FTR#439—Update on 9/11—(Two 30-minute segments) (Sources are noted in
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comprehending the concept of “the Underground Reich.”) As the title of the program indicates, this broadcast brings up to
date a number of the important elements figuring in the inquiry into the
analysis of 9/11 and related matters. Although the chairman of the
“independent” commission investigating 9/11 has indicated that the attacks
could have been prevented, there are a number of developments that indicate
that the investigation is being attenuated. A major focal point of the
discussion concerns the continued activities of Al Taqwa’s Youssef Nada and
Ahmed Idris Nasreddin. The activities of both have continued apace, despite the
fact that international sanctions have been leveled against them. In addition,
the program reviews connections between the SAAR network, Bank Al Taqwa, the
Muslim Brotherhood and the GOP’s ethnic outreach organization.
Program Highlights Include: The 9/11
investigating commission’s agreement to allow the Bush administration to censor
the documents it gives to their inquiry; a Federal judge’s ruling that Princes
Sultan and Turki of Saudi Arabia could not be sued in connection with 9/11; the
activities of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Tariq Ramadan and his brother Hani in
Europe; Al Taqwa personage Yusef al-Qaradawi’s activities in connection with
African-American Muslims; the connection of Abdurahman Alamoudi to a Boston
mosque; the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe.
1.
The broadcast begins with analysis of a statement by the chairman of
the commission that has been investigating 9/11. Chairman Thomas Kean stated
that the attacks could have been prevented. “For the first time, the chairman of the
independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks is saying publicly
that 9/11 could have and should have been prevented, reports CBS News
correspondent Randall Pinkston. ‘This is a very, very important part of history
and we’ve got to tell it right,’ said Thomas Kean. ‘As you read the report,
you’re going to have a pretty clear idea what wasn’t done and what should have
been done,’ he said. ‘This was not something that had to happen.’ Appointed by
the Bush administration, Kean, a former Republican governor of New Jersey, is
now pointing fingers inside the administration and laying blame. ‘There are
people that, if I were doing the job, would certainly not be in the position
they were in at that time because they failed. They simply failed,’ Kean said.”
(“9/11 Chair: Attack was Preventable” from CBS correspondent Randall
Pinkston; CBSNews; 12/17/2003; accessed at www.CBSNews.com .)
2.
“To find out who
failed and why, the commission has navigated a political landmine, threatening
a subpoena to gain access to the president’s top-secret daily briefs. Those
documents may shed light on one of the most controversial assertions of the
Bush administration—that there was never any thought given to the idea that
terrorists might fly an airplane into a building.” (Idem.)
3.
“ ‘I don’t think
anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a
missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile,’ said national security adviser
Condoleeza Rice on May 16, 2002. ‘How is it possible we have a national
security advisor coming out and saying we had no idea they could use planes as
weapons when we had FBI records from 1991 stating that this is a possibility,’
said Kristen Breitweiser, one of four New Jersey widows who lobbied Congress
and the president to appoint the commission. The widows want to know why
various government agencies didn’t connect the dots before Sept. 11, such as
warnings from FBI offices in Minnesota and Arizona about suspicious student
pilots. . . .” (Idem.)
4.
Next, the program notes that the commission is not really all that
“independent”—the White House has the option of blocking the release of
information from viewing by the committee. “The commission investigating the Sept. 11 terror attacks
said Thursday that its deal with the White House for access to highly
classified intelligence reports would let the White House edit the documents
before they were released to the commission’s representatives.” (“White
House to Edit Files 9/11 Panel Seeks” [New
York Times]; San Francisco Chronicle;
11/14/2003; p. A16.)
5.
“The agreement,
announced Wednesday, has led to the first public split on the commission. Two
Democrats on the 10-member panel say that the commission should have demanded
full access to the intelligence summaries, known as the President’s Daily
Brief, and that the White House should not be allowed to determine what is
relevant to the investigation.” (Idem.)
6.
“An umbrella
group of victims’ families joined the criticism, saying the terms of the accord
should be public. While panel spokesmen refused again to provide the terms, its
executive director acknowledged that the White House would be able to remove
information from the reports unrelated to Al Qaeda and to the Sept. 11
attacks.” (Idem.)
7.
Yet another indication that the investigation of 9/11 is not proceeding
well is a ruling by a judge that neither the Saudi defense minister, Prince
Sultan, nor Prince Turki al-Faisal, the former intelligence chief can be sued
by the survivors of the victims of 9/11. (Prince Sultan, it should be noted, is
being represented by Baker Botts, the law firm of former Secretary of State
James Baker—the same firm that handles the legal work for the Carlyle Group. For more about the Carlyle Group, see—among
other programs—FTR#’s 284, 347, 438.) “Saudi Arabia’s defense minister and its
former intelligence chief, who have denied allegations in a $1 trillion lawsuit
tying them to the Sept. 11 attacks, are beyond the reach of U.S. courts, a
federal judge ruled. The suit, filed by victims and survivors of the 2001
attacks, accused the Saudis of having long, personal relationships with Osama
bin Laden and officials of the Afghan Taliban militia. The officials are the
defense minister, Prince Sultan, and Prince Turki al-Faisal, former director of
general intelligence and now the Saudi ambassador in Britain. The suit also
alleged that Sultan had donated millions of dollars to Saudi charities that
subsequently forwarded the money to bin Laden’s al Qaeda network and other
terrorist organizations. In an order issued Friday, U.S. District Judge James
Robertson ruled that his court lacked jurisdiction under both international and
U.S. law and dismissed all claims against the two Saudi officials.” (“Saudi
Officials Ruled Outside Reach of U.S.”; San
Francisco Chronicle; 11/16/2003; p. A3.)
8.
Following up on a point of information presented in FTR#435, the program notes that
attempts at interdicting the flow of money to Al Qaeda and related groups are
faltering. In particular, the efforts and assets of Al Taqwa founders Youssef
Nada and Ahmed Idris Nasreddin are apparently remaining largely unaffected.
(For more about Al Taqwa and its founders, see—among other programs—FTR#’s 343, 354, 356, 357, 359, 377, 425,
432, 433, 435. See also: three very important articles by Kevin Coogan: “The Mysterious
Achmed Huber: Friend to Hitler, Allah and Ibn Ladin?” available at: www.oraclesyndicate.org/pub_e/k.coo_e/publ_05-02_1.htm
; “Report on
Islamists, The Far Right, and Al Taqwa” available at: www.oraclesyndicate.org/pub_e/k.coo_e/publ_09-02_1.htm
; and “Achmed
Huber, The Avalon Gemeinschaft, and the Swiss ‘New Right’” available
at: www.oraclesyndicate.org/pub_e/k.coo_e/publ_08-02_1.htm
.)
“Governments around the world are not enforcing global sanctions designed to
stem the flow of money to Al-Qaida and impede the business activity of the
organization’s financiers, allowing the terrorist network to retain formidable
financial resources, say U.S., European and U.N. investigators. Several
businessmen designated by the United Nations as terrorist financiers, whose
assets were supposed to have been frozen more than two years ago, continue to
run vast business empires and travel freely because most nations are unaware of
the sanctions and others don’t enforce them, the investigators said. Several
charities based in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan that were reportedly shut down by
the governments there because of the groups’ alleged financial ties to Osama
bin Laden also continue to operate freely, they said.” (“Terrorist
Funds Still Flowing Despite Global Sanctions” by Douglas Farah [Washington Post]; San Jose Mercury News; 12/14/2003; pp. 1A-10A.)
9.
“As a result,
Al-Qaida continues to receive ample funding not only to carry out its own plots
but also to finance affiliated terrorist groups and to seek new weapons, the
investigators and terrorism experts said. A report released this month by a
U.N. panel of experts documented the continued flow of money—including drug
money—to terrorist organizations and warned that Al-Qaida ‘has already taken
the decision to use chemical and biological weapons in their forthcoming
attacks. The only constraint they are facing is the technical complexity to
operate them properly and effectively’—rather than a lack of means to acquire
them. . . .” (Ibid.;
p. 10A.)
10.
“ . . .
Illustrating the ineffectiveness of the sanctions regime, U.S. and U.N.
officials said, are the joint business empires of Yousef Nada and Idris
Nasreddin, which sprawl across Europe and Africa and are worth hundreds of
millions of dollars. Nada, an Egyptian national who lives in Switzerland, was
designated a terrorist financier by the United Nations on Nov. 9, 2001, and was
publicly accused by U.S. and U.N. officials of providing direct aid to
Al-Qaida. Nasreddin, an Eritrean who lives in Italy, was designated a terrorist
supporter on April 24, 2002. At that time, the assets of more than a dozen of
their joint enterprises were supposed to have been frozen, and a travel ban was
imposed on the pair. . . .” (Idem.)
11.
“ . . . U.S.
officials and the United Nations report said that many of the pair’s
businesses, including a luxury hotel in Milan, continue to operate and that
both men violate the travel ban with impunity. . . .” (Idem.)
12.
Next, the broadcast turns to the Operation Green Quest raids of
3/20/2002. The institutions raided on that day overlap the milieu of al Taqwa,
as well as the Republican Party’s ethnic outreach organization and the Bush
administration. (For more about the Operation Green Quest raids, see—among
other programs—FTR#’s 356, 357, 382,
389, 390, 415, 425, 432, 433, 435. The GOP connection to the targets of the
Operation Green Quest is highlighted in FTR#’s
356, 357, 415, 433, 435.) “A secretive group of tightly connected Muslim charities,
think tanks and businesses based in Northern Virginia were used to funnel
millions of dollars to terrorists and launder millions more, according to court
records unsealed yesterday. An affidavit from Homeland Security agent David
Kane said that the Safa Group, also known as the SAAR network, in Herndon had
sent more than $26 million in untraceable money overseas and that leaders of
the organization ‘have committed and conspired to . . . provide material
support to foreign terrorist organizations.’” (“Terror Probe Points
to Va. Muslims” by Douglas Farah; Washington
Post; 10/18/2003; p. A6.)
13.
“The probe of the
Herndon groups is the largest federal investigation of terrorism financing in
the world, authorities have said. And the unsealing of Kane’s report marks the first
time the government has alleged the main purpose of the Virginia organizations,
set up primarily with donations from a wealthy Saudi family, was to fund
terrorism and hide millions of dollars. Kane said the convoluted nature of the
myriad financial transactions and the fact that much of the money was sent to
tax havens with bank secrecy laws make it impossible to trace the final
destination of much of the money. But he said the pattern of the money’s
movement, coupled with the association of leaders of the Safa Group with
suspected terrorists, were strong indicators the group was financing
terrorism.” (Idem.)
14.
“ ‘There appears
to be no innocent explanation for the use of layers and layers of transactions
between Safa Group companies and charities other than to throw law enforcement
authorities off the trail,’ Kane wrote. In march 2002 federal agents raided the
organization’s offices on Grove Street in Herndon as well as the homes of eight
leaders of the group. . . .The 101-page affidavit was released yesterday at the
request of the Wall Street Journal. The document, which also includes several
lengthy attachments, lays out the government case in detail for the first time,
including alleged financial ties going back almost two decades between the Safa
Group and groups under investigation for terrorist ties in Florida and Dallas.
. . .” (Idem.)
15.
“The affidavit
charges that overlapping companies in the Safa Group were deliberately set up
to ‘layer’ or obscure the final destination of millions of dollars that moved
in complicated transactions among organizations led by the same small group of
people. It details how, from 1996 to 2000, charities in the Safa Group raised
$54 million and that $26 million was sent to the Isle of Man, a known tax haven
where bank secrecy laws make it impossible to trace the final destination of
the money. About $20 million went to Safa Group charities and $8 million went
to people and groups outside the organization, according to the group’s outside
the organization, according to the group’s own Internal Revenue Service
filings.” (Idem.)
16.
Of particular note in connection with the Green Quest raids is Ibrahim
Hassaballa, who hand-carried the seed money for the Safa Group from Saudi
Arabia. “The
purpose of all the transactions, Kane said, is ‘to route money through hidden
paths to terrorists, and to defraud the United States by impeding, impairing,
obstructing and defeating the lawful government functions of the IRS.’ In a
five-year period, four groups in the network sent more than $26 million to the
Isle of Man. The initial money to set up the Safa Group, was $3.4 million
hand-carried in 1980 from Saudi Arabia by Ibrahim Hassaballa, Kane said. The
heart of the network in the early years was the SAAR foundation, named for
Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Rajhi. . . .” (Idem.)
17.
“ . . . The
affidavit alleges leaders of the Safa Group knowingly supported the Islamic
Resistance Movement, or Hamas, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), both
designated terrorist entities by the United States in 1995. Senior investigators
said leaders of the Safa Group also put millions of dollars into banks and
companies that financed Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda organization. In the past
month, two individuals with ties to the Safa Group have been in federal court.”
(Idem.)
18.
Both Soliman S. Bihairi and Abdurahman Alamoudi were heavily involved
with Nada and Nasreddin (For more about this, see—among other programs—FTR#’s 425, 432, 433, 435.) “On Oct. 9,
Soliman S. Bihairi, who handled investments for some of the leaders of the Safa
Group, was convicted on two counts of immigration fraud. He awaits sentencing,
and prosecutors have requested he receive 10 years in prison because of
allegations that Biheiri’s company was used to fund terrorism. Abdurahman
Alamoudi, a well-known leader of the American Muslim community who also led
several organizations in the Safa Group, was arrested earlier this month on
charges of illegally traveling to Libya.” (Idem)
19.
Note that the above-mentioned Ibrahim Hassaballa also played a role in
setting up Bank al Taqwa. Hassaballa was one of many principals involved in the
al Taqwa operations and the SAAR network. (For more about the SAAR/Al Taqwa
connection, see—among other programs—FTR#’s
356, 357, 382, 425, 432, 433, 435.) “ . . . Investigators also say they have uncovered numerous
ties between SAAR entities and Bank al Taqwa. Samir Salah—a founder of Safa
Trust, SAAR’s successor, and an officer of other SAAR companies—helped
establish Bank al Taqwa in the Bahamas in the 1980’s, according to a Treasury document.
. . . Ibrahim Hassaballa, another officer of some SAAR related companies, also
helped set up Bank al Taqwa in the Bahamas. . . .” (“U.S. Trails Va.
Money, Ties” by Douglas Farah and John Mintz; Washington Post; 10/7/2002; pp. 3-4; accessed at www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52054-2002Oct6.html
.)
20.
Underscoring the connections between the Third Reich and the Muslim
Brotherhood (the parent organization of Al Taqwa), the broadcast reviews the
allegation that Youssef Nada helped the Grand Mufti escape from Germany at the
end of World War II. (For more information about the Muslim Brotherhood and the
Third Reich, see—among other programs—FTR#’s
343, 369, 377, 378, 416, 435. A detailed analysis can be obtained from
“Islamism, Fascism and Terrorism” by Marc Erikson [Asia Times]; Parts I-IV. Parts I and II can be accessed at www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/DK08Ak03.html;
Part III can be accessed at www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/DL04Ak01.html;
Part IV can be accessed at www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/DL05Ak01.html.) “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; accessed at
www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/DK08Ak03.html
.)
21.
Next, the broadcast focuses on the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamic
fascist organization that was allied with the axis during World War II and
which underlies the majority of Islamic terrorist organizations. (For more
about the Brotherhood, see—among other programs—FTR#’s 343, 369, 377, 378, 381, 382, 416, 435. See also the Kevin
Coogan and Marc Erikson articles cited above. The ideology of the Muslim
Brotherhood is set forth in FTR#’s 343,
435.) Note that Tariq Ramadan is the son of Said Ramadan and the son-in-law
of Hassan Al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. “Of all the Muslim leaders in Europe, perhaps
none has more visibility—and more faces—than Tariq Ramadan. To many experts on
Islam, Ramadan, a 41-year-old Swiss-born philosophy professor, is a respectable
scholar who promotes a modern, tolerant version of Islam from his headquarters
in Geneva and in his lectures around the world.” (“For Muslim
Leader, Devotion and Suspicion” by Elaine Sciolino [New York Times]; International
Herald Tribune; 11/17/2003; p. 1; accessed at: .)
22.
“To his Muslim
followers in the rough suburbs of France, he is a spiritual guide whose
passionate speeches and cassette tapes inspire them to throw themselves and
their beliefs into Western society like a ‘bomb,’ as he says on one cassette
tape, even as he tells them to become model, law-abiding citizens. To a number
of French intellectuals, he is a dangerous demagogue whose words have multiple
meanings and are laced with anger and anti-Semitism.” (Idem.)
23.
“ ‘So Who is
Tariq Ramadan?’ read the front-page headline in the daily tabloid Le Parisien on Friday. Below the
headline, there was a color photo of a pensive Ramadan, a hand on his bearded
chin. Ask Ramadan the question and he will say that he is a misunderstood man.
In an interview on Thursday in an office he keeps in this working-class Paris
suburb, he fiercely denied that he was anti-Semitic and attributed the campaign
against him to his popularity.” (Idem.)
24.
In assessing Tariq Ramadan, it is particularly important to note the
influence he has through his connections with academia and the media. (This
influence should be evaluated in the context of the Serpent’s Walk scenario—in which the “opinion-forming media” are
the catalyzing agent for the transformation of society into a fascist organization.
For more about Serpent’s Walk, see FTR
#’s 122, 123, 152 [side a], 177, 189, 194, 218, 224, 226, 238, 239, 240, 241,
242, 245, 250, 251, 261, 263, 274, 275, 298, 299, 300, 302, 303, 436.
Ramadan may be viewed as constituting an Islamofascist manifestation of the Serpent’s Walk situation.) “ ‘I have so
many students and followers in the States,’ he said, noting that his writings
are used in American courses on Islam and that he is invited to lecture all
over the world. ‘Look at my new book,’ he said, citing the Internet version of
a book titled ‘Western Muslims and the
Future of Islam’, soon to be published by Oxford University Press. ‘It’s
the product of 15 years of work.’” (Idem.)
25.
“ . . . In 1928,
his grandfather Hassan al-Banna founded the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, an
Islamic revival movement that preached a return to Muslim values as part of the
struggle against Western colonialism and decadence. (The group is now banned in
Egypt.) In the 1950’s, the family was sent into exile by the Egyptian leader
Gamal Abdel Nasser, and Ramadan’s father, Said Ramadan, moved with his
relatives to Switzerland. There he created an Islamic center that became a
place of pilgrimage for figures like Malcom X. Ramadan’s brother Hani won
notoriety in France and was suspended from his job as a high school French
teacher in Geneva after he wrote an essay for Le Monde last year that justified stoning women as punishment for
adultery. . . .” (Idem.)
26.
“ . . . In an
interview, [Bernard] Kouchner, a foreign aid advocate and a former health
minister of France, called Ramadan ‘absolutely a kook with no historical
memory’ and ‘a dangerous man.’ He added, ‘The way he denounced some Jewish
intellectuals is close to anti-Semitism.’ In a joint essay in the newsweekly Le Nouvel Observateur three leading
French Socialists accused Ramadan of committing a ‘crime’ against the Republic
with his words. ‘We cannot allow people to categorize French citizens according
to their race, their origin or their religion,’ they said, adding, ‘what Tariq
Ramadan has done is sow hatred and racial discord.’” (Ibid.; p. 2.)
27.
According to the book Dollars for
Terror, the original move by Said Ramadan to Switzerland was to coordinate
the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood with those of Nazi banker Francois
Genoud. “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; visit www.algora.com
.)
28.
The program reviews an item of discussion from FTR#352. An article in the San
Francisco Chronicle contains an assertion 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; visit http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/03/12/MN192483.DTL.)
(For more about Genoud, see Miscellaneous
Archive Shows M19 and M21, as
well as FTR#’s 333, 341, 343, 344, 350,
351, 354, 371, 377, as well as
the FTR interviews with Kevin Coogan.)
29.
In evaluating the tactics of the Muslim Brotherhood--the parent
organization of al Qaeda and other Islamist terror groups--it is important to
note that, as Tariq Ramadan’s brother Hani stated, the freedoms afforded by the
Western Democracies offer the Brotherhood the opportunity to spread its
Islamofascist ideology. “ ‘The advantage of our presence in Europe’ Hani Ramadan
says, ‘is that we can take advantage of the freedom of the democratic regimes.’
For example on March 11, 1995, Ramadan spoke during a gathering that was
officially organized by the Algerian FIS. The demonstration, in fact, brought
together the European supporters of the Armed Islamic Groups (GIA). And the
center directed by Ramadan, which has enough meeting space for some 20 people,
is also used as a hub for the European representatives of various organizations
that are under surveillance by several European police forces. . .” (Ibid.; p. 155.)
30.
“ . . . Like
his brother Mr. Ramadan Tariq, Mr. Ramadan Hani is thus an important figure in
the European Islamist movement and entertains close relations with the Union of
Islamist Organizations of France (UOIF). This association has participated in
demonstrations in favor of wearing the Islamic headscarf and its sympathies
extend to the Palestinian movement Hamas.’” (Idem.)
31.
Next, the program turns to analysis of the extent to which the
Brotherhood has successfully penetrated Muslim circles in the United States.
One of those whose efforts have penetrated African-American Muslim circles is
Dr. Yussef al-Qardawi, a primary element in the al Taqwa network. “An advisor who
insisted on anonymity would later provide me with a confidential list of the
founders of the bank and the first shareholders. I thus learned that the
president of Al Taqwa’s office of religious control is Dr. Yussef al-Qardawi.
Regarded as the theorist behind Islamic international finance, he is famous
throughout the Arab world for the radical sermons which he gives regularly on
the national television of Qatar, where he is living in exile. This
confidential list also mentions several eminent personalities of the Tunisian
and Syrian Muslim Brothers, as well as leaders of the international
organization of the Fraternity.” (Ibid.;
p. 139.)
32.
Al-Qardawi has been involved with the establishment of a mosque in
Boston. “The
Islamic organization poised to build the largest mosque in the Northeast on a
site in Roxbury has long-standing ties to an Egyptian cleric who praises
suicide bombings and a Muslim activist indicted last week in a terrorism
financing probe. The Islamic Society of Boston, which has city approval to
build a sprawling $22 million Islamic cultural center and mosque on Malcolm X
Boulevard, has had a long association with Dr. Yusuf Abdullah al-Qaradawi,
whose vocal support of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas prompted the State
Department to bar him from entering the U.S. four years ago.” (“Radical
Islam: Outspoken Cleric, Jailed Activist Tied to New Hub Mosque” by Jonathan
Wells, Jack Meyers, Maggie Mulvihill and Kevin Wisniewski; The Boston Herald; 10/28/2003; accessed at www.bostonherald.com
.)
33.
In addition, Abdurahman Muhammad Alamoudi (another Al Taqwa associate)
is affiliated with this organization. (For more about Alamoudi, see information
presented above, as well as in FTR#’s
433, 435.) “The
local religious organization, now headquartered on Prospect Street in
Cambridge, was founded by Abdurahman Muhammad Alamoudi—a high-profile
Washington, D.C. activist who has publicly supported Hamas, Hezbollah and other
terrorist organizations.” (Idem.)
34.
It is interesting and significant that Europe is witnessing the rise of
virulent anti-Semitism. The presence of Islamic fascist elements within Europe
is undoubtedly one of the contributing factors, along with some of the European
fascist elements associated with them. (For more about the European far right
and the Islamists, see Miscellaneous
Archive Shows M19 and M21,
available from Spitfire, as well as FTR#’s 343, 354, 371, 377, 383. In
addition, see the three Kevin Coogan articles linked above.) “On Britain’s
National Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Independent
newspaper runs a cartoon of a bloodthirsty Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
devouring a Palestinian baby. Despite many complaints, it is named best cartoon
of 2003 by the U.K. Political Cartoon Society. Anti-globalization groups in
Germany invoke old stereotypes of Jews as global manipulators by suggesting
that Jews played a major role in planning the Iraq war and the events of Sept.
11, 2001. A book alleging that the CIA and Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency
conspired to plot the attacks on New York and Washington sits on the German
best-seller list for months.” (“Fears
of Anti-Semitism Sweep Europe” by Veronique Mistiaen, Jody K. Biehl and
Elizabeth Bryant; San Francisco Chronicle;
12/14/2003; p. A1)