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THE PROJECT [Perma­link from Daily Ablu­tion blog]

In the plethora of broad­casts recorded since 9/11/2001, we have exam­ined the pri­mary role in the attacks of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood, an Islamic fas­cist orga­ni­za­tion that was allied with the Axis pow­ers of World War II. Since the end of World War II the group has been affil­i­ated with British intel­li­gence, the CIA, the Saudi polit­i­cal and reli­gious elites and the post­war Under­ground Reich. Con­tin­u­ing with analy­sis of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood, its finan­cial vehi­cle Bank Al Taqwa and its rela­tion­ship with ele­ments of the Under­ground Reich, this pro­gram high­lights a Broth­er­hood doc­u­ment titled The Project. A blue­print for the estab­lish­ment of a world­wide, total­i­tar­ian Mus­lim theoc­racy, the doc­u­ment places par­tic­u­lar empha­sis on the infil­tra­tion of West­ern soci­eties and insti­tu­tions, and the estab­lish­ment of Islamist net­works within the social, polit­i­cal and national secu­rity estab­lish­ments of West­ern coun­tries. The SAAR net­work, the over­lap­ping Safa Trust, the Ptech firm and Grover Norquist’s Islamic Insti­tute (a branch of the GOP’s eth­nic out­reach appa­ra­tus) reflect the real­iza­tion of the document’s tenets in Amer­i­can civil soci­ety. (For more on the estab­lish­ment of such net­works and their rela­tion­ship with the Broth­er­hood, the Under­ground Reich, see FTR#’s 454, 455, 456, 462, 464, 467, 515.) Found in the res­i­dence of Al Taqwa chief (and for­mer Nazi spy) Youssef Nada, The Project was drawn up in the early 1950’s by promi­nent Mus­lim schol­ars and is viewed by counter-terrorism experts as derived from the Mus­lim Brotherhood’s Euro­pean oper­a­tions under Said Ramadan. Ana­lyz­ing the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood as proxy war­riors for the Under­ground Reich, the pro­gram sets forth an ear­lier Ger­man use of Mus­lims as geo-political prox­ies. Dur­ing the First World War, Ger­many and the Ottoman Empire pre­cip­i­tated abortive Islamist upris­ings in Russ­ian and British ter­ri­to­ries in order to gain badly needed petroleum-production facil­i­ties for Germany’s war effort. Kaiser Wil­helm even issued a dec­la­ra­tion of Mus­lim sym­pa­thies in order to woo the Turks and other Mus­lims to the Ger­man cause. Much of the pro­gram reviews the fas­cist ide­ol­ogy of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood and the Nazi past of Youssef Nada. The broad­cast also reviews Bank Al Taqwa’s pro­found links to the milieu of Fran­cois Genoud—the heir to the last wills and tes­ta­ments and col­lected lit­er­ary writ­ings of—get this—Adolph Hitler, Mar­tin Bor­mann and Joseph Goebbels! The Nazi and fas­cist char­ac­ter of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood can be con­cisely grasped by look­ing at this file pho­to­graph of a Pales­tin­ian Islamic Jihad rally on 4/15/2005. Pales­tin­ian Islamic Jihad is a branch of the Mus­lim Brotherhood.

Pro­gram High­lights Include: “The Project’s” reliance on the noto­ri­ous anti-Semitic forgery The Pro­to­cols of the Elders of Zion; Nazi banker Fran­cois Genoud’s close ties with Al Taqwa direc­tor Achmed Huber; Al Taqwa chief Youssef Nada’s role in aid­ing the escape of the Grand Mufti from Ger­many at the end of the war; review of Hitler’s polit­i­cal last will and tes­ta­ment, in which he sought alliance with the Mus­lim peo­ples of the earth in order to fur­ther the aims of the Third Reich; the deep affin­ity of Arabs for the Nazis dur­ing World War II; the close rela­tion­ship of Genoud with Beau­doin Dunand, the key direc­tor of SICO—the Euro­pean hold­ing com­pany for the Bin Laden family’s vast hold­ings; Genoud’s role as a finan­cial adviser to the Bin Laden family.

1. The pro­gram begins with an arti­cle from the Swiss pub­li­ca­tion Le Temps about a Mus­lim Broth­er­hood blue­print for world con­quest. Found in the apart­ment of Al Taqwa bank chief Youssef Nada at the time of his arrest, the doc­u­ment was (accord­ing to Nada) drawn up in the early 1980’s by promi­nent Islamic schol­ars. (Read­ers and lis­ten­ers should com­pare this blue­print for Mus­lim Broth­er­hood world dom­i­na­tion with the doc­trine expressed by Broth­er­hood founder Has­san al-Banna in John Roy Carlson’s Cairo to Dam­as­cus, pub­lished in 1951. The book is avail­able in a file avail­able on the Spit­fire web­site at Spitfirelist.com/Books. The inter­view with al-Banna is on pages 91 and 92 in the orig­i­nal text.) “In Novem­ber 2001, in the course of a search, Swiss inves­ti­ga­tors dis­cov­ered the ‘Project’: an ambi­tious strat­egy designed to ‘estab­lish the reign of God’ over the entire earth. Is it pos­si­ble that the devel­op­ment of world Islamism over the last 20 years is, at least in part, the prod­uct of a secret strat­egy, a delib­er­ate plan to take power? That’s the polit­i­cally incor­rect ques­tion raised by the sur­pris­ing dis­cov­ery made by the Swiss and Ital­ian police dur­ing a search car­ried out near Lugano in Novem­ber 2001.”
(“Islamism and the Con­quest of the World”; Le Temps; 10/6/2005.)

2. Note that the doc­u­ment was found in the res­i­dence of for­mer Nazi spy Youssef Nada. (Nada’s Third Reich espi­onage career is high­lighted below.) It is Mr. Emory’s con­sid­ered opin­ion that the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood is func­tion­ing as an exten­sion of the Under­ground Reich and, in turn, con­sti­tutes an exten­sion of Ger­man impe­r­ial pol­icy in the 19th and 20th cen­turies. That impe­r­ial pol­icy sought alliance with the Mus­lim pop­u­la­tion of what the Ger­mans called the “Earth Island” as a vehi­cle for world dom­i­na­tion. (For more about Nada and the con­cept of the Earth Island, use the search func­tion to locate sup­ple­men­tal mate­r­ial. FTR#’s 391, 454, 455, 456 are com­pi­la­tions sum­ming up many ele­ments of Mr. Emory’s work on 9/11, includ­ing Nada, the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood and the Al Taqwa nexus.) “In a villa belong­ing to Youssef Nada, an Egypt­ian banker that the Amer­i­can author­i­ties accuse of hav­ing sup­ported ter­ror­ism, the inves­ti­ga­tors seized an amaz­ing doc­u­ment, kept secret for nearly two decades: the ‘Project’, a strate­gic text of which the ulti­mate goal is ‘the estab­lish­ment of the reign of God over the entire world.’” (Idem.)

3. “The open crim­i­nal inves­ti­ga­tion against Youssef Nada, who ran the Islamic bank Al-Taqwa de Lugano from its cre­ation in 1988, was closed last May. But the Arab financier, who denied all links with terror

ism, admit­ted hav­ing been, over the years, one of the prin­ci­pal lead­ers of the inter­na­tional branch of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood, one of the most impor­tant con­tem­po­rary Islamist groups. Founded in Egypt in 1928, the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood gave birth to a vast ‘Islamic Move­ment’ inspired by its ideas, which rep­re­sent today the main world force call­ing for Islamism.” (Idem.)

4. Note that this doc­u­ment was for­mal­ized in Decem­ber of 1982, dur­ing the Afghan war against the Sovi­ets, an event that saw the mar­riage of much of the U.S. national secu­rity estab­lish­ment with the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood and the Saudi-financed Safari Club. (For more about the Brotherhood’s role in the Afghan war, see FTR#473. For more about the Safari Club, see FTR#’s 522, 524.) Part of the document’s sig­nif­i­cance lies in the fact that it indi­cates that the dynam­ics of the anti-Soviet Afghan war were sim­ply part of the Brotherhood’s (and Under­ground Reich’s) plans to gain world dom­i­na­tion after the con­clu­sion of the con­flict. Note the empha­sis the doc­u­ment places on nur­tur­ing anti-Semitism in the tar­geted coun­tries! “The Project is a 14-page doc­u­ment, dated Decem­ber 1982, which opens with this pas­sage: ‘This report presents a global vision of an inter­na­tional strat­egy of Islamic pol­icy. Local Islamic poli­cies are to be drawn up in the dif­fer­ent regions accord­ing to its guide­lines.’ The doc­u­ment rec­om­mends the ‘study of the cen­ters of power locally and world­wide, and the pos­si­bil­i­ties of plac­ing them under influ­ence’, ‘get­ting into con­tact with every new move­ment engaged in jihad, across the planet’, ‘cre­at­ing cells of jihad in Pales­tine’, and ‘nur­tur­ing the sen­ti­ment of ran­cor with regard to Jews’. All of that with the goal of coor­di­nat­ing the Islamic work in the sole direc­tion [sic] in order to ... con­se­crate the power of God on Earth.” (Idem.)

5. “The Swiss inves­ti­ga­tors who stud­ied the al-Taqwa dossier have devoted sev­eral analy­ses to The Project and what it rep­re­sents. One con­fi­den­tial doc­u­ment of an antiter­ror­ist ‘Task Force’ set up after the attacks of Sep­tem­ber 11, 2001, speaks of ‘a fun­da­men­tal text for under­stand­ing the long term goals of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood’: ‘Enti­tled The Project, the doc­u­ment specif­i­cally describes the strat­egy envi­sioned to assure that the fra­ter­nity achieves a grow­ing influ­ence over the Mus­lim world. It is pointed out that the [Mus­lim Broth­er­hood] doesn’t have to act in the name of the Broth­er­hood, but can infil­trate exist­ing enti­ties. They can thus avoid being located and neu­tral­ized.’” (Idem.)

6. It is very impor­tant to take stock of the fact that The Project advo­cates the infil­tra­tion of exist­ing insti­tu­tions in West­ern coun­tries and the estab­lish­ment of net­works inside of Europe and the United States. In this con­text, it is vitally impor­tant to weigh this blue­print in light of the estab­lish­ment of the SAAR net­work and the over­lap­ping Safa Trust, as well as related insti­tu­tions such as the Ptech com­pany and Grover Norquist’s Islamic Insi­tute. (For more about these sub­jects, see—among other programs—FTR#’s 454, 455, 456, 462, 464, 467, 515.) It is very impor­tant to keep in mind that the SAAR net­work and the Safa Trust are very closely linked to the Bush admin­is­tra­tion and the GOP. “A sec­ond report from the Swiss inves­ti­ga­tors states that The Project, and other doc­u­ments found in Youssef Nada’s house, ‘con­firm the role played by the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood at the same time as an inspi­ra­tion and sup­port, direct or indi­rect, of rad­i­cal Islam, over the entire world’. Accord­ingly, The Project could play a role in the cre­ation by the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood and their suc­ces­sors of a net­work of reli­gious, edu­ca­tional and char­i­ta­ble insti­tu­tions in Europe and the United States. In fact, The Project rec­om­mends ‘con­struc­tion of social, eco­nomic, sci­en­tific and med­ical insti­tu­tions, and the pen­e­tra­tion of the domain of the social ser­vices, to be in con­tact with the peo­ple’.” (Idem.)

7. The Project was drawn up in Decem­ber of 1982. It is highly sig­nif­i­cant that it antic­i­pates world devel­op­ments that occurred after its cre­ation, includ­ing the Pales­tin­ian Intifada and aid by the Broth­er­hood to Islamist groups in Bosnia and the Philip­pines. “To this end, it will be nec­es­sary to ‘study the diverse polit­i­cal envi­ron­ment and the prob­a­bil­i­ties of suc­cess in each coun­try’. One west­ern offi­cial who had stud­ied it described The Project as ‘a total­i­tar­ian ide­ol­ogy of infil­tra­tion that rep­re­sents, in the end, the gravest dan­ger for Euro­pean soci­eties: The Project, which will become a dan­ger in 10 years, he said, will see emerg­ing in Europe the demand for a par­al­lel sys­tem, the cre­ation of ‘Mus­lim Par­lia­ments of the sort that already exists in Great Britain... thus begin­ning the slow destruc­tion of our insti­tu­tions, of our struc­tures. For this offi­cial, who asked not to be named, The Project is not a sim­ple philo­soph­i­cal text, but a ‘road map’ of which cer­tain ele­ments have been put in place in the real world: notably, it antic­i­pates the start of the war against Israel in the Pales­tin­ian ter­ri­to­ries, and the sup­port given these past years by the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood to sev­eral armed Islamic groups, from Bosnia to the Philip­pines.” (Idem.)

8. It is impor­tant to note that the document’s authen­tic­ity has not been dis­puted by Youssef Nada, the man in whose res­i­dence it was found. Apol­o­gists for the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood and related ele­ments have claimed it is a forgery. “The dis­cov­ery of The Project also raises many ques­tions which, for now, remain unan­swered. The iden­tity of its author, for exam­ple, remains unknown. Youssef Nada, the keeper of The Project for nearly 20 years, sim­ply told the Swiss inves­ti­ga­tors that he hadn’t writ­ten the text. Approached sev­eral times by Le Temps, he finally explained that the doc­u­ment had been drawn up by some ‘Islamic researchers,’ but that it didn’t rep­re­sent the offi­cial posi­tion of the Islamic Broth­er­hood. ‘I don’t agree with but 15 or 20% of the text’, he said. Why in that case, did he keep it at his house? ‘I don’t know. I should have thrown it away’.” (Idem.)

9. The doc­u­ment owes its intel­lec­tual gen­e­sis to Said Ramadan, the head of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood. In the 1960’s Ramadan relo­cated to Europe, in order (as will be seen below) to reform the alliance between the Nazis and the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood. Ramadan’s sojourn in Geneva was directed at ally­ing with Fran­cois Genoud, a piv­otal Nazi financier closely con­nected to the Al Taqwa milieu. “The impor­tance of The Project lies as much in its his­tory, and those of the men sur­round­ing it, as with its con­tent. Its intel­lec­tual ori­gins date back to the 1960s, when the ‘theoretician-in-chief’ of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood, Said Ramadan, found refuge in Geneva. In Sep­tem­ber 1964, his newspaper

n style=“font-style: italic;”>El Mus­limoun pub­lished an arti­cle call­ing for the launch of an ‘ide­o­log­i­cal war’ against the West. He thus acted in response to the cre­ation of the state of Israel, con­sid­ered by Islamists to be an ele­ment in a vast plot against the Mus­lim reli­gion and its faith­ful. ‘That is why we’re con­vinced that the sophis­ti­cated ide­o­log­i­cal plan has to be coun­tered by an ide­o­log­i­cal plan just as sophis­ti­cated, and that it is nec­es­sary to respond to these ide­o­log­i­cal attacks, to this ide­o­log­i­cal –war, with an ide­o­log­i­cal war.” (Idem.)

10. A key to the Nazi influ­ence on the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood and The Project is the document’s reliance on the Euro­pean forgery The Pro­to­cols of the Elders of Zion—a noto­ri­ous Euro­pean forgery that was a main­stay of Nazi anti-Semitic ide­ol­ogy. “The arti­cle makes explicit ref­er­ence to ‘The Pro­to­cols of the Elders of Zion’, a doc­u­ment fab­ri­cated by Tsarist police that describes a Jew­ish con­spir­acy to dom­i­nate the world. Even though it’s a forgery, the anti-Semitic text con­tin­ues to be taken seri­ously in Islamist cir­cles. Last August, The Wall Street Jour­nal revealed that the ‘Pro­to­col’ was cited dur­ing a recent meet­ing of the ‘Euro­pean Coun­cil of Fat­wahs and Research’, an orga­ni­za­tion designed to coun­sel the Mus­lims of Europe regard­ing their daily lives. Accord­ing to a par­tic­i­pant in the meet­ing, the Pro­to­cols demon­strates the exis­tence of a Jew­ish con­spir­acy designed to destroy the moral val­ues of Mus­lim fam­i­lies. It is under­stood that, inspired by such ideas, the Islamists wanted to react by devel­op­ing their own Project.” (Idem.)

11. “The lead thinker of the Coun­cil of Fat­was, Yousouf al-Qaradawi, was one of the prin­ci­pal share­hold­ers of the Al-Taqwa bank of Lugano. He is with­out doubt the most pop­u­lar preacher in Europe and the Arab world, and some of his ideas are in line with those of The Project. Thus, in a doc­u­ment pub­lished in 1990, he pro­posed to develop the pres­ence of the Islamic Move­ment at the heart of ‘jihad groups’, in order to elim­i­nate ‘all for­eign influ­ences’ in Islamic lands, from Morocco to Indone­sia.” (Idem.)

12. The Le Temps arti­cle points out that the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood did not pre­cip­i­tate the Mus­lim emi­gra­tion to West­ern coun­tries, but is tak­ing advan­tage of it. “Despite the evi­dent ide­o­log­i­cal sim­i­lar­i­ties, and the his­toric links of the great thinkers of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood with this doc­u­ment, the recent his­tory of lslamism can­not be sum­ma­rized in this Project alone. And the expan­sion of Islam in the West over the course of the last decades has not been planned by any­one: it results from the pro­gres­sive instal­la­tion of Mus­lim immi­grants in Europe and the United States. But the heirs to the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood will profit from this devel­op­ment to open a new space for their actions and ideas. Their declared objec­tive has always been to ‘pro­tect’ Mus­lim com­mu­ni­ties, as Sheikh Qaradawi puts it, from the ‘whirl­wind of mate­ri­al­ist ideas that pre­vails in the West’.” (Idem.)

13. “Far from con­firm­ing this view, The Project bears impor­tant wit­ness of what could be the ulte­rior motives and hid­den objec­tives of the Islamist move­ment, both now and in the future try­ing to strengthen its influ­ence on Mus­lim com­mu­ni­ties in the West.” (Idem.)

14. By way of pref­ac­ing the dis­cus­sion of the Broth­er­hood as proxy war­riors by the Under­ground Reich, the pro­gram reviews the affin­ity of Arabs for Hitler dur­ing World War II, because they saw the Nazis as poten­tial lib­er­a­tors of that region from British and French colo­nial dom­i­na­tion. In addi­tion, the Arabs’ affin­ity for the Nazis was born out of their mutual hatred of the Jews (and later Israel). The Third Reich (like the Kaiser before them) saw the Arabs (and the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood) as polit­i­cal and mil­i­tary allies who could give them con­trol over the key oil-producing regions of the world. “Sup­port for Nazism was not lim­ited to the for­mer Mufti. ‘We admired the Nazis. We were immersed in read­ing Nazi lit­er­a­ture and books .... We were the first who thought of a trans­la­tion of Mein Kampf. Any­one who lived in Dam­as­cus at that time was wit­ness to the Arab incli­na­tion toward Nazism,’ recalled Sami al-Joundi, one of the founders of Syria’s rul­ing Ba’ath Party. Indeed, a pop­u­lar WWII song was heard in the Mid­dle East fea­tur­ing words: ‘Bis­sama Allah, oria alard Hitler’ – ‘In heaven Allah, on earth Hitler.’ Pick­ing up the theme of the book, posters were put up in Arab mar­kets and else­where pro­claim­ing, ‘In heaven Allah is thy ruler; on earth Adolph Hitler.’ John Gun­ther of Inside Asia reported: ‘The great­est con­tem­po­rary Arab hero is prob­a­bly Hitler’ . . . .”
(“Nazi Influ­ence on the Mid­dle East Dur­ing WWII” by David Storobin, Esq.; Global Politi­cian; 1/6/05; p. 6.)

15. In his last will and tes­ta­ment, Hitler saw alliance with the Mus­lim world as a key to future Nazi world dom­i­na­tion. It is against the back­ground of this that much of the sub­se­quent dis­cus­sion should be eval­u­ated. Note also that this polit­i­cal will and tes­ta­ment was bequeathed to Fran­cois Genoud. Although he died in 1996, Genoud’s name crops up sig­nif­i­cantly in a num­ber of impor­tant respects in the con­text of the events of 9/11. For an overview of Genoud’s career, see FTR#453. For more infor­ma­tion about Genoud and 9/11, see—among other programs—FTR#’s 343, 354, 371, 456, 498, 499. We will be exam­in­ing Genoud’s links to the milieu of Al Taqwa and the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood below. For a con­tem­po­rary inter­pre­ta­tion of Hitler’s words, sub­sti­tute the United States for Britain in the fol­low­ing con­text: “Adolf Hitler declared in his ‘Tes­ta­ment’, reported by Mar­tin Bor­mann: ‘All of Islam vibrates at announce­ment of our vic­to­ries..... What can we do to help them..., how can it be to our inter­est and” our duty? The pres­ence next to us of the Ital­ians... cre­ates a malaise among our friends of Islam,... it hin­ders us from play­ing one of our bet­ter cards: to sup­port the coun­tries oppressed by the British. Such a pol­icy would excite enthu­si­asm through­out Islam. It is, in effect, a par­tic­u­lar­ity of the Mus­lim world that what touches one, whether good or ill, is felt by all the oth­ers.... The peo­ple ruled by Islam will always be nearer to us than France, in spite of the kin­ship of blood’...”
(Tes­ta­ment of Hitler, Head­quar­ters of the Fuhrer, Feb­ru­ary 4 to April 2, 1945, pref­ace by Fran­cois Genoud; noted as Foot­note #8 in: “The Reds, The Browns and the Greens” by Alexan­dre Del Valle; Occi­den­talis; 12/13/04; p. 10.)

16. Hitler and the Nazis did not orig­i­nate the con­cept of a Mus­lim alliance as a vehi­cle for advanc­ing Ger­man inter­ests. Dur­ing the First World War, the Kaiser and the Ger­mans forged an all

iance with the Ottoman Empire against the British inter­ests in that area. As part of this alliance, the Kaiser made a dec­la­ra­tion of “Mus­lim sym­pa­thies.” Note that the goal of the Ottoman alliance was, ulti­mately, con­trol over vital oil-producing ter­ri­to­ries. “ . . . Few Amer­i­cans have real­ized the extent to which both world wars dripped petro­leum con­cern. Save for the bloody 1942–45 island-hopping in the Pacific, we usu­ally pic­ture both world wars in Euro­pean terms. Periph­eries like North Africa were just that-sideshows. Ship con­voys were mar­itime adjuncts.”
(Amer­i­can Dynasty: Aris­toc­racy, For­tune, and the Pol­i­tics of Deceit in the House of Bush; by Kevin Philips; Viking [HC]; Copy­right 2004 by Kevin Phillips; ISBN 0–670-03264–6; p. 248.)

17. “What we have espe­cially neglected is the role of the Mid­dle East and oil in the two wars. Twice, the Ger­mans and their allies pur­sued both. Impor­tant in the first con­flict, petro­leum became absolutely cen­tral between 1939 and 1945. Six­teen years before the guns of August 1914, the sul­tan of Turkey–Abdulhamid II, often called ‘the Damned’–received a secret– ser­vice report about clan­des­tine Ger­man explo­ration in what is now Iraq but then was Ottoman Mesopotamia. The Kaiser’s state visit to Con­stan­tino­ple, his grandiose pro­fes­sion of Mus­lim sym­pa­thies, his pur­suit of a Turk­ish alliance, and his dream of a rail­road from Berlin to Bagh­dad had a fur­ther, dark and seep­ing moti­va­tion. Accord­ing to British his­to­rian Peter Hop­kirk, ‘Ger­man geol­o­gists pos­ing as archae­ol­o­gists were at that very moment prospect­ing for oil around Mosul, in north­ern Mesopotamia. In fact, or so his spies informed him, they had already found it, for an inter­cepted Ger­man report spoke of the region offer­ing ‘even greater oppor­tu­ni­ties for profit than the rich oil­fields of the Cau­ca­sus.’ Those fields had made Rus­sia the Ottoman Empire’s great rival, the world’s top turn-of-the-century pro­ducer.” (Idem.)

18. “The oil era was just begin­ning. After war broke out in 1914, the bat­tle– field pres­ence of auto­mo­biles, trucks, and air­craft, as well as the British navy’s reliance on oil rather than coal power, made petro­leum an ever more impor­tant war resource. Luck­ily, large new oil fields in the United States and British devel­op­ment of Per­sia, together with Russ­ian pro­duc­tion still account­ing for 15 per­cent of world out­put, gave the Allies a leg up in dom­i­nat­ing petro­leum geog­ra­phy. After Ger­many, despite its advan­tages in coal, iron, and rail trans­port, failed to win a quick vic­tory advanc­ing into France in 1914, the war moved into the trenches. Motor trans­port and air­craft use mush­roomed, and Germany’s lack of oil became per­ilous.” (Ibid.; pp. 248–249.)

19. “Through 1916, Ger­man war man­agers got some oil from over­seas but relied mainly on sup­plies from neu­tral Roma­nia, Europe’s second-largest pro­ducer. Although the Kaiser had com­pleted his rail­road from Berlin to Bagh­dad, com­mer­cial oil and gas devel­op­ment was not yet under way in Mesopotamia-despite con­spic­u­ous nat­ural gas vents and oil seep­age widely com­mented upon since the days of Neb­uchad­nez­zar, king of Baby­lon.” (Ibid.; p. 249.)

20. The First World War saw an early Ger­man use of Mus­lims as proxy com­bat­ants against the British and Rus­sians. (Note that, in World War II, this same gam­bit was used to great effect, with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem recruit­ing numer­ous Mus­lim mil­i­tary units for the Third Reich. For more about the Grand Mufti see—among other programs—FTR#’s 414, 416, 456.) “Alas for Berlin, lit­tle came of the Turco-German ‘holy war’ designed to stir 1914–15 Mus­lim rev­o­lu­tion in the Russ­ian Cau­ca­sus and against British author­ity in Per­sia and India. Although the sul­tan, as caliph of Islam, pro­claimed jihad, no seri­ous ris­ing took place. Turk­ish troops in the north did lit­tle more than mass near the Russ­ian bor­der. In the south, they threat­ened but did not attack the Anglo-Persian oil refin­ery in Abadan, just across the bor­der in neu­tral Per­sia. The lim­ited suc­cess came in 1915, when local tribes­men agi­tated by Ger­man agents and the Turks dam­aged the Anglo-Persian pipeline from the oil fields to Abadan, greatly reduc­ing its flow for five months. Iron­i­cally, Win­ston Churchill, as first lord of the admi­ralty in 1914, had despaired of Britain’s abil­ity to defend the Per­sian oil fields and refin­ery: ‘There is lit­tle like­li­hood of any troops being avail­able for this pur­pose. We shall have to buy our oil from some­where else.’” (Idem.)

21. “Each side put a high pri­or­ity on con­strict­ing the other side’s oil sup­ply. Ger­many responded to Britain’s naval block­ade and con­trol of sur­face waters with a sub­ma­rine cam­paign that dec­i­mated British ship­ping, not least oil tankers. In early 1917, adop­tion of unre­stricted sub­ma­rine war­fare against Allied ship­ping dou­bled the ton­nage sunk from a year ear­lier, reduc­ing the Royal Navy’s oil sup­ply to a level that threat­ened paral­y­sis.” (Idem.)

22. “On the other side, when neu­tral Roma­nia joined the Allies in late 1916, the Ger­mans responded by cap­tur­ing the Roman­ian oil fields around Ploesti, but they were partly thwarted by a group of British destruc­tion teams led by Colonel John ‘Empire Jack’ Norton-Griffiths. Given reluc­tant per­mis­sion by the Roman­ian gov­ern­ment, they wrecked der­ricks and pipelines, set the wells ablaze, and left such destruc­tion that pro­duc­tion could not be resumed until spring. Out­put by the Ger­mans for all of 1917 was only one-third that of 1916. After the war, Gen­eral Luden­dorff acknowl­edged the dire effects.” (Ibid.; pp. 249–250.)

23. After World War I, the allies divided the old Ottoman Empire between Britain and France. In World War II, the Ger­mans again used pan-Islamism as a vehi­cle for gain­ing con­trol of the Earth Island. With the advent of The Project, it appears that the Under­ground Reich has extended that con­cept to incor­po­rate the World’s Mus­lim peo­ples as proxy war­riors around the world, not just in their native coun­tries. “After the Kaiser’s Islamic holy war had fiz­zled, Britain, France, and Rus­sia turned their thoughts to a post­war divi­sion of the crum­bling Ottoman Empire. As set out in the Sykes-Picot Agree­ment of 1916, Russia’s post­war sphere of influ­ence would include the Bosporus and part of Ana­to­lia; France’s would com­prise Lebanon, Syria, and oil-rich Mosul. Britain would hold sway in Ara­bia, Pales­tine, and most of Mesopotamia, includ­ing Bagh­dad. Sir Mau­rice Han­key, sec­re­tary of the war cab­i­net, explained: ‘Oil in the next war will occupy the place of coal in the present war.... The only big sup­ply we can get under British con­trol is the Per­sian and Mesopotamian sup­ply. There­fore, con­trol over these sup­plies becomes a first-class British war aim.’ Rev­o­lu­tion cost Rus­sia its place at the post­war table, so Britain and France alone divided the Mid­dle East pie.” (Ibid.; p. 250.)

24. “Besides guid­ing a tribal revolt in Ara­bia, British troops also pre­vailed in Pales­tine and Mesopotamia. From a base in Basra near the Per­sian bor­der, between 1915 and 1917 they drove up the val­leys of the Tigris and Euphrates to seize Bagh­dad. Some of the same towns and bat­tle­fields– Shaiba, Al ‘Amara, Nasiriya would be revis­ited in the Anglo-American inva­sion of Iraq in 2003.” (Idem.)

25. “One other petroleum-driven cam­paign took place before the armistice. When revolution-racked Rus­sia left the war in 1917, Ger­mans and Turks took aim at the scarcely defended Russ­ian oil fields in Baku, just north of Turkey and Per­sia. Before Ger­man diplo­macy could work, a Turk­ish army put Baku under siege in the sum­mer of 1918. How­ever, a small British relief force arrived, delayed the oil
center’s cap­ture, and then slipped away, Turk­ish troops did not take the city until Sep­tem­ber, too late for des­per­ately needed oil to help Ger­many, which was forced to sur­ren­der on Novem­ber 11. . . .” (Idem.)

26. Next, the pro­gram turns to review of the his­tory of the Brotherhood’s alliance with Nazi Ger­many and its affil­i­a­tion with fas­cist ide­ol­ogy. Dis­cussing the dias­pora of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood fol­low­ing its expul­sion from Egypt, the pro­gram dis­cusses the estab­lish­ment of Munich as a pri­mary base of oper­a­tions. The site was cho­sen in order to fur­ther the cause of Nazi/Islamist alliance. Note that it was Said Ramadan (whose influ­ence was seen above in the gen­er­a­tion of The Project) who selected Munich as the even­tual place for Euro­pean Broth­er­hood relo­ca­tion. Geneva, Switzer­land, was the first, for rea­sons that will be dis­cussed below. For more on Munich as a cen­ter or Islamist and Mus­lim Broth­er­hood activ­ity, see FTR#518.) “ ‘Why Munich, why Ger­many?’ I asked Rifaat Said. ‘Because there, one finds old com­plic­i­ties that go back to the late 1930’s, when the Mus­lim Broth­ers col­lab­o­rated with the agents of Nazi Ger­many. [Ital­ics are Mr. Emory’s.] . . By soak­ing up the sav­ings of these Mus­lim work­ers, Youssef Nada, like Said Ramadan, took advan­tage of an extremely favor­able con­text and used it as a spring­board for the Mus­lim Broth­ers’ eco­nomic activ­i­ties.’”
(Dol­lars for Ter­ror: The United States and Islam; by Richard Labeviere; Copy­right 2000 [SC]; Algora Pub­lish­ing; ISBN 1–892941-06–6; p. 153.)

27. Youssef Nada him­self (the head of the Brotherhood’s Bank Al Taqwa) is alleged to have been an agent of the Abwehr, the mil­i­tary intel­li­gence ser­vice of the Third Reich. It was in Nada’s res­i­dence that The Project man­u­script was dis­cov­ered. (For more about Nada’s ser­vice to the Third Reich, see FTR#416.) “But Youssef Nada is even better-known to the Egypt­ian [intel­li­gence] ser­vices, who have evi­dence of his mem­ber­ship in the armed branch of the fra­ter­nity of the Mus­lim Broth­ers in the 1940’s. At that time, accord­ing to the same sources, he was work­ing for the Abwehr under Admi­ral Canaris and took part in a plot against King Farouk. This was not the first time that the path of the Mus­lim Broth­ers crossed that of the ser­vants of the Third Reich.” (Ibid.; 140–141.)

28. High­light­ing the polit­i­cal phi­los­o­phy of the “Fra­ter­nity” (author Richard Labaviere’s nick­name for the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood), the pro­gram sets forth the fas­cist ori­en­ta­tion of this orga­ni­za­tion. “The his­tory of the Fra­ter­nity makes the Broth­ers’ con­cept of the Islamic State clear: a theo­cratic State of fascis­tic inspi­ra­tion. . . .Some of them were fel­low trav­el­ers of the Nazis, and are still try­ing today to resus­ci­tate the old alliance of Islamism and the swastika.” (Ibid.; p. 121.)

29. “Muham­mad Said al-Ashmawy con­tin­ued: ‘All my research always brings me back to the same point: at the begin­ning of this process of the per­ver­sion of Islam are the Mus­lim Broth­ers, an extreme Right cult.’.. . An extreme Right cult? ‘The his­tory of the Mus­lim Broth­ers is infused and fas­ci­nated by fascis­tic ide­ol­ogy,’ Said al-Ashmawy adds. ‘Their doc­trines, their total (if not total­i­tar­ian) way of life, takes as a start­ing point the same obses­sion with a per­fect city on earth, in con­for­mity with the celes­tial city whose orga­ni­za­tion and dis­tri­b­u­tion of pow­ers they can dis­cern through the lens of their fan­tas­ti­cal read­ing of the Koran.’ This ‘Fascis­tic affil­i­a­tion’ would crop up in the analy­ses of sev­eral of our inter­locu­tors, in par­tic­u­lar that of the jour­nal­ist Eric Rouleau, who is a spe­cial­ist in the Mid­dle East, for­mer French ambas­sador to Tunisia and Turkey.” (Ibid.; p. 124.)

30. As noted in FTR#s 332, 340 and 343, the fas­cists used anti-colonial sen­ti­ment in the Third World to recruit con­fed­er­ates against Britain and France. The Mus­lim Broth­er­hood was uti­lized in this fash­ion. “Lastly, the emer­gence and the rise to power of Fas­cism, hos­tile to French and British colo­nial­ism, gave rise to many analo­gies with cor­po­ratist pro­pa­ganda and the meth­ods of mobi­liza­tion of Mussolini’s gangs.” (Ibid.; p. 126.)
(For more on the Cor­po­rate State espoused by Mus­solini, see RFA 1, Mis­cel­la­neous Archive Show M42 and FTR#268.)

31. The theo­cratic fas­cism of the Broth­er­hood was enun­ci­ated by the organization’s founder Has­san al-Banna. “ ‘Islam is doc­trine, divine wor­ship, the father­land, the nation, reli­gion, spir­i­tu­al­ity, the Koran and the sword.’” (Idem.)

32. Fur­ther high­light­ing the com­par­isons between the Brotherhood’s eco­nomic pro­gram and those of Mus­solini and Hitler, the broad­cast con­tin­ues: “Tak­ing Italy’s choices under Mus­solini for inspi­ra­tion, the eco­nomic pro­gram set three pri­or­i­ties . . . The social pol­icy fore­saw a new law on labor, founded on cor­po­ra­tions. This eco­nomic pro­gram would more directly reveal its rela­tion­ship to total­i­tar­ian ide­olo­gies a few years later, with the works of Mohamed Ghaz­ali . . . . Mohamed Ghaz­ali rec­om­mended ‘an eco­nomic reg­i­men sim­i­lar to that which existed in Nazi Ger­many and fas­cist Italy.’ . . .The moral code is also an impor­tant com­po­nent in this pro­gram, which is intended to cre­ate the ‘new Mus­lim man.’ . . . The notion of the equal­ity of the sexes is inher­ently negated by the con­cept of the supremacy of male social respon­si­bil­i­ties . . .the ‘nat­ural’ place of the woman is in the home.” (Ibid.; p. 127.)

33. Reca­pit­u­lat­ing the last will and tes­ta­ment of Hitler (dis­cussed above), the broad­cast high­lights the Fueherer’s polit­i­cal legacy, as pro­mul­gated by Nazi banker and ter­ror mas­ter­mind Fran­cois Genoud. Genoud is a prin­ci­pal point of inter­sec­tion between the post­war Under­ground Reich and Islamist forces, includ­ing the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood. “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.)

34. Accord­ing to the book Dol­lars for Ter­ror, the orig­i­nal move by Said Ramadan (men­tioned above in the Le Temps arti­cle as an appar­ent force behind the cre­ation of The Project) to Switzer­land was to coor­di­nate the activ­i­ties of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood with those of Nazi banker Fran­cois Genoud. It was in this pre­cise time period that Ramadan was instru­men­tal in the for­ma­tion of the Mus­lim World League, one of the most impor­tant Islamic civic orga­ni­za­tions in the world. (For more about Fran­cois Genoud, see—among programs—FTR#453.) “Let us men­tion only the inci­dent of the trea­sure of the FLN, at the cen­ter of which the banker Fran­cois Genoud may be found. [Said] Ramadan and the Mus­lim Brothers

thought that they could play a part in the Alger­ian process as they had done in Pales­tine in 1947. Said Ramadan thus left Munich to set­tle in the city of Calvin.”
(Dol­lars for Ter­ror: The United States and Islam; by Richard Labeviere; Copy­right 2000 [SC]; Algora Pub­lish­ing; ISBN 1–892941-06–6; p. 154.)

35. The pro­gram reviews an item of dis­cus­sion from FTR#352. An arti­cle in the San Fran­cisco Chron­i­cle con­tains an alle­ga­tion that Fran­cois Genoud is believed to have founded Al Taqwa in order to fund ter­ror­ists such as Car­los the Jackal and Bin Laden. “Author­i­ties believe Genoud founded Al Taqwa Bank and allo­cated its resources to sup­port inter­na­tional ter­ror­ists such as Vladimir Ilich Ramirez, alias Car­los the Jackal, and Bin Laden.”
(“Swiss Probe Anti-U.S. Neo-Nazi” by Jay Bushin­sky; San Fran­cisco Chron­i­cle; 3/12/2002; p. A12.)

36. Repris­ing an item of dis­cus­sion from FTR#357, the pro­gram cites the opin­ion of Ernest Backes (one of Europe’s fore­most experts on money laun­der­ing) con­cern­ing the role of Fran­cois Genoud in the devel­op­ment of the events of 9/11. Genoud (who com­mit­ted sui­cide in 1996) was very close to Al Taqwa per­son­ages, espe­cially Achmed Huber. Accord­ing to Backes, Genoud was also a finan­cial adviser to the Bin Laden fam­ily. “Finan­cial expert Ernest Backes of Lux­em­bourg has [stud­ied] white-collar crime in the field of bank­ing for many years. Accord­ing to him, there are indi­ca­tions of unusual trans­ac­tions with which the groups [asso­ci­ated with] bin Laden could have earned money. ‘You can, for exam­ple, exam­ine whether, within a cer­tain time period there’s been an attack against the secu­ri­ties of a given air­line com­pany. Since these secu­ri­ties are safe in a ‘clear­ing sys­tem,’ you can’t get an over­all view, who the owner was at a given time.’ . . .Accord­ing to Backes’ infor­ma­tion, the trail leads to Switzer­land, to the accounts of an orga­ni­za­tion that was founded by the late lawyer Fran­cois Genoud and evi­dently still sur­vives. Says Backes, ‘One of the grounds for accu­sa­tion is that this Swiss attor­ney had the clos­est con­nec­tions with the Bin Laden fam­ily, that he was an advi­sor to the fam­ily, one of its invest­ment bankers. It’s known for cer­tain, that he sup­ported ter­ror­ism and was the estate execu­tor for Hitler and part of the ter­ror milieu.’ [Ital­ics are Mr. Emory’s].”
(“Insider Trad­ing Prior to the Ter­ror Attacks in the US?: Spec­u­lat­ing on Terror—Who Prof­ited from the Attacks?” by Rolf Bovier & Pierre Matthias; Bay­erische Rund­funk Online (BR-Online); 9/25/2001)

37. On the sub­ject of Genoud, the pro­gram reprises an item of infor­ma­tion from FTR#354. The co-chairman of the board of direc­tors of SICO, the hold­ing com­pany that man­ages the Bin Laden busi­ness inter­ests in Europe, is Bau­doin Dunand, a friend and pro­fes­sional asso­ciate of Fran­cois Genoud. (In FTR#’s 498, 499, we looked at the prob­a­ble role of SICO in the events of 9/11.) “This com­pany, estab­lished by the bin Ladens in 1980, is the flag­ship for the group’s activ­i­ties in Europe. It is headed by Yeslam bin Laden, and the board of direc­tors is made up almost exclu­sively of mem­bers of the fam­ily clan, except for a Swiss cit­i­zen, Bau­doin Dunand. This well-known lawyer from French-speaking Switzer­land, who is on the boards of sev­eral dozen com­pa­nies, came to pub­lic notice in 1983 when he agreed to rep­re­sent the Swiss banker Fran­cois Genoud, a con­tro­ver­sial fig­ure who had been a dis­ci­ple of Hitler and sole heir of Goebbels’s copy­rights before becom­ing one of the financiers of the FLN dur­ing the Alger­ian War. The friend­ships of the bin Ladens some­times seem sur­pris­ing, but they are log­i­cal: Fran­cois Genoud has always been pro-Arab.”
(In the Name of Osama Bin Laden; by Roland Jacquard; Copy­right 2002 [SC]; Duke Uni­ver­sity Press; ISBN 0–8223-2991–3; pp. 17–18.)

38. Next, the broad­cast high­lights Al Taqwa direc­tor Achmed Huber’s rela­tion­ship with key Nazi banker and agent Fran­cois Genoud. Huber also main­tains close rela­tion­ships with both Ger­man and Amer­i­can neo-Nazis, and he coor­di­nates their activ­i­ties with those if Islamists. “Back in Switzer­land, Huber next became close friends with the Swiss banker Fran­cois Genoud, whom Huber recalls first meet­ing in ‘pro-Arab asso­ci­a­tions.’ Best known for fund­ing SS butcher Klaus Barbie’s legal defense team, Genoud held the legal copy­right to writ­ings by Hitler, Goebbels and Mar­tin Bor­mann. Genoud, who com­mit­ted sui­cide in 1996, is also believed to have played a key role in the post­war man­age­ment of Nazi funds. [Ital­ics are Mr. Emory’s.] In the late 1960’s, he also worked closely with rad­i­cal Pales­tin­ian groups, par­tic­u­larly the ‘Pop­u­lar Front for the Lib­er­a­tion of Pales­tine’ (PFLP). Along with orga­niz­ing legal sup­port for cap­tured PFLP mil­i­tants, he even helped coor­di­nate the PFLP’s hijack­ing of a Lufthansa Boe­ing 747 en route from Delhi to Aden. Through his ties to the PFLP’s leader, Dr. Wadi Had­dad (who affec­tion­ately dubbed him ‘Sheikh Fran­cois’), Genoud befriended Ilyich Ramirez Sanchez, bet­ter known as ‘Car­los the Jackal.’ Both men remained in close con­tact right up to Genoud’s death.”
(“The Mys­te­ri­ous Achmed Huber: Friend to Hitler, Allah and Ibn Ladin?” by Kevin Coogan; [orig­i­nally pub­lished in Hit List; April/May 2002]; p. 2.)

39. More about Huber’s rela­tion­ship with Fran­cois Genoud: “ . . . Dur­ing his many tribu­la­tions, Achmed Huber became acquainted with the neo-Nazi banker Fran­cois Genoud, whose path in life presents a sin­gu­lar sum­mary of the inter­con­nec­tions, the spe­cific alliances that have been tied and untied between Islam and the swastika. Pierre Pean, who thor­oughly stud­ied the par­al­lel lives of this enig­matic des­tiny, inter­viewed Achmed Huber at length. Huber explained to him that he is sym­pa­thetic to Fran­cois Genoud because ‘every­one jumps on him.’”
(Dol­lars for Ter­ror: The United States and Islam; by Richard Labeviere; Copy­right 2000 [SC]; Algora Pub­lish­ing; ISBN 1–892941-06–6; pp. 143–144)

40. Note Genoud’s wide­spread influ­ence in the Mus­lim world, includ­ing Iran and Asian Islamic nations. “Still refer­ring to the neo-Nazi banker, A.H. told Pean, ‘I never asked him any ques­tions, but I noted that, in cir­cles as dif­fer­ent as t

he Ger­man Right, the Islamic move­ments of Asia, the Pales­tini­ans, and in the Maghreb, peo­ple speak of him with great respect. Every­one told me: ‘he helped us.’ I have the impres­sion that he played an impor­tant though dis­creet role. . . .It was I who intro­duced him to the Ira­ni­ans. I said to them: ‘He is a friend, you can trust him.’ [Ital­ics are Mr. Emory’s.] Here, in Switzer­land, he was very active in oppos­ing the antiracist law inspired by the Zion­ists who wanted to crim­i­nal­ize ‘revi­sion­ism’. Genoud was with us. Offi­cially we lost, but by such a small mar­gin that the law is not applied.’” (Ibid.; p. 144.)

41. One of the high­lights of the pro­gram is the alle­ga­tion that Al Taqwa’s Youssef Nada helped key Axis spy Haj Amin Al-Husseini–the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem–escape from Ger­many at the end of World War II. “Another val­ued World War II Nazi col­lab­o­ra­tor was Youssef Nada, cur­rent board chair­man of al-Taqwa (Nada Man­age­ment), the Lugano, Switzer­land, Liecht­en­stein, and Bahamas-based finan­cial ser­vices out­fit accused by the US Trea­sury Depart­ment of money laun­der­ing for and financ­ing of Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda. As a young man, he had joined the armed branch of the secret appa­ra­tus’ (al-jihaz al-sirri) of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood and then was recruited by Ger­man mil­i­tary intel­li­gence. When Grand Mufti el-Husseini had to flee Ger­many in 1945 as the Nazi defeat loomed, Nada report­edly was instru­men­tal in arrang­ing the escape via Switzer­land back to Egypt and even­tu­ally Pales­tine, where el-Husseini resur­faced in 1946.)”
(“Islamism, Fas­cism and Ter­ror­ism (Part II)” by Marc Erik­son; Asia Times; 11/5/2002; p. 2.)

42. There is an old expres­sion that “a pic­ture is worth a thou­sand words.” In that con­text, check out the fol­low­ing pic­ture of a Pales­tin­ian Islamic Jihad rally from 4/15/2005. Pales­tin­ian Islamic Jihad is (along with Hamas) one of the splin­ter groups of the Islamic Asso­ci­a­tion of Palestine—the Brotherhood’s umbrella group for that part of the world. The PIJ is a branch of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood. In this photo, they are assum­ing a very “un-Islamic” pose.