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Intro­duc­tion: Much of Mr. Emory’s dis­cus­sion of 9/11 and related mat­ters has focused on the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood, an Islamic fas­cist orga­ni­za­tion that sup­ported the Axis in World War II. The par­ent orga­ni­za­tion of Al Qaeda and Hamas, the Brotherhood’s cor­po­ratist eco­nomic phi­los­o­phy has won approval in a grow­ing num­ber of West­ern busi­ness cir­cles. News of the Broth­er­hood is promi­nent in this broad­cast as well.

After pre­sent­ing Broth­er­hood asso­ciate Achmed Huber’s analy­sis of Sep­tem­ber 11, the pro­gram sets forth the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives’ vote to dis­con­tinue aid to Saudi Ara­bia because of its sup­port of ter­ror­ism. [The CIA reset­tled much of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood in Saudi Ara­bia after Egypt­ian pres­i­dent Nasser expelled the orga­ni­za­tion from the land of the Nile.]

The Bush admin­is­tra­tion is con­sid­er­ing a diplo­matic rap­proche­ment with the Broth­er­hood, viewed by some admin­is­tra­tion per­son­nel as a viable diplo­matic ally in the Mus­lim world. The char­ter of Hamas, a Broth­er­hood off­shoot, is more reveal­ing of the organization’s true char­ac­ter, draw­ing heav­ily on Nazi and fas­cist ide­o­log­i­cal themes. After review­ing some of [Saudi] Prince Bandar’s intrigue on behalf of West­ern intel­li­gence, the aero­space indus­try and the Saudi royal fam­ily, the pro­gram presents still more dis­cus­sion about the rela­tion­ship between Islamism, the nar­cotics trade, orga­nized crime and ele­ments of the intel­li­gence community.

Pro­gram High­lights Include: The employ­ment of alleged ter­ror­ist con­spir­a­tor Joseph Defre­itas with a sub­sidiary of CIA Air pro­pri­etary Ever­green Avi­a­tion; Hamas’ agree­ment to con­tinue a deal to allow a British cor­po­ra­tion to drill for nat­ural gas off of Gaza; the use of the hashish trade by Euro­pean Islamists to gen­er­ate funds for ter­ror­ism; review of a 2002 meet­ing of promi­nent Euro­pean fas­cists and Islamists.

1. Begin­ning with an Islamofascist’s analy­sis of 9/11, the pro­gram high­lights Al Taqwa’s Achmed Huber. Huber’s analy­sis of the attacks is sim­i­lar to Mr. Emory’s—that the attacks were launched by a milieu of domes­tic right-wingers, aided by for­eign and Amer­i­can Islam­o­fas­cists. The pur­pose, accord­ing to Huber, was to bring about a 1933-style upheaval like the one that brought Hitler to power. Huber presents Amer­ica as run by “Zion­ists” and “Jews.” It is Huber’s belief that events fol­low­ing the attacks—the inva­sion of Iraq in particular—will dis­il­lu­sion the Amer­i­can peo­ple with their “Zion­ist” gov­ern­ment. (For more about Huber, see—among other programs—FTR#’s 343, 352, 354, 371, 456.) Note that Huber’s analy­sis is remark­ably sim­i­lar to Mr. Emory’s work­ing hypoth­e­sis, which attrib­utes the attacks to an Under­ground Reich milieu con­sist­ing of domes­tic and for­eign neo-Nazis, domes­tic and for­eign Islamists, and ele­ments within the Bush admin­is­tra­tion. “I have my own idea about 11 Sep­tem­ber. Among Mus­lims it’s a very con­tro­ver­sial debate. Many Mus­lims still believe that the 11th of Sep­tem­ber was orga­nized by the CIA and the Mossad to bring closer together the rela­tion­ship between Israel and the United States, and to help make war in the Mid­dle East, and to put under Western-Jewish con­trol the most impor­tant geo-political zone on earth, which is the Mid­dle East. I believe that 11 Sep­tem­ber, but I have no proof, was orga­nized by Amer­i­can patri­ots, Mus­lims and non-Muslims together with the help of for­eign Mus­lims resid­ing in the United States.”
(The Enemy of My Enemy; by George Michael; Copy­right 2006 by the Uni­ver­sity Press of Kansas; ISBN 0–7006-1444–3; p. 236.)

2. Huber sets forth the types of peo­ple who attended at his lec­ture tours in the United States and who, in his opin­ion, were behind the 9/11 attacks. Note that he feels that peo­ple from the right-wing of the GOP were part of the 9/11 milieu. (For more about the GOP/Islamist/Al Taqawa con­nec­tion, see—among other programs—FTR#’s 454, 462, 464, 467, 515, 538.) “From 1988 to 1998, I was in Amer­ica every year, at Islamic con­fer­ences. I made big lec­ture tours through the United States and I always met three groups of peo­ple at these con­fer­ences. There were Amer­i­can right-wing peo­ple . . . peo­ple who were rather close to the extreme right of the Repub­li­can Party, or other inde­pen­dent right-wing groups. Then [the sec­ond group was] Mus­lims, young Amer­i­can Mus­lim patri­ots, who came from Mus­lim coun­tries. And then [the third group was] the Nation of Islam peo­ple. And these three groups . . . always told me two things. They said, ‘We must free Amer­i­can from Jewish-Zionist rule.’ And two, ‘Then we must change the for­eign pol­icy of the United States toward the national inter­ests of the Amer­i­can peo­ple. . . . We must end this Jewish-Zionist rule over Amer­ica.’ And when I asked, them, ‘How will you do it?’ they said, ‘Well, we have friends in very high places and there will be a big bang. It will hap­pen here to wake up the Amer­i­can peo­ple, you know, like Pearl Har­bor.’ Pearl Har­bor was orga­nized by Roo­sevelt and his Jew­ish [advis­ers] to pro­voke Japan to attack Amer­ica. Then Hitler would imme­di­ately declare war on Amer­ica. It was not Japan—they really wanted Amer­ica to go to war against Ger­many. . . . Then the way was open to make war against Ger­many. And this is what these peo­ple told me. Some­thing sim­i­lar will hap­pen here. They said, ‘You will hear a big bang.’” (Ibid.; pp. 236–237.)

3. “And then came the 11th of Sep­tem­ber, and my Egypt­ian wife said, ‘You see the Mossad and the CIA.’ And I believed it also. But then I got tele­phone calls from Amer­i­can friends, and they said, ‘See now they have done it.’ I said. What?’ and then they said to me, they have done it, and then the coin was dropped. I said, ‘This is coun­ter­pro­duc­tive. This 11 Sep­tem­ber will pro­voke a huge alliance of Amer­i­can and Israeli Zion­ism against Islam, against the Mus­lim world.’ And they told me, ‘Yes, it will be at the begin­ning, but then Amer­ica will get into dif­fi­cult days and after some time, the Amer­i­can peo­ple will wake up. When it is up to the nose in dif­fi­cult days—political, eco­nomic, war, and so on—they will ask who is respon­si­ble for this. And they will say it’s the Jews and the Zion­ists.’ One told me that around the begin­ning of Sep­tem­ber 2001, a tele­phone call, a very good friend of mine, told me, ‘You know Ahmed, then we will have 1933.’ And then of course, I knew. He said that the Amer­i­can peo­ple will wake up [as did] the Ger­man peo­ple [woke] up in 1933. For me, I still didn’t believe it. Now the more and more things go on, I see how Bush and all his experts, I mean Mr. Wol­fowitz, Mr. Perle, Mr. Kissinger, Mr. Fein­gold, I say maybe there is some­thing to what my friends in Amer­ica told me. It is pos­si­ble now that things will go in that direc­tion. You know. In the 1990’s, when I was in Amer­ica , we were talk­ing about how to change Jew­ish rule in Amer­ica. For me, a Swiss, it was fas­ci­nat­ing. One of these young per­sons said, ‘You know, we may have many sym­pa­thiz­ers in the Amer­i­can Army, and if nec­es­sary the Amer­i­can Army will make a coup d’etat against the Zionist-American regime in Wash­ing­ton.’” (Ibid.; p. 237.)

4. Next, the pro­gram revis­its a point of infor­ma­tion dis­cussed in—among other programs—FTR#’s 378, 456, 535. In the spring of 2002, as the prepa­ra­tions for the Iraq war were under­way, Al Taqwa direc­tor Achmed Huber net­worked with other Amer­i­can and Euro­pean fas­cists and far right­ists, includ­ing Gian­franco Fini, head of the Ital­ian Alleanza Nationale. Might the meet­ing have had some­thing to do with Iraq? Had the “Atlanti­cist” ori­en­ta­tion of the P-2 milieu been super­seded by an anti-U.S./Third Posi­tion ori­en­ta­tion in the Ital­ian fas­cist milieu? Did this meet­ing have any­thing to do with the feed­ing of false intel­li­gence to the US in order to lure the coun­try into a drain­ing, expen­sive and (ulti­mately) fatal war with the Mus­lim pop­u­la­tion of the “Earth Island”? Was this meet­ing in keep­ing with the per­cep­tion dis­cussed by Huber in the quote above? Note in this regard, that Fini is cur­rently the Ital­ian for­eign min­is­ter. Is it pos­si­ble that the man (Fini) who char­ac­ter­ized Mus­solini as “the great­est states­man of the 20th cen­tury” has not changed his stripes? Is it pos­si­ble that he was con­fer­ring with the other Euro­pean fas­cist lead­ers in order to help lure the US into a trap in Iraq, with the results dis­cussed with his far-right Amer­i­can friends? (For more about the P-2 milieu, the Sismi Ital­ian intel­li­gence ser­vice and the maneu­ver­ing around events in the Mid­dle East, see—among other programs—FTR#’s 535, 592, 595, 600.) “Per­haps the most recent remark­able story con­cern­ing Huber comes from a brief item in the Swiss tabloid Blick that in an April 26, 2002 arti­cle by Alexan­der Saut­ter that Huber was involved in a meet­ing of far-right lead­ers from Europe. A photo show­ing Huber with Jean Marie Le Pen accom­pa­nies the arti­cle. The Blick story (avail­able on the web) is as fol­lows: ‘Mon Pelerin VD: Chris­t­ian Cam­buzat, the pro­moter (Scharf­macher) of the right extrem­ist Jean-Marie Le Pen (73): The guru assem­bles together some of the top lead­ers of the Euro­pean right. On the idyl­lic Mont Pelerin, they debate their crude ideas. At his secret visit to a spa in Switzer­land, Le Pen hardly remained alone. Right­ist lead­ers from all over Europe trav­eled to meet the extrem­ist pres­i­den­tial can­di­date who was hosted by Cam­buzat. Franz Schon­hu­ber (79). Founder of the Repub­li­can Party in Ger­many and a for­mer mem­ber of the SS. He talked with Le Pen who con­sti­tutes together with Schon­hu­ber the ‘Front National’ Fac­tion in the Euro­pean par­lia­ment. Gian­franco Fini (50). Ital­ian post-fascist, Mus­solini admirer, and founder of the Alleanze Nationale. He also was at the meet­ing with Le Pen and Schon­hu­ber. Ahmed Huber (74). The Swiss is on the Bush Admin­is­tra­tion black­list . . . ‘I met le Pen at Mont Pelerin as he went to Chris­t­ian Cambuzat’s spa,’ Huber told Blick yes­ter­day. At the extrem­ist ren­dezvous an Amer­i­can far right politi­cian was also sup­posed to have taken part. [Note: the Amer­i­can is not fur­ther identified.—KC] Chris­t­ian Cam­buzat said that Le Pen (after the elec­tion) had again become the sharpest weapon of the ‘Front National’ because Le Pen changed his image from a ven­omous old man to a ‘kindly U.S. TV evan­ge­list.’ Proudly Cam­buzat brags, ‘With me Le Pen can relax well’ [from his polit­i­cal endeavors—KC]. And openly link up with new con­tacts. [Although the Blick story does not give details, Cam­buzat runs a spa for the very rich, the Lemanique de Revi­tal­i­sa­tion, inside a hotel on the famous Mont Pelerin.]’”
(“Report on Islamists, The Far Right, and Al Taqwa” by Kevin Coogan; pp. 14–15.)

5. In a num­ber of past broad­casts, we have dis­cussed the fact that mem­bers of the bin Laden fam­ily were allowed to leave the U.S. after 9/11 with­out being prop­erly inter­ro­gated. Some of them appear to have been involved with terrorist-related activ­i­ties. (For more about this flight, see—among other programs—FTR#’s 423, 460, 467.) This pro­gram dis­closes that the bin Laden fam­ily flight may have been char­tered by Osama bin Laden him­self! “Osama bin Laden may have char­tered a plane that car­ried his fam­ily mem­bers and Saudi nation­als out of the United States after the Sep­tem­ber 11, 2001 attacks, said FBI doc­u­ments released Wednes­day. The papers, obtained through the Free­dom of Infor­ma­tion Act, were made pub­lic by Judi­cial Watch, a Washington-based group that inves­ti­gates gov­ern­ment cor­rup­tion. One FBI doc­u­ment referred to a Ryan Air 727 air­plane that departed Los Ange­les Inter­na­tional Air­port on Sep­tem­ber 19, 2001, and was said to have car­ried Saudi nation­als out of the United States. ‘The plane was char­tered either by the Saudi Ara­bian royal fam­ily or Osama bin Laden,’ accord­ing to the doc­u­ment, which was among 224 pages posted online. The flight made stops in Orlando, Florida; Wash­ing­ton, DC; and Boston, Mass­a­chu­setts and even­tu­ally left its pas­sen­gers in Paris the fol­low­ing day. In all, the doc­u­ments detail six flights between Sep­tem­ber 14 and Sep­tem­ber 24 that evac­u­ated Saudi nation­als and bin Laden fam­ily mem­bers, Judi­cial Watch said in a state­ment. ‘Incred­i­bly, not a sin­gle Saudi national nor any of the bin Laden fam­ily mem­bers pos­sessed any infor­ma­tion of inves­tiga­tive value,’ Judi­cial Watch said. ‘These doc­u­ments con­tain numer­ous errors and incon­sis­ten­cies which call to ques­tion the thor­ough­ness of the FBI’s inves­ti­ga­tion of the Saudi flights. . . . Mered­ith Dilib­erto, an attor­ney with Judi­cial Watch, said that her group had seen a first ver­sion of the doc­u­ments in 2005, although the FBI had heav­ily redacted the texts to black out names, includ­ing all ref­er­ences to bin Laden. Nev­er­the­less, unedited foot­notes in the texts allowed lawyers to deter­mine that bin Laden’s name had been redacted. They pressed the issue in court and in Novem­ber 2006, the FBI was ordered to re-release the doc­u­ments. Dilib­erto said men­tion that ‘either’ bin Laden or Saudi roy­als had char­tered the flight ‘really threw us for a loop.’ ‘When you com­bine that with some of the fam­ily mem­bers not being inter­viewed, we found it very dis­turb­ing.’”
(“Bin Laden May Have Arranged Family’s US Exit: FBI Docs” [Agence France-Presse]; Yahoo.com; 7/20/2007.)

6. With a Demo­c­ra­tic con­gress in power, the cul­pa­bil­ity of the Saudis with inter­na­tional ter­ror­ism has not gone com­pletely unan­swered. Although it faces the threat of a veto by Pres­i­dent Bush, the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives voted to cut off aid to Saudi Ara­bia, because of that country’s vio­la­tions of human rights and their sup­port for ter­ror­ism. “The U.S. House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives voted on Fri­day to pro­hibit any aid to Saudi Ara­bia as law­mak­ers accused the close ally of reli­gious intol­er­ance and bankrolling ter­ror­ist orga­ni­za­tions. The pro­hi­bi­tion, reflect­ing per­sis­tent ten­sions with the king­dom after the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States in 2001, was attached to a for­eign aid fund­ing bill for next year that has not yet been debated by the Sen­ate. . . .”
(“House Votes to Ban Aid to Saudi Ara­bia” by Richard Cowan; Reuters; 6/22/2007.)

7. The Islamist links to the GOP may be bear­ing fruit. [For more about this link, see the pro­grams noted in para­graph #2.] The Bush admin­is­tra­tion is con­sid­er­ing the for­ma­tion of a work­ing rela­tion­ship with the Islam­o­fas­cist Mus­lim Broth­er­hood. (For more about the Broth­er­hood, see—among other programs—FTR#’s 343, 455, 473, 514, 537. For more about the Brotherhood’s eco­nomic agenda, see—among other programs—FTR#’s 560, 561) “The Bush admin­is­tra­tion is qui­etly weigh­ing the prospect of reach­ing out to the party that founded mod­ern polit­i­cal Islam, the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood. Still in its early stages and below the radar, the cur­rent Amer­i­can delib­er­a­tions and diplo­macy with the orga­ni­za­tion, known in Ara­bic as Ikhwan, take on new sig­nif­i­cance in light of Hamas’s suc­cess­ful coup in Gaza last week. The Egypt­ian Mus­lim Broth­er­hood is widely reported to have helped cre­ate Hamas in 1982. . . .”
(“Bush Weighs Reach­ing Out to ‘Broth­ers’” by Eli Lake; New York Sun; 6/20/2007.)

8. By way of illus­trat­ing the fas­cist nature of the Broth­er­hood, con­sider the char­ter of Hamas, a Broth­er­hood off­shoot. The anti-Semitism expressed here has def­i­nite Euro­pean fas­cist over­tone. Note the ref­er­ences to the Jews being behind all wars and rev­o­lu­tions, con­trol­ling finance and media and the ref­er­ences to “Jew­ish con­trol” or gen­e­sis of the Freema­sons, the Rotary Club, etc. This is straight Nazi/fascist ide­ol­ogy. Note also the ref­er­ences to the Pro­to­cols of the Elders of Zion. “ . . . For our strug­gle against the Jews is extremely wide-ranging and grave, so much so that it will need all the loyal efforts we can wield, to be fol­lowed by fur­ther steps and rein­forced by suc­ces­sive bat­tal­ions from the mul­ti­far­i­ous Arab and Islamic world, until the ene­mies are defeated and Allah’s vic­tory pre­vails. …The prophet, prayer and peace be upon him, said: The time will not come until Mus­lims will fight the Jews (and kill them); until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Mus­lim! There is a Jew hid­ing behind me, come on and kill him!”
(“The Hamas, MI6, BBC Axis” by Melanie Phillips; Melanie Phillips’ Diary; 6/18/2007.)

9. “The ene­mies have been schem­ing for a long time, and they have con­sol­i­dated their schemes, in order to achieve what they have achieved. They took advan­tage of key ele­ments in unfold­ing events, and accu­mu­lated a huge and influ­en­tial mate­r­ial wealth which they put to the ser­vice of imple­ment­ing their dream. This wealth [per­mit­ted them to] take over con­trol of the world media such as news agen­cies, the press, pub­li­ca­tion houses, broad­cast­ing and the like. [They also used this] wealth to stir rev­o­lu­tions in var­i­ous parts of the globe in order to ful­fill their inter­ests and pick the fruits. They stood behind the French and the Com­mu­nist Rev­o­lu­tions and behind most of the rev­o­lu­tions we hear about here and there.” (Idem.)

10. “They also used the money to estab­lish clan­des­tine orga­ni­za­tions which are spread­ing around the world, in order to destroy soci­eties and carry out Zion­ist inter­ests. Such orga­ni­za­tions are: the Freema­sons, Rotary Clubs, Lions Clubs, B’nai B’rith and the like. All of them are destruc­tive spy­ing orga­ni­za­tions. They also used the money to take over con­trol of the Impe­ri­al­ist states and made them col­o­nize many coun­tries in order to exploit the wealth of those coun­tries and spread their cor­rup­tion therein. As regards local and world wars, it has come to pass and no one objects, that they stood behind World War I, so as to wipe out the Islamic Caliphate. They col­lected mate­r­ial gains and took con­trol of many sources of wealth. They obtained the Bal­four Dec­la­ra­tion and estab­lished the League of Nations in order to rule the world by means of that orga­ni­za­tion. They also stood behind World War II, where they col­lected immense ben­e­fits from trad­ing with war mate­ri­als and pre­pared for the estab­lish­ment of their state. They inspired the estab­lish­ment of the United Nations and the Secu­rity Coun­cil to replace the League of Nations, in order to rule the world by their inter­me­di­ary. There was no war that broke out any­where with­out their fin­ger­prints on it…Their scheme has been laid out in the Pro­to­cols of the Elders of Zion, and their present [con­duct] is the best proof of what is said there… Within the cir­cle of the con­flict with world Zion­ism, the Hamas regards itself the spear­head and the avant-garde. It joins its efforts to all those who are active on the Pales­tin­ian scene, but more steps need to be taken by the Arab and Islamic peo­ples and Islamic asso­ci­a­tions through­out the Arab and Islamic world in order to make pos­si­ble the next round with the Jews, the mer­chants of war. . . .” (Idem.)

11. Next, the broad­cast revi­sists the web of cor­rup­tion and scan­dal sur­round­ing Saudi Prince Ban­dar, a for­mer Ambas­sador to the United States so close to the Bush fam­ily that he is some­times referred to as “Ban­dar Bush.” A recent British aero­space scan­dal involv­ing the alleged place­ment of bil­lions of dol­lars in bribes to Ban­dar has refo­cused jour­nal­is­tic atten­tion on the Prince and his shenani­gans. If Ban­dar and his accounts at Riggs Bank were to be fully inves­ti­gated, many cans of worms would be revealed. Ban­dar had long used the bank to pro­vide finances for Saudi-assisted US covert oper­a­tions. In addi­tion, Bandar’s wife was pro­vid­ing finan­cial sup­port to the fam­i­lies of the two of the 9/11 hijack­ers. (For more about Riggs, Ban­dar and the scan­dals in which they have been involved, check out—among other programs—FTR#’s 431, 442, 461, 517. Read more on the Bandar-Riggs rela­tion­ship.) “Hun­dreds of pages of con­fi­den­tial U.S. bank records may be the miss­ing link in illu­mi­nat­ing new alle­ga­tions that a major British arms con­trac­tor fun­neled up to $2 bil­lion in ques­tion­able pay­ments to Saudi Prince Ban­dar bin Sul­tan. The BBC and Guardian news­pa­per reported last week that BAE Sys­tems made “secret” pay­ments to a Wash­ing­ton, D.C., bank account con­trolled by Ban­dar, the long­time Saudi ambas­sador to the United States who is now the kingdom’s national-security adviser. The pay­ments are alleged to be part of an $80 bil­lion military-aircraft deal between Lon­don and Riyadh. Last week British Prime Min­is­ter Tony Blair acknowl­edged that his gov­ern­ment shut down an inves­ti­ga­tion into the pay­ments, in part because it could have led to the “com­plete wreck­age” of Britain’s “vital strate­gic rela­tion­ship” with Saudi Ara­bia. Before the U.K. closed the inquiry, British inves­ti­ga­tors con­tacted the U.S. Jus­tice Depart­ment seek­ing access to records related to the Saudi bank accounts. Many of these records were first obtained by NEWSWEEK in 2004. At the time, the mag­a­zine reported that fed­eral reg­u­la­tors had been alerted to mil­lions of dol­lars in ‘sus­pi­cious’ activ­i­ties in Saudi accounts at the now-defunct Riggs Bank. . . .”
(“Ban­dar and the $2 Bil­lion Ques­tion” by Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosen­ball with Emily Flynn Ven­cat in Lon­don; Newsweek; 6/18/2007.)

12. In Mr. Emory’s many vis­its with Daniel Hop­sicker, we have exam­ined the con­nec­tions between Islamist ter­ror and orga­nized crime activ­i­ties. Appar­ently, hashish traf­fick­ing can be added to the crim­i­nal activ­i­ties used to gen­er­ate funds for Islamist ter­ror­ists. “Cannabis smok­ers are unwit­tingly fund­ing Islamist extrem­ists linked to ter­ror attacks in Spain, Morocco and Alge­ria, accord­ing to a joint inves­ti­ga­tion by the Span­ish and French secret ser­vices. The find­ing will be seized on both by cam­paign­ers for a harsher clam­p­down on cannabis and by those who argue that legal­iza­tion is the only way to end a petty deal­ing trend that is drag­ging grow­ing num­bers of teenagers into crime. The inves­ti­ga­tion by the Cen­tro Nacional de Inteligen­cia and the Ren­seigne­ments Gen­er­aux was launched after Span­ish police found that the Islamists behind the March 2004 bomb­ings in Madrid bought their explo­sives from for­mer min­ers in return for blocks of hashish. The bomb­ings claimed 191 lives. . . .”
(“Cannabis cash ‘Funds Islamist Ter­ror­ism’” by Alex Duval Smith in Paris; 5/13/2007; The Observer.)

13. In our vis­its with Daniel Hop­sicker, we have seen how some of the 9/11 hijack­ers infil­trated into the United States through the intel­li­gence community’s con­trolled drug-smuggling net­works. (For more about this, see—among other programs—FTR#’s 482, 483, 484.) The most famous of the CIA drug air­lines was Air Amer­ica. It was suc­ceeded by, among other enti­ties, Ever­green Air. “In the end, Ocean­side fin­ished sec­ond in the bid­ding, beaten by Ever­green Inter­na­tional Avi­a­tion Inc. ‘The issue turned into a moot point,’ Rodee recalled, ‘as Delford Smith of Ever­green Air­lines – the CIA’s (con­tract) air­line that replaced Air Amer­ica of the Viet­nam era – worked an insider deal with the Aero Club of SoCal (the Goose’s owner) and came out as the first choice on their list.’ Not sur­pris­ingly, McMin­nville, Ore., Evergreen’s head­quar­ters in the wine coun­try 35 miles south­west of Port­land, wel­comed the Goose with open arms. . . .”
(“Ocean­side, Spruce Goose (and the CIA?) by Logan Jenk­ins; San Diego Union Tri­bune; 12/02/2004.)

14. Ever­green was the employer of Joseph Defre­itas, a sus­pect in an alleged plot to wreak havoc in New York City by blow­ing up jet fuel lines from Kennedy air­port. “Defre­itas was hired by a cargo trans­porta­tion com­pany at Kennedy Air­port, Watts said. Doc­u­ments show he was employed as a “trainee super­vi­sor” in 2001 with Ever­green Eagle, a sub­sidiary of Oregon-based Ever­green Inter­na­tional Avi­a­tion. Offi­cials there declined to com­ment. . . .”
(“Pro­file of Defre­itas: Suspect’s roots never took hold here” by Alfonso A. Castillo; News­day; 6/4/2007.)

15. The “cor­po­ratist” eco­nomic phi­los­o­phy of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood may well have been passed on to its off­spring Hamas. “The Islamist group Hamas said it will not hin­der plans to drill for nat­ural gas off the shores of the Gaza Strip after it took con­trol of the coastal ter­ri­tory a week ago, a Hamas offi­cial said on Fri­day. Sami Abu Zuhri, a senior Hamas offi­cial, said the group would not block an agree­ment between British gas pro­ducer BG Group Plc and the Pales­tin­ian Author­ity to drill for reserves dis­cov­ered off Gaza’a coast in 2000. . . .”
(“Hamas says it will not block Gaza nat­ural gas deal” [Reuters]; Reuters; 6/22/2007.)

16. In the con­clud­ing pas­sage of the pro­gram, Mr. Emory returned to The Enemy of My Enemy, read­ing about the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood and Mus­lim Arab sup­port for the Axis in World War II. “ . . . The gen­e­sis of coop­er­a­tion between mil­i­tant Islam and the extreme right can be traced back to the early years of the Third Reich. Dur­ing World War II, much of the Islamic world sym­pa­thized with the Axis alliance. Mem­bers of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood would often say prayers for an Axis vic­tory dur­ing their meet­ings. More­over, some Mus­lims went so far as to fan­ta­size over puta­tive Islamic affini­ties of fas­cist lead­ers. For exam­ple, rumors abounded that Ben­ito Mus­solini was an Egypt­ian Mus­lim whose real name was Musa Nili (Moses of the Nile) and that Adolf Hitler too had secretly con­verted to Islam and bore the name Hay­der, or ‘the brave one.’ . . .”
(The Enemy of My Enemy; p. 112.)

17. Two video pro­duc­tions are being gen­er­ated by a cou­ple of doc­u­men­tary film­mak­ers. One is a DVD of a three-lecture series called “The First Refuge of a Scoundrel: The Rela­tion­ship Between Fas­cism and Reli­gion.” To learn more about this, visit The Anti-Fascist YouTube.com page. In addi­tion, there will soon be a doc­u­men­tary about Mr. Emory, titled “The Anti-Fascist.” For more about this project, visit theantifascist.com.