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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.  (As under­scored in pre­vi­ous pro­grams, one should not mis­un­der­stand this state­ment as char­ac­ter­iz­ing Islam as fas­cist.)  Par­tic­u­lar empha­sis is on the con­nec­tion between the Repub­li­can Party’s eth­nic out­reach oper­a­tions and the Wahhabi/Islamofascist ele­ments behind Al Qaeda.  High­light­ing the influ­ence of these peo­ple and insti­tu­tions within the Amer­i­can Mus­lim com­mu­nity, the broad­cast empha­sizes the remark­able suc­cess they have enjoyed in alter­ing Amer­i­can pub­lic opinion.

1. The dis­cus­sion com­mences with review of a quote from “neo”-Nazi Ahmed (nee Alfred) Huber.

“The U.S. is the ally of 15 mil­lion Jews against 1.3 bil­lion Mus­lims; it is allied with 5 mil­lion Israelis against 200 mil­lion Arabs. . .We will bring down the Israel lobby and change for­eign pol­icy.  We’ll do it in Amer­ica.  When it hap­pens, you’ll understand.”

(“Swiss Probe Anti-U.S. Neo-Nazi”; San Fran­cisco Chron­i­cle; 3/12/2002; p. A12.)  It should be remem­bered that Huber (among his other numer­ous pro­fes­sional cred­its) is on the board of direc­tors of Al Taqwa.  The nature and back­ground of Al Taqwa will be reviewed later in the pro­gram. Much of the rest of the broad­cast exam­ines the extent to which Huber’s com­ments have been actualized.

2. Exem­pli­fy­ing the influ­ence of the Wah­habi Lobby on pub­lic and jour­nal­is­tic per­cep­tion of ter­ror­ism, the “spin” that domes­tic Mus­lim groups are putting on an appar­ent front for Al Qaeda oper­a­tions should be more fully explored. Recent infor­ma­tion rein­forces the grow­ing body of evi­dence that ele­ments of an Islamic char­ity called Benev­o­lence Inter­na­tional are part of the Bin Laden net­work.  (“U.S. Charges Islamic Group, Head Lied Under Oath on Ter­ror Role” by Glenn R. Simp­son; The Wall Street Jour­nal; 5/1/2002; p. A4.)

3. A recent raid at the organization’s head­quar­ters in Bosnia shed light on its “char­i­ta­ble” activ­i­ties, as well as those of Mr. Arnaout.

“Some of the infor­ma­tion about the char­ity and Mr. Arnaout, accord­ing to the papers filed today, was also obtained in a March 19 raid of the foundation’s offices in Bosnia.  Inves­ti­ga­tors found guns and mil­i­tary man­u­als as well as pho­tos of Bin laden and of Mr. Arnaout ‘han­dling rifles, a shoulder-fired rocket and an anti­air­craft gun.’”

(“Leader of Islamic Char­ity Is Accused of Lying to Court” by Neil A. Lewis; The New York Times; 5/1/2002; p. A18.)

4. Sup­port for Enaam Ara­nout was recently voiced by Coun­cil on American-Islamic Rela­tions spokesman Ibrahim Hooper. (“Char­ity Leader Funded Ter­ror, U.S. Alleges” by Josh Meyer and Eric Licht­blau; The Los Ange­les Times; 5/1/2002; p. A10.)  As high­lighted below, Hooper refused to con­demn Osama bin Laden after Sep­tem­ber 11.

5. A num­ber of recent, under­stand­ably alarm­ing inci­dents involv­ing Saudi and Pak­istani air pas­sen­gers in the United States were dis­missed as “bias” by another spokesman for the CAIR.

” ‘There’s no other way to put it’ [CAIR research direc­tor Mohamed] Nimer said. ‘Some peo­ple are not com­fort­able fly­ing in an air­plane that has peo­ple of Middle-Eastern, Arab or Mus­lim backgrounds.”

(“Inci­dents on Flights Cause Post-Sept. 11 Jit­ters” by Dan Eggen and Kather­ine Shaver [Wash­ing­ton Post]; San Fran­cisco Chron­i­cle; 4/30/2002; p. A4.)

6. Alarm­ingly, the CAIR is com­ing to be seen as a viable mouth­piece for the Amer­i­can Mus­lim com­mu­nity.  (“Bias Inci­dents Against Mus­lims Are Soar­ing, Islamic Coun­cil Says;” The New York Times; 5/1/2002; p. A18.)

7. The dis­turb­ing nature of “CAIR-as-Muslim-American-civil-rights advo­cates” can be gleaned from the fol­low­ing pas­sage, an excerpt from FTR#357.

“The record of the Coun­cil on American-Islamic Rela­tions (CAIR)-which, like the AMC, sends mem­bers to meet­ings orga­nized by [GOP lumi­nar­ies] 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.”

(“Fevered Pitch” by Franklin Foer; The New Repub­lic; 11/12/2001; pp. 5–6.)

8. Many in the Mus­lim com­mu­nity have voiced their alarm at the anoint­ing of orga­ni­za­tions such as CAIR as offi­cial advo­cates for the Mus­lim com­mu­nity, here and in the United States.

“As Har­vard pro­fes­sor of Islamic stud­ies Ali Asani has com­plained, ‘There is gen­eral con­cern among Mus­lim intel­lec­tu­als about how not only CAIR, but some of these other orga­ni­za­tions are claim­ing to speak in the name of the Mus­lim com­mu­nity, and how they’re com­ing to be rec­og­nized by the gov­ern­ment as spokes­peo­ple for the Mus­lim com­mu­nity in the U.S.’”

(Ibid.; p. 6.)

9. An Ital­ian Imam has opined that CAIR is linked to the Mus­lim Brotherhood.

“Hisham Kab­bani cor­rectly iden­ti­fies the ori­gin of con­tem­po­rary rad­i­cal­ism in Wah­habism.  Kab­bani cor­rectly divides con­tem­po­rary rad­i­cals into two groups–‘militants’ (those who directly engage in ter­ror­ism) and ‘non-militants’ (those who indi­rectly sup­port ter­ror­ism while main­tain­ing a false respectabil­ity, so that they can get invited to recep­tions at the White House-i.e., the wolves in sheep’s cloth­ing).  I agree with Mr. Kab­bani 100% on this issue.  I would also add that the cen­ter of world­wide rad­i­cal­ism is a sect called the ‘Mus­lim Broth­er­hood.’  This sect has sec­tions engaged in direct ter­ror­ism, such as Hamas, and sec­tions not directly engaged in ter­ror­ism such as CAIR.  Although their links to Hamas are clear, CAIR is per­mit­ted to act freely in the United States. CAIR claims to ‘rep­re­sent’ the Mus­lim Com­mu­nity and launches hate cam­paigns against jour­nal­ists, sen­a­tors and oth­ers who inter­fere their true ter­ror­ist agenda. . .I receive all of their press releases.”

(“In Defense of Steven Emer­son and Daniel Pipes” by Shaykh Prof. Abdul Hadi Palazzi [Sec­re­tary Gen­eral, Ital­ian Mus­lim Asso­ci­a­tion (AMI); Imam, Ital­ian Islamic Community-ICCII]; The Root & Branch Asso­ci­a­tion, Ltd.-Islam-Israel Fellowship.)

10. In the con­text of Shaykh Palazzi’s com­ments, one should con­sider the Brotherhood’s goal of uti­liz­ing West­ern democracy’s civil lib­er­tar­ian tra­di­tion for its own pur­poses.  The fol­low­ing dis­cus­sion focuses on Hani Ramadan (son of Said Ramadan, leader of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood and the son-in-law of Broth­er­hood founder Has­san Al-Banna.)

“His var­i­ous activ­i­ties have led to many ‘con­fer­ences’ at the Islamic Cen­ter of the Eaux-Vives [Geneva, Switzer­land], where in recent years many demon­stra­tions and open air-prayer ses­sions have been held for var­i­ous Islamist causes, in front of the Euro­pean seat of the United Nations.  ‘The advan­tage of our pres­ence in Europe,’ Hani Ramadan says, ‘is that we can take advan­tage of the free­dom of the demo­c­ra­tic regimes.’  For exam­ple, on March 11, 1995, Ramadan spoke dur­ing a gath­er­ing that was offi­cially orga­nized by the Alger­ian FIS.  The demon­stra­tion in fact brought together the Euro­pean sup­port­ers of the Armed Islamic Groups (GIA).  And the Cen­ter directed by Ramadan, which has enough meet­ing space for some 20 peo­ple, is also used as a hub for the Euro­pean rep­re­sen­ta­tives of var­i­ous orga­ni­za­tions that are under sur­veil­lance by sev­eral Euro­pean police forces.”

(Dol­lars for Ter­ror: The United States and Islam; by Richard Labeviere; Copy­right 2000 [SC]; Algora Pub­lish­ing; ISBN 1–892941-06–6; p. 155.)

One could safely extend Mr. Ramadan’s remarks to the United States.  It is, of course, fun­da­men­tally impor­tant to main­tain the foun­da­tions of civil lib­erty in the United States.  At the same time, it is essen­tial that this coun­try remain flex­i­ble enough to coun­ter­act the will­ful abuse of Amer­i­can polit­i­cal free­dom by its enemies-abuse directed at destroy­ing the United States of Amer­ica and its cul­ture.  Ramadan, the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood, Ahmed Huber, Youssef Nada, Osama Bin Laden, the NDP, the National Alliance, the heirs to Fran­cois Genoud (him­self the heir to Hitler, Goebbels and Bor­mann) and their apol­o­gists and defend­ers at orga­ni­za­tions such as CAIR appear to be actively engaged in just such will­ful abuse.  If we give them Lib­erty, they will give us Death.

11. The pro­gram then turns to the sub­ject of Al Taqwa, an appar­ent Al Qaeda front with pro­found con­nec­tions to the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood.  An arti­cle about the 9/11 money trail from a Swiss finan­cial indus­try web­site fur­ther high­lighted the unusual nature of this institution.

“Al Taqwa had been cer­ti­fied by the Swiss Fed­eral Bank­ing Com­mis­sion last year to be nei­ther a bank nor a finan­cial intermediary-in other words, to fall out­side the country’s money laun­der­ing con­trol mech­a­nisms.  But reports in ‘Blick’ and other Swiss media, allegedly based on for­eign secret ser­vice reports, sug­gested last week that ‘mil­lions’ of Bin Laden’s funds had been through Al Taqwa.”

(“Switzer­land Con­firms Role in U.S. Anti-Terror Probe” [Key­stone Archive]; 9/26/2001; p. 2.)

12. Before turn­ing to Al Taqwa founder Youssef Nada’s con­nec­tions to the Saudi Royal fam­ily, it is worth not­ing (in the con­text of the recent blood­let­ting between the Pales­tini­ans and the Israelis) that the PLO is financed by Saudi Ara­bia.  (This con­nec­tion should be care­fully con­sid­ered in light of Ahmed Huber’s remarks, quoted above.)

“Sa’udi Ara­bia is Yasser Arafat’s prin­ci­pal finan­cial sup­porter.  Increas­ing Sa’udi sub­si­dies to the PLO since 1973 have given the orga­ni­za­tion cur­rency reserves esti­mated at over a bil­lion dollars-larger than those of many Third World countries-and most inhab­i­tants of the King­dom are proud that Sa’udi oil rev­enues should be sup­port­ing the cause of their Pales­tin­ian broth­ers.  But the idea that Sa’udi Ara­bia should lend such mas­sive sup­port to men usu­ally seen in the West as ‘ter­ror­ists’ is deeply offen­sive to many peo­ple out­side the Mus­lim world.  This sup­port to the Pales­tini­ans flatly con­tra­dicts in their eyes the word ‘mod­er­ate,’ so often used by the Kingdom’s West­ern friends to describe Sa’udi inter­na­tional strat­egy, and this con­tra­dic­tion has lain at the heart of the for­eign pol­icy pur­sued since 1975 by King Khalid, Crown Prince Fahad and their brothers.”

(The King­dom: Ara­bia and the House of Sa’ud; Robert Lacey; Copy­right 1981 [HC]; Har­court Brace Jovanovich; ISBN 0–15-147260–2; p. 446.)

13. “Chair­man” Arafat recently described the Israelis as “Nazis.”  The Orwellian irony of Arafat’s com­ments should not be over­looked in light of his own Nazi/SS her­itage.  Speak­ing of SS offi­cer and Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin Al-Husseini, author Mar­tin A. Lee describes Arafat’s lin­eage and polit­i­cal genesis.

“Among those who gath­ered at the Mufti’s home dur­ing the mid-1950’s was his dis­tant cousin, Yasser Arafat, then an engi­neer­ing stu­dent at the Uni­ver­sity of Cairo.”

(The Beast Reawak­ens; Mar­tin A. Lee; Copy­right 1997 [HC]; Lit­tle, Brown & Co.; ISBN 0–316-51959–6; p. 128.)  One should note that the “Gross­mufti” was the first leader of the Pales­tin­ian national move­ment.  One should not fail to note that Arafat, the first Pales­tin­ian ter­ror­ist groups and SS Colonel (and ODESSA leader) Otto Sko­rzeny have strong his­tor­i­cal links.

14. Mar­tin Lee describes the Arafat/Skorzeny/terrorist links.

“Sev­eral young Pales­tin­ian refugees, includ­ing Yasser Arafat, joined the Egypt­ian sol­diers who were learn­ing the ways and means of uncon­ven­tional war­fare.  Although ini­tially the intended tar­get was the British, the future PLO chief real­ized that rig­or­ous com­mando exer­cises would help pre­pare the Pales­tin­ian mil­i­tants who were eager to renew the bat­tle for their lost home­land.  A grate­ful Arafat rec­og­nized Skorzeny’s abun­dant skills in this area, and the two men struck up a rela­tion­ship that lasted for many years.  Appar­ently the Pales­tin­ian leader was quite fond of the scar­faced pal­adin [Sko­rzeny].  ‘Arafat would have done any­thing for Otto!’ remarked [Otto’s widow] Ilse Skorzeny.’”

(Ibid.; pp. 129–130.)

15. Prince Turki resigned shortly before the 9/11 attacks. There were alle­ga­tions that Turki “ran” Osama Bin Laden.  An intrigu­ing (and detailed) piece of schol­ar­ship recently linked Turki, the Saudi Royal fam­ily, the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood and Youssef Nada (Al Taqwa’s founder.)

“The inter­nal Saudi sit­u­a­tion is com­pli­cated by the fact that many very wealthy Saudi fam­i­lies finan­cially sup­port the Al Qaida effort as part of a strat­egy of purg­ing the Saudi King­dom of infi­delism and West­ern cor­rup­tion.  In many cases these influ­en­tial Saudis reach into the extended Royal fam­ily, includ­ing the murky fig­ure of recently-fired Saudi intel­li­gence chief, Turki al-Faisal, son of the late King Faisal.  In this regard, an extremely impor­tant step in the inter­na­tional effort to cut off the finan­cial ten­ta­cles of the Islamist ter­ror appa­ra­tus took place on Novem­ber 7. . .Sig­nif­i­cant to note, in the days imme­di­ately after Sep­tem­ber 11, when inves­ti­ga­tion focused on a series of sus­pi­cious short trades in the stocks of key air­lines and insur­ance com­pa­nies such as Swiss Re, cer­tain to be neg­a­tively impacted by the World Trade Cen­ter attack, Swiss pros­e­cu­tors inves­ti­gated the likely role of the Lugano Al Taqwa bank, using a stock bro­ker­age in Milan.  The pres­i­dent of the Al Taqwa Bank Group is Youssef Mustapha Nada, nat­u­ral­ized Ital­ian, and a mem­ber of the Egypt­ian Mus­lim Broth­er­hood and Jamaa-al-Islamiya, which is directly allied with Al Qaeda through Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, said by some intel­li­gence sources to be the brains behind bin Laden.  When the Bahamas closed Al Taqwa Bank Ltd. early this year, Swiss author­i­ties required a name change in Al Taqwa bank, which then became reg­is­tered in Switzer­land as Nada Man­age­ment Orga­ni­za­tion SA.  It is the same Al Taqwa Bank.  In 1970, Youssef Nada moved to Saudi Ara­bia and, with help from the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood, estab­lished con­tact with mem­bers of the Saudi Royal fam­ily, and founded a con­struc­tion com­pany in Riyadh, much the same as the Bin Laden fam­ily.  He remained active in Riyadh, and soon founded the first Islamic bank in Egypt, the Faisal Bank.  The Faisal Islamic bank of Saudi Ara­bia is the head bank of a num­ber of affil­i­ated Islamic banks under the name across the Islamic world from Egypt to Pak­istan to the Emi­rates and Malaysia.  The head of Faisal Islamic bank of Saudi Ara­bia is for­mer Saudi Intel­li­gence chief, Turki al-Faisal.  Faisal Islamic bank is directly involved in run­ning accounts for bin Laden and his asso­ciates, and has been named by Lux­em­bourg bank­ing author­i­ties in this regard.”

(“The Pol­i­tics of Three-Pakistan, Saudi Ara­bia, Israel” by Paul W. Rasche; Stu­dien von Zeit­fra­gen; 35.Jahrgang Inter­ne­tAus­gabe 2001.)

16. The pro­gram then reviews the Islam­o­fas­cist her­itage of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood.  One should take this her­itage into account when assess­ing the pro­pa­ganda of related groups, such as CAIR.

“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.”

(Dol­lars for Ter­ror: The United States and Islam; p. 127.)

17. In addi­tion, the theo­cratic fas­cism of the Broth­er­hood was sum­ma­rized by the organization’s founder Has­san al-Banna.

” ‘Islam is doc­trine, divine wor­ship, the father­land, the nation, reli­gion, spir­i­tu­al­ity, the Koran and the sword.’”

(Ibid.; p. 126.)

18. 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.)

19. In con­clu­sion, Mr. Emory notes the recent death of a key mem­ber of the deadly Bor­mann orga­ni­za­tion and a res­i­dent of Lugano, Switzer­land (home of Al Taqwa and the related Banco del Got­tardo).  Baron Hein­rich Thysssen-Bornemisza was old, but his (prob­a­bly nat­ural) death was timely, in light of the inves­ti­ga­tion of the Bin Laden finan­cial trail.  (“Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza, Indus­tri­al­ist Who Built Fabled Art Col­lec­tion, Dies at 81″ by Jonathan Kan­dell; The New York Times; 4/2/2001; p. 39.)