Ramzi Youssef) and Okla­homa City bomber Terry Nichols.

“While mak­ing final prepa­ra­tions for Bojinka [a ter­ror­ist attack], the ter­ror­ists met with Terry L. Nichols sev­eral times in Cebu City. Nichols, along with Tim­o­thy McVeigh, were charged with the bomb­ing of the Alfred P. Mur­rah Fed­eral Build­ing in Okla­homa City on April 19, 1995, that killed 168 peo­ple and wounded another 600. Some FBI offi­cials now believe that Nichols, who has ‘mail-order’ Fil­ipino wife from Cebu, obtained con­tact with Youssef through Mus­lim stu­dents at South­west Col­lege in Weath­er­ford, Okla­homa. The offi­cials fur­ther believe that Youssef and [Abdul Hakim] Murad pro­vided Nichols with train­ing in mak­ing and han­dling bombs. With­out such instruc­tion, Nichols and McVeigh would not have been able to assem­ble a 5,600-pound bomb made of ammo­nium nitrate and nitromethane. Sev­eral infor­mants recently gave tes­ti­mony that they met Nichols with Youssef in the Philip­pines and that the Amer­i­can was affec­tion­ately known there as ‘the Farmer.’ After that Okla­homa bomb­ing, Murad told prison guards that Youssef’s ‘Lib­er­a­tion Army,’ a branch of Al Qaeda, was respon­si­ble for it. He later made this same claim in writing.”

(Al Queda: Broth­er­hood of Ter­ror; by Paul Williams; Copy­right 2002 [SC]; Alpha Books; ISBN 0–02-864352–6; pp. 145–146.)

9. It is inter­est­ing, and impor­tant, to note that the heroic John Lof­tus (co-author of The Secret War Against the Jews) helped to pre­cip­i­tate the 3/20 raids with his inves­tiga­tive work. (“Finances Prompted Raids on Mus­lims” by John Mintz and Tom Jack­man; Wash­ing­ton Post; 3/24/2002; p. A21.) Lof­tus’ work on the Cru­sade For Free­dom is a con­cep­tual foun­da­tion of this (and the pre­vi­ous) program.

10. Next, the pro­gram reviews (and fur­ther high­lights) con­nec­tions between Al Taqwa, Gulf Office, Ahmed Idris Nasred­din, and the “Bank of Gothard” [Banco del Gottardo].

“The Milanese con­nec­tion orig­i­nates in the Bahamas. Since leav­ing its first head office in Nas­sau, Al Taqwa estab­lished itself at NIGH (Nasred­din Inter­na­tional Group Holdings)-10 Dewaux Street in Nas­sau. The NIGH hold­ing com­pany deserves close atten­tion. Yusef Nada’s assis­tant Ali Ghaleb Him­mat works there. The Bank of Gothard is NIGH’s bank, through account CC/B No. 313656, through the agency of Chi­asso, in the name of a Char­ity Foun­da­tion. The Bank of Gothard also appears, in a con­fi­den­tial report on Al Taqwa’s activ­ity, under the head­ing of busi­ness con­nec­tions. The bank man­ager at Gothard, Clau­dio Gen­erale, told me how­ever, that he does not know either Al Taqwa, or its direc­tor, much less the hold­ing com­pany NIGH. The Pres­i­dent and cre­ator of NIGH, Nasred­din Ahmed Idris, who also appears on the list of the first share­hold­ers in Al Taqwa, is hon­orary con­sul of Kuwait in Milan. Liv­ing in Italy, Switzer­land and Morocco, this busi­ness­man directs a mul­ti­tude of finan­cial com­pa­nies, most of which end up lead­ing again to the neb­ula of Al Taqwa. One of them, Gulf Office (Asso­ci­a­tion for Com­mer­cial, Indus­trial and Tourist Devel­op­ment between the Gulf States and Switzer­land), cur­rently dor­mant, had been housed in the same build­ing as the mosque of Lugano.”

(Dol­lars for Ter­ror: The United States and Islam; by Richard Labeviere; Copy­right 2000 [SC]; Algora Pub­lish­ing; ISBN 1–892941-06–6; p. 150.)

11. As dis­cussed in FTR#351, Gulf office was a focal point of the “Clean Hands” inves­ti­ga­tion in 1994. “In 1994, the Ital­ian judi­cial sys­tem had its sights on Gulf Office and con­ducted an inquiry into its activ­i­ties in the con­text of the oper­a­tion ‘clean hands.’” (Idem.) That inves­ti­ga­tion (Clean Hands) resulted in the indict­ment of for­mer P-2 Lodge mem­ber and Ital­ian Prime Min­is­ter Sil­vio Berlusconi.

12. The pro­gram then reviews alleged links between Nazi banker Fran­cois Genoud, the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood and the bank­ing cen­ter of Switzer­land. (For more about the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood, see [among other pro­grams] FTR#‘s 343 and 351.) “The Saudis advised to him [Said Ramadan of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood] to make his home in Switzer­land for both finan­cial and polit­i­cal rea­sons. After the Sec­ond World War, the petrodol­lars from the Gulf ben­e­fited from the dis­cre­tion and effi­ciency of the Swiss bank­ing world. . .Let us men­tion only the inci­dent of the trea­sure of the FLN, at the cen­ter of which the banker Fran­cois Genoud may be found. Ramadan and the Mus­lim Broth­ers thought that they could play a part in the Alger­ian process as they had done in Pales­tine in 1947. Said Ramadan thus left Munich to set­tle in the city of Calvin.” (Dol­lars for Ter­ror: The United States and Islam; p. 154.)

3. Next, the broad­cast reviews the Clearstream finan­cial net­work. The con­nect­ing links between Clearstream, Al Taqwa, the Banco del Got­tardo and Bin Laden were fur­ther described by one of Clearstream’s founders, Ernest Backes, in a recent arti­cle. “In Novem­ber, U.S. author­i­ties named some banks that had bin Laden accounts, and it put them on a black­list. One was Al Taqwa, ‘Fear of God,’ reg­is­tered in the Bahamas with offices in Lugano, Switzer­land. Al Taqwa had access to the Clearstream sys­tem through its cor­re­spon­dent account with the Banca del Got­tardo in Lugano, which has a pub­lished Clearstream account (No. 74381). But Bin Laden may have other access to the unpub­lished sys­tem. In what he calls a ‘spec­tac­u­lar dis­cov­ery,’ Ernest Backes reports that in the weeks before CEO Andre Lussi was forced to leave Clearstream last May, a series of 16 unpub­lished accounts were opened under the name of the Saudi Invest­ment Com­pany, or SICO, the Geneva hold­ing com­pany of the Saudi Bin­laden Group, which is run by Osama’s brother Yeslam Bin­laden (some fam­ily mem­bers spell the name dif­fer­ently.) Yeslam Bin­laden insists that he has noth­ing to do with his brother, but evi­dence sug­gests SICO is tied into Osama’s finan­cial net­work. SICO is asso­ci­ated with Dar Al-Maal-Al-Islami (DMI), an Islamic finan­cial insti­tu­tion also based in Geneva and presided over by Prince Muhammed Al Faisal Al Saoud, a cousin of Saudi King Fahd, that directs mil­lions a year to fun­da­men­tal­ist move­ments. DMI holds a share of the Al Shamal Islamic Bank of Sudan, which was set up in 1991 and partly financed by $50 mil­lion from Osama bin Laden. Fur­ther­more, one of SICO’s admin­is­tra­tors, Geneva attor­ney Bau­doin Dunand, is a part­ner in a law firm, Magnin Dunand & Part­ners, that set up the Swiss finan­cial ser­vices com­pany SBA, a sub­sidiary of the SBA Bank in Paris, which is con­trolled by Khaled bin Mah­fouz. Mahfouz’s younger sis­ter is mar­ried to Osama bin Laden.” (“Bank­ing with Bin Laden” by Lucy Komisar [side­bar to “Explo­sive Rev­e­la­tion$”]; In These Times; 3/15/2002.)

14. FTR#356 under­scored the fact that Clearstream was 50% owned by the Deutsche Borse (the Ger­man Stock Exchange) at the time of the trans­ac­tions men­tioned above. In Feb­ru­ary of this year, Deutsche Borse bought out the rest of Clearstream. (“Deutsche Borse Buys Clearstream” by Jonathan Braude; The Deal.com; 2/1/2002.)

15. Hav­ing noted alle­ga­tions that the above-mentioned Fran­cois Genoud founded Al Taqwa. This broad­cast fur­ther devel­ops dis­cus­sion of Genoud, Al Queda, the Under­ground Reich and some of the insider trad­ing involved in the run-up to the 9/11 attacks.

“Finan­cial expert Ernest Backes of Lux­em­bourg has [stud­ied] white-collar crime in the field of bank­ing for many years. Accord­ing to him, there are indi­ca­tions of unusual trans­ac­tions with which the groups [asso­ci­ated with] bin Laden could have earned money. ‘You can, for exam­ple, exam­ine whether, within a cer­tain time period there’s been an attack against the secu­ri­ties of a given air­line com­pany. Since these secu­ri­ties are safe in a ‘clear­ing sys­tem,’ you can’t get an over­all view, who the owner was at a given time.’ . . .Accord­ing to Backes’ infor­ma­tion, the trail leads to Switzer­land, to the accounts of an orga­ni­za­tion that was founded by the late lawyer Fran­cois Genoud and evi­dently still sur­vives. Says Backes, ‘One of the grounds for accu­sa­tion is that this Swiss attor­ney had the clos­est con­nec­tions with the Bin Laden fam­ily, that he was an advi­sor to the fam­ily, one of its invest­ment bankers. It’s known for cer­tain, that he sup­ported ter­ror­ism and was the estate execu­tor for Hitler and part of the ter­ror milieu.’”

(“Insider Trad­ing Prior to the Ter­ror Attacks in the US?: Spec­u­lat­ing on Terror-Who Prof­ited from the Attacks?” by Rolf Bovier & Pierre Matthias; Bay­erische Rund­funk Online (BR-Online); 9/25/2001.)

16. The pro­gram con­cludes with another look at links between Al Taqwa, Clearstream, the Banca del Got­tardo in Lugano, alleged Soviet bio­log­i­cal war­fare oper­a­tions and ele­ments con­nected to the Balkans wars.

“Begin­ning in 1973, Bio­preparat pro­duced and stock­piled hun­dreds of tons of anthrax and dozens of tons of plague and small­pox. Doc­u­ments obtained in Switzer­land by this reporter show that the Banca del Got­tardo in Lugano has been tightly involved in deals between Russ­ian weapons firms and Inter­plas­tica, a com­pany which, begin­ning in the 1960’s, spe­cial­ized in trade with the coun­tries of the East bloc to pierce west­ern embar­goes. Inter­plas­tica is reg­is­tered in Mor­bio Infe­ri­ore near Lugano, in the can­ton of Tessin in south­ern Switzer­land. Among the deals, doc­u­ments show that the Banca del Got­tardo financed a con­tract between Bio­preparat and Inter­plas­tica in 1993. . . .Begh­jet Pacolli . . . ran Inter­plas­tica. Pacolli, who was born in Kosovo, sup­ports mil­i­tant Mus­lim groups. . . . Through the Fund for Recon­struc­tion of Kosovo (FORK), in Lugano, he finances the Kosovo Lib­er­a­tion Army or UCK, (known in the West as KLA) described by Robert Gel­bard, who was America’s spe­cial envoy to Bosnia as ‘Islamic ter­ror­ists’ . . . .On Wednes­day, Novem­ber 6, the U.S. announced that it was adding to its black­list of banks and indi­vid­u­als believed con­nected to the Bin Laden net­work the Al Taqwa bank, with oper­a­tions in Switzer­land, Italy, Liecht­en­stein and the Bahamas, and its chief exec­u­tive Youssef Nada and board mem­bers Mohamed Man­sour and Albert Huber. Mohamed Man­sour is on the board of the Bosn­ian Insti­tute in Zurich. So is Pacolli. Pier Felici Barchi, Nada’s lawyer, and Clau­dio Gen­er­ali, pres­i­dent of the Banca del Got­tardo, serve together on boards of a cap­i­tal man­age­ment foun­da­tion in Liecht­en­stein and sev­eral enter­prises in Switzer­land. They are both lead­ers of the Lib­eral Rad­i­cal Party, which rules in Switzer­land and which, till now, has afforded the bank polit­i­cal pro­tec­tion from intru­sive inves­ti­ga­tions by author­i­ties. The U.S. should put an end to that.”

(“Swiss Bank Han­dled Sale from Russ­ian Bioweapons Com­pany” by Lucy Komisar; Earth Times News Ser­vice; Novem­ber 2001.) Note that the bio­log­i­cal war­fare attack that presages the Nazi takeover in the book Serpent’s Walk is per­pe­trated with genetically-engineered microor­gan­isms of Osten­si­bly Russ­ian origin.