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Devel­op­ing infor­ma­tion from pre­vi­ous broad­casts about oper­a­tional rela­tion­ships between neo-Nazis and Islam­o­fas­cists, this pro­gram presents and under­scores evi­den­tiary trib­u­taries con­nect­ing these ele­ments in aspects of the events of 9/11. (For a good overview of some of the past and present rela­tion­ships between Nazis, fas­cists and Islamic extrem­ists, see: “The Swastika and the Cres­cent” by Mar­tin A. Lee; South­ern Poverty Law Center’s Intel­li­gence Report. In addi­tion, 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’”.) ; as well as: “Islamism, Fas­cism and Ter­ror­ism” [Parts I-IV] by Marc Erik­son [Asia Times].) After dis­cus­sion of National Alliance founder William Pierce’s 1998 fore­shad­ow­ing of the 9/11 attacks on New York City, the pro­gram reviews the cli­mac­tic episode of Pierce’s The Turner Diaries—a low– level sui­cide aer­ial attack on the Pen­ta­gon. Inter­est­ingly (and per­haps sig­nif­i­cantly) the Pen­ta­gon attack takes place on Novem­ber 9—a date with much sig­nif­i­cance for the Nazis. A Ger­man (or other Euro­pean) would write Novem­ber 9th as—9/11! Much of the rest of the pro­gram weighs evi­dence of Islamist/neo-Nazi col­lab­o­ra­tion in recent ter­ror­ist acts in the US, includ­ing the 9/11 and anthrax attacks, as well as exam­i­na­tion of a sec­tion of The Turner Diaries describ­ing a plan to sab­o­tage a nuclear power plant and dis­rupt much of the nation’s power grid.

Pro­gram High­lights Include: Review of alleged col­lab­o­ra­tion between Al Qaeda-linked ele­ments in the Phillip­ines and Okla­homa City bomber Terry Nichols; the inspi­ra­tional role played by The Turner Diaries in the life of the late Dr. Larry Ford; Ford’s and Aryan Nations anthrax agent Larry Wayne Harris’s oper­a­tions in the Hen­der­son, Nevada area; a motel at which some of the 9/11 hijack­ers and Okla­homa City bomber Tim­o­thy McVeigh appar­ently stayed; review of McVeigh’s con­nec­tions with unnamed Mid­dle East­ern per­son­ages; a recent arrest of para­mil­i­tary ultra-rightists in con­nec­tion with an appar­ent plot to stage domes­tic ter­ror inci­dents; the dis­ap­pear­ance of radioac­tive rock­ets in the for­mer USSR; an arti­cle (not included in the orig­i­nal broad­cast) that sets forth a claim by an Al Qaeda-linked group that they were respon­si­ble for power out­ages in the United King­dom and the East­ern United States; the sim­i­lar­ity between the Hamas char­ter and Nazi ideology.

1. Begin­ning with dis­cus­sion of a speech made by William Pierce 1998, the pro­gram sets forth the National Alliance leader’s eerie fore­shad­ow­ing of the events of 9/11. (Pierce is the author of The Turner Diaries and Serpent’s Walk.) Pierce spoke of Osama bin Laden attack­ing tall build­ings, such as the World Trade Cen­ter, and the com­ing of bio-terrorism to the U.S. “Upon perus­ing his speeches from 1998–99, I dis­cov­ered that Pierce, who heads the so-called ‘National Alliance,’ did indeed utter some most inter­est­ing (pre-Sept. 11th–if not prophetic—remarks about Osama bin Laden and bio-terrorism. The run­ning theme in Pierce’s com­men­taries is—to para­phrase his hero Hitler—that Osama Bin Laden’s warn­ing to Amer­ica is ‘I Am Com­ing.’ And so is bio-terrorism.” (“Neo-Nazis and 9/11” by Jack McCarthy; Coun­ter­punch; 10/29/2001.)

2. “In one chill­ing com­men­tary Pierce, (after not­ing that Bin Laden and the rest of the lost gen­er­a­tion of angry Moslem youth [had] had it with their par­ents’ com­pro­mises and were hell bent on revenge against infi­del Amer­ica) issued this stark, prophetic warn­ing in a 1998 radio address titled, ‘Stay Out of Tall Build­ings.’ ‘New York­ers who work in tall office build­ings any­thing close to the size of the World Trade Cen­ter might con­sider wear­ing hard hats . . .’ Pierce warned. . . . [Empha­sis added.]” (Idem.)

3. The Coun­ter­punch arti­cle also dis­cusses Larry Wayne Har­ris—the Aryan Nations fol­lower impli­cated in the pos­ses­sion of bubonic plague and anthrax. “ . . . Also recall that one of Pierce’s fol­low­ers, the noto­ri­ous Nevada-based micro­bi­ol­o­gist [Larry] Wayne Har­ris, has been arrested twice over the last decade, once for pos­ses­sion of bubonic plague mate­ri­als and the other for pos­sess­ing and alleg­ing [sic] plan­ning to use anthrax.” (Idem.)

4. Next the broad­cast high­lights the sim­i­lar­ity between the events of 9/11 and the con­clud­ing episode of The Turner Diaries—the blue­print doc­u­ment for the actions of Tim­o­thy McVeigh and com­pany, as well as the Nazi ter­ror group The Order. That Nazi tract (authored by the above-mentioned William Pierce) con­cludes with a low-level sui­cide aer­ial attack against the Pen­ta­gon. “I con­ferred pri­vately with Major Williams of the Wash­ing­ton Field Com­mand for more than an hour on the prob­lem of attack­ing the Pen­ta­gon. The military’s other major com­mand cen­ters were either knocked out on Sep­tem­ber 8 or sub­se­quently con­sol­i­dated with the Pen­ta­gon, which the top brass appar­ently regard as impreg­nable. And it damned near is. We went over every pos­si­bil­ity we could think of, and we came up with no really con­vinc­ing plan—except, per­haps one. That is to make an air deliv­ery of a bomb.” (The Turner Diaries; “Andrew Mac­don­ald;” Bar­ri­cade Books, Inc. [SC] 1996; Copy­right 1978, 1980 William Pierce; ISBN 1–56980-086–3; p. 201.)

5. “In the mas­sive ring of defenses around the Pen­ta­gon there is a great deal of anti-aircraft fire­power, but we decided that a small plane, fly­ing just above the ground, might be able to get through the three-mile gaunt­let with one of our 60-kiloton war­heads. One fac­tor in favor of such an attempt is that we have never before used air­craft in such a way, and we might hope to catch the anti-aircraft crews off their guard.” (Idem.)

6. “Although the mil­i­tary is guard­ing all civil air­fields, it just hap­pens that we have an old crop duster stashed in a barn only a few miles from here. My imme­di­ate assign­ment is to pre­pare a detailed plan for an aer­ial attack on the Pen­ta­gon by next Mon­day. We must make a final deci­sion at the time and then act with­out fur­ther delay.” (Idem.)

7. It is worth not­ing that The Turner Diaries fea­tures the cli­mac­tic attack on the Pen­ta­gon as occur­ring on Novem­ber 9th. That date had great sig­nif­i­cance for the Nazis. The Ger­man sailors’ rebel­lion that pre­cip­i­tated the advent of the Weimar Repub­lic so hated by the Nazis began on 11/9. Attempt­ing to roll back the Weimar rev­o­lu­tion, the Nazis launched the ill-fated Beer Hall Putsch on that date, as well. Die Krys­tall­nacht (the Night of Glass pogrom) of 1938 was launched on that date also. Inter­est­ingly, the Berlin Wall came down on Novem­ber 9. A Ger­man (or other Euro­pean) would write the date Novem­ber 9 as—9/11! “Novem­ber 9, 1993. It’s still three hours until first light, and all sys­tems are ‘go.’ I’ll use the time to write a few pages

—my last diary entry. Then it’s a one-way trip to the Pen­ta­gon for me. The war­head is strapped into the front seat of the old Stear­man and rigged to det­o­nate either on impact or when I flip a switch in the back seat. Hope­fully, I’ll be able to mange a low-level air burst directly over the cen­ter of the Pen­ta­gon. Fail­ing that, I’ll at least try to fly as close as I can before I’m shot down.” (Ibid.; p. 202.)

8. “Thus end Earl Turner’s diaries, as unpre­ten­tiously as they began. His final mis­sion was suc­cess­ful, of course, as we all are reminded each year on Novem­ber 9—our tra­di­tional Day of the Mar­tyrs.” (Ibid.; p. 205.)

9. Next, the broad­cast recaps infor­ma­tion con­cern­ing the alleged pres­ence of Okla­homa City bomber Terry Nichols at a bomb-making and logis­tics plan­ning sem­i­nar in the Philip­pines. Also present at this sem­i­nar were Ramzi Yousef, the mas­ter­mind of the first World Trade Cen­ter attack and Abdul Murad, another of the con­spir­a­tors in that attack. The account comes from Edwin Ange­les, the co-founder of Abu Sayaf, the Al Qaeda affil­i­ate in the Philip­pines. Ange­les had been sub­poe­naed as a defense wit­ness by Tim­o­thy McVeigh’s coun­sel in the Okla­homa City bomb­ing case. (McVeigh, Nichols and com­pany were inspired by Pierce’s Turner Diaries. Accord­ing to Carol Howe—an ATF infor­mant who passed a poly­graph examination—McVeigh’s par­tic­i­pa­tion in the Okla­homa City bomb­ing was as a pro­tégé of Andreas Strass­meier, a for­mer Ger­man Army intel­li­gence offi­cer, son of Gun­ther Strassmeier—the son of Hel­mut Kohl’s chief of staff and the archi­tect of Ger­man reuni­fi­ca­tion. Gun­ther, in turn, was the son of one of the early mem­bers of the Ger­man Nazi party under Adolph Hitler. Note that, in the pas­sages that fol­low, another of the top­ics allegedly dis­cussed by the con­spir­a­tors is Oper­a­tion Bojinka—said to be the oper­a­tional tem­plate for the 9/11 attacks. “(NOTE: Basi­lan Provin­cial Infor­ma­tion Offi­cer Christo­pher Puno was present in the ward at Basi­lan Com­mu­nity Hos­pi­tal when I [Sicat] inter­viewed Elmina Abdul, less than two weeks prior to her death.) Elmina Abdul, widow of one of the Abu Sayyaf co-founders, Edwin Ange­les, died in the pre-dawn hours of Sat­ur­day, march 30. Ten days before she died, she talked with this writer in con­fi­dence while lying on her deathbed at Basi­lan com­mu­nity Hos­pi­tal. I was the last, if not the only reporter, to ever talk with her.” (“Deathbed Con­fes­sion: Abu Part of Okla­homa Blast’ by Dorian Zumel Sicat; Manila Times; 4/2/2002.)

10. “ . . . Among the most inter­est­ing rev­e­la­tions that Ange­les shared with Elmina was about a meet­ing between him­self, Ram­sey [sic] Yousef, Abdul Murad (both of whom are now serv­ing mul­ti­ple prison terms for ter­ror­ist activ­i­ties, includ­ing the first World Trade Cen­ter bomb­ing in 1993), Abdu­ra­jak Abubakar Jan­nalani, uniden­ti­fied mem­bers of the Moro Islamic Lib­er­a­tion Front (MILF), and two men who Ange­les only iden­ti­fied as Iraqis. The meet­ing, accord­ing to Elmina, was held in a ware­house near a Dole (Phil.) plant in South Cota­bato, between Gen­eral San­tos City and Davao del Sur. There were two other men at that meet­ing: a man whom Ange­les iden­ti­fied as Nichols and as ‘code name farmer,’ and another Amer­i­can who he did not iden­tify by name. (It is impor­tant to note that most Fil­ipinos com­monly describe Cau­casians in the coun­try as Amer­i­cans.) The meet­ing, accord­ing to Elmina took place in 1994. She could not remem­ber the exact date.” (Idem.)

11. “In that meet­ing, accord­ing to Elmina, Ange­les told her that the major topic of the dis­cus­sion was the bomb­ing of spec­i­fied tar­gets and how to build bombs. Ange­les told Elmina that Nichols was later sent to a place that he (Ange­les) didn’t name for more detailed instruc­tion on how Nichols and his other ‘Amer­i­can’ friend could build a bomb to destroy a build­ing in the United States. She did not specify—she could not remember—which build­ing that was to be.” (Idem.)

12. “Elmina also told me that before he was gunned down, Edwin showed her doc­u­ments that proved that he actu­ally was a deep-cover agent for the Depart­ment of National Defense. He said that those doc­u­ments were pre­sented in court in his defense and that was the rea­son that he was acquit­ted of the charges against him. That is a mat­ter of record. But since I have never seen the doc­u­ments, I will not name the ‘high rank­ing’ Defense offi­cials whose sig­na­tures were said to appear on those doc­u­ments.” (Idem.)

13. “Ange­les also told Elmina about Project Bojenko, an [allegedly] Iraqi-financed oper­a­tion of ter­ror that tar­geted sev­eral build­ings in the U.S., the bomb­ing of sev­eral US air­lin­ers, bomb­ing US embassies over­seas, and hit­ting other US inter­ests. Among the build­ings in the US, accord­ing to Elmina, were another attack on the World Trade Cen­ter; the Fed­eral Build­ings in San Fran­cisco, and in ‘a place he called Uklahuma (Okla­homa). . . .’” (Idem.)

14. “ . . . Was there an inter­na­tional con­spir­acy of ter­ror forged in a meet­ing in an aban­doned ware­house in 1994 that included Ange­les and Nichols, who he referred to as ‘the Farmer?’ Did that con­spir­acy include mem­bers of Al-Qaeda and the Iraqi gov­ern­ment (or at least Iraqis)? Does the ASG actu­ally receive finan­cial and mate­r­ial assis­tance from Al-Qaeda and [or] Iraq in order to carry on its cam­paign of ter­ror? Elmina did not give pre­cise, clear answers to those ques­tions. She was relat­ing what Ange­les had told her not long before he died.” (Idem.)

15. “There is one thing clear: Edwin Ange­les did meet with Nichols and another ‘Amer­i­can’ along with some state-sponsored inter­na­tional ter­ror­ists. Elmina knew that she was dying. She knew that all our efforts to help her recover would not be enough to save her. She told what she knew to be the truth, as her hus­band told it to her.” (Idem.)

16. Review­ing another piece of infor­ma­tion pre­sented in FTR#’s 386 and 419, the pro­gram details infor­ma­tion about Dr. Larry Ford, a for­mi­da­ble spe­cial­ist in bio­log­i­cal war­fare, employee of the CIA, and par­tic­i­pant in Project Coast (the South African bio­log­i­cal war­fare pro­gram dur­ing the Apartheid era). Like McVeigh and Nichols, Ford was inspired by 5. Note that Ford had oper­ated in Hen­der­son, Nevada, one of the places that Larry Wayne Har­ris of the Aryan Nations fre­quented. “ . . . What the searchers did not find was anthrax, and the fear of what remained unfound, along with dozens of other ques­tions, set off inves­ti­ga­tions that ranged from Bev­erly Hills to South Africa and back to the Nevada desert . . . .” (“Cal­i­for­nia doctor’s Sui­cide Leaves many Trou­bling Mys­ter­ies Unsolved” by Jo Thomas; New York Times; 11/3/2002.)

17. “ . . . After his [Ford’s] death, Detec­tive Ray said, the author­i­ties learned that Dr. Ford had been a con­sul­tant to Project Coast, which has been accused of cre­at­ing weapons for use against ene­mies of apartheid. They also dis­cov­ered that he had held extreme racist views and had once told a girl friend that to under­stand him, she should ‘The Turner Diaries,’ the anti-Semitic and white suprema­cist novel, pop­u­lar among far-right groups, that pros­e­cu­tors say inspired the Okla­homa City bomb­ing . . . .” (Idem.)

18. It should be noted that Ford’s tracks led to Nevada, where he appar­ently had been in con­tact with right-wing extrem­ist groups. (Hen­der­son, Nevada, was also where Larry Ford, an Aryan Nations activist, had been appre­hended try­ing to trans­port weapons-grade anthrax. See FT

R#’s 89, 419.) “Per­haps the deep­est fear in the entire affair was that Dr. Ford had been work­ing with anthrax. That trail, too, has run cold. After Dr. Ford’s sui­cide, the police got tips that he had buried anthrax in a gold mine. They searched fruit­lessly in Cal­i­for­nia. Four months later, doc­u­ments in a Nevada trash dump showed that Dr. Ford had been in touch with peo­ple involved in anti-tax and antigov­ern­ment groups. Some of them had tried to use bac­te­ria to extract gold from dirt.” (Idem.)

19. “In Decem­ber 2000, inves­ti­ga­tors searched a derelict gold milling site out­side Hen­der­son, Nev. They found a sep­a­ra­tor fun­nel, a white liq­uid and Dr. Ford’s busi­ness card. A fed­eral agent said they also found direc­tions for mak­ing chem­i­cal and bio­log­i­cal weapons, includ­ing anthrax. But that was all. The site’s pro­pri­etor had recently died of unre­lated causes.” (Idem.)

20. A 2002 arti­cle focuses on the Okla­homa City bomb­ing and a pos­si­ble link between that attack and some of the hijack­ers impli­cated in the 9/11 attacks. A motel located at some dis­tance from Nor­man, Okla­homa (where some of the alleged hijack­ers appar­ently took flight train­ing) may pro­vide doc­u­men­ta­tion of con­nec­tions between Atta and accused 20th hijacker Zac­carias Mous­saoui. Atta allegedly tried to book rooms at this motel with Mous­saoui and another of the sus­pected hijack­ers. This is sig­nif­i­cant for sev­eral rea­sons. For one thing, the motel was far­ther away than other, reasonably-priced motels. Atta, for what­ever rea­son, wanted this motel. As stated above, the fol­low­ing account may estab­lish a hard link between Atta and Mous­saoui. This same motel was appar­ently fre­quented by Mujahid Menepta, an asso­ciate of Mouss­saoui, who vis­ited the motel in the time before the 1995 Okla­homa City bomb­ing. This same motel was also reported to have been host to Tim McVeigh and alleged Mid­dle East­ern and/or Iraqi nation­als, with whom he may have been con­spir­ing. It is also worth not­ing that legal author­i­ties in this coun­try do not appear to be overly eager to pur­sue these leads, per­haps out of a desire to avoid hav­ing to reopen the inves­ti­ga­tion into the Okla­homa City bomb­ing. Atta and asso­ciates were also report­edly inter­ested in pur­su­ing crop dust­ing aircraft—the type of plane used in the attack on the Pen­ta­gon in The Turner Diaries. “What hap­pened at the non­de­script road­side motel out­side Okla­homa City was just a fleet­ing encounter dur­ing the twisted cross-country odyssey of the ter­ror­ists who would carry out the Sep­tem­ber 11 attacks. Mohammed Atta, alleged leader of the plot, and two com­pan­ions wanted to rent a room, but couldn’t get the deal they wanted, so they left.” (“The Ter­ror­ist Motel” by Jim Cro­gan; L.A. Weekly; 7/26/–8/1/2002.)

21. “It was an inci­dent of no par­tic­u­lar impor­tance, except for one thing. The owner of the motel remem­bers Atta being in the com­pany of Zacara­ias Mous­saoui, the so-called “20th hijacker,’ who was arrested prior to “Sep­tem­ber 11 and now faces con­spir­acy charges in con­nec­tion with the ter­ror assaults.’” (Ibid,; p. 1.)

22. “If this rec­ol­lec­tion is cor­rect, the entire inci­dent, and its absence from the pub­lic record, raises new ques­tions about the FBI inves­ti­ga­tion of Mous­saoui and even the 1995 destruc­tion of the Fed­eral Build­ing in Okla­homa City. Already the FBI has endured a with­er­ing polit­i­cal and media cri­tique for fail­ing to aggres­sively inves­ti­gate Mous­saoui and his con­tacts dur­ing his four weeks in cus­tody prior to the attacks on the World Trade Cen­ter and the Pen­ta­gon. Some FBI offi­cials have responded by char­ac­ter­iz­ing Mous­saoui as only a minor player. But the report from the motel owner, if proven, could change that. And it also could force the FBI to reopen its inves­ti­ga­tion of Mid­dle East­ern con­nec­tions to the 1995 Okla­homa City blast, because con­victed bombers Tim­o­thy McVeigh and Terry Nichols report­edly stayed at the same motel, inter­act­ing with a group of Iraqis dur­ing the weeks before the bomb­ing.” (Ibid.; p.1)

23. “At press time, the erratic Mous­saoui, who is rep­re­sent­ing him­self, was attempt­ing to plead guilty and bring his trial to a close. The 34-year-old French cit­i­zen of Moroc­can descent had pre­vi­ously filed some 94 hand-scrawled, ram­bling motions attack­ing the government’s case and its right to pros­e­cute him.” (Idem.)

24. “But that cir­cus obscures a conun­drum of a dif­fer­ent sort. The government’s case, out­lined in its new six-count con­spir­acy indict­ment, is largely cir­cum­stan­tial, lack­ing any defin­i­tive link between Mous­saoui and the 19 hijack­ers iden­ti­fied by fed­eral author­i­ties. All of which makes the appar­ent shelv­ing of the Moussaoui-Atta sight­ing all the stranger. In fact, even though mul­ti­ple sources con­tend that the FBI inter­viewed the motel owner, there’s no indi­ca­tion that pros­e­cu­tors were told. It’s pos­si­ble that the FBI found the motel owner’s iden­ti­fi­ca­tions wrong or his story unre­li­able. But it’s still odd that, in inter­views with the Weekly, Jus­tice Depart­ment pros­e­cu­tors seemed to know noth­ing about the motel encounter, espe­cially because agents report­edly told the motel owner they would pass the infor­ma­tion on to Moussaoui’s defense time.” (Ibid.; pp. 1–2.)

25. “The motel co-owner, who spoke on con­di­tion of anonymity, said the inci­dent occurred around August 1, 2001, just six weeks before 9/11. ‘They came in around 10 or 11a.m. and started talk­ing to my desk clerk,’ he said. Even though he was work­ing about 10 feet away from the trio, the owner didn’t really pay any atten­tion at first. ‘They were ask­ing my clerk, who no longer works here, about a weekly rate for our rooms.’(The for­mer clerk could not be reached for com­ment.)” (Ibid.; p. 2.)

26. “The motel, explained the owner, sets aside some rooms with small kitch­enettes to rent on a weekly basis. ‘But they were all taken.’ He said the clerk explained the sit­u­a­tion, but the vis­i­tors were per­sis­tent. ‘Finally, my clerk asked me to talk to them.’” (Idem.)

27. “The motel owner said that Mous­saoui and a man who appeared to be Mar­wan al-Shehhi—who helped crash a jet­liner into the south tower of the World trade Center—were friendly and said a few things, but Atta was clearly the leader. ‘He did most of the talk­ing and seemed very seri­ous,’ said the owner, adding, ‘I was stand­ing face to face, about two feet away from Atta, and talked to the three of them for about 10 min­utes. Atta asked if he could rent one of the other rooms at a weekly rate, and I told him no.” (Idem.)

28. “ ‘I asked him what they were doing here in the area. And Atta told me they were going to flight school. I thought he meant [Fed­eral Avi­a­tion Admin­is­tra­tion] train­ing in Okla­homa City. But Atta told me no, they were tak­ing flight train­ing in Nor­man.” (Idem.)

29. “ ‘I said I didn’t under­stand why they wanted to rent one of my rooms, since we were about 28 miles from Nor­man and there are a lot of rea­son­ably priced motels a lot closer. But he said they had heard good things about my place and wanted to stay there. I told them I was sorry, but we couldn’t accom­mo­date them. Atta finally said okay. Then they all thanked me for my time and left.’” (Idem.)

30. “After the attacks, said the motel owner, he rec­og­nized his vis­i­tors in pho­tos from tele­vi­sion reports. ‘I was really stunned,’ he said. Then he decided to call the FBI hot line. The motel owner said he didn’t hear right back from the FBI. In the interim, he also spoke to a for­mer law-enforcement offi­cer who was inves­ti­gat­ing reported sight­ings of Mujahid Abdulquaadir Menepta at the same motel dur­ing the mid-1990’s. Menepta, report­edly a friend of Moussaoui’s, was arrested 30 years ago in Col­orado for aggra­vated rob­bery and served more than three years in prison.”(Idem.)

31. “After Sep­tem­ber 11, Menepta pub­licly defended Mous­saoui, call­ing him a ‘scape­goat.’ The FBI arrested him as a mate­r­ial wit­ness and sub­se­quently charged Menepta with a fed­eral gun vio­la­tion. He pleaded guilty and in April 2002 was sen­tenced to 15 months in fed­eral prison. He was never charged with any terrorism-related crime. But dur­ing the pre­lim­i­nary hear­ing on the gun charge, Alco­hol, Tobacco and firearms Agent Jef­frey Whit­ney tes­ti­fied that a con­fi­den­tial source placed Menepta at a meet­ing of a rad­i­cal Islamic group in St. Louis where he allegedly threat­ened to shoot any police offi­cer who entered the mosque. Menepta’s attor­ney chal­lenged the cred­i­bil­ity of this report in court.” (Ibid.; pp. 2–3.)

32. “A for­mer desk clerk at the motel—a dif­fer­ent clerk from the one who pur­port­edly dealt with Atta and Moussaoui—told the Weekly that he remem­bered Menepta because in 1994 and 1995—prior to the Okla­homa City attack—Menepta fre­quently vis­ited the motel office. There, he bought cof­fee and talked for hours to this clerk.” (Ibid.; p. 3.)

33. “The clerk and his wife, who both for­merly worked at the motel, said they picked Menepta’s pic­ture out of a photo lineup pre­pared by a law-enforcement offi­cer who had inter­viewed the motel owner. This offi­cer, who also spoke to the Weekly on con­di­tion of anonymity, said that after the motel owner told him about the Mous­saoui sight­ing, he con­tacted a mem­ber of Oklahoma’s Joint Ter­ror­ism Task Force, which includes the FBI. The FBI finally acted on the tip. The motel owner said that on Decem­ber 19, 2001, he went to FBI offices in Okla­homa City for a for­mal inter­view, where he was debriefed by an FBI agent and by Okla­homa City Police Sergeant Jerry Flow­ers. ‘We talked for sev­eral hours, and I told them every­thing I knew.’ The motel owner said he would have taken a poly­graph exam but was not asked to do so. The Weekly’s law-enforcement source cor­rob­o­rates the Decem­ber 19 interview.”(Idem.)

34. “The motel owner never heard from pros­e­cu­tors in Moussaoui’s case but got one more call from the FBI sev­eral weeks later. ‘The agent told me they had passed on a copy of my state­ment to Moussaoui’s defense team, and I might be get­ting a call from them. But I was under no oblig­a­tion to talk to them. How­ever, I don’t know if that was the truth. Since then, I have never heard from any­one con­nected to Moussaoui’s case.’”(Idem.)

35. The account takes up the issue of some allegedly Middle-Eastern asso­ciates of McVeigh. (One should take the ten­ta­tive descrip­tion of the men as “Iraqis” with a grain of salt.) This does not mean that the Iraqi gov­ern­ment was impli­cated, nec­es­sar­ily. It may mean that the direc­tors of the con­spir­acy sought to pro­voke hos­til­ity between the U.S. and Iraq and the other Mus­lim peo­ples of what the Nazis called “The Earth Island.” Recall that Edwin Ange­les also saw Yousef, Murad and Nichols in the com­pany of “Iraqis” and that Larry Wayne Har­ris also warned of Iraqi bio-terrorists. These accounts should be viewed in the same light. (Note that coun­tert­er­ror­ism expert Rita Katz in her book Ter­ror­ist Hunter observed that Iraqi nation­als had been employed by the Al Taqwa/SAAR milieu to make it appear that Iraq was behind their activ­i­ties.) “One rea­son for the FBI’s appar­ent lack of inter­est might be this motel’s alleged con­nec­tion to Tim­o­thy McVeigh and a group of Iraqis who worked in Okla­homa City. Accord­ing to the motel owner and other wit­nesses and inves­ti­ga­tors inter­viewed by the Weekly, McVeigh and sev­eral of these Iraqis were motel guests in the months pre­ced­ing the 1995 bomb­ing. Wit­nesses also claimed they saw sev­eral of the Iraqis mov­ing bar­rels of mate­r­ial around on the bed of a truck. The motel owner said the mate­r­ial smelled of diesel fuel and he had to clean up a spill. Diesel fuel was a key com­po­nent of the truck bomb that blew up the Fed­eral Build­ing.” (Idem.)

36. “The motel owner said he and his staff reported this infor­ma­tion to the FBI in 1995. ‘We did have an ATF agent come out and col­lect the orig­i­nals of the room reg­is­tra­tions for that period, but we never heard back from them. And I never could get the reg­is­tra­tions returned.’ He added that his pre­vi­ous expe­ri­ence with the FBI made him reluc­tant to con­tact them about Mous­saoui. ‘But I decided it was my duty to tell them what had hap­pened. So I did.’” (Idem.)

37. “For­mer Okla­homa City TV reporter Jayna Davis also inter­viewed motel staff and for­mer guests. In the process, she col­lected signed affi­davits about their con­tacts with McVeigh and the Iraqis. She tried twice to give the Bureau this infor­ma­tion, but the FBI refused to accept her mate­ri­als. (The Weekly first reported on her inves­ti­ga­tion in an arti­cle pub­lished in Sep­tem­ber 2001.)” (Idem.)

38. “The Weekly’s law-enforcement source said he has reviewed Davis’ mate­r­ial and con­sid­ers it cred­i­ble. ‘Last Decem­ber I per­son­ally took the doc­u­ments to the Joint Ter­ror­ism Task Force,’ he said. ‘I told them they should do their own inves­ti­ga­tion.’ The response was not encour­ag­ing. He said he was later informed that the Bureau brought in an ana­lyst, ‘but I was told it would prob­a­bly go nowhere. They were afraid the whole Okla­homa City bomb­ing can of worms would be opened up and the FBI would have to explain why they didn’t inves­ti­gate this mate­r­ial before.’” (Ibid.; pp. 4–5.)

39. “The Weekly con­tacted numer­ous local and fed­eral inves­ti­ga­tors and agen­cies, includ­ing the Okla­homa task force, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the FBI and the Jus­tice Depart­ment. All declined to com­ment. Pros­e­cu­tors on the Mous­saoui case also declined offi­cial com­ment, but their reac­tions sug­gested they knew noth­ing of the motel encounter.” (Ibid.; p. 5.)

40. “After being told about the motel owner’s inter­view and alle­ga­tions, Assis­tant U.S. Attor­ney Robert Spencer responded with a one-word ques­tion about the sight­ing: ‘When?’ Spencer then declined fur­ther com­ment. Another Mous­saoui pros­e­cu­tor, David Novak, also declined com­ment. But Novak wanted to know the name of the motel owner.” (Idem.)

41. “Other sub­stan­tial con­nec­tions already tie the Sooner State to Mous­saoui and, sep­a­rately, sev­eral 9/11 hijack­ers.” (Idem.)

42. “Accord­ing to the Mous­saoui indict­ment, on Sep­tem­ber 29, 2000, Mous­saoui made e-mail con­tact with Air­man Flight School in Nor­man. Then, on Feb­ru­ary 23, 2001, he flew from Lon­don to Chicago and then to Okla­homa City. What he did in the next few days is unknown or at least not accounted for in the indict­ment. But on Feb­ru­ary 26, Mous­saoui opened a bank account in Nor­man, deposit­ing $32,000. From Feb­ru­ary 26 to May 29, he attended flight school in Nor­man. Then he sud­denly quit the school. Between July 29 and August 4, Mous­saoui made calls from pub­lic pay phones in Nor­man to Ger­many. On August 1 and 3, Ramzi Bin al-Shibh wired Mous­saoui a total of about $14,000 from two train stops in Ger­many to some­where in Okla­homa. This wire trans­fer does imply a con­nec­tion to ter­ror­ist plot­ters because al-Shibh, an alleged al Qaeda mem­ber, wired money to other hijack­ers. On August 3, Mous­saoui pur­chased two knives in Okla­homa City. And on August 10 or 11, an acquain­tance drove Mous­saoui from Okla­homa to Min­nesota for enroll­ment in a new flight school. Author­i­ties arrested Mous­saoui in Min­nesota on August 17 on an immi­gra­tion vio­la­tion. As has been widely reported, Mous­saoui attracted atten­tion because he said he was inter­ested in fly­ing a plane but not learn­ing how to take off or land. He was in fed­eral cus­tody when the 9/11 attacks occurred.” (Idem.)

43. “As for the ter­ror­ists who took part in 9/11, Atta and Mar­wan al-Shehhi vis­ited the Air­man Flight School in Nor­man in July 2000, accord­ing to the Mous­saoui indict­ment. (The mo

tel owner iden­ti­fies al-Shehhi as the third per­son with Atta and Mous­saoui when they allegedly inquired about a room.) And on April 1, 2001, Nawaf al-Hazmi, who helped hijack Amer­i­can Air­lines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pen­ta­gon, was stopped for speed­ing in Okla­homa and given two tick­ets. The Okla­homa State trooper found no out­stand­ing war­rants and turned al-Nazmi loose. The media has since reported that the CIA had been track­ing al-Hazmi, but never told the immi­gra­tion ser­vice or the FBI that he was a sus­pected ter­ror­ist dur­ing his 21-month U.S. stay. Author­i­ties have never pub­licly accounted for Atta and al-Shehhi’s where­abouts dur­ing the time of the alleged motel encounter.” (Idem.)

44. “The Mous­saoui indict­ment lays out a tan­ta­liz­ing pos­si­ble asso­ci­a­tion between Atta and Mous­saoui, but never puts the two in the same place at the same time. The link could exist, how­ever, along a dusty Okla­homa road­side, off Inter­state 40, at a small motel that is indis­tin­guish­able from hun­dreds of oth­ers, except for its pos­si­ble con­nec­tion to ter­ror­ists.” (Idem.)

45. Return­ing to the sub­ject of The Turner Diaries, the pro­gram excerpts a sec­tion of the book, deal­ing with the sab­o­tage of a major nuclear power plant. In con­nec­tion with this excerpt, con­sider the fol­low­ing: the eco­nomic dam­age done to the coun­try and the resul­tant strain placed on the pop­u­la­tion and the panic gen­er­ated in the pub­lic as a result of the sab­o­tag­ing of the plant. The Turner Diaries describes a cam­paign of ter­ror launched on the gen­eral pop­u­la­tion that cor­re­sponds closely to the prin­ci­ples of “total war” enun­ci­ated and for­mal­ized by Von Clause­witz. Nuclear ter­ror­ism is a pos­si­bil­ity that has been very much on the minds of both the Al Qaeda/Muslim Broth­er­hood milieu and the Amer­i­can author­i­ties charged with pro­tect­ing the coun­try. One of the pos­si­bil­i­ties that should be seri­ously con­sid­ered is that domes­tic fas­cist and white suprema­cist ele­ments might oper­ate in tan­dem or in par­al­lel with Islam­o­fas­cist oper­a­tives in an attack on the U.S. Notice also that the Order under­takes the gam­bit of using what is, in effect, a “dirty bomb” in order to real­ize the goal of sab­o­tag­ing the plant. “ . . . And if I can fig­ure a way to take out the Evanston Project, that’ll be a cap­i­tal loss of nearly $10 bil­lion in one stroke-not to men­tion the eco­nomic dam­age which will result from the loss of elec­tri­cal power to indus­trial plants through­out the Great Lakes region. . . .” (The Turner Diaries; “Andrew Mac­don­ald;” Copy­right 1978, 1980 William Pierce; accessed at: www.geocities.com/barindog7/Turner3.htm; p. 9 of the online seg­ment [Chap­ter XIV].)

46. “ . . . We want to hit the new nuclear power com­plex at Evanston dur­ing the next six weeks, while they’re still guid­ing tourists through it. After the first of June, when it will be closed to the pub­lic per­ma­nently, knock­ing it out will become much more dif­fi­cult. The Evanston Power Project is an enor­mous thing: four huge nuclear reac­tors sur­rounded by the biggest tur­bines and gen­er­a­tors in the world. And the whole thing sits on con­crete pil­ings a mile out in Lake Michi­gan, which sup­plies the cool­ing water for the reac­tors’ heat exchang­ers. The Project gen­er­ates 18,000 megawatts of elec­tri­cal power-almost 20 bil­lion watts! Incred­i­ble!” (Ibid.; p. 11.)

47. “The power is fed into the power grid which sup­plies the entire Great Lakes region. Before the Evanston Project went into oper­a­tion two months ago, the whole Mid­west was suf­fer­ing from a severe power shortage—much worse than we have here, which is bad enough. In some areas fac­to­ries were restricted to oper­at­ing only two days a week, and there were so many unex­pected black­outs in addi­tion that the region was on the verge of a real eco­nomic cri­sis.” (Idem.)

48. “If we can take out the new power plant, things will be even worse than they were before. In order to keep the lights on in Chicago and Mil­wau­kee, the author­i­ties will have to steal power from as far away as Detroit and Min­neapo­lis, where there is none to spare. All of that part of the coun­try will be hit hard. And it took 10 years to design and build the Evanston Project, so they won’t be able to rem­edy the sit­u­a­tion very soon. . . .” (Idem.)

49. “ . . . In essence, my idea is this: Since there’s no way a sin­gle tourist can sneak in enough explo­sive mate­r­ial to wreck the place—nor any way he can posi­tion the small amount he could sneak-in so it would be really effec­tive, like punch­ing a hole in one of the reac­tor pres­sure ves­sels, we may as well for­get about explo­sives. Instead, we’ll try to con­t­a­m­i­nate the plant with radioac­tive mate­r­ial, so that it can’t be used.” (Idem.)

50. “What makes this idea attrac­tive is that we have a source, inside the Orga­ni­za­tion, for cer­tain radioac­tive mate­ri­als. He’s a chem­istry pro­fes­sor at a uni­ver­sity in Florida, and he uses the mate­ri­als in his research. We can eas­ily pack enough of a really hot and nasty radionuclide—something with a half-life of a year or so—into a cane or a crutch, together with a small explo­sive charge for dis­pers­ing it, to make the entire Evanston Power project unin­hab­it­able. The plant won’t be dam­aged phys­i­cally, but they’ll have to shut it down. Decon­t­a­m­i­na­tion will be such an enor­mous task that the plant may very well stay closed per­ma­nently. . . .” (Ibid.; p. 12.)

51. “The whole plan is pretty scary, but it has one big advan­tage: the psy­cho­log­i­cal impact on the pub­lic. Peo­ple are almost super­sti­tious in their fear of nuclear radi­a­tion. The anti-nuclear lobby will have a field day with it. It will catch people’s imag­i­na­tion to a far greater extent than any ordi­nary bomb­ing or mor­tar attack. It will hor­rify many people—and it will knock more of them off the fence.” (Idem.)

52. An inter­est­ing foot­note to recent ter­ror­ist inci­dents con­cerns a claim of respon­si­bil­ity by an alleged Al Qaeda affil­i­ate for the power black­outs in the U.S. and Britain last sum­mer. Were Islamist ele­ments act­ing out some of the par­tic­u­lars of The Turner Diaries, as appar­ently hap­pened on 9/11? Were neo-Nazi ele­ments under­tak­ing these actions as a real­iza­tion of The Turner Diaries? Were neo-Nazi/white suprema­cist ele­ments exe­cut­ing the black­outs and mis­rep­re­sent­ing them­selves as Islamists in order to max­i­mize civil and inter­na­tional con­flict between Mus­lims and non-Muslims? In the lat­ter con­text, one should con­sider that the goal of The Order in The Turner Diaries is the foment­ing of civil chaos and resul­tant gov­ern­ment repres­sion, in order to cre­ate a rev­o­lu­tion­ary reac­tion against, and over­throw of, “the Sys­tem.” (This con­cept will be exam­ined at greater length in future pro­grams.) “An obscure ter­ror­ist group linked to al Qaeda claimed respon­si­bil­ity on Sun­day for the twin truck bomb­ings at two syn­a­gogues that killed 23 peo­ple and wounded more than 300 here on Sat­ur­day, and Turk­ish offi­cials said they had evi­dence that sui­cide dri­vers had car­ried out the blasts. . . . The group [Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades] had made the claim by e-mail. The group has been iden­ti­fied with al Qaeda in the past. The group has made pre­vi­ous claims that turned out to be unsubstantiated—it took respon­si­bil­ity for the Aug. 5 bomb­ing of the Mar­riott Hotel in Jakarta, Indone­sia, and even the black­outs last sum­mer in the United States and Britain. [Ital­ics are Mr. Emory’s].” (“Al Qaeda Allies Say they Set Off Blasts.” By Craig S. Smith [New York Times]; San Fran­cisco Chron­i­cle; 11/17/2003; p. A3.)

53. The prospect of renewed action by domes­tic fas­cist ter­ror­ists is not one to be too read­ily dis­missed. “One evening two win­ters ago, a man in Staten Island, N.Y., absent-mindedly flipped through his mail. Inside one enve­lope was a stack of fake doc­u­ments, includ­ing United N

ations and Defense Depart­ment iden­ti­fi­ca­tion cards, and a note: ‘We would hate to have this fall into the wrong hands.’ It had. The pack­age, intended for a mem­ber of a self-styled mili­tia in New Jer­sey, had been deliv­ered to the wrong address.” (“Domes­tic Ter­ror­ism Fight Comes Under Fire” by Scott Gold; Los Ange­les Times; 1/7/2004; p. A1.)

54. “From that lucky break, fed­eral offi­cials believe they may have uncov­ered one of the most auda­cious domes­tic ter­ror­ism plots since the 1995 Okla­homa City bomb­ing that killed 168 peo­ple. Start­ing with a sin­gle piece of mail, inves­ti­ga­tors dis­cov­ered an enor­mous cache of weapons in Noon­day, in East Texas, includ­ing the mak­ings of a sophis­ti­cated sodium cyanide bomb capa­ble of killing thou­sands of peo­ple.” (Idem.)

55. “Three people—William Krar, a small-time arms dealer with con­nec­tions to white suprema­cists; Krar’s common-law wife, Judith L. Bruey; and Edward S. Fel­tus, the man who was sup­posed to have received the forged documents—pleaded guilty in the case in Novem­ber. They are being held in a Tyler, Texas, deten­tion facil­ity and are sched­uled to appear before a fed­eral judge for sen­tenc­ing next month.” (Ibid.; pp. A1-A9.)

56. “But what is typ­i­cally the end of a crim­i­nal case may be only the begin­ning in this one. Some gov­ern­ment inves­ti­ga­tors believe other con­spir­a­tors may be on the loose. And they read­ily acknowl­edge that they have no idea what the stash of weapons was for—though they have tan­ta­liz­ing and alarm­ing clues of a ‘covert oper­a­tion or plan,’ accord­ing to an FBI affi­davit. . . .” (Ibid.; p. A9.)

57. “ . . . Fel­tus, 56, of New Jer­sey, has pleaded guilty to aid­ing and abet­ting the trans­porta­tion of false iden­ti­fi­ca­tion doc­u­ments and faces a max­i­mum sen­tence of 15 years in prison, Feath­er­ston said. Accord­ing to the FBI affi­davit, Fel­tus has told inves­ti­ga­tors that he is a mem­ber of a group called the New Jer­sey Mili­tia, which, accord­ing to its web­site, believes the fed­eral gov­ern­ment has grown too pow­er­ful and says it is ‘ready, as a last resort, to come to our nation’s defense against all ene­mies, for­eign or domes­tic. . . .’” (Idem.)

58. The dimen­sions of the weapons cache that author­i­ties found in Texas (in a stor­age facil­ity rented by Bruey) is stun­ning. “ . . . Inves­ti­ga­tors found nearly 500,000 rounds of ammu­ni­tion, 65 pipe bombs and brief­cases that could be det­o­nated by remote con­trol. Most dis­tress­ing they said, was the dis­cov­ery of 800 grams of almost pure sodium cyanide—material that can only be acquired legally for spe­cific agri­cul­tural or mil­i­tary projects.” (Idem.)

59. “The sodium cyanide was found inside an ammu­ni­tion can­is­ter, next to hydrochlo­ric, nitric and acetic acids and for­mu­las for mak­ing bombs. If acid were mixed with the sodium cyanide, an analy­sis showed it would cre­ate a bomb pow­er­ful enough to kill every­one inside a 30,000-square-foot facil­ity, inves­ti­ga­tors said. Also dis­cov­ered were anti-Semitic, anti-black and antigov­ern­ment books and pam­phlets, accord­ing to the FBI’s affi­davit. . . .” (Idem.)

60. After dis­cussing appar­ent code phrases and ren­dezvous points to be uti­lized in con­cert with other, like-minded ele­ments, the arti­cle goes on to com­ment: “The clues, wrote FBI Spe­cial Agent, Bart B. LaRocca in the affi­davit, sug­gested an ‘involved crim­i­nal scheme which could poten­tially include plans for future civil unrest and/or vio­lent civil dis­or­der against the United States gov­ern­ment.’” (Idem.)

61. “ . . . Offi­cials say the case was at one point included in Pres­i­dent Bush’s daily secu­rity brief­ings, but it remains vir­tu­ally unknown out­side East Texas—even though, crit­ics point out, it rep­re­sents an instance in which fed­eral author­i­ties actu­ally dis­cov­ered a weapon of mass destruc­tion. . . .” (Idem.)

62. Another con­sid­er­a­tion to be weighed against the back­ground of the present dis­cus­sion is the porous secu­rity sur­round­ing nuclear muni­tions in the for­mer Soviet Union (among other coun­tries.) “In the eth­nic con­flicts that sur­rounded the col­lapse of the Soviet Union, fight­ers in sev­eral coun­tries seized upon an unlikely new weapon: a small, thin rocket known as the Alazan. Orig­i­nally built for weather exper­i­ments, the Alazan was trans­formed into a ter­ror weapon, packed with explo­sives and lobbed into cities. Mil­i­tary records show that at least 38 Alazan war­heads were mod­i­fied to carry radioac­tive mate­r­ial, effec­tively cre­at­ing the world’s first surface-to-surface dirty bomb. The war­heads are not known to have been used. But now, accord­ing to experts and offi­cials, they have dis­ap­peared. . . .” (“Dirty Bomb Rock­ets Van­ish” by Joby War­rick; The Wash­ing­ton Post; 12/7/2002; P. A1.)

63. The broad­cast con­cludes with a pas­sage that illus­trates the ide­o­log­i­cal cor­re­spon­dence between neo-Nazi polit­i­cal phi­los­o­phy and that of Islamists and Islam­o­fas­cists: “The Hamas char­ter sees Jews as the ulti­mate enemy: they ‘have used their wealth to gain con­trol of the world media, news agen­cies, the press, broad­cast­ing sta­tions, etc. . . .They were behind the French rev­o­lu­tion and the Com­mu­nist rev­o­lu­tion. . . . They insti­gated World War I. . . . They caused World War II. . . . It was they who gave the instruc­tions to estab­lish the United Nations and the Secu­rity Coun­cil to replace the League of Nations, in order to rule over the world through them.’” (Mil­i­tant Islam Reaches Amer­ica; by Daniel Pipes; W.W. Nor­ton & Co. [SC]; Copy­right 2002, 2003 by Daniel Pipes; ISBN 0–393-32531–8.)