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1. This pro­gram presents more infor­ma­tion about the 9/11 attacks. Con­tin­u­ing dis­cus­sion of “Islam­o­fas­cism,” this broad­cast fur­ther explores the Al Taqwa con­nec­tion. (As under­scored in pre­vi­ous pro­grams, one should not mis­un­der­stand this state­ment as char­ac­ter­iz­ing Islam as fas­cist.)  This broad­cast explores some of the polit­i­cal, finan­cial, mil­i­tary and his­tor­i­cal con­nec­tions of Al Taqwa.

2. Begin­ning with infor­ma­tion about one of the most impor­tant fig­ures in post­war fas­cism, the broad­cast high­lights the polit­i­cal legacy of Hitler, as pro­mul­gated by Nazi banker and ter­ror mas­ter­mind Fran­cois Genoud.  “In the pref­ace to the [Mar­tin] Bor­mann doc­u­ment, Hitler’s Table Talk, Genoud wrote that Hitler wanted the peo­ple of the third World to carry on the work of the Thou­sand Year Reich.” (“Hitler’s Swiss Con­nec­tion” by David Lee Pre­ston; The Philadel­phia Inquirer; 1/5/1997; p. 3.)

3. The pro­gram con­tin­ues with a review of for­mer Third Reich defense min­is­ter Albert Speer’s account of Hitler’s vision of the anni­hi­la­tion of New York City. “As Germany’s defeat loomed dur­ing the final months of World War II, Adolf Hitler increas­ingly lapsed into delu­sional [?] fits of fan­tasy.  Albert Speer, in his prison writ­ings, recounts an episode in which a mani­a­cal Hitler ‘pic­tured for him­self and for us the destruc­tion of New York in a hur­ri­cane of fire.’  The Nazi fuehrer described sky­scrap­ers turn­ing into ‘gigan­tic burn­ing torches, col­laps­ing upon one another, the glow of the explod­ing city illu­mi­nat­ing the dark sky.’  An approx­i­ma­tion of Hitler’s hell­ish vision came true on Sep­tem­ber 11, when ter­ror­ists destroyed the Twin Tow­ers in New York, killing nearly 3,000 peo­ple. (“The Swastika & the Cres­cent” by Mar­tin A. Lee; Intel­li­gence Report; Spring 2002 [#105]; Pub­lished by the South­ern Poverty Law Cen­ter; p. 1.)

4. An illu­mi­nat­ing state­ment was made by Nazi/Islamist Ahmed Huber.  “By his [Ahmed Huber’s] account, a group of aging SS offi­cers and mem­bers of Hitler’s per­sonal guard who meet every few weeks in the Ger­man state of Bavaria for beer and con­ver­sa­tion recently bestowed the title ‘hon­orary Pruss­ian’ on Bin Laden.  They praised his ‘valiant fight’ against the United States, Huber said.  One of the mem­bers called Huber after the meet­ing to tell him that hence­forth they had decided to call the Al Queda leader ‘Herr von Laden,’ Huber said.” (“Unlikely Allies Bound by a Com­mon Hatred” by Peter Finn; Wash­ing­ton Post; 4/29/2002; p. A13.)

5. A ter­ri­fy­ing dis­clo­sure was recently revealed by British intel­li­gence ana­lysts. In the con­text of the dis­cus­sion that fol­lows, one should not lose sight of the alleged source of the new financ­ing for Al Qaeda-Saudi Ara­bia. “The al-Qaeda ter­ror­ist net­work has been del­uged with funds from Osama Bin Laden’s Saudi sup­port­ers since the start of the Mid­dle East cri­sis, a British intel­li­gence dossier has revealed.Intelligence chiefs have also warned the gov­ern­ment that Mr. Bin Laden could be plot­ting another ter­ror­ist atroc­ity on the scale of the Sep­tem­ber 11 attack on the World Trade Cen­ter.  One senior min­is­ter said he was shocked by the scale of the threat out­lined in the ‘chill­ing’ intel­li­gence brief­ing pre­sented to the gov­ern­ment recently.  It sug­gested the Sep­tem­ber 11 atroc­i­ties could be repeated at any time. . .The min­is­ter said: ‘Bin Laden might be cor­nered in a cave, but that won’t nec­es­sar­ily pre­vent Al-Qaeda car­ry­ing out fur­ther attacks.  We were pretty shocked at what we heard.  “The Amer­i­can attacks were five years in the plan­ning: who knows what could also be in the pipeline?” (“Bin Laden Sup­port­ers ‘Still Fund­ing Al-Qaeda’” by Cathy New­man; The Finan­cial Times; 5/8/2002; p.8.)  Through­out the dis­cus­sion of 9/11, the ubiq­ui­tous Saudi foun­da­tion of Al Qaeda is only too evi­dent.  Dubya’s “spe­cial rela­tion­ship” with the Saudis is remark­able and stun­ning. Even for a cow­ard and trai­tor such as George W. Bush, his grov­el­ing before Saudi Crown Prince Abdul­lah dur­ing the latter’s visit to his Texas ranch was out­ra­geous.  Win­ston Churchill’s rebuke of Neville Cham­ber­lain upon his return from the diplo­matic capit­u­la­tion to Hitler at Munich applies to Bush.  “You had a choice between war and dis­honor.  You chose dis­honor.  Now you will have war!”

6. Per­haps one should not be overly harsh, how­ever.  Bush may sim­ply have been respond­ing to the veiled threat to the United States made by the afore­men­tioned Ahmed Huber dur­ing a recent inter­view.  “Happy with his sit­u­a­tion, Ahmed Huber dis­courses about the good and the bad Jews, the ‘nec­es­sary’ dis­ap­pear­ance of the State of Israel, and guar­an­tees that his ideas have sym­pa­thiz­ers in all spheres of Swiss soci­ety.  ‘Bush and his Zion­ist advis­ers made a seri­ous error in attack­ing Arab finance, con­nected to the great fam­i­lies of Saudi Ara­bia, of Jor­dan, of Morocco [and] the Gulf Emi­rates.  They have thus repu­di­ated their true allies.  One could accu­rately say an ele­phant in a china shop.’” (“Ahmed Huber, Un Admin­is­tra­teur Aux Sym­pa­thies Islamistes et Nazies;” Le Monde; 5/3/2002; p. 2.)

7. Devel­op­ing dis­cus­sion of Al Taqwa and the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood, an Islam­o­fas­cist sect at the core of Islamic fun­da­men­tal­ist ter­ror­ism, the pro­gram under­scores Huber’s remarks about the Brotherhood’s pro­found links to the insti­tu­tion.  In addi­tion, Huber describes (appar­ently accu­rately) Nada’s con­nec­tions with promi­nent Arab roy­alty, as well as sec­u­lar Arabo-fascist regimes such as Iraq and Libya.  “Tariq Ramadan always denied any bond with rad­i­cal move­ments, like the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood, to which all the Al-Taqwa Man­age­ment admin­is­tra­tors belong, accord­ing to Achmed Huber. . .Youssef Nada, him­self, is a busi­ness­man pos­sess­ing an impres­sive address book.  ‘He knows the Sul­tan of Brunei, the emirs of the Per­sian Gulf, the royal fam­ily of Saudi Ara­bia, Sad­dam, the Ira­ni­ans and Khadaffy,’ [expounds] Ahmed Huber, Al-Taqwa Man­age­ment mem­ber.” (“Al-Taqwa, La Banque Islamique Qui Refuse de Livrer Ses Secrets;” Le Monde; 5/3/2002; p. 2.)

8. Much of the pro­gram focuses on dis­clo­sure of a list of cap­i­tal par­tic­i­pants in Al Taqwa/Nada man­age­ment. (“Share­hold­ers in the Bank of Ter­ror?” by Lucy Komisar; Salon; 3/15/2002; p. 1.)

9. This list has (allegedly) been pub­lic for some time, and the gov­ern­ment of Switzer­land may have been actively obstruct­ing the inves­ti­ga­tion of the Al Taqwa/terrorist link.  In addi­tion, the verac­ity of the doc­u­men­ta­tion has been endorsed by Nada him­self.  “The FBI may have known who the share­hold­ers were for as long as four years.  There is also evi­dence that Swiss author­i­ties have, since the mid-1990’s, refused to coop­er­ate with inter­na­tional intel­li­gence inquiries into the bank’s activ­i­ties. . .The names appear on an unpub­lished share­hold­ers reg­is­ter of ‘Bank of Al Taqwa,’ that reflects hold­ings as of Decem­ber 1999. . .The list has been con­firmed as authen­tic by both U.S. offi­cials and Al Taqwa.  Michele Davis, spokes­woman for the Trea­sury Depart­ment, was shown the doc­u­ments on March 13 and acknowl­edged, ‘We have the list.  We are doing the same as you-trying to find out who these peo­ple are.’  There are 745 names on the 18-page reg­is­ter.  Al Taqwa pres­i­dent Youssef Mustafa Nada, one of sev­eral top bank offi­cials who was put on the U.S. ‘sup­port­ers of ter­ror­ism’ list in Novem­ber, also con­firmed the verac­ity of the list.  ‘It is gen­uine, he said in a phone inter­view.  ‘You can ask Mr. Nicati [the Swiss deputy attor­ney general].’”(Ibid.; pp.1–2.)

10. Among the lumi­nar­ies on this list is one “Has­san el-Banna,” as well as Bin Laden sis­ter.  It is not imme­di­ately appar­ent if this is the orig­i­nal founder of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood him­self, or a blood descen­dant.  (Has­san Al-Banna, him­self, was born in 1907 and would have been 81 at the time that Al Taqwa was founded.)  “Included on the list are Yousuf Abdul­lah Al-Qaradawi, the grand mufti of the United Arab Emi­rates, and five mem­bers of his fam­ily; Mariam Al-Sheikh A. Bin Aziz Al-Mubarak of a branch of the Kuwaiti royal fam­ily; and mem­bers of the promi­nent Khal­ifeh fam­ily of the United Arab Emi­rates.  Sis­ters Huta and Iman Bin­laden, who live in Saudi Ara­bia, and Has­san el-Banna, a leader of the Egypt­ian Moslem Broth­er­hood group, are listed.” (Ibid.; p. 2.)  (For more about Al-Banna, see, among other pro­grams, FTR#343.)

11. Accord­ing to Swiss jour­nal­ists, Ital­ian intel­li­gence prod­ded the gov­ern­ment of Switzer­land to inves­ti­gate Al Taqwa, to no appar­ent avail.  (Huber’s pro­fessed lack of worry about the inves­ti­ga­tion of Al Taqwa and his state­ment that his Nazi/Islamist views enjoy the sym­pa­thies of peo­ple in all strata of Swiss soci­ety [includ­ing gov­ern­ment] bear con­sid­er­a­tion in this con­text.) “In the mid-1990’s, the Ital­ian anti-terrorist agency DIGOS (Divi­sion of Gen­eral Intel­li­gence and Spe­cial Oper­a­tions), con­cerned about rad­i­cal Islamic activ­ity at the Islamic Cul­tural Insti­tu­tion of Milan, found links to Al Taqwa.  In 1995, accord­ing to jour­nal­ists Paolo Fusi and Mar­tin Stoll in the Swiss newsweekly Facts, DIGOS told Swiss fed­eral pros­e­cu­tor Carla Del Ponte, ‘The Nada group com­prises the most impor­tant finan­cial struc­ture of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood and Islamic ter­ror­ist orga­ni­za­tions.’  The newsweekly said the agency later reported that Swiss offi­cials appeared loath to look into Nada’s oper­a­tions.” (Idem).

12. Accord­ing to the Swiss arti­cle, the PLO appears to have been among the ben­e­fi­cia­ries of Al Taqwa’s largesse.  “Accord­ing to Facts, a 1996 DIGOS report said Al Taqwa han­dled financ­ing for a num­ber of Arab and Islamic polit­i­cal and mil­i­tant groups, includ­ing the Pales­tine Lib­er­a­tion Orga­ni­za­tion, Hamas, the Alger­ian Armed Islamic Group (GIA) and the Egypt­ian Gama’a al-Islamiya, as well as for­mer Afghan muja­hedin in Bin Laden’s camps.  It said the net­work aided ter­ror­ist groups in Kuwait, Yemen, Libya, Jor­dan, Lebanon and Sudan.” (Ibid.; pp. 3–4.)

13. Among the pos­si­ble rea­sons for the Swiss reluc­tance to con­sum­mate the inves­ti­ga­tion of Al Taqwa is the fact that fed­eral pros­e­cu­tor Carla Del Ponte was a law part­ner of Nada’s attor­ney, Pier Felice Barchi. “The weekly Facts also reported that, in 1997, DIGOS asked for Swiss help. Del Ponte (who is now lead­ing the U.N’s pros­e­cu­tion of for­mer Yugosla­vian Pres­i­dent Slo­bo­dan Milo­se­vic for war crimes) started ques­tion­ing Al Taqwa offi­cials.  Nada’s attor­ney, Pier Felice Barchi, in whose law firm Del Ponte had worked, recalled to Facts how he ended the inves­ti­ga­tion.  Barchi said, ‘When I learned about the Ital­ian inquiry, I imme­di­ately called Del Ponte and said to her, ‘Hey Car­lotta, stop this shit.’  A few hours later, the non­sense was off the table.’  Barchi told Salon his true remark was, ‘Please Mrs. Del Ponte, make an inquiry.’  He said, ‘After 20 or 30 days, Mrs. Del Ponte said it’s not nec­es­sary to make an inquiry; there’s no evi­dence against Mr. Nada.’  He said he hadn’t asked Facts for a cor­rec­tion because ‘I have other things to do.’  Del Ponte’s press spokesman declined to respond to a detailed query.” (Ibid.; p. 4.)  (Cor­rec­tion: In FTR#354, Mr. Emory misiden­ti­fied the head of the U.N. pros­e­cu­tion of Milo­se­vic as Mag­dalena Kopp.) Asso­ci­ated with the Shakarchi fam­ily (direc­tors of SICO, the Euro­pean sub­sidiary of the Bin Laden busi­ness empire), Kopp was involved with the Shakarchi A.G. affair, which also entan­gled Ms. Del Ponte)

14. The Salon then touches on the rela­tion­ship between Al Taqwa and the Banca del Got­tardo.  It also inter­est­ing (and, per­haps, sig­nif­i­cant) that Got­tardo has a cor­re­spon­dent account at Citibank, whose prin­ci­pal stock­holder is Saudi Prince Alwaleed. “Al Taqwa has, for years, enjoyed the pro­tec­tion in Switzer­land, where it moves money through cor­re­spon­dent accounts in the polit­i­cally influ­en­tial Banca del Got­tardo, also in Lugano.  Got­tardo pres­i­dent Clau­dio Gen­er­ali is a local vice pres­i­dent of the rul­ing Lib­eral Rad­i­cal Party and a for­mer finance min­is­ter of Ticino.  Got­tardo has New York cor­re­spon­dent accounts in Citibank and the Bank of New York, which gave Al Taqwa entry in the U.S.” (Idem.)  (For more about the Banca del Gottardo/Al Taqwa link, see FTR#‘s 356, 357.  For more about Prince Alwaleed, see FTR#‘s 342, 353.)

15. Next, the progam reviews the link between Banca del Got­tardo and the for­mer Soviet (now Russ­ian) bio­log­i­cal war­fare pro­gram.  “[Nada Man­age­ment board mem­ber] Mohamed Man­sour is on the board of the Bosn­ian Insti­tute in Zurich.  So is [Begh­jet] 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.)  Mr. Emory notes 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.

16. In FTRs 356 and 357, the link between the Al Taqwa/Banca del Got­tardo milieu and the GOP was ana­lyzed at con­sid­er­able length.  In light of the fact that key Sen­a­to­r­ial Democ­rats were among the prin­ci­pal tar­gets of the anthrax let­ters, the pos­si­bil­ity that the attacks may have been per­pe­trated (in part) by GOP-connected Islamists is not one to be too read­ily dis­missed.  The anthrax attacks con­tinue to be inves­ti­gated.  (“Anthrax Sent Through Mail Gained Potency by the Let­ter” by William J. Broad and David John­ston; The New York Times; 5/7/2002; p. A1.)  If the anthrax attacks involved Al Taqwa-related ele­ments, it is pos­si­ble that these attacks were coor­di­nated with oth­ers per­pe­trated by domes­tic Amer­i­can fas­cists and/or Fifth Col­umn ele­ments within the U.S. national secu­rity establishment.

17. An intrigu­ing alle­ga­tion was made about a pos­si­ble Ital­ian fas­cist link to Al Taqwa. “Another Con­nec­tion involves al-Taqwa group share­holder Alle­san­dro Ghe, an Ital­ian rad­i­cal who has been ques­tioned by his country’s secu­rity forces about his links to Bin Laden.  Ghe was a mem­ber of the Ital­ian neo-fascist ‘Ordine Nuovo’ that began cou­pling up with Moslem rad­i­cals in the 1970’s, says Ely Kar­mon.” (“A Ter­ri­fy­ing Alliance” by Yael Haran; 1/14/2002; Enduring-Freedom-Operation.org; pp. 4–5.)

18. Next, the pro­gram fur­ther devel­ops Mr. Emory’s view that the Islamofascist/Underground Reich milieu impli­cated in the 9/11 attacks helped to infil­trate the United States intel­li­gence sys­tem by assist­ing with the strug­gle against the Sovi­ets. “Mar­ried to an Egypt­ian woman, father of a lawyer and a data pro­cess­ing spe­cial­ist [who had] fought the Sovi­ets in Afghanistan for a few months, Ahmed Huber has main­tained his address book for thirty years, in the Arab world, while tak­ing part in con­fer­ences on Islamism.” (“Ahmed Huber, Un Admin­is­tra­teur Aux Sym­pa­thies Islamistes et Nazies;” Le Monde; 5/3/2002; p. 2.)

19. Another Ger­man neo-Nazi/ Al Taqwa link to the Afghan war was high­lighted in a recent arti­cle. “In late 1997, a Ger­man neo-Nazi and con­vert to Islam, Steven Smyrek, who allegedly trained at an al Queda camp in Afghanistan, was arrested in Israel for plan­ning a sui­cide attack, accord­ing to the Duis­burg cen­ter [Infor­ma­tion Ser­vice Against Right-Wing Extrem­ism].” (“Unlikely Allies Bound by a Com­mon Hatred” by Peter Finn; Wash­ing­ton Post; 4/29/2002; p. A13.)

20. Huber has stated that the Bin Laden fam­ily has spon­sored Al Taqwa at two recent Islamist conventions.(“Ahmed Huber, Un Admin­is­tra­teur Aux Sym­pa­thies Islamistes et Nazies;” Le Monde; 5/3/2002; p. 2.) “Two or three times, the fam­ily Ben Laden were the Al-Taqwa spon­sor.  It is nor­mal; it is about the largest con­struc­tion com­pany of the Moslem world.  But they were estranged from Osama.”

21. Mr. Emory has noted 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 (18 years younger than U.S. Sen­a­tor Strom Thur­mond), but his 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.)  One won­ders whether the Bin Laden money trail has become too hot, and some­one (younger Bor­mann peo­ple, Islamists or Allied intel­li­gence assas­sins) may be at work.

22. From the stand­point of strate­gic intel­li­gence, one should come to under­stand the Nazi men­tal­ity that under­lies the onslaught of 9/11.  There is a Ger­man card game, sim­i­lar to Bridge, but involv­ing only three play­ers.  It is called Skat.  One should play it, and under­stand it, in order to come to antic­i­pate (and inter­dict) the Under­ground Reich.  Recall­ing FTR#‘s 344–346, the nature of the assault on the United States may be intended to destroy the coun­try eco­nom­i­cally.  Con­sider that the point man for Islamist liai­son with the Repub­li­can Party is Grover Norquist, who is also a pri­mary advo­cate of the Repub­li­can tax strat­egy. If we do not intel­li­gently increase the mil­i­tary bud­get and fight the war, the U.S. will be phys­i­cally anni­hi­lated.  If we increase the mil­i­tary bud­get and do not increase rev­enues, we will be eco­nom­i­cally bankrupt-the U.S. will have an unsus­tain­able cur­rent accounts deficit. The enor­mous increase in mil­i­tary spend­ing that will be required in order to win this essen­tial war-an exten­sion of the Sec­ond World War-must be accom­pa­nied by an appro­pri­ate increase in fed­eral rev­enues.  The per­cent­age of GDP required for such an increase will not be pro­hib­i­tive, if the tax code and fis­cal pol­icy of this coun­try is effec­tively, intel­li­gently man­aged. If, on the other hand, George W. Bush’s tax cut remains in place (while mil­i­tary expen­di­tures are increased), it will bank­rupt the United States and destroy the coun­try.  Quite sim­ply, the future of civ­i­liza­tion depends upon the intel­li­gent (and, where nec­es­sary, mer­ci­less) appli­ca­tion of Amer­i­can mil­i­tary power, a bal­anced and far-sighted approach to applied eco­nom­ics, and the removal from pub­lic office of George W. Bush and the inter­ests he rep­re­sents.  Learn the game of Skat.  It can be instruc­tive.  Win­ston Churchill described what would hap­pen if Hitler won World War II. “The world will be plunged into an abyss, made more sin­is­ter by the knights of per­verted sci­ence.” Think about it.