FTR#402—Pincers Movement—(Two 30-minute segments) (Sources are noted in
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Summary of FTR#402—(A summary analysis of the 9/11 attacks and related events—periodically
updated—is to be found in the text of FTR#391. The broadcasts dealing with that subject are FTR#’s 325 and up.)
This program analyzes the Islamofascist/Nazi/white supremacist link. (For more
about this connection, see—among other programs—FTR#’s 330, 336, 343, 348, 356, 357, 359, 373, 377, 378, 386.) Constituting the twin elements of a pincers movement directed by the
Underground Reich, the white supremacists and the Islamofascists will, if not
interdicted, destroy the United States and will—as Winston Churchill
said—“plunge the world into an abyss, made more sinister by the knights of
perverted science.” While the one attacks from without, the other may well
attack from within. (For more about the Underground Reich, see—among other programs—FTR#’s 180, 273, 305, 332, 370.)
Program Highlights Include: A nationally
syndicated column by conservative pundit Bob Novak indicating that the Bush
administration is, indeed, “wagging the dog” in Iraq; alleged espionage by
National Guard intelligence officers on behalf of white supremacist lawyer Kirk
Lyons; Lyons’ wedding at the Aryan Nations compound in Idaho; review of the
low-level suicide aerial attack on the Pentagon with which “The Turner Diaries”
culminates; review of the alleged 9/11/Oklahoma City link running through a motel outside of Oklahoma City;
review of the alleged Philippine/Al Qaeda/Oklahoma City link; organized
crime/narcotics-smuggling connections to the Aby Sayaf (Al Qaeda affiliate);
the connections of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to the Muslim Brotherhood; Mohammed’s
links to Operation Bojinka and the Oklahoma City bombing; the relocation of Al
Qaeda elements to the “three borders” area of Latin America; and the
organized-crime and drug-smuggling elements working with the Islamofascists in
the “three borders” region.
1.
Beginning with a column by Bob Novak—a conservative columnist—the
program highlights the view of Bush allies that this administration is engaging
in the Iraqi adventure as a substitute for a viable domestic and economic policy.
“A senior
Bush official privately admits what his administration cannot declare publicly.
The stagnant economy, a dagger aimed at the heart of George W. Bush’s second
term, will not immediately respond to the president’s economic growth program.
The economic engine will not be revived until the war against Saddam Hussein is
launched and won. Military victory is anticipated inside the Bush
administration as the tonic that will prompt corporation officers and private
investors to unleash the American economy’s dormant power. Although it is
impolitic to say so, the fact that the United States will be sitting on a new
major oil supply will stimulate the domestic economy. That puts a high premium
on quickly gaining control of Iraq’s oil wells before they can be torched—a
major uncertainty in an otherwise strictly scripted scenario.” (“Playing
Texas Poker, Bush Bets All on Iraq” by Robert Novak; Chicago Sun-Times; 3/6/2003; pp. 1-2; accessed at www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak061.html
.)
2.
“ ‘This is Texas
poker, with the president putting everything on Iraq,’ a Republican senator
(who thoroughly approves of this policy) told me. The extraordinary gamble by
Bush leads to deepening apprehension by Republican politicians as they wait for
the inevitable war. They consider the Democratic Party divided, drifting to the
left and devoid of new ideas. Yet, Bush’s re-election next year is threatened
by two issues: the economy and the war on terrorism. Success on both is tied to
war with Iraq. . . .” (Ibid.; p. 2.)
3.
“ . . . The
senator who told me the president is playing ‘Texas poker’ is delighted to
march with Bush in a crusade for democracy in the Arab world, a goal that
colleagues well-versed in diplomacy view as unrealistic. That is the heart of
George W. Bush’s gamble, with his presidency and the course of the nation at
stake.” (Ibid.;
p. 3.)
4.
Next, the broadcast sets forth alleged espionage conducted by an Army
National Guard officer on behalf of Aryan Nations attorney Kirk Lyons. (For
more about Lyons and his connections to alleged Oklahoma City bombing
mastermind Andreas Strassmeir, see—among other programs—FTR#’s 399, 400, as well as the programs cited in that broadcast.)
Significantly, the documents allegedly given to Lyons involved the response of
the National Guard to emergencies either foreign or domestic. It is worth
noting that the alleged espionage took place in 1999, when the 9/11 attacks
were being planned. “A former Washington Army National Guard intelligence
officer arrested earlier this week on espionage charges had a top-secret
clearance and had drifted toward the radical right in recent years, according
to sources familiar with the investigation. Rafael Davila, 51, and his ex-wife,
Deborah Davila, 46, are suspected of providing white supremacists and other
radical organizations with sensitive materials involving the strategic response
of the Guard to a variety of emergency situations, both foreign and domestic,
according to a Department of Justice source.”
(“Two Indicted on Espionage Charges, Linked to Supremacist Groups”
by Mike Carter and Ray Rivera; Seattle
Times; 2/6/2003; p. 1; visit their website at http://seattletimes.nwsource.com
.)
5.
“Military
officials confirmed Rafael Davila’s clearance level but would not comment on
what information he allegedly provided. The two were arrested Tuesday after a
grand jury in Spokane indicted them on unlawful possession of ‘documents
related to the national defense of the united States’ in 1999—the year Rafael
Davila retired from the Guard with the rank of major.” (Idem.)
6.
“Rafael Davila
is named in a single felony count while Deborah Davila is named in three
counts, including providing false statements to the FBI in April 2000.
According to the indictment, she lied when she told agents she did not know
Kirk Lyons—a firebrand North Carolina lawyer who has defended the Ku Klux Klan
and White Patriot Party and who has advocated for “Southern Ethnic Cleansing.” (Idem.)
7.
“Lyons was
involved as a defense lawyer in a 1987 trial in Fort Smith Ark, in which Butler
and 10 others were charged with seditious conspiracy to overthrow the government
by acts of violence. All the defendants were acquitted. A federal
law-enforcement source said some of the national security documents were passed
on to Lyons. Lyons has not been charged with a crime. He told The Associated
Press he barely knew Deborah Davila but that she had attended his wedding,
which was performed by Aryan nations founder Richard Butler at the group’s for
compound near Hayden Lake, Idaho.” (Idem.)
8.
Deborah Davila—allegedly involved in the theft of the documents—was an
attendee at Lyons wedding. Because of the fact that the wedding took place at
the Hayden Lake compound in Idaho—VERY heavily guarded and not accessible to
outsiders, this is of more than passing significance. “Kirk Lyons, an attorney from Texas who
defended a rogues’ gallery of neo-Nazis and white supremacists, tied the knot
at the Aryan Nations encampment in September 1990. It was actually a
Scottish-style double wedding, with kilts and bagpipes. Lyons and his friend
Neil Payne married two sisters, Brenna and Beth Tate, respectively. Their
brother, David Tate, was then in prison for murdering a Missouri State highway
patrolman. David had been a member of ‘the Order,’ a terrorist offshoot of the
Aryan Nations that embarked upon a spree of bank heists and killings in the
United States during the early 1980’s. Tate had participated in several
commando raids against armored cars before the police caught up with him.” (The Beast Reawakens; Martin A. Lee;
Copyright 1997 [HC]; Little, Brown & Co.; ISBN 0-316-51959-6; pp. 339-340.)
9.
It should be noted that the Order was financed by “German families
living in Latin America.” (For more about this, see—among other programs--FTR#40. The bibiliographical citation
is from Unholy Alliance by Peter
Levenda.) “Otherwise
known as die Bruder Schweigen (German for ‘the Silent Brotherhood’), the Order
was led by a young, neo-Nazi zealot named Robert Jay Mathews, who recruited
followers when he frequented the Aryans Nations headquarters. Mathews fancied
himself a latter-day Robin Hood who robbed from the Jews and gave to the
Aryans. Using stolen money and counterfeit bills, he waged a campaign of terror
modeled after The Turner Diaries, a
novel that described a successful paramilitary insurgency by white supremacists
in the United States.” (Ibid.; p. 340.)
10.
In the context of the white supremacist/Islamist alliance, it is
frightening to consider the interest of 9/11 mastermind Mohammed Atta and
alleged 20th hijacker Zacharias Moussaoui in crop-dusting planes. “The veteran
F.B.I. agent [Coleen Rowley] who exposed the bureau’s failure to heed evidence
of terrorist plots before the Sept. 11 attacks is now warning her superiors
that the bureau is not prepared to deal with new terrorist strikes that she and
many colleagues fear would result from an American war with Iraq. The agent,
Coleen Rowley of the bureau’s Minneapolis field office, is not a
counterterrorism specialist and does not have access to detailed intelligence
about Al Qaeda and its planning. But she is a 22-year F.B.I. veteran who is
intimately acquainted with the bureau’s inner workings and with the thinking of
fellow agents, including agents who specialize in counterterrorism. . . .” (“Agent
Who Saw 9/11 Lapses Still Faults F.B.I. on Terror” by Philip Shenon; New York Times; 3/6/2003; pp. 1-2;
accessed at www.nytimes.com/2003/03/06politics/06THRE.html
.)
11.
“ ‘ . . . Lack of
follow-through with regard to Moussaoui and Reid gives a hollow ring to out
‘top priority’—i.e. preventing another terrorist attack,’ she wrote. ‘Moussaoui
almost certainly would know of other Al Qaeda contacts, possibly in the U.S.,
and would also be able to alert us to the motive behind his and Mohammed Atta’s
interest in crop-dusting.’ Law enforcement officials have speculated that Mr.
Atta, the ringleader of the Sept. 11 attack sought information on crop-dusting
planes in hopes of using one to disperse chemical or biological weapons.” (Ibid.; p. 3.)
12.
Highly maneuverable and able to fly effectively at very low altitudes,
crop-dusting aircraft figured in the hypothetical scenario with which The Turner Diaries concludes. Recall
that that novel—published by the same publisher as Serpent’s Walk—was the inspiration for Timothy McVeigh &
company in the Oklahoma City bombing, as well as the Order. Remember, also,
that the National Alliance (the parent organization of National Vanguard
books—the publisher of both books) is closely associated with the German NPD
which, in turn, has connections to the milieu of Al Taqwa’s Ahmed Huber and his
associate Horst Mahler. (For more about the NPD/National Alliance link,
see—among other programs—FTR#’s 235,
331, 335. For more about Ahmed Huber and Horst Mahler’s connections to the
milieu of 9/11, see—among other programs—FTR#’s
333, 335, 343, 352, 356, 359, 371, 377, 378, 383.) The program reviews
information from FTR#’s 398, 399.) “In the massive
ring of defenses around the Pentagon there is a great deal of anti-aircraft
firepower, but we decided that a small plane, flying just above the ground,
might be able to get through the three-mile gauntlet with one of our 60-kiloton
warheads. One factor in favor of such an attempt is that we have never before
used aircraft in such a way, and we might hope to catch the anti-aircraft crews
off their guard.” (The Turner
Diaries; “Andrew Macdonald;” Barricade Books, Inc. [SC] 1996; Copyright
1978, 1980 William Pierce; ISBN 1-56980-086-3; p. 201.)
13.
“Although the
military is guarding all civil airfields, it just happens that we have an old
crop duster stashed in a barn only a few miles from here. My immediate
assignment is to prepare a detailed plan for an aerial attack on the Pentagon
by next Monday. We must make a final decision at the time and then without
further delay.” (Idem.)
14.
“November 9, 1993. It’s still three hours
until first light, and all systems are ‘go.’ I’ll use the time to write a few
pages—my last diary entry. Then it’s a one-way trip to the Pentagon for me. The
warhead is strapped into the front seat of the old Stearman and rigged to
detonate either on impact or when I flip a switch in the back seat. Hopefully,
I’ll be able to mange a low-level air burst directly over the center of the
Pentagon. Failing that, I’ll at least try to fly as close as I can before I’m
shot down.” (Ibid.;
p. 202.)
15.
“It’s been more
than four years since I’ve flown, but I’ve thoroughly familiarized myself with
the Stearman cockpit and been briefed on the plane’s peculiarities: I don’t
anticipate any piloting problems. The barn-hangar here is only eight miles from
the Pentagon. We’ll thoroughly warm up the engine in the barn, and when the
door is opened I’ll go like a bat out of hell, straight for the Pentagon, at an
altitude of about 50 feet. . .” (Idem.)
16.
Next, the program reviews an aspect of the Oklahoma City bombing and a
possible link between that attack and some of the hijackers implicated in the
9/11 attacks. (For more about links between the Oklahoma City bombing and the
milieu of 9/11, see FTR#’s 328, 330,
336, 354, 357, 373, 386.) A motel
located at some distance from Norman, Oklahoma (where some of the alleged
hijackers apparently took flight training) may provide documentation of
connections between Atta and accused 20th hijacker Zaccarias
Moussaoui. Atta allegedly tried to book rooms at this motel with Moussaoui and
another of the suspected hijackers. This is significant for several reasons.
For one thing, the motel was farther away than other, reasonably priced motels.
Atta, for whatever reason, wanted this
motel. As stated above, the following account may establish a hard link between
Atta and Moussaoui. This same motel was apparently frequented by Mujahid
Menepta, an associate of Mousssaoui, who visited the motel in the time before
the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. This same motel was also reported to have been
host to Tim McVeigh and alleged Middle Eastern and/or Iraqi nationals, with
whom he may have been conspiring. (For more about some of the Middle Eastern
connections to the Oklahoma City bombing, see FTR#’s 88, 92.) It is also
worth noting that legal authorities in this country do not appear to have been
overly eager to pursue these leads, perhaps out of a desire to avoid having to
reopen the investigation into the Oklahoma City bombing. “What happened at the nondescript roadside motel
outside Oklahoma City was just a fleeting encounter during the twisted
cross-country odyssey of the terrorists who would carry out the September 11
attacks. Mohammed Atta, alleged leader of the plot, and two companions wanted
to rent a room, but couldn’t get the deal they wanted, so they left.’” (“The
Terrorist Motel” by Jim Crogan; L.A.
Weekly; 7/26/--8/1/2002; accessed at www.L.A.Weekly.com .)
17.
In connection with Moussaoui, recall that his French attorney—Isabel
Coutant Peyre—is a law partner of Francois Genoud protégé Jacques Verges. She
is also the future wife of Carlos the Jackal. (For about the consummately
important Nazi operative Francois Genoud, see—among other programs—FTR#’s 333, 343, 352, 354, 357, 360, 371,
377, 378. For more about the Moussaoui/Coutant-Peyre connection, see—among
other programs--FTR#’s 341, 344, 354, 371.) “It was an
incident of no particular importance, except for one thing. The owner of the
motel remembers Atta being in the company of Zacaraias Moussaoui, the so-called
‘20th hijacker,’ who was arrested prior to ‘September 11 and now
faces conspiracy charges in connection with the terror assaults.’” (Ibid.; p. 1.)
18.
“If this recollection
is correct, the entire incident, and its absence from the public record, raises
new questions about the FBI investigation of Moussaoui and even the 1995
destruction of the Federal Building in Oklahoma city,. Already the FBI has
endured a withering political and media critique for failing to aggressively
investigate Moussaoui and his contacts during his four weeks in custody prior
to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Some FBI officials
have responded by characterizing Moussaoui as only a minor player. But the
report from the motel owner, if proven, could change that. And it also could
force the FBI to reopen its investigation of Middle Eastern connections to the
1995 Oklahoma City blast, because convicted bombers Timothy McVeigh and Terry
Nichols reportedly stayed at the same motel, interacting with a group of Iraqis
during the weeks before the bombing.” (Ibid.; p.1)
19.
Reviewing information presented in FTR#386,
the broadcast highlights the allegations of Abu Sayaf co-founder Edwin Angeles
about his connections with McVeigh co-conspirator Terry Nichols and Ramzi
Youssef, the mastermind of the first World Trade Center attack in 1993. (For
more about Angeles, see—among other programs—FTR#92. For more about Ramzi Youssef and the Oklahoma City bombing,
see—among other programs—FTR#’s 354,
358, 360, 386.) “Among the most interesting revelations that Angeles shared
with Elmina [Abdul—Angeles’ wife] was about a meeting between himself, Ramzi
Youssef, Abdul Murad (both of whom are now serving multiple prison terms for
terrorist activities, including the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993),
and two men who Angeles only identified as Iraqis. The meeting, according to
Elmina, was held in a warehouse near a Dole (Phil.) plant in South Cotabato,
between General Santos City and Davao del Sur. There were two other men at that
meeting: a man who Angeles identified as Nichols and as ‘code name Farmer,’ and
another American who he did not identify by name. (It is important to note that
most Filipinos commonly describe Causasians in the country as Americans.) The
meeting, according to Elmina took place in 1994. She could not remember the
exact date.” (“Deathbed Confession: Abu Part of Oklahoma Blast” by
Dorian Zumel Sicat; Manilla Times;
4/2/2002; accessed at http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2002/apr/02/top_stories/20020402top9.html
.)
20.
“In that meeting,
according to Elmina, Angeles told her that the major topic of the discussion
was the bombing of specified targets and how to build bombs. Angeles told
Elmina that Nichols was later sent to a place that he (Angeles) didn’t name for
more detailed instruction on how Nichols and his other ‘American’ friend could
build a bomb to destroy a building in the United States. She did not
specify—she could not remember—which building that was to be.” (Idem.)
21.
“Angeles also
told Elmina about Project Bojenko, an [allegedly] Iraqi-financed operation of
terror that targeted several buildings in the US interests. Among the buildings
in the US, according to Elmina, were another attack on the World Trade Center;
the Federal Buildings in San Francisco, and in ‘a place he called Uklahuma’
(Oklahoma).” (Idem.)
22.
Next, the program further develops the Abu Sayaf/Al Qaeda link. Note
that Angeles named Abubakar Abdurazak as being in attendance at the meeting
with Ramzi Youssef and Terry Nichols. (See FTR#386.)
(For more about the Abu Sayaf/Al Qaeda/Philippines link, see—among other programs
FTR#’s 330, 349, 360, 386.) “ ‘The Abu Sayaf
group developed on the island of Basilan. . . . Its extreme standpoint and the
violence of its methods quickly made up for its lack of representativeness. The
chief of the group, Abubakar Abdurazak Janjalani, defied the MNLF leadership
and set out to recruit all the disappointed Muslims. In 1995, this group
massacred the hundred inhabitants of the Christian village of Ipil, on the
island of Mindanao. The Abu Sayaf group (‘the sword-bearer’) had approximately
a thousand combatants including ‘Afghans’ trained in the Taleban camps in
Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and Sudan.” (Dollars for Terror: The United States and Islam; by Richard
Labeviere; Copyright 2000 [SC]; Algora Publishing; ISBN 1-892941-06-6; p. 321.)
23.
The following passage contains a reference to “Operation
Bojinka—allegedly the operational paradigm for the 9/11 attack on the World
Trade Center. “During
the trial of the World Trade Center bombers (1993) the explosives expert of the
team—Ramzi Ahmed Youssef –admitted having planned the operation together with
‘Afghans’ at one of the Abu Sayaf group’s bases. According to various police
sources the same organization was also behind the attack against a Philippine
Airlines Boeing 747, flying the Manila-Tokyo route, in December 1994. The toll:
one dead and 20 wounded, mainly Japanese. It apparently also prepared an attack
against the pope, in Manila, during the pontifical visit in January 1995,
According to the Thai intelligence services the Abu Sayaf group is financed by
Osama bin Laden, though his brother in-law Mohamed of August Jhamal Khalif,
regional manage of a Saudi NGO. The
Philippine Daily Inquirer of August 23, 1998 adds that ‘in recent years Bin
Laden was a frequent visitor to the Philippines in particular in the area of
Mindanao.” (Ibid.;p.321.)
24.
“However, the
Saudi does not show up on the Philippine authorities’ black list. Established
at the request of Interpol, this list counts 519 terrorists and international
criminals from 19 countries. The Philippine president’s chief of staff even
recalls that in the Philippines ‘Osama bin Laden is known for his philanthropic
activities in several Muslim organizations that are active in the south, where
they support the poor Muslim population.’” (Ibid.; pp. 321-322.)
25.
Note the link to the Muslim Brotherhood, in turn, linked to
international fascism. (For more about the Muslim Brotherhood, see—among other
programs—FTR#’s 343, 377, 378, 381, 382.)
“According to
the same sources, bin Laden’s brother-in-law is said to bring financial help to
the Gam’a islamiya (who claimed to have been behind the Luxor massacre). His
collaboration with Osama bin Laden also means that he must have worked with the
Palestinian and Jordanian Muslim Brothers. Lastly, bin Laden’s import-export
companies in Sudan were one of the principal business outlets of the two
partners.” (Ibid.; p. 322.)
26.
In addition to terrorism, the Abu Sayaf/Al Qaeda milieu is inextricably
linked to organized crime, drug trafficking and the weapons trade. “These
connections often parallel those of the drug trade. In the Philippines, experts
estimate the annual production of marijuana at $1.5 billion a year, going up by
approximately 10% yearly. For that alone, the narcotics traffic would be more
than $10 billion, that is, half of the Philippine State budget. Admittedly, the
Islamists do not control all of these flows, but the Abu Sayaf group plays a
big part. Its mercenaries look after the protection of transport and the
shipping of cargoes via jungle airports in the islands of Basilan, Sulu and
Jolo. By the same air channels, and also by sea, weapons are delivered for the
group’s combat units. This supply chain is managed by Pakistani intermediaries
who are trained directly in the Afghan camps around Peshawar.” (Idem.)
27.
“For a few
years now, the religious dimension of the fight carried out by the Abu Sayaf
group has been subsumed in activities that are closer to organized crime than
to revolutionary Islamism. Raised in the context of a ‘holy war,’ the ‘new
Afghans’ often end up as mercenaries of the traditional circuits of organized
crime. And conversely, some find the religious alibi a good means of
‘whitewashing’ their primary activities that relate purely and simply to
organized crime. Terrorism can lead to anything, as long as you can get out. .
. .These narco-Islamist currents emerge in the Indian Ocean, ‘the new heart of
the world’ that opens the routes to Europe, from the southernmost ports of Sind
and Baluchistan, from southern Africa and Latin America.” (Idem.)
28.
Noting the recent arrest of alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik
Mohammed, the broadcast notes his connection to the Muslim Brotherhood. “Mohammed, the son
of a devout Pakistani living in Kuwait, joined the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood
as a teenager before moving west to get an engineering degree at the North
Carolina Agricultural and Technical Institute in 1986.” (“Al Qaeda
Leader Lived in VIP Oasis in Rawalpindi” by Juliette Terzieff; San Francisco Chronicle; 3/6/2003; p.
A10.)
29.
Khalid Sheik Mohammed was involved with Ramzi Youssef in the planning
of “Operation Bojinka”—alluded to above. This plan was the operational paradigm
for the 9/11 attacks. In FTR#360, we
explored Zacharias Moussaoui’s links to Al Qaeda and the fear expressed by one
FBI agent that Moussaoui planned to fly a plane into the World Trade Center. “Mr. Mohammed
first came to the attention of American counterterrorist officials in 1995, as
a result of his role in a Philippines-based plan hatched with his relative,
Ramzi Youssef to blow up as many as a dozen American airliners as they crossed
the Pacific. [This was Operation Bojinka.] This was to be followed by a
dramatic series of terrorist strikes against the United States.” (“Qaeda
Aide Slipped Away Long Before Sept. 11 Attack” by James Risen and David
Johnston; The New York Times;
3/8/2003; p. A12.)
30.
The discussion concludes with examination of the geographical
relocation of Al Qaeda elements to the ‘tri-border area.’ Note that this area
has historically been repository for Nazi war criminals. Note also the presence
of Al Qaeda elements in Venezuela. Venezuela is currently headed by the
fervently anti-American Hugo Chavez. As noted in FTR#401, Chavez has departed from OPEC policy vis a vis the pricing
of its oil exports. In addition (as noted in FTR#383, Chavez has appointed Carlos the Jackal’s brother to a key
position in the nation’s petroleum industry. Carlos is intimately to Francois
Genoud and his milieu, as discussed in the programs cited above in connection
with Genoud.) “The
US faces a growing risk from both Middle Eastern terrorists relocating to Latin
America and terror groups from the region, a top US military official has
warned. General James Hill, commander of US Southern Command, told Latin
American military officers and regional intelligence analysts in Miami
yesterday that groups such as Hizbollah, the militant Shia Muslim group, had
established bases in Latin America. These groups were taking advantage of
smuggling hot spots such as the tri-border area’ joining Brazil, Argentina and
Paraguay, and Venezuela’s Margarita Island to channel to funds to terrorist
groups found the world. . . .Fernando Falcon, a former Venezuelan state
security police chief, said: ‘If I were Al Qaeda, I would be setting up in
Venezuela right now.’” (“Terrorist Groups Are ‘Relocating to US
Backyard” by Andy Webb-Vidal in Miami; The
Financial Times; 3/5/2003; p. 5.)
31.
Once again, we see the Muslim Brotherhood in connection with the
Islamofascist/organized crime link in the tri-border area. “Once an obligatory way station for war
criminals and other fleeing Nazis, the region known as ‘the three borders’
(Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay) is considered by anti-terrorist experts to be a
new base of radical Islamism. Often, intelligence agencies have traced the
leaders of Hezbollah, Hamas and the international organization of the Muslim
Brothers to this area. Forming a triangle between the towns of Puerto Iguazu
(Argentina); Foz do Iguacu (Brazil) and Ciudad del Este (Paraguay), the area
holds a population of more than 400,000, a quarter of them foreigners, with
strong Near Eastern communities, especially Lebanese.” (Dollars for Terror; p. 334.)
32.
And once again, we see the drug trade and its central importance for
the Islamofascist milieu in Latin America. “At the center, the site of the marvelous waterfalls of
Iguacu hosts more than 40,000 visitors a year, which makes the identification
and the monitoring of people particularly difficult. In addition the
topography, crisscrossed by innumerable rivers and streams, makes it impossible
to get an overall view. This tormented physical and human geography encourages
all sorts of traffic. Ciudad del Este has thus become the Latin-American
capital for counterfeiting and for the smuggling of weapons and explosives.
Weapons come from the United States via Paraguay, and are mainly destined for
the markets of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo; they follow the route to Foz do
Iguacu and cross the border of Paraguay at Mato Grosso do Sul. Small landing
strips in the region are also used for delivering cargoes, and drugs.” (Idem.)
33.
“A non-producing
country, Brazil is today the main regional transit center for the cocaine trade
from Colombia and Bolivia, heading for the United States and Europe, via Cape
Verde, the Ivory Coast and South Africa. Experts estimate that 80% of Colombian
cocaine passes through the Islamic-Latin American triangle. The Latin-American
triangle. The Latin-American, Chinese and Near Eastern mafias have made their
headquarters there. The mosqueof Foz do Iguacu, which also has a Koran school,
regularly receives visits by religious dignitaries and Saudi businessmen,
although the communities are mainly Shiite. In 1997, the Lebanese former prime
minister Rafic Hariri ws the honorary guest of the Arab community of Ciudad del
Este. Accompanied by a delegation by Gulf financiers, he was mainly interested
in Near Eastern investments in the region. At the time, the police services
identified a close collaborator of Osama bin Laden in his retinue. . .” (Ibid.; pp. 334-335.)
34.
“ . . . Whether in Latin America or in
Beirut, these business milieux reveal the osmosis that is going on between the
criminal hierarchies and the legal structures of economic and financial
activity worldwide. It is symptomatic that when one finds the heads of various
criminal groups, one reaches the limit of the criminal activity at the same
time.” (Ibid.;
p. 335.)
35.
Organized crime and the tremendous profits derived from the drug trade
are central to the functioning of the global economy. “The influence of the Mafias is never so
great and so dangerous as when they leverage their criminal activities to ply
all the levers that legal society offers in order to subvert that legality
itself. Money laundering is not only a monetary activity aiming to legalize
dirty money by injecting it into licit economic sectors; it is also exerted on
organizations and elite groups that also wish to be made respectable. ‘One
point is essential: organized crime is not only a problem of criminality
anymore. It is a too broad a topic, these days, to be entrusted solely to the
criminologists. The economy of crime was based in the legal economy. If you
make a clean distinction between organized crime and the sphere of finance, you
are condemned to not understand either one. Certainly, it is more comfortable
to regard the Mafias and the criminal organizations as malevolent foreign
powers. Reality is less appealing and more complex: criminality has become an
essential gear in the engine of contemporary societies.’” (Idem.)
36.
A frightening and
gruesome possibility to contemplate in connection with the Latin
American/Islamofascist/drug smuggling nexus is the scenario presented in Serpent’s Walk. (See FTR#399.) The
devastating bio-terror attack that leads to the declaration of martial law and
a Nazi takeover of the country is effected through the introduction of the
deadly agents through the drug-smuggling routes. Could this be part of the
pincers movement that the Underground Reich will close on the United States?