Recorded May 18, 2008
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Begin­ning with dis­cus­sion of the Nazi ori­gins of 9/11, the pro­gram high­lights Hitler’s plan for the “Amerikabomber”—a giant air­craft designed to carry smaller kamikaze-style planes, which were designed to crash into New York sky­scrap­ers. Turn­ing to the sub­ject of Iran’s nuclear weapons pro­gram, the broad­cast notes that China—a for­mer ally of Iran—has dis­closed to the United Nations that Iran is indeed work­ing to develop nuclear weapons. As dis­turb­ing as the notion of a nuclear Iran is, it is no more dis­turb­ing than George Bush’s agree­ment to trans­fer “peace­ful” nuclear tech­nol­ogy to Saudi Ara­bia, a coun­try that con­tin­ues to be the lead­ing fun­der of ter­ror­ist causes accord­ing to recent con­gres­sional tes­ti­mony. After dis­cussing the hunger strike of Sami Al-Arian, the fig­ure whose activ­i­ties trig­gered the largest terror-funding inves­ti­ga­tion in U.S. his­tory, the pro­gram notes that Al-Arian’s milieu has been tapped by both the FBI and the CIA for the recruit­ing of agents. Next, the pro­gram notes that the Mus­lim bloc in the United Nations is attempt­ing to squelch crit­i­cism of Islam, such as the car­toons pub­lished by a Dan­ish news­pa­per in 2006. Such gam­bits will ulti­mately be made more suc­cess­ful by the tremen­dous and grow­ing clout of the oil-producing Mus­lim nations, whose wealth will trans­late into greater polit­i­cal influ­ence in the West. The con­clu­sion of the pro­gram doc­u­ments the grow­ing Naz­i­fi­ca­tion of much of the Arab and Mus­lim world.

Pro­gram High­lights Include: Abu Dhabi’s pur­chase of a stake in Amer­i­can Micro Devices; the teach­ing of Holo­caust denial in the Pales­tin­ian ter­ri­to­ries; the pop­u­lar­ity of Hitler’s Mein Kampf in the Pales­tin­ian ter­ri­to­ries; Holo­caust denial in offi­cial Egypt­ian gov­ern­ment pub­li­ca­tions; the Nazi-style ide­ol­ogy of 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta.

1. Begin­ning with dis­cus­sion of the Nazi ori­gins of 9/11, the pro­gram high­lights Hitler’s plan for the “Amerikabomber”—a giant air­craft designed to carry smaller kamikaze-style planes, which were designed to crash into New York sky­scrap­ers. (For more about Nazi and fas­cist con­nec­tions to 9/11, see—among other programs—FTR#456.) ” The idea of using sui­cide pilots to oblit­er­ate the sky­scrap­ers of Man­hat­tan orig­i­nated in Berlin. ‘In the lat­ter stages of the war, I never saw Hitler so beside him­self as when, as if in a delir­ium, he was pic­tur­ing to him­self and to us the down­fall of New York in tow­ers of flame,’ wrote archi­tect Albert Speer in his diary. ‘He [Hitler] described the sky­scrap­ers turn­ing into huge burn­ing torches and falling hither and thither, and the reflec­tion of the dis­in­te­grat­ing city in the dark sky.’ Not only Hitler’s fan­tasy but also his plan for real­iz­ing it recall what hap­pened in 2001: the idea was for Kamikaze pilots to fly explo­sive –crammed light air­craft lack­ing land­ing gear into the Man­hat­tan sky­scrap­ers. The draw­ings for the Daimler-Benz ‘Amerik­abomber’ actu­ally exist. They show giant four-engine planes with raised under­bel­lies beneath which small bombers could be strapped. The bombers were to be released shortly before the plane reached the East Coast, after which the mother plane would return to Europe. . . .“
(Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11; Matthias Kuntzel; Telos Press Pub­lish­ing [HC]; Copy­right 2007 Telos Press Pub­lish­ing; ISBN 10: 0–914386-36–0; pp. XIX-XXI.)

2. Turn­ing to the sub­ject of Iran’s nuclear weapons pro­gram, the broad­cast notes that China—a for­mer ally of Iran—has dis­closed to the United Nations that Iran is indeed work­ing to develop nuclear weapons. (For more about con­tra­dic­tion of the National Intel­li­gence Estimate’s report that Iran had aban­doned its nuclear weapons pro­gram, see FTR#‘s 625, 632.) “China has betrayed one its clos­est allies by pro­vid­ing the United Nations with intel­li­gence on Iran’s efforts to acquire nuclear tech­nol­ogy, diplo­mats have revealed. Con­cern over Tehran’s secre­tive research pro­gram has increased in recent weeks after offi­cials at the Inter­na­tional Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN’s nuclear watch­dog, dis­cov­ered that Iran had obtained infor­ma­tion on how to man­u­fac­ture nuclear-armed weapons. . . .“
(“China Reveals Iran’s Nuclear Secrets to UN” by Damien McEl­roy; Daily Tele­graph [UK]; 4/4/08.)

3. Another dis­turb­ing devel­op­ment is Bush’s agree­ment to trans­fer “peace­ful” nuclear tech­nol­ogy to Saudi Ara­bia. “The two coun­tries used the occa­sion of Bush’s visit to sign new agree­ments. Among them was an agree­ment for the U.S. to assist the king­dom in devel­op­ing civil­ian nuclear power. Another involves U.S. promises to help pro­tect any Saudi nuclear infra­struc­ture with train­ing, the exchange of experts ‘and other sup­port ser­vices as needed.’ Hadley said it would not involve U.S. troops. . . .“
(“Bush Fails to Win Saudi Help on Gas Prices” by Ter­ence Hunt; Asso­ci­ated Press; Yahoo News.)

4. Bush’s agree­ment with the Saudis on nuclear mat­ters comes despite the fact that Saudi Ara­bia con­tin­ues to be the pri­mary source of ter­ror funds. “Saudi Ara­bia remains the world’s lead­ing source of money for Al Qaeda and other extrem­ist net­works and has failed to take key steps requested by U.S. offi­cials to stem the flow, the Bush administration’s top finan­cial counter-terrorism offi­cial said Tues­day. Stu­art A. Levey, a Trea­sury under­sec­re­tary, told a Sen­ate com­mit­tee that the Saudi gov­ern­ment had not taken impor­tant steps to go after those who finance ter­ror­ist orga­ni­za­tions or to pre­vent wealthy donors from bankrolling extrem­ism through char­i­ta­ble con­tri­bu­tions, some­times unwit­tingly.’ Saudi Ara­bia today remains the loca­tion where more money is going to ter­ror­ism, to Sunni ter­ror groups and to the Tal­iban than any other place in the world,’ Levey said under ques­tion­ing. . . .“
(“Saudi Ara­bia is Prime Source of Ter­ror Funds, U.S. Says” by Josh Meyer; Los Ange­les Times; 4/2/2008.)

5. One of the major inves­ti­ga­tions into Saudi ter­ror fund­ing cul­mi­nated in the Oper­a­tion Green Quest raid of 3/20/2002, ini­ti­ated by the inves­ti­ga­tion into Pales­tin­ian ter­ror­ist Sami Al-Arian. Sami is on a hunger strike. (For more about Oper­a­tion Green Quest, see—among other programs—FTR#‘s 462, 464. For more about Sami Al-Arian, see—among other programs—FTR#538.) “Sami Al-Arian, the for­mer Uni­ver­sity of South Florida pro­fes­sor who remained in a Vir­ginia prison on con­tempt of court charges despite his acquit­tal on seri­ous ter­ror­ist charges, has lost 32 pounds in a month-long hunger strike, accord­ing to an Islamic group’s exec­u­tive direc­tor who vis­ited Al-Arian on Mon­day. Al-Arian is on his sec­ond hunger strike to protest his deten­tion. His fam­ily last year moved to Egypt and he is expected to be deported as soon as he is released from prison. But his refusal to tes­tify before a fed­eral grand jury is delay­ing his release. . . .“
(“Al-Arian Gets Vis­i­tors Dur­ing Hunger Strike” by Keith Morelli; Tampa Tri­bune; 3/31/08.)

6. Al-Arian’s milieu con­tin­ues to be viewed with sur­pris­ing favor by the FBI and CIA. (For more about the pro-Islamist Fifth Col­umn in the U.S., see—among other pro­grams– FTR#‘s 356, 454, 462, 464, 467, 515, 569, 632.) “In a fright­en­ing and bizarre turn, the two chief agen­cies tapped with safe­guard­ing America’s national secu­rity have started adver­tis­ing in a pub­li­ca­tion that can only be described as objec­tively pro-terrorism. The online edi­tion of the Wash­ing­ton Report for Mid­dle East Affairs (WRMEA), a pub­li­ca­tion linked to for­mer Con­gress­man Paul Find­ley, who once described him­self as ‘Yasir Arafat’s best friend in Con­gress,’ fea­tures recruit­ing adver­tise­ments seek­ing new agents for both the Fed­eral Bureau of Inves­ti­ga­tion and the Cen­tral Intel­li­gence Agency. WRMEA’s his­tory of sup­port for Hamas, other ter­ror­ist groups and indi­vid­ual ter­ror­ists is well known. Cur­rently on the front page of its web­site, right in the cen­ter, is an homage, con­sti­tut­ing of a col­lec­tion of arti­cles and hagiogra­phies, to con­victed Pales­tin­ian Islamic Jihad oper­a­tive Sami Al-Arian. . . .“
(“Look­ing Under a Rock: FBI and CIA Hit New Low in Recruit­ment Drive” by Steven Emer­son; Inves­tiga­tive Project; 2/8/2008.)

7. With the acqui­es­cence of a sur­pris­ingly large por­tion of the West­ern world, the Mus­lim bloc in the United Nations is restrict­ing the right of free speech. (For more about the con­tro­versy that sparked this gam­bit by the Mus­lim U.N. bloc, see FTR#543.)“Arab and Mus­lim coun­tries defended Tues­day a res­o­lu­tion they pushed through at the United Nations to have the body’s expert on free speech police indi­vid­u­als and news media for neg­a­tive com­ments on Islam. The United States, Canada and some Euro­pean coun­tries crit­i­cized the role rever­sal for Kenyan legal expert Ambeyi Lig­abo, who has reported to the global body on mea­sures by dic­ta­tor­ships and repres­sive gov­ern­ments to restrict free speech. The U.S. and other West­ern nations warned that the Muslim-backed res­o­lu­tion at the U.N. Human Rights Coun­cil could cur­tail free­dom of expres­sion and help dic­ta­to­r­ial regimes block dis­sent­ing views. . . .“
(“Arabs, Mus­lims Bat­tle US, Euro­peans over Free Speech at UN” [AP]; The Inter­na­tional Her­ald Tri­bune; 4/1/08.)

8. The accel­er­at­ing price of oil—greatly aided by the war and threat of war in the Mid­dle East—is enabling the pur­chase of equity in sen­si­tive com­pa­nies in the West. (For more about the war­fare in the Mid­dle East and its effect on global eco­nom­ics, see FTR#‘s 560, 561.) “With oil prices surg­ing and U.S. stock prices slump­ing, chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc.‘s sale of an 8.1 per­cent stake to the Abu Dhabi government’s invest­ment arm rep­re­sents the lat­est plunge by a wealthy Mid­dle East­ern nation into a trou­bled U.S. cor­po­ra­tion. It also raises fresh ques­tions about the appro­pri­ate­ness of Mid­dle East­ern firms own­ing large chunks of U.S. busi­nesses that spe­cial­ize in advanced tech­nolo­gies. . . .“
(“Abu Dhabi Buys Stake in Sunnyvale-Based AMD” [AP]; Asso­ci­ated Press; 11/16/07.)

9. The rest of the pro­gram high­lights the Naz­i­fi­ca­tion of the Arab and Mus­lim worlds. A 2002 edi­to­r­ial in the sec­ond largest [and government-controlled] news­pa­per was sup­port­ive of Hitler and the Holo­caust. ” . . . ‘With regard to this Holo­caust swin­dle, many French stud­ies have shown that this is noth­ing more than a fab­ri­ca­tion, a lie and a fraud,’ declared, for exam­ple, the Cairo colum­nist Fatma Abdul­lah Mah­moud on April 29, 2002. He con­tin­ued, ‘But, I, per­son­ally, com­plain to Hitler, even say­ing to him from the bot­tom of my heart, ‘If only you had done it, brother, if only it had really hap­pened, so that the world could sigh in relief with­out their evil and sin.’ This heart­felt wish to see all the Jews at last anni­hi­lated was pub­lished in the country’s sec­ond largest daily, the [Egypt­ian] Government-controlled Al-Akhbar.” (Jihad and Jew Hatred; p. 61.)

10. Islamist the­o­reti­cian Sayyid Qutb saw Hitler as a divine instru­ment, sent by Allah to pun­ish the Jews. Qutb is the sin­gle great­est ide­o­log­i­cal influ­ence on Osama bin Laden and the major­ity of the world’s jihadists.” . . . In Qutb’s eyes, the Jews are to blame for every­thing they have suf­fered over the cen­turies, and this applies to Hitler and the Shoah too. Thus, in the mod­ern period, ‘the Jews again returned to evil-doing and con­se­quently Allah . . . brought Hitler to rule over them.’ But even the ‘pun­ish­ment’ meted out by Hitler was not suf­fi­ciently ter­ri­ble, since ‘once again today the Jews have returned to evil-doing, in the form of ‘Israel’ . . . So let Allah bring down upon the Jew­ish peo­ple . . . the worst kind of pun­ish­ment.’ Qutb’s mes­sage is inter­nally con­sis­tent: the Jew is the source of evil in the world, the Shoah is there­fore no crime and Israel deserves to be erased from the map. . . .” (Ibid.; p. 84.)

11. At Gaza’s Islamic Uni­ver­sity, fac­ulty mem­bers engage in Holo­caust denial. ” . . . To this day, it seems vir­tu­ally impos­si­ble to grad­u­ate from Gaza’s Islamic Uni­ver­sity with­out becom­ing an anti-Semite. ‘Lies have been revealed about mur­dered Jews and the Holo­caust.’ Declared Dr. Issam Sissalem, a his­tory pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­sity, in a broad­cast on a Pales­tin­ian Author­ity tele­vi­sion chan­nel in Novem­ber 2000. ‘Of course, all this is lies and unjus­ti­fied asser­tions. No Chelmno, no Dachau, no Auschwitz! This was about dis­in­fec­tion facil­i­ties.’ ” (Ibid.; p. 105.)

12. The influ­en­tial head of Cairo’s Al-Azhar Uni­ver­sity admires Hitler: ” . . . How unre­mark­able it is even today for Hitler-style anti-Semitism to imbue an Egypt­ian reli­gious text­book is demon­strated by the stan­dard text, ‘The peo­ple of Israel in the Koran and Sunna’ by Sheikh Muham­mad Sayed Tantawi. Tantawi is the Head of Cairo’s Al-Azhar Uni­ver­sity, which means he is one of Sunni Islam’s most renowned spir­i­tual author­i­ties. The fourth edi­tion of his book—it was also his PhD the­sis, writ­ten in 1967—appeared in 1997. In it, Tantawi writes that the Jews were behind the French and Octo­ber [Bol­she­vik] Rev­o­lu­tions. That they pro­voked the First and Sec­ond World Wars. That they con­trol the world’s media and econ­omy. That they endeavor to destroy moral­ity and reli­gion and run broth­els world­wide. Tantawi, the high­est Sunni Mus­lim the­olo­gian, quotes Adolf Hitler’s remark in Mein Kampf that ‘in resist­ing the Jew, I am doing the work of the Lord.’” (Ibid.; pp. 94–95.)

13. Holo­caust denial is rife in the Pales­tin­ian com­mu­nity, in which it is deemed unac­cept­able to teach about the Holo­caust. On the other hand, the Pales­tin­ian Author­ity has sanc­tioned the pub­li­ca­tion of Mein Kampf. In this con­text bear in mind that the Pales­tin­ian Author­ity con­sti­tutes the mod­er­ate ele­ment of the Pales­tini­ans. ” . . . The Chair­man of the Pales­tin­ian Parliament’s Edu­ca­tion Com­mit­tee declared that, ‘we have no inter­est in teach­ing the Holo­caust.’ His par­lia­men­tary col­league and Fatah leader , Hatem Abd al-Qadar, added that teach­ing about the Holo­caust would present ‘a great dan­ger’ for the Pales­tin­ian Iden­tity. ‘If such a deci­sion [about teach­ing the Holo­caust] is made, it will undoubt­edly ruin the Pales­tin­ian dream and aspi­ra­tions. It will entirely oblit­er­ate the past, present and future of the Pales­tini­ans.’ Not the slight­est dan­ger to the Pales­tin­ian iden­tity though, seemed to be pre­sented by the cir­cu­la­tion with express [Pales­tin­ian Author­ity] approval of Hitler’s pro­gram­matic work Mein Kampf, which reached num­ber six in the Pales­tin­ian Territory’s best-sellers’ list in 1999. [Ital­ics are Mr. Emory’s, exclud­ing “Mein Kampf.”] The trans­la­tor of the Ara­bic edi­tion refers in his intro­duc­tion to his author’s con­tin­ued rel­e­vance: ‘Adolf Hitler does not belong to the Ger­man peo­ple alone, he is one of the few great men who almost stopped the motion of his­tory, altered its course. . . . National Social­ism did not die with the death of its her­ald. Rather, its seeds mul­ti­plied under each star.’ While the PA ‘sows’ the seeds of National Social­ism in this way, and reaps a har­vest of mur­der­ous anti-Jewish actions from it, Israeli pol­icy is pre­sented in all its media as a con­tin­u­a­tion or even inten­si­fi­ca­tion of Nazism. The con­stant equa­tion of Israeli and National Social­ist policies—‘Nazism of the Jews,’ ‘Nazi-like enemy,’ ‘Nazi-Zionist practices’-amounts to a spe­cific form of Holo­caust denial, one which legit­i­mates the pur­suit of an anti-Jewish exter­mi­na­tion pol­icy, while pro­ject­ing these mur­der­ous inten­tions onto the cho­sen vic­tim. . . .” (Ibid.; pp. 117–118.)

14. The Nazis were a dom­i­nant influ­ence on Aya­tol­lah Khome­ini, leader of the Iran­ian Islamic rev­o­lu­tion. (For more about Nazi influ­ence on Khome­ini, see—among other programs—FTR#‘s 352, 622.) ” . . . In 1937, when he was already an influ­en­tial fig­ure, Khome­ini had linked up with rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood. He began to read Has­san el-Banna’s writ­ings and dis­cussed with the Brotherhood’s emis­saries for das on end. Khome­ini would later make a spe­cial point of lis­ten­ing reg­u­larly to the Farsi-language broad­casts put out by the Nazis from Zeesen . ‘Germany’s Per­sian ser­vice was, dur­ing the war, to enjoy the widest pos­si­ble audi­ence in Iran and Iraq. Khome­ini lis­tened to the pro­grams every evening,’ wrote Amir Taheri in his biog­ra­phy of the Iran­ian leader. ‘Khome­ini had brought with him a radio receiver set made by the British com­pany Pye which he had bought from an Indian Mus­lim pil­grim­age. The radio proved to be a good buy. . . Many mul­lahs would gather at his home, often on the ter­race, in the evenings to lis­ten to Radio Berlin ands the BBC.’” (Ibid.; p. 56.)

15. 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta’s world­view was influ­enced by the Nazis. Atta was closely asso­ci­ated with Ger­mans and other Euro­peans in Florida. For more about this, see—among other programs—FTR#‘s 456, 542, 546, 573, 593, 594.) ” . . . The accused, Mounir el-Motassadeq, had been a close friend of Atta’s core group between 1998 and 2000, said the fol­low­ing: ‘Atta’s Weltan­schau­ung was based on a National Social­ist way of think­ing. He con­sid­ered New York City to be the cen­ter of world Jewry which was, in his opin­ion, Enemy Num­ber One.” This trial in Ham­burg also brought to light the sedond delu­sion under­ly­ing the Islamist view of Amer­ica: that Jews con­trol all the levers of Amer­i­can power. Thus Sha­had Nick­els tes­ti­fied about the assailants’ core group that: ‘They were con­vinced that Jews con­trol the Amer­i­can gov­ern­ment as well as the media and the econ­omy of the United States . . . .Motas­sadeq shared Atta’s atti­tude in believ­ing that a world wide con­spir­acy of Jews exists. Accord­ing to him, Amer­i­cans want to dom­i­nate the world so that Jews can pile up cap­i­tal.’” (Ibid.; p. 129.)

16. Islamism was, and is, a lit­tle brother to the Euro­pean fas­cism of the World War II era. As Mr. Emory has noted through­out his series on 9/11, the Islamists and Mus­lim Broth­er­hood in par­tic­u­lar, serve as proxy war­riors for the Under­ground Reich. Lis­ten­ers are emphat­i­cally encour­aged to read Kuntzel’s book, which under­scores Mr. Emory’s work­ing hypoth­e­sis about 9/11 and related mat­ters. (For more about the his­tory and evo­lu­tion of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood and Islamic fas­cism, see—among other programs—FTR#‘s 343, 414, 416, 454, 518, 537.) ” . . . Nei­ther the Mufti nor the founders of the Mus­lim Broth­ers were cre­ations of Euro­pean fas­cism. How­ever, both were strength­ened by it. Like an elder brother, National Social­ism had backed the fledg­ling Islamist move­ment up with catch­words, intel­lec­tual encour­age­ment and money. With the ‘Cairo Jew­ish trial’ the Nazis had exported their anti-Semitism to Egypt. Egypt­ian move­ments such as Young Egypt mod­eled their street pro­ces­sions on the Nazi mass marches. The Mus­lim Broth­er­hood got finan­cial sup­port from the Ger­man News Agency in Egypt. Again, it was thanks to sup­plies of money from the Nazis that the Mufti was able to sus­tain the upris­ing in Pales­tine, which al-Banna then used to boost the for­ma­tion of his jihadi move­ment. . . .” (Ibid.; p. 57.)