A Major Arms Dealer in Shackles, Delivered to New York

by Alan FeuerNYT
Man­hat­tan on a Fri­day after­noon: down­town along the East River, where the sun was flash­ing brightly and a lazy week­end called. Women strolled through the South Street Sea­port in their sum­mer dresses; tourists went on round-the-island heli­copter tours. It was close enough to Wall Street to almost feel the bro­kers get­ting ready to [...]

FTR #634 Update on September 11 and Related Matters

Abu Dhabi’s stake in Amer­i­can Micro Devices; Holo­caust denial in Pales­tine and offi­cial Egypt­ian gov­ern­ment pub­li­ca­tions; Nazi ide­ol­ogy Mohammed Atta.

Jihad and Jew-Hatred

Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11

China reveals Iran’s nuclear secrets to UN

by Damien McEl­roy
THE TELEGRAPH
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 pro­gramme has increased in recent weeks after offi­cials at the Inter­na­tional Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN’s nuclear watch­dog, dis­cov­ered that Iran had obtained [...]

FTR #625 Update on 9/11 and Related Matters

Behind-the-scenes machi­na­tions of Prince Ban­dar of Saudi Arabia—the for­mer Saudi ambas­sador to the United States.

FTR #622 More about the Nazi Origins of Islamic Fascism

Recorded Jan­u­ary 27, 2008
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Flesh­ing out the grow­ing For The Record archives about Islamic fas­cism, this pro­gram sets forth the explic­itly Nazi ori­gins of the vir­u­lent anti-Semitism dom­i­nat­ing much of the Islamic world. Although the Koran pro­vides a foun­da­tion for Mus­lim anti-Semitism, the notion of Jews as a world dom­i­nat­ing, sinister [...]

Top intelligence official revives Iran doubts

by Demetri Sev­astop­ulo in Wash­ing­tonFINANCIAL TIMES

The senior US intel­li­gence offi­cial on Tues­day stressed that a recent report on Iran had con­cluded that Tehran had halted only one part of its alleged nuclear weapons pro­gramme.
Admi­ral Michael McConnell, direc­tor of national intel­li­gence, said the Novem­ber national intel­li­gence esti­mate had con­cluded that Tehran had ceased only efforts to [...]

Iran ‘hoodwinked’ CIA over nuclear plans

by Tim Ship­man, Philip Sher­well and Car­olynne Wheeler
THE TELEGRAPH
British spy chiefs have grave doubts that Iran has moth­balled its nuclear weapons pro­gramme, as a US intel­li­gence report claimed last week, and believe the CIA has been hood­winked by Teheran.
Iran ‘hood­winked’ CIA over nuclear plansAna­lysts believe that Iran­ian staff, know­ing their phones were tapped, delib­er­ately gave [...]

FTR #616 Going Native, Part 3: Homeland Insecurity

Recorded Octo­ber 28, 2007
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Con­tin­u­ing analy­sis from FTR#550, this pro­gram looks at the use of native, “unrep­re­sented” peo­ples by polit­i­cal ele­ments that don’t appear to be gen­uinely con­cerned with the wel­fare of those pop­u­la­tion groups. Specif­i­cally, we look at a strange brew of Tibetan Bud­dhists, Mon­go­lian Bud­dhists, Islamists and Pan-Turkists working [...]

Oil Price Rise Causes Global Shift in Wealth

Iran, Rus­sia and Venezuela Feel the Ben­e­fits
By Steven Muf­sonWASHINGTON POST
High oil prices are fuel­ing one of the biggest trans­fers of wealth in his­tory. Oil con­sumers are pay­ing $4 bil­lion to $5 bil­lion more for crude oil every day than they did just five years ago, pump­ing more than $2 tril­lion into the cof­fers of oil [...]