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This pro­gram high­lights and con­cep­tu­al­izes some of the major “talk­ing points” of the inquiry deal­ing with 9/11 and related subjects.

1. As lis­ten­ers (read­ers) peruse and digest the points of infor­ma­tion pre­sented here, it is of utmost impor­tance to under­stand the pri­mary sig­nif­i­cance of the Under­ground Reich in the orches­tra­tion of these events. Although the ele­ments and per­son­al­i­ties of polit­i­cal and eco­nomic power that fig­ure in this drama are tem­po­rally, geo­graph­i­cally and eth­ni­cally diverse, the com­mon denom­i­na­tor is the Under­ground Reich and the result of their cumu­la­tive efforts (not nec­es­sar­ily con­sciously, in all cases) will be “the F word”–fascism. Fas­cism in the United States and every­where else, as well. For much of human­ity it will mean anni­hi­la­tion. For the rest-fascism, under the dom­i­na­tion of the Under­ground Reich. Just as a slight-of-hand artist waves a magic wand to dis­tract the audi­ence while the trick is per­formed, so the very diver­sity of the play­ers on this infer­nal stage tends to mask the nature of the forces at work through them. This analy­sis dis­tills the cen­tral ele­ments, and presents them in what is (hope­fully) a straight­for­ward and enlight­en­ing con­cep­tual con­text. Note that FTRs 454, 455, 456 are com­pen­dia that draw together much of the key doc­u­men­ta­tion on three key aspects of the inves­ti­ga­tion into 9/11. In car­ry­ing the mes­sage to oth­ers, under­stand that it is your duty as a cit­i­zen and as a human being to do so. As the dying Cap­tain Miller (played by Tom Hanks) said to Pri­vate Ryan (played by Matt Damon) in Sav­ing Pri­vate Ryan-“Earn this! Earn it!”

2. An excel­lent con­cep­tual (and legal/investigative) start­ing point can be found in the Oper­a­tion Green Quest Raids of 3/20/2002. “Years before the Sep­tem­ber 11 attacks on New York and Wash­ing­ton, Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda orga­ni­za­tion and other ter­ror­ist groups had sys­tem­at­i­cally built finan­cial net­works capa­ble of sus­tain­ing their aim of bring­ing their war to the United States on its own soil. Indeed, bin Laden ini­tially rose to promi­nence not as a fighter but as the most influ­en­tial financier of the mujahideen fight­ing to drive the Soviet army out of Afghanistan. ‘It is this finan­cial archi­tec­ture that con­tin­ued with him when he turned to ter­ror­ism, and it’s this finan­cial archi­tec­ture that is at the heart of how al Qaeda today gets its finances,’ said William F. Wech­sler, who spe­cial­ized in track­ing ter­ror­ist fund­ing while at the National Secu­rity Coun­cil dur­ing the last two years of the Clin­ton admin­is­tra­tion.” (Blood From Stones; by Dou­glas Farah; Broad­way Books [HC]; Copy­right 2004 by Dou­glas Farah; ISBN 0–7679-1562–3; p. 1.) Act­ing on infor­ma­tion unearthed dur­ing the research for a law­suit by John Lof­tus), Trea­sury Depart­ment agents raided a series of over­lap­ping insti­tu­tions and related indi­vid­u­als on sus­pi­cion of being involved in the financ­ing of ter­ror­ism. These insti­tu­tions and indi­vid­u­als are con­nected to: the petro­leum busi­ness milieu of George W. Bush; to the Islam­o­fas­cist Al Taqwa milieu; to the Repub­li­can Party’s Eth­nic Out­reach orga­ni­za­tion and to piv­otal GOP oper­a­tive Grover Norquist. Bush fam­ily polit­i­cal ally and busi­ness asso­ciate Talat Oth­man inter­ceded with Trea­sury Sec­re­tary O’Neill on behalf of the tar­gets of the 3/20 raids on 4/4/2002. O’Neill resigned his cab­i­net post in early Decem­ber of 2002. In early 2003, the indict­ment of Sami al-Arian in con­nec­tion with ter­ror­ist activ­i­ties fur­ther under­scored the GOP Eth­nics’ con­nec­tion to Mid­dle East­ern ter­ror­ists. The Bush admin­is­tra­tion has actively frus­trated Oper­a­tion Green Quest. From the focal point of the 3/20 Green Quest raids, evi­den­tiary and his­tor­i­cal trib­u­taries flow to crit­i­cal junc­tions, which, in turn, embody the pow­er­ful, semi-clandestine forces of the Under­ground Reich.

3. The foun­da­tion of the eco­nomic and polit­i­cal dynamic that man­i­fested itself through the 9/11 attacks was revealed in the Green Quest raids. That foun­da­tion is the multi-national and finan­cial axis that led to the cap­i­tal­iza­tion of Adolph Hitler and the per­pet­u­a­tion of the Under­ground Reich and the Bor­mann Orga­ni­za­tion. The busi­ness and polit­i­cal rela­tion­ships of the Bush fam­ily are inex­tri­ca­bly linked with both. W’s prog­en­i­tors were among the most impor­tant of Hitler’s finan­cial back­ers. The invest­ments of George Her­bert Walker (W’s great-grandfather) and Prescott Bush, Sr. (W’s grand­fa­ther) in the Thyssen-Bornemisza finan­cial engine under­ly­ing the Thyssen (now Thyssen-Krupp) heavy indus­trial firm were han­dled by Sul­li­van & Cromwell attor­ney Allen Dulles. Dulles was also cen­tral to the real­iza­tion of the post­war dis­per­sal of Nazi finan­cial assets. The Allen Dulles-supervised finan­cial tri­umvi­rate of the Union Bank­ing Cor­po­ra­tion, the August Thyssen Bank in Berlin and the Bank voor Han­del en Scheep­vart in the Nether­lands was a major pivot-point for the cap­i­tal that revived the Thyssen oper­a­tion in the post­war period. Prescott Bush Sr. was deeply involved with this three-way “money-go-round.” The man­ager of the Dutch bank (1947) and an inves­tiga­tive reporter who was pur­su­ing this link (1996) died under ambigu­ous cir­cum­stances. The liq­ui­da­tion of the Union Bank­ing Cor­po­ra­tion in 1951 was the basis for much of the Bush family’s eco­nomic largesse. (For more on the Bush/Thyssen con­nec­tion, see ” ‘Bush-Nazi Deal­ings Con­tin­ued Until 1951′-Federal Doc­u­ments” by John Buchanan and Stacey Michael; 11/7/2003 [vol. 248, #3]. See also: “How the Bush Fam­ily Made its For­tune from the Nazis” by John Lof­tus.)

4. The cre­ation of Saudi Ara­bia was real­ized by these same ele­ments. Sul­li­van & Cromwell’s Allen Dulles (along with Axis spy Jack Philby and Philby’s pro­tégé king Ibn Saud-a Nazi sym­pa­thizer) were cen­tral to the cre­ation of Saudi Ara­bia and the suc­cess­ful per­pet­u­a­tion of the house of Saud. Moham­mad bin Laden (a close friend of Ibn Saud’s and the father of Osama) founded the Saudi Bin Laden Group-the con­struc­tion busi­ness at the heart of the pow­er­ful Bin Laden eco­nomic empire–in 1931 (a year before the for­mal cre­ation of Saudi Ara­bia itself.) Sul­li­van & Cromwell is the legal coun­sel for the Saudi Bin Laden Group (or SBG). Sul­li­van & Cromwell also headed up a con­sor­tium of finan­cial insti­tu­tions that sought to weaken the pro­vi­sions insti­tuted by the Trea­sury Depart­ment (and the recently-departed Paul O’Neill) to stem the tide of money laundering.

5. Join­ing the Amer­i­can forces involved in the financ­ing of Hitler to the over­lap­ping milieux of “Euro-fascism” and Islam­o­fas­cism, is the Lugano-based Al Taqwa orga­ni­za­tion. (For back­ground on Al Taqwa, be sure to check out three very impor­tant arti­cles by Kevin Coogan: “The Mys­te­ri­ous Achmed Huber: Friend to Hitler, Allah and Ibn Ladin?”; “Report on Islamists, The Far Right, and Al Taqwa”; and “Achmed Huber, The Avalon Gemein­schaft, and the Swiss ‘New Right’”.

In addi­tion one should exam­ine Lucy Komisar’s “Share Hold­ers in the Bank of Ter­ror?” See also: “U.S. Trails Va. Money, Ties” by Dou­glas Farah and John Mintz; Wash­ing­ton Post; 10/7/2002; “Oil for Food Sales Seen as Iraq Tie to Al Qaeda” by Marc Perel­man; For­ward; 6/20/2003. Headed up by Egyptian-born for­mer Abwehr agent Youssef Nada, the Bank Al Taqwa (later Nada man­age­ment), engaged Swiss “neo”-Nazi turned Islamist Ahmed Huber as a direc­tor. Huber is a pro­tégé of Johann von Leers, direc­tor of anti-Semitic pro­pa­ganda for Joseph Goebbels pro­pa­ganda min­istry. Von Leers later func­tioned in a sim­i­lar capac­ity as the head of Egypt­ian pres­i­dent Nasser’s “Insti­tute for the Study of Zion­ism.” The Bin Laden fam­ily was involved in the financ­ing of Al Taqwa. Mus­lim Broth­er­hood king­pin Said Ramadan was a prin­ci­pal fig­ure in the found­ing of Bank Al Taqwa. Unfor­tu­nately, both US and inter­na­tional efforts at inter­dict­ing the oper­a­tions of Bank Al Taqwa have been inef­fec­tive. The Saudi DMI is also a prin­ci­pal share­holder in the Bank Al Taqwa and sus­pected of involve­ment with the fund­ing of Al Qaeda and to the Saudi elite/Bush fam­ily axis. Al Taqwa king­pins Youssef Nada and Ali Galeb Him­mat lived in the United States for a num­ber of years, and had six chil­dren born in the U.S. between them. The geo­graph­i­cal base of Al Taqwa and the closely-related Banca del Got­tardo is Lugano (Switzerland)-long the epi­cen­ter of the Thyssen/Bornemisza oper­a­tions real­ized by, among other oth­ers, the Bush/Dulles axis.

6. At the Lugano “pivot-point” of Al Taqwa/Banca del Got­tardo, we find sig­nif­i­cant points of over­lap with the Ital­ian fas­cist milieu of the P-2 lodge and the Alleanza Nationale-the suc­ces­sor to Mussolini’s fas­cist party. Among the share­hold­ers in Al Taqwa was Alessan­dro Ghe, asso­ci­ated with the Ital­ian fas­cist group Ordine Nuovo. Nada’s attor­ney Pier Felici Barchi–closely con­nected to the milieu of Banca del Got­tardo pres­i­dent Clau­dio Generali-handles the Swiss legal/economic busi­ness for Ital­ian Prime Min­is­ter and for­mer P-2 Lodge mem­ber Sil­vio Berlus­coni. An account at Banco del Got­tardo was also used by Elio Bor­radori, the Lugano-based banker for Sad­dam Hus­sein. Barchi is also a for­mer law part­ner of Carla Del Ponte, the pros­e­cu­tor in the war crimes trial of Slo­bo­dan Milo­se­vic. The Clearstream access for Bank Al Taqwa, Banca del Got­tardo is the Swiss sub­sidiary of the Banco Ambrosiano. Gus­tavo Selva, a deputy of the Alleanza Nationale (suc­ces­sor to Mussolini’s fas­cist party and a mem­ber of the Berlus­coni coali­tion gov­ern­ment) is asso­ci­ated with Ahmed Idris Nasred­din and Ali Galeb Him­mat, founders of Al Taqwa. The head of the Alleanza Nationale (Gian­franco Fini) was at a con­fer­ence of Euro­pean far-right lead­ers at Mont Pelerin in Switzer­land, along with the afore­men­tioned Al Taqwa direc­tor and neo-Nazi Ahmed Huber. Another of the busi­ness asso­ciates of Nasred­din was the late Ercole Doninelli, closely asso­ci­ated with the Fimo, a now-bankrupt com­pany that helped to cap­i­tal­ize Berlusconi’s early invest­ments in the con­struc­tion indus­try. Al Taqwa also has links with the royal fam­ily of Liecht­en­stein. With anti-Muslim/anti-immigrant sen­ti­ment being a major ide­o­log­i­cal tenet of the Euro­pean far-right, these asso­ci­a­tions run counter to stereo­typed ide­o­log­i­cal conceptions.

7. Link­ing Islam­o­fas­cism to Euro-fascism, Al Taqwa is also inex­tri­ca­bly linked with the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood, the prog­en­i­tor of all mod­ern Islamic mil­i­tant groups and a polit­i­cal and ide­o­log­i­cal ally of Nazi Ger­many and fas­cist Italy. (For com­pre­hen­sive back­ground on the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood see the three Kevin Coogan arti­cles linked above. In addi­tion, see: “Islamism, Fas­cism and Ter­ror­ism” by Marc Erik­son [Asia Times]; Parts I-IV.) Join­ing theo­cratic Islamic total­i­tar­i­an­ism with the cor­po­ratist eco­nomic phi­los­o­phy of Mus­solini, the Broth­er­hood is the par­ent orga­ni­za­tion of Al Taqwa. The Mus­lim Broth­er­hood (and Al Taqwa’s Ahmed Huber) has estab­lished con­nec­tions with the British anti-Iraq war move­ment, the French Mus­lim elec­toral orga­ni­za­tion (UOIF) and with the Turk­ish Refah orga­ni­za­tion, which is con­nected to the gov­ern­ing Turk­ish AK party. Mus­lim Broth­er­hood king­pin Said Ramadan was a prin­ci­pal fig­ure in the found­ing of Bank Al Taqwa Ramadan’s son Tariq (a sup­posed mod­er­ate) also appears to be con­nected to Al Taqwa, as well as other Al Qaeda-linked ele­ments. The Mus­lim Broth­er­hood has been very effec­tive in reach­ing out to Mus­lim con­gre­ga­tions in the United States.

8. Cen­tral to an under­stand­ing of the Mus­lim Brotherhood’s alliance with the Axis in World War II (and with the Under­ground Reich after the war) is the geopo­lit­i­cal con­cept of the “Earth Island.” Viewed as essen­tial to the con­trol of the world’s land mass, its pop­u­la­tion and its petro­leum reserves, that stretch of land from the straits of Gibral­tar run­ning all the way across Europe, the for­mer Soviet Union, the Mid­dle East, India and China is dom­i­nated by a largely Mus­lim pop­u­la­tion. Con­trol­ling that Mus­lim pop­u­la­tion was seen by the Nazi geopoliti­cians as the key to world dom­i­na­tion. It is in the con­text of world fas­cism and the Under­ground Reich that the Euro-fascist/Muslim Broth­er­hood rela­tion­ship embod­ied in the Al Taqwa nexus assumes the clar­ity and rel­e­vance it deserves.

9. In attempt­ing to real­ize their dom­i­na­tion of the Earth Island, the Third Reich uti­lized the con­sid­er­able skills of Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. In addi­tion, Al Taqwa’s Youssef Nada aided The Grand Mufti’s post­war flight from Ger­many to Jerusalem. The World Mus­lim Con­gress, founded in the after­math of World War II, was a prin­ci­pal link between the for­mer World Anti-Communist League and reac­tionary Islam. The WMC was also a prin­ci­pal tool of the West­ern intel­li­gence coali­tion that pros­e­cuted the anti-Soviet Afghan war in the 1980’s-the con­flict that spawned Osama bin Laden as a war­rior, as well as Al Qaeda. The Grand Mufti recruited Balkan Mus­lims to fight along­side the Nazis-their suc­ces­sors in the Balkans also worked with Al Qaeda-linked ele­ments. Hold­ing the rank of major in the Nazi SS, the Grand Mufti was one of the most impor­tant Axis spies in World War II. He was a major influ­ence on the afore­men­tioned Ahmed Huber and worked with the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood and king Ibn Saud of Saudi Ara­bia. The first leader of the Pales­tin­ian national move­ment, he was related to, and an inspi­ra­tion for, Yasser Arafat.One of the Grand Mufti’s most impor­tant asso­ci­a­tions was with key Nazi oper­a­tive Fran­cois Genoud.

10. Although he died in 1996, Genoud’s name crops up in a num­ber of ways in con­junc­tion with 9/11. For more infor­ma­tion about Genoud, see the three arti­cles by Kevin Coogan noted above. In addi­tion, see “The Swastika and the Cres­cent” by Mar­tin A. Lee; South­ern Poverty Law Center’s Intel­li­gence Report.) One source alleges that Genoud actu­ally founded Al Taqwa, alleged to be an Al Qaeda backer before and after 9/11. In addi­tion, Genoud was close to Ahmed Huber. In inter­views with the finan­cial jour­nal Plus/Minus and with Bavar­ian State Radio, money laun­der­ing expert Ernest Backes alleged that the 9/11 money trail would be traced back to cor­po­rate fronts set up by Genoud and, appar­ently, still in oper­a­tion. Among his (Genoud’s) asso­ci­a­tions was Said Ramadan, the head of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood and the archi­tect of the Brotherhood’s rede­ploy­ment to Ger­many, and then Switzer­land. A key oper­a­tive in the net­works that aided the post­war flight of Nazi war crim­i­nals, Genoud financed the legal defense of Klaus Bar­bie (the “Butcher of Lyon”) and Adolph Eich­mann. One of his pro­tégés and the defense attor­ney for Bar­bie was Jacques Verges, whose law part­ner (Isabel Coutant-Peyre) is the French attor­ney for Zac­cha­rias Mous­saoui, the accused 20th hijacker. It appears that Verges is also going to be the coun­sel for Sad­dam Hus­sein. A major backer of the PLO and other Mid­dle East­ern ter­ror­ist groups, Genoud was a prin­ci­pal player in the world of inter­na­tional ter­ror­ism. One of the many orga­ni­za­tions with which he was asso­ci­ated was the Baader-Meinhof gang. Baader-Meinhof at one point plot­ted to send anthrax through the mail, not unlike what hap­pened after 9/11. It is in this con­text that Genoud’s friend­ship and pro­fes­sional asso­ci­a­tion with Beau­doin Dunand assumes spe­cial importance.

11. When Genoud stood trial in France in con­nec­tion with ter­ror­ism, his attor­ney was Beau­doin Dunand, who was also a close friend. Dunand was also the co-chairman of the board of SICO-the European-based hold­ing com­pany for SBG. In addi­tion, Dunand was involved with mov­ing money for the fam­ily of Khalid bin Mahfouz–married to Osama bin Laden’s sis­ter, impli­cated in the 9/11 sce­nario and closely con­nected to the milieu of the BCCI. A Bin Mah­fouz pro­tégé was the owner of the Al Shifa phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal fac­tory tar­geted by Amer­i­can cruise mis­sile strikes in 1998. Dunand was also involved with set­ting up fronts used to secret money from Sad­dam Hussein.

12. Rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the power of invested Saudi petrodol­lars, the nexus of the BCCI is at the foun­da­tion of the inves­ti­ga­tion into Sep­tem­ber 11. Touch­ing upon activ­i­ties rang­ing from the Iran-Contra Scan­dal, the Iraq­gate Scan­dal, the Mark Rich affair, the financ­ing of the Afghan Muja­hadeen, drug traf­fick­ing, and terrorism-this now-defunct bank involved many key per­son­al­i­ties involved with var­i­ous Bush fam­ily busi­ness ven­tures. Dis­cussed above, Khalid bin Mah­fouz was a prin­ci­pal fig­ure in the BCCI inves­ti­ga­tion, and was rep­re­sented in Amer­i­can busi­ness by James R. Bath, an early investor in George W. Bush’s first (failed) oil business-Bath also rep­re­sented Salem bin Laden, the older brother of Osama. Bin Mah­fouz also allegedly helped to cap­i­tal­ize Harken Energy, the suc­ces­sor firm to Arbusto. It appears that ele­ments of the CIA are help­ing Bin Mah­fouz in a nui­sance law­suit against the advi­sor to a suit by sur­vivors of the 9/11 attacks against ele­ments of the Saudi elite. Another of the BCCI prin­ci­pals held sway in Harken. Abdul­lah Bakhsh (the North Amer­i­can busi­ness rep­re­sen­ta­tive for much of the Bin Laden fam­ily from 1976 until 1982) was a pro­tégé of Gaith Pharaon, a prin­ci­pal cap­i­tal­izer of BCCI. Bakhsh placed his protégé-Talat Othman-on the board of direc­tors of Harken Energy. Bakhsh now works for a sub­sidiary of Halliburton-Dick Cheney’s old firm. It was Oth­man who inter­ceded with the recently departed Paul O’Neill. Another dimen­sion of the BCCI aspect of the 9/11 inves­ti­ga­tion con­cerns the role played in the “inves­ti­ga­tion” of the BCCI affair by Robert Mueller, now head of the FBI. That inquest was less than vig­or­ous. The num­ber two man in that pur­pose­fully inad­e­quate inves­ti­ga­tion was Rudolph Giu­liani, the “hero” of 9/11.

13. Another impor­tant embod­i­ment of the invest­ment power of Saudi petrodol­lars is the Car­lyle Group. Yet another of the busi­ness ven­tures join­ing the Bush, Bin Mah­fouz and Bin Laden fam­i­lies, the Car­lyle Group was hold­ing its annual investor con­fer­ence in Wash­ing­ton D.C. on 9/11. At that con­fer­ence, mem­bers of the Bush milieu and Bin Laden fam­ily mem­bers watched as the World Trade Cen­ter Tow­ers col­lapsed. Within days, mem­bers of the Bin Laden fam­ily were flown out of the United States before they could be inter­viewed by the FBI-they were the only civil­ians able to fly in the United States in that time period. Among the Bin Laden fam­ily mem­bers allowed to leave was Abdul­lah Bin Laden, linked to ter­ror­ism, Al Qaeda and the milieu of the Oper­a­tion Green Quest raids of 3/20/2002. In addi­tion, Saudi Prince Ahmed-alleged to have been a go-between for al Qaeda and the Saudi royal fam­ily was allowed to leave as well. The elder George Bush was in Wash­ing­ton, D.C. on 9/11/2001 and flew out at approx­i­mately the same time as the plane that struck the Pen­ta­gon flew in.

14. There are a num­ber of inter­est­ing ques­tions about the per­for­mance of civil­ian and mil­i­tary avi­a­tion units in con­nec­tion with the attacks of 9/11. Attor­ney Gen­eral John Ashcroft stopped fly­ing on com­mer­cial flights in late July of 2001-why?! NORAD had con­ducted train­ing exer­cises sim­u­lat­ing the events of 9/11, giv­ing the lie to the administration’s claim that the attacks hadn’t been antic­i­pated. The admin­is­tra­tion was lax in alert­ing air­lines about the warn­ings of the hijack­ings. The anom­alous behav­ior of air defense units on 9/11 may well be due to the fact that “threat assess­ment” soft­ware for both the FAA and the Air Force was devel­oped by a com­pany called Ptech, that had many links to Al Qaeda and the Al Taqwa milieu. One of the alleged col­lab­o­ra­tors of Osama bin Laden was the head of the Pak­istani Air Force, who was killed in a plane crash in Feb­ru­ary of 2003. Exper­tise such as his (Air Mar­shall Ali Mir-head of the PAF) com­bined with the soft­ware devel­oped by Ptech may well have been used to inter­fere with the per­for­mance of air defense units on 9/11.

15. George W. Bush’s brother Mar­vin was a direc­tor of a num­ber of com­pa­nies involved with elec­tronic secu­rity for the World Trade Cen­ter, Dulles Air­port and United Air­lines, as well as another that was an insur­ance under­writer for the World Trade Cen­ter. Another Bush rel­a­tive, Wirt D. Walker III, was involved with the secu­rity firm, which also ran flight train­ing schools in Florida. George W. Bush’s uncle, Jonathan Bush, is a direc­tor of the Riggs Bank, which is deeply involved with Saudi diplomatic/financial net­works impli­cated in the oper­a­tional aspects of 9/11. The President’s other brother, Neil Bush, is also heav­ily involved with Mid­dle East­ern busi­ness inter­ests, in turn, over­lap­ping some of the Texas/petro-business con­nec­tions that are to be found at the heart of the Bush family’s con­tem­po­rary busi­ness deal­ings. (See also “Bush-linked Com­pany Han­dled Secu­rity for the WTC, Dulles and United” by Margie Burns; Prince George’s Jour­nal [Mary­land]; 2/4/2003; as well as “The Best Unreg­u­lated Fam­i­lies” by Margie Burns.)

16. In exam­in­ing the 3/20 Oper­a­tion Green Quest raids, it is inter­est­ing to note the pres­ence in the GOP’s eth­nic out­reach orga­ni­za­tion of Wah­habi ele­ments con­nected to the Al Taqwa/Al Qaeda milieu. Bush “Sven­gali” Karl Rove helped put together the Islam­o­fas­cist ele­ment in the GOP. A tra­di­tional repos­i­tory for Cen­tral and East­ern Euro­pean fas­cist ele­ments, this Nazi fac­tion of the Repub­li­can Party was the out­growth of the Cru­sade For Free­dom. The brain­child of Bush fam­ily asso­ciate Allen Dulles, over­seen by Richard Nixon, fronted for by Ronald Rea­gan and arranged by William Casey, the CFF was cre­ated for the dual pur­poses of pro­mot­ing anti-Semitism in the U.S. and anti-communism abroad. Was there a sim­i­lar attempt (to coun­ter­act the “Jew­ish Vote” at home and pro­mote anti-communism abroad) dur­ing the clos­ing phase of the Cold War? Were Islam­o­fas­cist ele­ments brought into the coun­try for this purpose-a “Jihad For Free­dom?” (For more about the GOP/Islamist con­nec­tion, see ” ‘Count­down with Keith Olber­man’ for Oct. 23″; MSNBC News; 10/23/2003.)

17. Adja­cent to the hypo­thet­i­cal con­cept of the “Jihad For Free­dom” is the real­ity of Saudi/Islamofascist influ­ence within the US, partly as a result of the petro­leum busi­ness, partly because of the enor­mous invest­ment of recy­cled petrodol­lars in the Amer­i­can com­mer­cial and polit­i­cal econ­omy. Note­wor­thy in this regard is the alleged role of Saudi Ara­bia, the petro­leum busi­ness, the “oil fac­tion” of the CIA and George Bush in the desta­bi­liza­tion of Jimmy Carter-whose pro­mo­tion of energy con­ser­va­tion instead of devel­op­ment was anath­ema to those inter­ests. By cre­at­ing a phony “oil short­age,” those inter­ests helped defeat Carter by increas­ing oil prices-damaging the econ­omy and inflam­ing pub­lic opin­ion against Carter. As war with Iraq looms, Carter’s char­ac­ter­i­za­tion of the need to reduce energy con­sump­tion as “the moral equiv­a­lent of war” looms large indeed. Exem­pli­fy­ing the petro-dollar con­nec­tion to the Repub­li­can estab­lish­ment, the Saudis have hired pow­er­ful for­mer GOP Con­gress­man Tom Loeffler’s law firm to rep­re­sent them. In addi­tion to being “one of Bush’s top mon­ey­men” Loef­fler is close to for­mer petro­leum exec­u­tive Dick Cheney. It appears that the late John P. O’Neill, who headed the FBI’s inves­ti­ga­tion into 9/11 had his inves­ti­ga­tion sab­o­taged because of the Saudi oil con­nec­tions. In an echo of the 1980 Bush oil scam, Prince Ban­dar (Saudi Ambas­sador to the U.S.) allegedly promised to reduce oil prices, thereby bol­ster­ing the econ­omy and boost­ing George W. Bush’s chances for reelection.

18. In the hypoth­e­sis Mr. Emory has been devel­op­ing about the events of 9/11-the hypo­thet­i­cal ques­tion of inter­fer­ence by the oil/Republican/Wahhabi axis in the Camp David peace talks in the sum­mer of 2000 looms large. On 7/25/2000, petro­leum exec­u­tive George W. Bush named petro­leum exec­u­tive Dick Cheney as his Vice-Presidential run­ning mate. On that same day, Yasser Arafat walked out of the Camp David peace talks. Had Clin­ton suc­cess­fully bro­kered a last­ing peace agree­ment and the estab­lish­ment of a Pales­tin­ian state, it might very well have given Al Gore the pres­i­dency in 2000. Many of the “mod­er­ate” Pales­tini­ans who com­prised key ele­ments of the nego­ti­at­ing team at Camp David were pro­tégés of Repub­li­can oper­a­tive James Baker (like Cheney a mem­ber of the elder Bush’s cab­i­net). Coached in the lat­est PR tech­niques by the CIA, they were dubbed “Baker’s Dozen” by the Agency. Madame Chenault (closely affil­i­ated with the Amer­i­can far right and the “China Lobby”) inter­fered in nego­ti­a­tions between the North Viet­namese and the John­son Admin­is­tra­tion in order to pre­vent Hubert Humphrey from ben­e­fit­ing from a cease-fire in 1968. Did the Repub­li­cans inter­fere in the Camp David peace process for the pur­pose of domes­tic elec­toral gains?

19. In con­nec­tion with the break­down of the peace talks in 2000 (which also doomed Israeli Prime Min­is­ter Ehud Barak’s gov­ern­ment), it is worth remem­ber­ing that the PLO’s chief finan­cial source is Saudi Ara­bia. The suc­ces­sor to, (and cousin of) his polit­i­cal men­tor Haj Amin al-Husseini, Yasser Arafat is a pro­tégé of ODESSA chief Otto Sko­rzeny, hav­ing become acquainted with the ex-SS Colonel when the lat­ter was in Egypt as a con­tract employee of the CIA. Arafat’s her­itage is at one with the Bush/Saudi/Underground Reich axis.

20. Another con­sid­er­a­tion in eval­u­at­ing the break­down of the Mid­dle East peace process con­cerns the delib­er­ate court­ing of the Israeli right-wing by the Repub­li­cans, to the detri­ment of the Clin­ton admin­is­tra­tion. The Repub­li­can sub­ver­sion of the Clin­ton pol­icy toward Israel, effected in part by court­ing the Israeli right is par­tic­u­larly inter­est­ing in light of the fas­cist her­itage of the more reac­tionary ele­ments of the Likud party. In addi­tion to desta­bi­liz­ing the Clin­ton administration’s Mid­dle East pol­icy, this uti­liza­tion of the Israeli right at the same time as (appar­ently) court­ing the Saudi/Underground Reich-influenced PLO might be seen as the ulti­mate “Final Solu­tion.” Polar­ize both sides of the Israeli/Palestinian con­flict and insti­gate a war of mutual anni­hi­la­tion between the Arabs and Jews. Third Reich SS strate­gist Otto Von Bolschwing may have drawn on his World War II expe­ri­ence to engi­neer sce­nar­ios in which Jews would be scape­goated for the excesses of the Under­ground Reich.

21. Pre­sent­ing the view that the attacks of 9/11 rep­re­sent a fusion of the attack on Pearl Har­bor and the Reich­stag Fire, the FTR pro­grams on 9/11 com­pare the sit­u­a­tion of the United States to that of France in the late 1930’s and 1940’s. The United States is fac­ing a com­bi­na­tion of attack from a hos­tile for­eign power (the Under­ground Reich’s Islam­o­fas­cist forces) and domes­tic sub­ver­sion from an allied Fifth Col­umn. That Fifth Col­umn (cen­tered on the Bush admin­is­tra­tion) derives from struc­tural eco­nomic rela­tion­ships and infil­tra­tion of the national secu­rity estab­lish­ment through the pro­mo­tion of anti-Communism as a vehi­cle for con­quest. It is rather like the sit­u­a­tion the coun­try would have faced in World War II, had Hitler been in the White House when Pearl Har­bor was attacked. Third Reich Alumni and Islam­o­fas­cist ele­ments suc­cess­fully allied with the Repub­li­can Party dur­ing the Cold War and evolved into an ultra-reactionary force within it intractably opposed to tra­di­tional Amer­i­can democ­racy. A truly sin­is­ter con­sid­er­a­tion in that con­text is the Project for a New Amer­i­can Century’s pro­jec­tion in the fall of 2000 that what would be needed to mobi­lize Amer­i­can pop­u­lar opin­ion behind a US mil­i­tary adven­ture to dom­i­nate the Mid­dle East was an event “like another Pearl Har­bor.” Was 9/11 this “New Pearl Har­bor” and were ele­ments of the Bush admin­is­tra­tion com­plicit in that event?

22. Among the ele­ments that appears to fig­ure promi­nently in the Fifth Col­umn within the US intel­li­gence appa­rat is an Islamist net­work asso­ci­ated with Al Taqwa, the GOP and the tar­gets of the Oper­a­tion Green Quest raids of 3/20/2002. An Islamist pro­tégé of Grover Norquist occu­pies a key posi­tion in the Depart­ment of Home­land Secu­rity, despite his lack of an intel­li­gence back­ground. This Fifth Col­umn has estab­lished itself within the US military’s chap­lain program.

23. In charge of the FBI’s inves­ti­ga­tion into Bin Laden, the late John O’Neill had his inves­ti­ga­tion ter­mi­nated and resigned from the bureau-complaining that US cor­po­rate links to Saudi Ara­bia were inter­dict­ing his inves­ti­ga­tion. O’Neill died at the World Trade Cen­ter on 9/11.

24. In exam­in­ing the ten­sion with Iraq, it is of para­mount impor­tance to under­stand the Third Reich her­itage of Sad­dam Hus­sein, and the Under­ground Reich asso­ci­a­tions of his regime. Though there are doubts of many within the national secu­rity estab­lish­ment about attack­ing Iraq, there remain unan­swered ques­tions. Among them are the pos­si­ble role of Under­ground Reich-affiliated Iraqi ele­ments in the foot-and-mouth out­break in Britain, the West Nile Fever out­break, the Okla­homa City bomb­ing, and through the OKC bomb­ing, an evi­den­tiary trib­u­tary lead­ing in the direc­tion of 9/11. Al Taqwa’s Youssef Nada laun­dered nego­tiables plun­dered by Sad­dam Hussein’s forces in Kuwait in 1991. Al Taqwa was the vehi­cle for some of the food-for-oil pro­gram exploited by Sad­dam Hus­sein. Al Taqwa was also the repos­i­tory for much of Saddam’s wealth gar­nered from petro­leum mar­ket­ing and arms deals. Gian­luca Boscaro, at whose law offices Al Taqwa was incor­po­rated, was hired to inves­ti­gate the Saddam/Banca del Gottardo/Al Taqwa link-he then died under strange cir­cum­stances. As noted above, much of Saddam’s ill-gotten largesse was banked by the Lugano-based Elio Bor­radori in the Banco del Got­tardo. Fran­cois Genoud’s pro­tégé Jacques Verges may well be the defense attor­ney for Sad­dam Hussein’s war crimes trial. The United States may well be walk­ing into a trap laid by the Under­ground Reich. Ques­tion: if some­one (say, the Third Reich) wanted to anni­hi­late the Jews and the Arabs and dec­i­mate the United States, but didn’t have the above-board mil­i­tary man­power to accom­plish this-how would they go about the process? Degussa per­son­nel were involved with the devel­op­ment of the Third Reich’s nuclear capa­bil­ity in World War II in sup­ply­ing Sad­dam with soft­ware for the pro­duc­tion of nuclear weapons. Saudi ele­ments helped Sad­dam to acquire his German/Third Reich nukes. Ger­many was piv­otal in help­ing the Pak­ista­nis to get the bomb, as well. Degussa (the firm that man­u­fac­tured the Zyk­lon B for the gas cham­bers) has also sup­plied Iraq with sil­i­cates to develop chem­i­cal weapons that will pen­e­trate the pro­tec­tive suits worn by U.S. troops. Ger­man intel­li­gence was con­spir­ing with Iraqi intel­li­gence in the run-up to the Iraq war.

25. A cen­tral fac­tor in the con­sid­er­a­tion of the US/Iraq con­fronta­tion is the fact that Iraq became the first OPEC coun­try to denom­i­nate its oil in Euros, thereby reduc­ing the sig­nif­i­cance of the dollar’s sta­tus as a reserve cur­rency. At the same time, the macro-economic con­test between the Euro and the dol­lar man­i­fested itself in the con­test between Boe­ing and its Euro­pean rival EADS (man­u­fac­turer of the Air­bus). Mus­lim ele­ments have pro­posed that, in retal­i­a­tion for the Iraq war, Mus­lims should shun the dol­lar in favor of the Euro.

26. The change in Saudi Arabia’s stance on Iraq in early 2003 is note­wor­thy. Has a deal been cut between the Saudis and the Bush admin­is­tra­tion on Iraq? Have the Saudis agreed to let the US use bases in Iraq in exchange for the Bush administration’s sup­pres­sion of inves­ti­ga­tions into the Saudi role in 9/11? Will the Saudis also be help­ing to defray the cost of rebuild­ing Iraq after a US-led war? Will Saudi bin Laden group get any of the con­struc­tion con­tracts in a post-war Iraq? Will the Shi­ite Mus­lim major­ity in Iraq be sub­or­di­nated to Wah­habi influ­ence? Dick Cheney’s daugh­ter Eliz­a­beth is the State Depart­ment offi­cial in charge of coor­di­nat­ing pol­icy with the “friendly” states of the Gulf.)

27. Yock­ey­ism is cen­tral to under­stand­ing the events in, and around, 9/11. This man­i­fes­ta­tion of fas­cism aims at unit­ing ele­ments of the left, the Third World and the Under­ground Reich in an alliance aimed at anni­hi­lat­ing the world’s Jew­ish pop­u­la­tion and destroy­ing the United States and its culture.

28. Eco­nomic destruc­tion or sub­ju­ga­tion is cen­tral to the Under­ground Reich offen­sive against the US. Bush is slash­ing rev­enues while build­ing up for war. “For The Record” chal­lenges any and all lis­ten­ers to name a world leader who suc­cess­fully slashed rev­enues while wag­ing war. While build­ing up the mil­i­tary and dras­ti­cally slash­ing taxes, the Bush admin­is­tra­tion has set the stage for the accu­mu­la­tion of $44, 200bn in total bud­get deficits-roughly ten times the pub­licly held national debt. Grover Norquist is the point man for the administration’s tax-cutting efforts and also the point man for the Islamist con­nec­tion to the Repub­li­can Party’s eth­nic out­reach orga­ni­za­tion. A paper pre­pared by the Army War Col­lege com­pared the Bush administration’s over-reaching of avail­able mil­i­tary resources to Hitler’s strate­gic mis­take in World War II.

29. Just as Oper­a­tion Safe­haven (the Trea­sury Depart­ment intel­li­gence oper­a­tion aimed at inter­dict­ing the Bor­mann flight cap­i­tal pro­gram) was inter­dicted by eco­nomic inter­ests allied with the Third Reich, so the Treasury’s lim­ited efforts under Oper­a­tion Green Quest were opposed by pow­er­ful finan­cial insti­tu­tions allied with the Under­ground Reich. Bush asso­ciate Talat Oth­man inter­ceded with (Trea­sury Sec­re­tary) O’Neill. Sul­li­van & Cromwell headed a con­sor­tium opposed to Treasury’s anti-money laun­der­ing reg­u­la­tions. Months later, O’Neill is gone. It appears that the Bush admin­is­tra­tion is actively cov­er­ing up the Saudi con­nec­tions to 9/11.

30. One of the most alarm­ing aspects of the Bush administration’s active cover-up of the Saudi involve­ment in terror-related activ­i­ties con­cerns a direc­tive given to US intel­li­gence agen­cies not to inves­ti­gate a Pakistani-based nuclear smug­gling ring. This direc­tive was given in order to pro­tect the Saudis, who had financed the nuclear ambi­tions of the Pak­ista­nis and Iraqis.

31. Ele­ments of the Under­ground Reich also fig­ured in the Pak­istani nuclear smug­gling ring.

32. Inter­na­tional efforts at inter­dict­ing the financ­ing of terrorism-Al Taqwa in particular-are break­ing down.

33. Also cen­tral to under­stand­ing the hypoth­e­sis pre­sented in the FTR series about 9/11 is the Nazi tract Serpent’s Walk.

34. In Serpent’s Walk, the Under­ground Reich’s takeover of the United States fol­lows a dev­as­tat­ing bio-terror attack on the United States using genet­i­cally engi­neered micro-organisms. This attack destroys much of the coun­try and leads to a dec­la­ra­tion of mar­tial law. Who launched the anthrax attacks shortly after 9/11? An unan­swered ques­tion con­cerns the pos­si­bil­ity of Under­ground Reich author­ship of this event. What role might the late Dr. Larry Ford and under­ground ele­ments asso­ci­ated with the for­mer apartheid gov­ern­ment of South Africa have played? Was the Bayer phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal firm the inten­tional ben­e­fi­ciary of the anthrax attacks?

35. From an inves­tiga­tive stand­point, evi­den­tiary trib­u­taries run­ning from 9/11 to other ter­ror­ist inci­dents includ­ing the Okla­homa City bomb­ing, the first World Trade Cen­ter attack, the AMIA bomb­ing in Argentina are of more than pass­ing inter­est. Are these points of inter­sec­tion indica­tive of Under­ground Reich author­ship of these events, as well as 9/11? There is a marked sim­i­lar­ity between the cli­mac­tic event of The Turner Diaries (the reported inspi­ra­tion for Tim­o­thy McVeigh & Com­pany in the Okla­homa City bomb­ing) and the 9/11 attack on the Pen­ta­gon. William Pierce (author of The Turner Diaries and the head of the neo-Nazi National Alliance) fore­shad­owed the 9/11 attacks in a 1998 radio broad­cast. The Turner Diaries also has a fore­shad­ow­ing of the col­lapse of the World Trade Cen­ter Andreas Strass­meir, the Ger­man neo-Nazi, son of for­mer Chan­cel­lor Hel­mut Kohl’s chief of staff and the alleged mas­ter­mind of the Okla­homa City Bomb­ing was try­ing to buy a sur­plus Boe­ing 747 from Lufthansa. Was this a fore­shad­ow­ing of the 9/11 attacks? A for­mer U.S. Green Beret work­ing for the Aryan Nations allegedly aided Mohammed Atta in the 9/11 attacks.

36. German/US intel­li­gence con­flict over what might be called “the Bat­tle of Men­with Hill” in the con­text of the 9/11 attacks. The strug­gle between Anglo-Saxonia (the US and UK) and Germany/EU is high­lighted in the con­text of the pol­i­tics sur­round­ing the 9/11 attacks. In par­tic­u­lar, the pro­grams set forth the sig­nif­i­cance of the month of August of 1998, the month in which US embassies in Africa were attacked. In that month, the German/EU attack on Men­with Hill com­menced, Osama bin Laden ceased using his cell phone to com­mu­ni­cate and the cell in Ham­burg that launched the 9/11 attacks was already under phys­i­cal sur­veil­lance. “For The Record” presents the view that these events are inti­mately related. Taken together, they con­sti­tute “the Bat­tle of Men­with Hill.” Sig­nif­i­cantly, it was bin Laden’s coun­ter­in­tel­li­gence on US sig­nals intel­li­gence capa­bil­ity that enabled him to use his satel­lite phone as a ruse in order to elude cap­ture by the US at the bat­tle of Tora Bora.

37. The behav­ior of the Ger­man author­i­ties in con­nec­tion with Sep­tem­ber 11 is note­wor­thy and more than a lit­tle sus­pi­cious. Why did the Ger­mans seek to deflect atten­tion in the direc­tion of US, British and Israeli fore­knowl­edge of the attacks when they had the head­quar­ters of the cell that launched the attacks under sur­veil­lance since at least August of 1998? Equally alarm­ing is the Ger­mans’ release of Chris­t­ian Ganczarski, an impor­tant Al Qaeda oper­a­tive. Even­tu­ally, Ger­many dis­missed the inves­ti­ga­tion against Ganczarski, despite strong evi­dence that he was an impor­tant Al Qaeda oper­a­tive. Inves­tiga­tive reporter Daniel Hop­sicker has alleged that six of Mohammed Atta’s asso­ciates at the Florida flight schools that trained many of the 9/11 pilots were chil­dren of the Ger­man elite. Atta’s spon­sor­ship in Ger­many was allegedly under­taken by a joint US/German spon­sored foun­da­tion the Carl Duis­berg Gesellschaft-named after one of the founders of the IG Far­ben chem­i­cal car­tel. One should note that the Ger­man peo­ple have very strong demo­c­ra­tic and peace-loving instincts, hav­ing derived these from the expe­ri­ences of Two World Wars. The Ger­man institutions-the cor­po­ra­tions, the BND and the Bundeswehr-learned a very dif­fer­ent les­son. They prof­ited from their actions in World War II and tran­scended the dev­as­ta­tion that the Ger­man peo­ple expe­ri­enced. They sim­ply learned that there weren’t enough expend­able bod­ies in Ger­many to real­ize their aims, and they under­took to use other bod­ies to effect the pro­gram of the Under­ground Reich.

38. Like Al Qaeda, the Under­ground Reich is a “vir­tual state”-a state with­out for­mal geo­graph­i­cal bor­ders as such. This “vir­tual state­hood” is one of the char­ac­ter­is­tics that make both orga­ni­za­tions so effec­tive, so elu­sive, and so dif­fi­cult to combat.

39. For peo­ple who don’t believe in con­spir­acy the­o­ries, it is sug­gested that they read three books–The Art of War by Sun-Tzu, The Prince by Nic­colo Mac­chi­avelli, and On War by Karl von Clause­witz. This should enrich their understanding.

40. Those who remain skep­ti­cal of the analy­sis pre­sented in con­nec­tion with the 9/11 attacks should lis­ten to FTR 310, recorded on July 8, 2001, and broad­cast by the heroic WFMU, right across the river from the World Trade Cen­ter, from 7pm on Mon­day, Sep­tem­ber 10. As you lis­ten to it, bear in mind that John O’Neill died right across the river, roughly 18 hours after the broadcast.