FTR#456—Compendium on Nazi and Fascist Connections to 9/11—(Two 30-minute
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Summary of FTR#456—(Note: The massive
volume of “For The Record” programs about 9/11 and related topics is summarized
and analyzed in the periodically-updated description for FTR#391. It is recommended that listeners use this
description and e-mail it to others. Also: The book “Martin
Bormann: Nazi in Exile” is available at About
Paul Manning. In addition, the professional history of the late Paul
Manning, the book’s author, is presented in the description About Paul Manning. This enables listeners to acquaint
others with Mr. Manning’s journalistic credentials. Key material from the book
is synopsized in an extended description for FTR#305.
Understanding the Bormann organization is essential to comprehending the
concept of “the Underground Reich.”) A collection of documentation of Nazi and fascist connections to the
events of 9/11, this program ties together contemporary neo-Nazi elements,
Islamofascists associated with the Al Qaeda network, veterans of the Third
Reich and neo-fascist elements in Europe. These elements have networked
together and the 9/11 attacks and other events have been the outgrowth of that
networking. It should be noted that this description contains information not
contained in the original broadcast itself, due to limitations of time. The
information presented here must be collated with the information about the
Muslim Brotherhood’s Islamic/theocratic brand of fascism delineated in FTR#355. In turn, it is important to note that the milieu of
the Muslim Brotherhood and Al Taqwa is heavily overlapped with the Republican
Party, as evidenced in FTR#354.
Program Highlights Include: The Third Reich heritage of Bank Al Taqwa principals Youssef Nada and
Ahmed Huber; Nada’s assistance in the escape of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem
from Germany; the links of Huber to key Nazi banker Francois Genoud;
allegations that Genoud set up Bank Al Taqwa; Genoud’s alleged connections to
the events of 9/11; Genoud’s role as a financial advisor to the Bin Laden
family; the presence of Genoud lawyer and friend Baudoin Dunand on the board of
directors of SICO—the Bin Laden European holding company; the numerous links
between Bank Al Taqwa and Italian fascist elements; networking between Huber
and European neo-fascists and far rightists; Huber’s efforts to create liaisons
between Islamists and European and American neo-Nazis; links between the Al
Qaeda milieu and Islamic fascist elements in the Balkans; the recreation of
Muslim Waffen SS formations in the Balkans in the 1990’s; evidentiary
tributaries connecting the first attack on the World Trade Center, the Oklahoma
City Bombing and the 9/11 attacks; National Alliance head William Pierce’s
foreshadowing of the 9/11 attacks; collaboration between Al Qaeda and neo-Nazi
elements in Latin America; Mohammed Atta’s German connections; Atta’s
association with a foundation named after an I.G. Farben executive; links
between the Saudis, neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers.
1. Beginning with information about one of the most important figures in
postwar fascism, the broadcast highlights the political legacy of Hitler, as
promulgated by Nazi banker and terror mastermind Francois Genoud. “In the preface to
the [Martin] Bormann document, Hitler’s
Table Talk, Genoud wrote that Hitler wanted the people of the third World
to carry on the work of the Thousand Year Reich.” (“Hitler’s Swiss
Connection” by David Lee Preston; The
Philadelphia Inquirer; 1/5/1997; p. 3; accessed at http://members.aol.com/voyl/barbie/genoud.htm .) (For more
about Genoud in the context of the 9/11 attacks, see FTR#’s 333, 335, 341, 343, 344, 350, 351, 351, 352, 354, 355, 356, 357.)
2. The program continues with a review of former Third Reich defense
minister Albert Speer’s account of Hitler’s vision of the annihilation of New
York City. “As
Germany’s defeat loomed during the final months of World War II, Adolf Hitler
increasingly lapsed into delusional [?] fits of fantasy. Albert Speer, in his
prison writings, recounts an episode in which a maniacal Hitler ‘pictured for
himself and for us the destruction of New York in a hurricane of fire.’ The
Nazi fuehrer described skyscrapers turning into ‘gigantic burning torches,
collapsing upon one another, the glow of the exploding city illuminating the
dark sky.’ An approximation of Hitler’s hellish vision came true on September
11, when terrorists destroyed the Twin Towers in New York, killing nearly 3,000
people.” (“The Swastika & the Crescent” by Martin A. Lee; Intelligence Report; Spring 2002 [#105];
Published by the Southern Poverty Law Center; p. 1; accessed at http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=132
.)
3.
An illuminating statement was made by Nazi/Islamist Ahmed Huber, a key
director of the Bank Al Taqwa described in FTR#455
and later in this program. “By his [Ahmed Huber’s] account, a group of aging SS
officers and members of Hitler’s personal guard who meet every few weeks in the
German state of Bavaria for beer and conversation recently bestowed the title
‘honorary Prussian’ on Bin Laden. They praised his ‘valiant fight’ against the
United States, Huber said. One of the members called Huber after the meeting to
tell him that henceforth they had decided to call the Al Queda leader ‘Herr von
Laden,’ Huber said.” (“Unlikely Allies Bound by a Common Hatred” by
Peter Finn; Washington Post;
4/29/2002; p. A13; accessed at www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A64385-2002Apr28?language=printer
.) (For more about Huber and Al Taqwa, see FTR#’s
335, 336, 338, 340, 342, 343, 344, 351, 352, 353, 354, 355, 356, 357, 358, 371,
377, 378, 383, 416, 423, 425, 432, 433, 435.)
4.
One of the highlights of the program is the allegation that Al Taqwa’s
Youssef Nada helped key axis spy Haj Amin Al-Husseini--the Grand Mufti of
Jerusalem--escape from Germany at the end of World War II. “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.
Be sure to see the other three articles in this series, as well. Parts I and II
can be accessed at: www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/DK08Ak03.html
. Part III is available at: www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/DL04Ak01.html
. Part IV is available at: www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/DL05Ak01.html
.)
5.
Youssef Nada himself (the head of the Brotherhood’s Bank Al Taqwa) is
alleged to have been an agent of the Abwehr, the military intelligence service
of the Third Reich. (See FTR#416.) “But Yussef Nada
is even better-known to the Egyptian [intelligence] services, who have evidence
of his membership in the armed branch of the fraternity of the Muslim Brothers
in the 1940’s. At that time, according to the same sources, he was working for the
Abwehr under Admiral Canaris and took part in a plot against King Farouk. This
was not the first time that the path of the Muslim Brothers crossed that of the
servants of the Third Reich.”
(Dollars for Terror: The United States
and Islam; by Richard Labeviere; Copyright 2000 [SC]; Algora Publishing;
ISBN 1-892941-06-6; pp. 140-141; visit their website at www.algora.com)
6.
The broadcast sets forth some of the background of Nazi/Islamist Ahmed
Huber. (Huber is a director of the Bank Al Taqwa—an alleged Al Qaeda funding
conduit.) “After
spending more time in the Middle East, Huber abandoned his earlier pro-Israeli
views with a vengeance. He told the French investigative journalist Pierre Pean
that in 1965 he began to accept the views of the Egyptian-based Grand Mufti of
Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini, who gave Huber ‘a totally different version of the
history and nature of the Third Reich. The Grand Mufti knew Hitler personally
and actively collaborated with the Axis powers in World War II. (The Mufti ws
even responsible for creating the Bosnian-based 13th Waffen SS
Division that was composed of Muslim recruits.) Huber further told Pean that,
while he was in Egypt, he also grew close to Johann von Leers, a fanatical Jew
hater, former Nazi Propaganda Ministry official, and the Grand Mufti’s good
friend. Leers had relocated to Egypt in the mid 1950’s; where he converted to
Islam and changed his name to Umar Amin von Leers. He remained in Cairo until
his death in 1965, helping to direct Nasser’s propaganda apparatus, which
regularly churned out Nazi-like anti-Semitic propaganda throughout the Arab
world.” (“The Mysterious Achmed Huber: Friend to Hitler, Allah and
Ibn Ladin?” by Kevin Coogan; [originally published in Hit List; April/May 2002]; pp. 1-2; accessed at: www.oraclesyndicate.org/pub_e/k.coo_e/publ_05-02_1.htm.
Be sure to check out Coogan’s other essay on Huber, “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
.)
7.
Next, the broadcast highlights Huber’s relationship with key Nazi
banker and agent Francois Genoud. “Back in Switzerland, Huber next became close friends with
the Swiss banker Francois Genoud, whom Huber recalls first meeting in ‘pro-Arab
associations.’ Best known for funding SS butcher Klaus Barbie’s legal defense
team, Genoud held the legal copyright to writings by Hitler, Goebbels and
Martin Bormann. Genoud, who committed suicide in 1996, is also believed to have
played a key role in the postwar management of Nazi funds. In the late 1960’s,
he also worked closely with radical Palestinian groups, particularly the
‘Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine’ (PFLP). Along with organizing
legal support for captured PFLP militants, he even helped coordinate the PFLP’s
hijacking of a Lufthansa Boeing 747 en route from Delhi to Aden. Through his
ties to the PFLP’s leader, Dr. Wadi Haddad (who affectionately dubbed him
‘Sheikh Francois’), Genoud befriended Ilyich Ramirez Sanchez, better known as
‘Carlos the Jackal.’ Both men remained in close contact right up to Genoud’s
death.” (Ibid.; p. 2.)
8.
“At the same
time that Genoud was developing close ties to the leftist PFLP, Huber was
actively promoting pro-Arab views inside the Swiss left. While working as a
Social Democratic journalist whose beat was the Swiss parliament, he became
involved with the Bern Nonconformists. The Nonconformists were a mix of 1960’s
counterculture activists, poets, painters and New Leftists. Inside the
Nonconformists, Huber used leftist rhetoric to push an anti-American,
anti-Israeli, and strongly neutralist line. In the 1970’s, however, he found it
increasingly difficult to operate inside the Left. The Swiss Socialist Party
finally expelled Huber in 1994 for ‘Khomeinism, anti-Feminism, and contact with
radical rightists.’” (Idem.)
9.
“Huber’s
statements regarding September [they endorsed the act] 11 reflect a broader
consensus inside the far right. They also echo the remarks of his friend Horst
Mahler, a former leader of the far left terrorist group, the ‘Rote Armee
Fraktion’ (RAF), also known as ‘The Baader/Meinhof Gang’, who is today a
leading spokesman for the far right Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschland’s
(NPD). Shortly after the WTC attack, Mahler issued a statement entitled
‘Independence Day live’. In it, he argued that 9/11 ‘marked the end of the
American Century, the end of global capitalism’ and with it, the end of the
secular ‘Yahweh-Cult of Mammonism.’ Huber is also a popular speaker at NPD
events. On October 11th, 2000, for example, he addressed the seventh
‘European Congress of the NPD’s youth organization, the Junge
Nationaldemokraten (JN) on the topic ‘Islam and the New Right.’” (Idem.)
10.
More about Huber’s relationship with Francois Genoud: “ . . . During his
many tribulations, Achmed Huber became acquainted with the neo-Nazi banker
Francois Genoud, whose path in life presents a singular summary of the
interconnections, the specific alliances that have been tied and untied between
Islam and the swastika. Pierre Pean, who thoroughly studied the parallel lives
of this enigmatic destiny, interviewed Achmed Huber at length. Huber explained
to him that he is sympathetic to Francois Genoud because ‘everyone jumps on
him.’” (Dollars for Terror:
The United States and Islam; by Richard Labeviere; Copyright 2000 [SC];
Algora Publishing; ISBN 1-892941-06-6; pp. 143-144; visit their website at www.algora.com)
11.
“Still referring
to the neo-Nazi banker, A.H. told Pean, ‘I never asked him any questions, but I
noted that, in circles as different as the German Right, the Islamic movements
of Asia, the Palestinians, and in the Maghreb, people speak of him with great
respect. Everyone told me: he helped us. I have the impression that he played
an important though discreet role. . . . It was I who introduced him to the
Iranians. I said to them: ‘He is a friend, you can trust him.’ Here, in
Switzerland, he was very active in opposing the antiracist law inspired by the
Zionists who wanted to criminalize ‘revisionism’. Genoud was with us.
Officially we lost, but by such a small margin that the law is not applied.’” (Ibid.; p. 144.)
12.
The program reviews an item of discussion from FTR#352. An article in the San
Francisco Chronicle contains an allegation 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?f=/c/a/2002/03/12/MN192483.DTL
.)
13.
Reprising an item of discussion from FTR#357, the program cites the opinion of Ernest Backes (one of
Europe’s foremost experts on money laundering) concerning the role of Francois
Genoud in the development of the events of 9/11. Genoud (who committed suicide
in 1996) was very close to Al Taqwa personages, especially Achmed Huber. According to Backes, Genoud was also a
financial adviser to the Bin Laden family. “Financial expert Ernest Backes of Luxembourg
has [studied] white-collar crime in the field of banking for many years.
According to him, there are indications of unusual transactions with which the
groups [associated with] bin Laden could have earned money. ‘You can, for
example, examine whether, within a certain time period there’s been an attack
against the securities of a given airline company. Since these securities are
safe in a ‘clearing system,’ you can’t get an overall view, who the owner was
at a given time.’ . . .According to
Backes’ information, the trail leads to Switzerland, to the accounts of an
organization that ws founded by the late lawyer Francois Genoud and evidently
still survives. Says Backes, ‘One of the grounds for accusation is that this
Swiss attorney had the closest connections with the Bin Laden family, that he
was an advisor to the family, one of its investment bankers. It’s known for
certain, that he supported terrorism and was the estate executor for Hitler and
part of the terror milieu.’ [Italics are Mr. Emory’s].” (“Insider
Trading Prior to the Terror Attacks in the US?: Speculating on Terror—Who
Profited from the Attacks?” by Rolf Bovier & Pierre Matthias; Bayerische Rundfunk Online (BR-Online);
9/25/2001; accessed at www.br-online.de/gled/plusminus/beitrag/20010925//thema2.html
.)
14.
Before leaving the subject of Genoud, the program reprises an item of
information from FTR#354. The
co-chairman of the board of directors of SICO, the holding company that manages
the Bin Laden business interests in Europe, is Baudoin Dunand, a friend and
professional associate of Francois Genoud. “This company, established by the bin Ladens in 1980, is
the flagship for the group’s activities in Europe. It is headed by Yeslam bin
Laden, and the board of directors is made up almost exclusively of members of
the family clan, except for a Swiss citizen, Baudoin Dunand. This well-known
lawyer from French-speaking Switzerland, who is on the boards of several dozen
companies, came to public notice in 1983 when he agreed to represent the Swiss
banker Francois Genoud, a controversial figure who had been a disciple of
Hitler and sole heir of Goebbels’s copyrights before becoming one of the
financiers of the FLN during the Algerian War. The friendships of the bin
Ladens sometimes seem surprising, but they are logical: Francois Genoud has
always been pro-Arab.” (In the
Name of Osama Bin Laden; by Roland Jacquard; Copyright 2002 [SC]; Duke
University Press; ISBN 0-8223-2991-3; pp. 17-18.)
15.
Reprising information from one of Kevin Coogan’s remarkable essays, the
broadcast highlights some of the possible economic implications of the
Nazi/Islamist connection highlighted in this description. “The overwhelming thrust of this report has
been to give the reader a great deal of empirical information that he or she
may not have easy access to in order that they may evaluate the claims for
themselves. I have avoided drawing any conclusions because I do not feel
qualified to draw conclusions about the Islamist financial machinations this
report discusses. However I find it impossible not to put out a call for
further research involving the overlap between Nazi and Islamist networks that
seem to have been in continual contact from the 1930’s until today. In the case
of Genoud, Huber, and [Muslim Brotherhood kingpin Said] Ramadan, this is
becoming more and more impossible to avoid.” (“Report on Islamists,
The Far Right, and Al Taqwa” by Kevin Coogan; p. 15; available at: www.oraclesyndicate.org/pub_e/k.coo_e/publ_09-02_1.htm.)
16.
“My own belief is
that it is less the apparently fantastic and ‘James Bond’-like quality of this
analysis that is most difficult to understand. The real difficulty is the utter
ignorance of most Westerners (Americans in particular) about the very existence
of such people as Francois Genoud. Thus when Ernst Backes, one of Europe’s
leading experts in money laundering, told the Luxemourg-based economic journal Plus Minus last year that he believed
the financial source of funds for the 9/11 terrorists would ultimately be
traced back to Swiss bank accounts established by Genoud, few Americans had any
idea what Backes could possibly be talking about. For this same reason there
has been virtually no independent investigation into SICO’s Baudoin Dunand’s
relationship to Genoud or (for that matter) the role of Syrian-born Muhammad
Mardam Bay (believed to be related to a former Syrian foreign minister) has played
both as a member of Magnin, Dunand & Associates as well as Bay’s possible
links with Genoud. And what does it mean when we are told that Youssef Nada,
for example, is believed by Egyptian authorities to have worked for German
intelligence in World War II?” (Idem.)
17.
“It is not at all
impossible that networks first developed in the 1930’s and who saw their
economic power fantastically multiplied in the wake of the enormous hike in oil
prices in 1973 are now engaged in trying to enact a major financial shift away
from the dollar and Anglo-American financial networks and to shift the vast
wealth of the Mulim oil states into a new Euro-based financial network that
would vastly increase the power of those banks and financial interests in
Europe associated with elements of far right elites that survived World War II
relatively intact.” (Idem.)
18.
“If this were at
all the case, it would not be a new development. The very same attempt to
develop an independent Saudi-German hookup to subvert the U.S. and British
domination of the Saudi oil markets was actually attempted in the mid-1950’s.
At that time, the Saudi royal family—using the advise of the famous German
banker Hjalmar Schacht—attempted to employ Aristotle Onassis to transport Saudi
oil on new oil tankers that would be constructed in the shipyards of Germany.
This attempt to break the Western oil control over Saudi Arabia was finally
blocked by the United States, a story well documented in Jim Hougan’s book Spooks (New York: William Morrow,
1978.)” (Ibid.; pp. 15-16.)
19.
“The
documentation regarding this complex question is there for anyone who wants to
examine it. Of course I am NOT attempting to suggest a simple mono-causal
explanation for the current crisis. What I am suggesting is that sooner or
later these connections between the far right and groups like the Muslim
Brotherhood that began in the 1930’s and continue today will have to become the
subject of serious and sober research in order to help us shed new light on the
extraordinary circumstances we are living under today.” (Ibid.; p. 16.)
20.
Huber has networked with other American and European fascists and far
rightists, including Gianfrancco Fini, head of the Italian Alleanza Nationale. “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.]” (Ibid.;
pp. 14-15.)
21.
Other Italian fascists from the AN/P-2 milieu are to be found within
the Al Taqwa orbit. “The goal of the meeting with the notary was the founding of
‘al-Taqwa management Organization SA’ that said it would be concerned with
importing and exporting various goods. Taqwa management Organization SA’ that said it would be
concerned with importing and exporting various goods around the world. 333 of
the 1000 shares (at 100 Swiss Francs a share) went to Mohammed Mansour and his
wife. 332 went to Huber. Nada and Himmat took the rest. Mansour was named the
president but rarely was the clause in the contract papers mentioned that each
decision must be co-signed by the minority holders Nada and Himmat . . . Among
the 500 shareholders besides Huber, Himmat and Nada were ‘also a notorious
right extremist from Italy’ [not further identified but this is Alessandro
Karim Abdul Ghe] and three members of the bin Laden family.” (Ibid.; p. 8.)
22.
More about Allessandro Ghe: “Another Connection involves al-Taqwa group shareholder Allesandro Ghe, an Italian radical who has
been questioned by his country’s security forces about his links to Bin Laden.
Ghe was a member of the Italian
neo-fascist ‘Ordine Nuovo’ that began coupling up with Moslem radicals in
the 1970’s, says Ely Karmon.” (“A Terrifying Alliance” by Yael
Haran; 1/14/2002; Enduring-Freedom-Operation.org;
pp. 4-5; accessed at www.enduring-freedom-operation.org/alliance.stm
.) (For more about the links between Ordine Nuovo and the current governing
coalition of Italy, see, among other programs, FTR#’s 307, 320, 321. For more about conduits running between Al
Taqwa and Silvio Berlusconi, see FTR#’s
342, 351, 357, 377.)
23.
The Al Taqwa orbit contains one Gustavo Selva—a parliamentary
representative of Fini’s Alleanza Nationale. “Gustavo Selva belongs to Nasreddin’s wider
circle. The former journalist and today parliamentary member of the post
fascist Partei Alleanza Nationale, Selva was until April 19, 1999, involved in
the Roman-based business, the Arab-Italian Consulting House. Six months before
it went under, on September 18, 1998, a certain Sergio Marini was named the
firm’s official receiver. Marini was, together with the Nasreddin International Group Limited Holdings,
also part of the Milan-registered Line Investment srl. Since 1988, Marini was
CEO of ‘L.I.N.E. Development Light Industry and Environment Development srl’ in
Rome whose administrative director was Abduhrahim Nasreddin along with his
deputy Ghaleb Himmat, himself a founder of Al Taqwa Group.” (“Report
on Islamists, The Far Right, and Al Taqwa” by Kevin Coogan; p. 9; available at:
www.oraclesyndicate.org/pub_e/k.coo_e/publ_09-02_1.htm.)
24.
Another evidentiary tributary leading in the direction of the Italian
far right concerns areas of overlap between the Al Taqwa milieu and that of
Silvio Berlusconi—former member of the fascist P-2 lodge and the head of the
Italian coalition government of which Fini’s AN is part. “The deeper investigators dug, the more
senseless it seemed. For example: The Liechtenstein-registered Nasreddin
International Limited Holdings on October 20, 1994, decided to change its name
to Middle East and Turkey Investment Holding Ltd. And then eight days later it
returned to its original name. There is also the fact that Nasreddin at the
founding of the Nasreddin International Group Limited Holding in January 1997
appointed—next to Dr. Enrico Walser as trustee—of all people the Tessino lawyer
Dr. Ercole Doninelli to the administrative board. Doninelli, until his death,
was seen as the ‘soul’ of the Lugano finance society Fimo that was widely
involved in the financial scandals of the 1990’s. Fimo helped Italians to send
up to 250 million Swiss francs yearly in capital flight. Even more definitive
is the role Fimo has played since 1968 in the financing into the millions the
first projects of the (at the time utterly unknown) construction builder from
Milan, Silvio Berlusconi. The knowledge of how capital from the married pair of
Ercole and Stefania Doninelli went from Eti Holdings in Chiasso to more stops
in the Interchange Bank and from there to Italcantieri, a company headed by two
Berlusconi straw men, finally ended with the mass bankruptcy of Fimo.” (Ibid.; pp. 9-10.)
25.
Another person bridging the worlds of Berlusconi and Al Taqwa is Pier
Felice Barchi, an attorney for both Berlusconi and Yussef Nada. (For more about
Barchi, see FTR#’s 357, 359.) “The Akida Bank of
Nasreddin was also supposed to be concerned with the spreading of Islamic
banking practices. The Lugano-registered affiliate of the bank listed along
with its founder Nasreddin, the Tessino-based Pier Felice Barchi. This attorney
had great experience with rich and influential foreign customers. Barchi was
also concerned with the Tessino financial interests of Italian Prime Minister
Berlusconi and the Saudi minority partner in Berlusconi’s media group Mediaset,
Prince al-Waleed al Talal.” (Ibid.;
pp. 10-11.)
26.
Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl’s kidnapper and killer--Omar
Sheikh--appears to have been heavily influenced by Nazi ideology while waging
jihad in the Balkans. (For more about the Nazi/Islamofascist influence in the
Balkans, see—among other programs—FTR#’s
330, 400, 414, 416.) “ . . . Mr. Levy captures this divide in his book when he
reports that Omar ‘played chess and read Mein Kampf.’ At one point during the
C-Span interview, I asked him about Omar and Mein Kampf: ‘There are those who
say ‘Hitler is dead,’ but among people like Omar—terrorists, jihadists like
him—Hitler is spoken of with affection, right?’ True, Mr. Levy said: According
to the testimony of one of the men he kidnapped in India, Omar ‘was able to
recite entire pages of Mein Kampf by heart.’ Mr. Levy gave a world-weary,
Gallic shrug: ‘Everybody has the poetry he deserves.’ And he went on to add
that Omar was not alone in seeking to finish what Hitler started: ‘You have
today, in Damascus, in Syria, in Libya, some people who think that the
anti-Semitic message of the Nazis was a good message—and has to be completed’ .
. .” (“In Danny Pearl Book, Levy Says Next 9/11 Brewing in Pakistan”
by Ron Rosenbaum; New York Observer;
9/15/2003; accessed at www.nyobserver.com .)
27.
Updating information from FTR#’s
330, 400, 414, the broadcast excerpts the obituary of former Bosnian
president Alija Izetbegovic, highlighting his association with the SS Handzhar
Division in World War II, and the support he received from Osama bin Laden. “ . . .During
World War II, when Bosnia became part of the puppet-Nazi state of the Croatian
Ustashe, Mr. Izetbegovic joined the Young Muslims, a group torn between siding
with the German-sponsored Handzar divisions organized by the German SS or with
the Yugoslav communist partisans led by Josip Broz Tito. Mr. Izetbegovic
supported the Handzars. After Tito’s Communist government was established in
1946, a military court sentenced Mr. Izetbegovic to three years in prison for
his wartime activities. . . .” (“Alija Izetbegovic, Muslim Who Led
Bosnia, Dies at 78” by David Binder; The
New York Times; 10/20/2003; p. 2.)
28.
“ . . . Osama bin
Laden visited him [Izetbegovic] in Sarajevo in 1993 and sponsored some fighters
from Arabic countries to fight on the Muslims’ side in Bosnia, according to a
report in the German magazine Der Spiegel.
. .” (Idem.)
29.
Supplementing previous discussion of the fascist heritage of the
government of Alija Izetbegovic (the first president of Bosnia-Herzegovina),
the broadcast sets forth the background of the first Deputy Defense Minister of
Bosnia-Herzogovina. Like Izetbegovic himself, Cengic was a veteran of the 13th
Waffen SS Division—the Handzar Division. (For more about the subject of the
Balkans wars, see—among other programs—FTR#’s
154, 293, and the other broadcasts noted in the descriptions for them. For
more about Bosnia and Al Qaeda, see—among other programs—FTR#’s 330, 400, 432. For more about the Balkan SS formations,
see—among other programs—FTR#’s 168,
330, 400, 414, 416) “Indicative of Sarajevo’s intentions and priorities is the
appointment in January 1996 of Hasan Cengic to the position of Deputy Defense
Minister: the man in charge of the implementation of the reorganization. A
veteran of the SS Handzar Division during World War II, Cengic is a
close personal friend and confidant of Alija Izetbegovic, especially since the
time they served together in Yugoslav President Tito’s prison. . .” (Some Call It Peace: Waiting for War in the
Balkans; Yossef Bodansky; Copyright 1996 [SC] by Yossef Bodansky; Published
by International Media Corporation Ltd.; ISBN 0-9520070-5-3; p. 39; Note:
Although this book has a distinct ideological bias—Clinton bashing—its
intelligence data on Bosnian military formations is very credible.)
30.
Under Izetbegovic and
Cengic, the Handzar Division was recreated! “ . . .These are the men of the Handzar division. ‘We do
everything with the knife, and we always fight on the frontline.’ A Handzar
told one U.N. officer. Up to 6,000 strong, the Handzar division glories in a
fascist culture. They see themselves as their heirs of the SS Handzar division,
formed by Bosnian Muslims in 1943 to fight for the Nazis. Their spiritual model
was Mohammed Amin al-Hussein, the grand Mufti of Jerusalem who sided with
Hitler. According to U.N. officers, surprisingly few of those in charge of the
Handzars in Fojnica seem to speak good Serbo Croation ‘Many of them are
Albanian, whether from Kosovo (the Serb province where Albanians are the
majority) or from Albania itself.’” (“Albanians and Afghans fight
for the heirs to Bosnia’s SS Past” by Robert Fox; Daily Telegraph; 12/29/1993.)
31.
As we reflect on the Balkans war and the events of 9/11, one of the
scenarios to be seriously considered is the possibility that elements of US
intelligence utilized the “Arab Afghans” (including Al Qaeda) in the Balkans,
as they had against the Soviets in Afghanistan. Indeed the geopolitics first
practiced by the Third Reich in the “Earth Island” appears to have served as
something of a model for what took place in the latter part of the Cold War.
America’s erstwhile Islamist and Islamofascist allies later turned against the
United States with a vengeance. “They are trained and led by veterans from Afghanistan and
Pakistan, say U.N. sources. The strong presence of native Albanians is an
ominous sign. It could mean the seeds of war are spreading south via Kosovo and
into Albania. Thence to the Albanians of Macedonia. Pakistani fundamentalists
are known to have had a strong hand in providing arms and a small weapons
industry for the Bosnian Muslims.” (Idem.)
32.
The broadcast presents more about the recreation of the Handzar
Division under Izetbegovic and Cengic. Note that the division was trained and
led by Afghan and Pakistani veterans. The milieux of Al Qaeda and “Handzar II”
overlap. “Another
major Islamist force remained: the Handzar
Division, named after the 13th SS Handzar Division which served
under the German flag in World War II. The current Handzar Division is
Sarajevo’s Praetorian Guards, and is comprised of a 2,500 to 3,000 elite force
deployed in Sarajevo and a 6,000 to 7,500 strong back-up force at a major
training base around Fojnica, but is moved around to augment major fighting
fronts. The majority of the troops of the Handzar Division come from the
region’s non-Bosnian Muslim minorities, primarily Albanians, and are led by veteran
Pakistani and Afghan experts.” (Some
Call It Peace: Waiting for War in the Balkans; p. 15.)
33.
Relating more about “Handzar II,” the program notes that the foot
soldiers of the unit were largely of Albanian extraction and that they were
engaged in force projection into Kosovo and Macedonia. Another area of Islamist
activism was Kosovo, with the KLA being the beneficiary of Islamist activity.
Many of the combatants in the KLA were the sons and grandsons of members of the
21st Waffen SS or Skanderbeg division. (For more about Islamism and
Kosovo, see—among other programs—FTR#’s
351, 357, 359, 381. For more about the 21st Waffen SS division,
see—among other programs—FTR#’s 161,
330, 414.) “In
mid-1993 Sarajevo revived the Handzar Division
is the Praetorian Guard for President Alija Izetbegovic and other senior
leaders in Sarajevo. The Handzar Division
is comprised of a 2,500 to 3,000 elite force deployed in Sarajevo and a 6,000
to 7,500 strong back-up force in Fojnica.” (Ibid.; p. 158.)
34.
“Significantly,
the majority of the troops of the Handzar
Division are not Bosnian Muslims. Instead, they come from the region’s
other Muslim minorities, primarily Albanians, and are led by veteran Pakistani
and Afghan experts. ‘Surprisingly few of those in charge of the Handzars in Fojnica seem to speak good
Serbo-Croatian. Many of them are Albanian, whether from Kosovo or from Albania
itself,’ explained UN officers in Fojnica. ‘The Handzars are trained and led by veterans from Afghanistan and
Pakistan. The strong presence of native Albanians is an ominous sign. It could
be that the seeds of war are spreading south via Kosovo and into Albania,
thence to the Albanians of Macedonia.’ These observations, made in late 1993,
proved correct.” (Ibid.; pp. 158-159.)
35.
“By 1995, the Handzar Division had been transformed
into a zealot and combat proven special forces. In many cases, particularly in
the surge into western Bosnia-Herzogovina in the Summer-Fall of 1995, they
operated in close cooperation with the mujahedin
units. The deployment of Albanian
veterans and support mujahedin cadres
to Albania began in the Fall of 1995.” (Ibid.; p. 159.)
36.
Neo-Nazi/Islamist Achmed Huber has apparently been active in forming
working relationships between American far-right and Islamist elements as
well—a subject that will be explored at greater length below. “ . . . Recently,
he went to Chicago for a discreet congress that brought together the ‘authentic
Right and the fighters for Islam,’ and he says that ‘major decisions were taken
. . . the reunification is under way.’” (Dollars for Terror; p. 143.)
37.
Next, the program reviews a speech made by William Pierce 1998, the
program sets forth the National Alliance leader’s eerie foreshadowing of the
events of 9/11. (Pierce is the author of The
Turner Diaries and Serpent’s Walk,
discussed in—among other programs—FTR#’s
90, 212, 331, 399, and the series about “German Corporate Control of the
American Media.”) Pierce spoke of Osama bin Laden attacking tall buildings,
such as the World Trade Center, and the coming of bio-terrorism to the U.S. This is but one indication that the
relationship between Islamists and neo-Nazis sought by Huber had become a
reality—whether or not Huber was the one who cemented its genesis. Note that
the National Alliance and the German NPD (with which Huber is affiliated) are
very close. (For more about this, see—among other programs—FTR#335). “Upon perusing his speeches from 1998-99, I discovered that
Pierce, who heads the so-called ‘National Alliance,’ did indeed utter some most
interesting (pre-Sept. 11th--if not prophetic—remarks about Osama
bin Laden and bio-terrorism. The running theme in Pierce’s commentaries is—to
paraphrase his hero Hitler—that Osama Bin Laden’s warning to America is ‘I Am
Coming.’ And so is bio-terrorism.” (“Neo-Nazis
and 9/11” by Jack McCarthy; Counterpunch;
10/29/2001; accessed at www.counterpunch.org/mccarthypierce.html .)
38.
“In one chilling
commentary Pierce, (after noting that Bin Laden and the rest of the lost
generation of angry Moslem youth had it with their parents’ compromises and
were hell bent on revenge against infidel America) issued this stark, prophetic
warning in a 1998 radio address titled, ‘Stay
Out of Tall Buildings.’ ‘New Yorkers
who work in tall office buildings anything close to the size of the World Trade
Center might consider wearing hard hats . . .’ Pierce warned. . . .
[Italics are Mr. Emory’s].” (Idem.)
39.
Next, reviewing information from FTR#399,
the broadcast highlights the similarity between the events of 9/11 and the
concluding episode of The Turner Diaries—the
blueprint for Timothy McVeigh and company, as well as the Nazi terror group The
Order. That Nazi tract (authored by the above-mentioned William Pierce)
concludes with a low-level suicide aerial attack against the Pentagon. “I conferred
privately with Major Williams of the Washington Field Command for more than an
hour on the problem of attacking the Pentagon. The military’s other major
command centers were either knocked out on September 8 or subsequently
consolidated with the Pentagon, which the top brass apparently regards as
impregnable. And it damned near is. We went over every possibility we could
think of, and we came up with no really convincing plan—except, perhaps one. That
is to make an air delivery of a bomb.” (The Turner Diaries; “Andrew Macdonald;” Barricade Books, Inc. [SC]
1996; Copyright 1978, 1980 William Pierce; ISBN 1-56980-086-3; p. 201.)
40.
“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.” (Idem.)
41.
“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 act without
further delay.” (Idem.)
42.
It is worth noting that The
Turner Diaries features the climactic attack on the Pentagon as occurring
on November 9th. That date had great significance for the Nazis. The
German sailors’ rebellion that precipitated the advent of the Weimar Republic
so hated by the Nazis began on 11/9. Attempting to roll back the Weimar revolution,
the Nazis launched the ill-fated Beer Hall Putsch on that date, as well. Die
Krystallnacht (the Night of Glass pogrom) of 1938 was launched on that date
also. Interestingly, the Berlin Wall came down on November 9. A German (or other European) would write
the date November 9 as—9/11! “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.)
43.
“Thus end Earl
Turner’s diaries, as unpretentiously as they began. His final mission was
successful, of course, as we all are reminded each year on November 9—our
traditional Day of the Martyrs.” (Ibid.; p. 205.)
44.
A German paper on the neo-Nazi/Islamist connection discusses dialogue
written by Pierce in The Turner Diaries.
The protagonist of this book (expressing the views of William Pierce, the
book’s author) rants about his desire to see the “100 floors of the skyscraper
fall.” Recall that—as seen above—the book also has a scene eerily like the
attack on the Pentagon and that Pierce himself foreshadowed the attacks in a
1998 radio broadcast. “47 years later the Hitler worshipper William Pierce (born
1933) tells in his right-wing terrorist novel “The Turner Diaries” of a right-wing extremist Kamikaze-ing an
airplane into the Pentagon. In an apocalyptic scene Pierce rejoices over the
destruction of the center of the world capital-contaminated, Jewish-dominated
New York. The neo-Nazi, writing under the alias Andrew MacDonald, says he
desires to see the ‘100 floors of the skyscraper’ fall. Pierce’s book [The Turner Diaries] is a utopian
fantasy, promoted as a neo-nazi Bible world-wide, as the publication of the
diaries of the US-American right-wing extremist Earl Turner found in the years
2091 during excavations of the ruins of Washington, 100 years after the
national revolution of 1991-93.” (“The
Unholy Alliance Between the Swastika and the Crescent, Part I—Neo Nazis and
Fundamentalist Islam” by Anton Maegerle; 12/12/2001; p. 2; accessed at http://www.idgr.de/texte-1/rechtsextremismus/neonazi-arab/unheilige-allianz.html
.)
45.
Next, the broadcast recaps information first presented in FTR#386, concerning the alleged presence of Oklahoma City bomber Terry
Nichols at a bomb-making and logistics planning seminar in the Philippines.
Also present at this seminar were Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the first
World Trade Center attack and Hakim Murad, another of the conspirators in the
first World Trade Center attack. The account comes from Edwin Angeles, the
co-founder of Abu Sayyaf, the Al Qaeda affiliate in the Philippines. As
discussed in FTR#92, Angeles had
been subpoenaed as a defense witness by Timothy McVeigh’s counsel in the
Oklahoma City bombing case. (McVeigh, Nichols and company were inspired by
Pierce’s Turner Diaries. According to
Carol Howe—an ATF informant who passed a polygraph examination—McVeigh’s
participation in the Oklahoma City bombing was as a protégé of Andreas
Strassmeier, a former German Army intelligence officer, son of Gunther
Strassmeier—the son of Helmut Kohl’s chief of staff and the architect of German
reunification. Gunther, in turn, was the son of one of the early members of the
German Nazi party under Adolph Hitler.) Another important detail to note in the
passages that follow is that another of the topics allegedly discussed by the
conspirators is Operation Bojinka—said to be the operational template for the
9/11 attacks. (For more about the Oklahoma City bombing, see—among other
programs--FTR#’s 88, 97, 109, 228, 373, 380,
386, 405, 443, 450.
For more about the links between the Oklahoma City attack and the first World
Trade Center attack, see, among other programs, FTR#’s 330, 354, 357, 386, 443, 450.) “(NOTE: Basilan Provincial Information Officer Christopher
Puno was present in the ward at Basilan Community Hospital when I [Sicat] interviewed
Elmina Abdul, less than two weeks prior to her death.) Elmina Abdul, widow of
one of the Abu Sayyaf co-founders, Edwin Angeles, died in the pre-dawn hours of
Saturday, March 30. Ten days before she died, she talked with this writer in
confidence while lying on her deathbed at Basilan community Hospital. I was the
last, if not the only reporter, to ever talk with her.” (“Deathbed Confession: Abu
Part of Oklahoma Blast’ by Dorian Zumel Sicat; Manilla Times; 4/2/2002; accessed at http://www.manillatimes.net/national/2002/apr/02/top_stories/20020402top9.html
.)
46.
“ . . . Among the
most interesting revelations that Angeles shared with Elmina was about a
meeting between himself, Ramsey Yousef, Abdul Murad (both of whom are now
serving multiple prison terms for terrorist activities, including the first
World Trade Center bombing in 1993), Abdurajak Abubakar Jannalani, unidentified
members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), 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 whom
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 Caucasians in the country as Americans.) The meeting,
according to Elmina took place in 1994, She could not remember the exact date.”
(Idem.)
47.
“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.)
48.
“Elmina also
told me that before he was gunned down, Edwin showed her documents that proved
that he actually was a deep-cover agent for the Department of National Defense.
He said that those documents were presented in court in his defense and that
was the reason that he was acquitted of the charges against him. That is a
matter of record. But since I have never seen the documents, I will not name
the ‘high ranking’ Defense officials whose signatures were said to appear on those
documents.” (Idem.)
49.
“Angeles also
told Elmina about Project Bojenko, an [allegedly] Iraqi-financed operation of
terror that targeted several buildings in the U.S., the bombing of several US
airliners, bombing US embassies overseas, and hitting other 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.)
50.
“ . . . Was there
an international conspiracy of terror forged in a meeting in an abandoned
warehouse in 1994 that included Angeles and Nichols, who he referred to as ‘the
Farmer?’ Did that conspiracy include members of Al-Qaeda and the Iraqi
government (or at least Iraqis)? Does the ASG actually receive financial and
material assistance from Al-Qaeda and [or] Iraq in order to carry on its
campaign of terror? Elmina did not give precise, clear answers to those
questions. She was relating what Angeles had told her not long before he died.”
(Idem.)
51.
“There is one
thing clear: Edwin Angeles did meet with Nichols and another ‘American’ along
with some state-sponsored international terrorists. Elmina knew that she was
dying. She knew that all our efforts to help her recover would not be enough to
save her. She told what she knew to be the truth, as her husband told it to
her.” (Idem.)
52.
Next, the program reviews information from FTR#373. A 2002 article focuses on 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, 386, 405, 443, 450.) 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, 373, 386, 443.) 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. Atta and associates were also reportedly interested in pursuing
crop dusting aircraft—the type of plane used in the attack on the Pentagon in The Turner Diaries. “What happened at the nondescript roadside
motel outside Oklahoma City was just 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 http://www.laweekly.com/ink/02/36/news-crogan.php
.)
53.
“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.)
54.
“ . . . The motel
co-owner, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the incident occurred
around August 1, 2001, just six weeks before 9/11.‘They came in around 10 or
11a.m. and started talking to my desk clerk,’ he said. Even though he was
working about 10 feet away from the trio, the owner didn’t really pay any
attention at first. ‘They were asking my clerk, who no longer works here, about
a weekly rate for our rooms.’ (The former clerk could not be reached for
comment.) . . .” (Ibid.; p. 2.)
55.
“ . . .The motel
owner said that Moussaoui and a man who appeared to be Marwan al-Shehhi—who
helped crash a jetliner into the south tower of the World trade Center—were
friendly and said a few things, but Atta was clearly the leader. ‘He did most
of the talking and seemed very serious,’ said the owner, adding, ‘I was
standing face to face, about two feet away from Atta, and talked to the three
of them for about 10 minutes. Atta asked if he could rent one of the other
rooms at a weekly rate, and I told him no.” (Idem.)
56.
“ ‘I asked him
what they were doing here in the area. And Atta told me they were going to
flight school. I thought he meant [Federal Aviation Administration] training in
Oklahoma City. But Atta told me no, they were taking flight training in
Norman.” (Idem.)
57.
“ ‘I said I
didn’t understand why they wanted to rent one of my rooms, since we were about
28 miles from Norman and there are a lot of reasonably priced motels a lot
closer. But he said they had heard good things about my place and wanted to
stay there. I told them I was sorry, but we couldn’t accommodate them. Atta
finally said okay. Then they all thanked me for my time and left.’ . . .” (Idem.)
58.
“After the
attacks, said the motel owner, he recognized his visitors in photos from
television reports. ‘I was really stunned,’ he said. Then he decided to call
the FBI hot line. The motel owner said he didn’t hear right back from the FBI.
In the interim, he also spoke to a former law-enforcement officer who was
investigating reported sightings of Mujahid Abdulquaadir Menepta at the same
motel during the mid-1990’s. Menepta, reportedly a friend of Moussaoui’s, was
arrested 30 years ago in Colorado for aggravated robbery and served more than
three years in prison.”(Idem.)
59.
“After September
11, Menepta publicly defended Moussaoui, calling him a ‘scapegoat.’ The FBI
arrested him as a material witness and subsequently charged Menepta with a
federal gun violation. He pleaded guilty and in April 2002 was sentenced to 15
months in federal prison. He was never charged
with any terrorism-related crime. But during the preliminary hearing on the gun
charge, Alcohol, Tobacco and firearms Agent Jeffrey Whitney testified that a
confidential source placed Menepta at a meeting of a radical Islamic group in
St. Louis where he allegedly threatened to shoot any police officer who entered
the mosque. Menepta’s attorney challenged the credibility of this report in
court.” (Ibid.;
pp. 2-3.)
60.
“A former desk
clerk at the motel—a different clerk from the one who purportedly dealt with
Atta and Moussaoui—told the Weekly
that he remembered Menepta because in 1994 and 1995—prior to the Oklahoma City
attack—Menepta frequently visited the motel office. There, he bought coffee and
talked for hours to this clerk.” (Ibid.; p. 3.)
61.
“The clerk and
his wife, who both formerly worked at the motel, said they picked Menepta’s
picture out of a photo lineup prepared by a law-enforcement officer who had
interviewed the motel owner. This officer, who also spoke to the Weekly on condition of anonymity, said
that after the motel owner told him about the Moussaoui sighting, he contacted
a member of Oklahoma’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, which includes the FBI. The
FBI finally acted on the tip. The motel owner said that on December 19, 2001,
he went to FBI offices in Oklahoma City for a formal interview, where he was
debriefed by an FBI agent and by Oklahoma City Police Sergeant Jerry Flowers.
‘We talked for several hours, and I told them everything I knew.’ The motel
owner said he would have taken a polygraph exam but was not asked to do so. The
Weekly’s law-enforcement source
corroborates the December 19 interview. . . .”(Idem.)
62.
“ . . . One
reason for the FBI’s apparent lack of interest might be this motel’s alleged
connection to Timothy McVeigh and a group of Iraqis who worked in Oklahoma
City. According to the motel owner and other witnesses and investigators
interviewed by the Weekly, McVeigh
and several of these Iraqis were motel guests in the months preceding the 1995
bombing. Witnesses also claimed they saw several of the Iraqis moving barrels
of material around on the bed of a truck. The motel owner said the material
smelled of diesel fuel and he had to clean up a spill. Diesel fuel was a key
component of the truck bomb that blew up the Federal Building.” (Idem.)
63.
“The motel owner
said he and his staff reported this information to the FBI in 1995.‘We did have
an ATF agent come out and collect the originals of the room registrations for
that period, but we never heard back from them. And I never could get the
registrations returned.’ He added that his previous experience with the FBI
made him reluctant to contact them about Moussaoui. ‘But I decided it was my
duty to tell them what had happened. So I did.’” (Idem.)
64.
Next, the program reviews information supplementing the examination of
neo-Nazi connections to the events of 9/11. Specifically, the program develops
information supplemental to FTR#443,
detailing connections between the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the Oklahoma
City bombing, and 9/11. Andreas Strassmeir, the alleged mastermind of the OKC
bombing and Timothy McVeigh’s alleged superior in the operational aspects of
the attack is alleged in a 5/10/1995 FBI memorandum to have sought the purchase
of a Boeing 747 from Lufthansa. The possibility that this may be an indication
that neo-Nazis and Islamists were cooperatively plotting attacks like 9/11 in
the mid-1990’s is not one to be too readily dismissed. “ . . . Extremists residing at Elohim City
received military-style training from a number of sources. One of the trainers
there was Andreas Carl Strassmeir of Germany, a neo-Nazi and the son of Guenter
Strassmeir, a chief aide of disgraced former German chancellor Helmut Kohl. The
elder Strassmeir is widely regarded as the architect of Kohl’s reunification
plan that merged the former East Germany with the Federal Republic in 1991. And
Guenter’s father was one of the original members of the Nazi Party in the early
1920’s.” (“Al Qaeda’s Neo-Nazi Connections” by William Grim; The Jewish Press; p. 3; accessed at: http://www.virtualjerusalem.com/news/infocus/?disp_feature=Ev2ztq.var
.)
65.
“Andreas
Strassmeir is important to this story because he not only became a close friend
and confidant of Timothy McVeigh, but also because he is regarded by many
investigators as John Doe #2, the unknown person assisting McVeigh and Terry
Nichols at the scene of the Oklahoma City bombing who was seen by a number of
eyewitnesses.” (Ibid.; pp. 3-4.)
66.
“In addition to
training various neo-Nazi and militia groups, Strassmeir was involved in a
number of very curious activities. According to an FBI report dated May 10,
1995, ‘Additional documents reveal that at one time Strassmeir was attempting
to purchase a 747 aircraft from Lufthansa; however, the reason for the purchase
is not reflected in the documents.’ In 1995 it would not have been unreasonable
for an FBI investigator to give Strassmeir’s aborted airliner purchase merely
passing notice. In light of 9/11, however, it gives one pause and raises the
real possibility that 9/11 type attacks were being planned as far back as 1995
by insiders in the neo-Nazi/Islamic terrorist network. . . .” (Ibid.; p. 4.)
67.
Next, the broadcast presents information about alleged Aryan Nations
participation in the events of 9/11. (The subject of Islamist/neo-Nazi
cooperation in the Triple Border area of Latin America will be dealt with at
greater length in FTR#457.) “ . . . And there
were Americans at the camp as well. Risi learned about one of them and on
January 12, 1996, he says, he took a polygraph test and made a statement to the
Federal Court in Buenos Aires testifying to everything he knew about this
American. The man—whose name also won’t be divulged—is an ex-Special Forces
soldier who had been a communications expert in Vietnam and had seen combat
there. He returned home to join the Michigan Militia, then converted to Islam,
worked in Jordan, and became associated with another American, who had been
investigated by the D.E.A. for activities in Central America. Now, according to
Risi, the Vietnam vet, who speaks Spanish, is in Triple Border with two other
American extremists, acting as an instructor at one of the terrorist training
camps. He is also responsible for security operations and provided armed guards
when top al-Qaeda and Hezbollah associates—in particular, Muganiyah—were in
town.” (“Terrorism’s New Geography” by Sebastian Junger; Vanity Fair; December/2002; p. 205.)
68.
“According to
Risi, the man had also been in the United States on September 11 and had
provided logistical support to Atta before the attacks. . . . According to
Risi, Aryan Nations had people in Triple Border as early as 1985, and they were
cooperating with Islamic extremists in the United States. (Stephen Jones, the
chief defense lawyer for timothy McVeigh, suspects that convicted Kuwaiti
terrorist Ramzi Yousef supplied technical expertise in the 1995 Oklahoma City
Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombing.) . . .” (Idem.)
69.
Reviewing the history of the World Muslim Congress (founded by the
Grand Mufti), the broadcast details some of its fascist history—a history that
embodies the synthesis of Third Reich-related elements, neo-Nazis and Middle
Eastern oil kingdom money. It is this synthesis that is at the foundation of
the elements that we are examining in this broadcast and description. (For more
about this history, see—among other programs—FTR#’s 367, 369, 404.) “Another favorite IHR speaker and collaborator was Issah
Nakleh of the World Muslim Congress (WMC). Based in Pakistan, the WMC was
initially headed by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who, like his friend H. Keith
Thompson, stood by the Third Reich until his death in 1974. A few years later,
the WMC, then headed by Pakistani Dr. Inamullah Kahn, mailed Holocaust-denial
literature to every member of the U.S. Congress and the British Parliament. The
WMC’s official mouthpiece, Muslim World, carried the ads for The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and
Henry Ford’s The International Jew.
Dr. Khan’s congress also published Freemasonry,
a book warning that Jews were using lodge members to extend secret control over
religion and society—a paranoid theory that has long been popular among Liberty
Lobby supporters and neo-Nazi groups around the world. Acknowledging their
political kinship, WMC secretary-general Khan sent a letter to the Spotlight praising its ‘superb in-depth
analysis’ and stating that the paper deserved ‘the thanks of all right-minded
people.’ Dr. Khan also served as an advisor to the Saudi Arabian royal family,
which lavished funds on the WMC. In addition, the Saudi Arabian government
retained the services of American neo-nazi William Grimstead as a Washington
lobbyist. . .Soon, the World Muslim Congress began working closely with U.S.
intelligence and Pakistani military officials, who were covertly supporting the
Afghan mujahideen in their fight against the Soviet-installed regime in Kabul.
This effort was strongly endorsed by Dr. Khan, who served for many years as the
Pakistani representative of the Nazi-infested World Anti-Communist League,
which played an important role in the Reagan administration’s ‘secret war’ in
the Golden Crescent.”(The
Beast Reawakens; Martin A. Lee; Copyright 1997 [HC]; Little, Brown &
Co.; ISBN 0-316-51959-6; pp. 225-226.)
70.
Another possible indication
of Nazi/Islamist cooperation concerns Mohammed Atta’s German connections, which
appear to have been numerous and significant. “A year-long MadCowMorningNews investigation has uncovered evidence that at
least seven of Mohamed Atta’s closest associates in Florida during the year
leading up to the 9/11 attack were not Arab, but German. The names of the
seven, all pilots, have not surfaced in any press accounts of Atta’s stay in
the U.S., nor has their existence been mentioned or alluded to in official
statements. Traveling with Atta, or meeting him around the state, Atta’s German
friends appeared to share a relationship with him of long-standing, according
to eyewitnesses, dating back to his days in Hamburg. The meetings, in places
like key West and Miami, were apparently very serious business; when they
returned, said someone who was there, Atta and his German associates ‘always
came back glum.’ Only one of the seven is still in the U.S.; five live in
Germany or Switzerland. The seventh, with whom Atta reportedly traveled
extensively, has a criminal record in Germany, and today lives in Saudi Arabia.
The identities of the seven German nationals were pieced together from
information gleaned in interviews with Atta’s one-time American girlfriend,
corroborated by independent aviation sources in Venice and Naples, FL. . .” (“9/11:
The German Connection” by Daniel Hopsicker; p. 1; accessed at www.MadCowMorningNews.com
.)
71.
The article stresses the structural similarity of Atta’s German
associates with the background of Andreas Strassmeir, alleged mastermind of the
Oklahoma City bombing and associate of Timothy McVeigh. “ . . . Strassmeir’s father was once a top
aide to German Chancellor Helmut Kohl; Atta’s German friends are all children
of the German elite. But before delving further into Atta’s German connections,
there were two other related developments in Florida last week. In the first,
the former owner of the terror flight school in Venice, FL., Rudi Dekkers, was
arrested last week on a single count of felony fraud, and booked into the
Collier County jail in Naples, FL.” (Ibid.; p. 2.)
72.
Both of the men running the flying schools in Florida that trained the
hijackers were Dutch nationals. Might
this have some connection to the Thyssen-Bornemisza link to the Netherlands
described in FTR#370? “As the MadCowMorningNews has been reporting, suspicious and often illegal
activities were commonplace occurrences at Dekkers-owned flight schools at the
same time the schools were training a veritable ‘Who’s Who’ of Hamburg cadre
terrorists. Now the arrest of the controversial Dutch national comes amid
indications from authorities that Federal agencies involved in the 9/11
investigation are taking a closer look at Dekker’s business activities in
Florida during the past decade, fueling speculation he might become the first
non-Arab charged in a wider 9/11 conspiracy than has so-far been revealed. . .
.Posing for a new mug shot is the latest in a series of reversals suffered
recently by the Venice ‘Magic Dutch Boy,’ so-called because he is one of two
Dutch nationals who owned flight schools at the Venice Airport which each—by
apparent freak coincidence—ended up training terrorists to fly. . .” (Idem.)
73.
Is someone working to silence Dekkers and Kruithof? “ . . . Then, too
Dekker’s helicopter crashed recently, while he was en route to a showdown
meeting with partner Wally Hilliard over control of Huffman Aviation. In
another freak coincidence, owner of the second Dutch-owned flight school at the
Venice Airport, Arne Kruithof, also suffered a near-fatal aviation mishap last
summer when his plane fell from a hundred feet in the air onto the runway of
the Venice Airport. It appears as if both would be well-advised to stay away
from open windows.” (Ibid.; pp. 2-3.)
74.
“The German
element arrived in Florida with ‘Wolfgang’ in 1996. Prior to arriving in Naples
he was associated with an organization called ‘The Flying Club of Munich.’
‘Wolfgang showed up from Munich in the mid-1990’s and immediately began
operating a flight school illegally in ’96,’ stated an aviation source in
Naples. ‘He’s half Swiss, half German.’ Wolfgang was instrumental in bringing
another of Atta’s German associates to Florida, a pilot named ‘Stephan,’ who we
were to learn has done jail time in Germany, was on parole there when he came
to the U.S., and recently spent a year in Gundogdu, Turkey.” (Ibid.; p. 3.)
75.
“While regular
German flight students struggle to obtain the necessary visas, Wolfgang and
Stephan apparently had inside connections which smoothed their progress.
‘Sometimes it makes me mad that a criminal gets preference,’ stated one German
national flight instructor in Naples with obvious bitterness. ‘Wolfgang signed
off on Stephan’s books, and Stephan also got in on a fraudulent business
investor’s visa.’ ‘Wolfgang was in his thirties,’ says Amanda Keller, who lived
with Atta during March and April of 2001. ‘He and Wolfgang were very tight,
they went everywhere together. When he came into the picture they were together
all the time. . .’” (Idem.)
76.
“Strangely,
Keller also states that Atta always spoke German with Wolfgang, a statement contradicted
by the testimony of Rudi Dekkers, who told a Congressional Committee that when
he addressed him in German, Atta had merely looked at him strangely . . . Newsweek says its sources say the
unnamed country is Saudi Arabia. That may prove to be at least partly correct;
still, there are few, if any, Saudis named ‘Wolfgang.’ Newsweek should keep digging.” (Ibid.; pp. 3-4.)
77.
A riveting allegation about Mohammed Atta’s German connections is
featured on investigative reporter Daniel Hopsicker’s website. Be sure to check it out. (For more
about Hopsicker’s research into Atta’s German connections, see FTR#’s 404, 405.) Atta was apparently
trafficked around under the stewardship of the Carl Duisberg
Gesellschafft—named after one of the most important officials of I.G. Farben.
(Farben was the firm at the core of the Third Reich’s industrial structure and
principally involved in the financing of Hitler. For more about the I.G.,
see—among other programs—Miscellaneous
Archive Show M11, RFA#’s 1, 2—available from Spitfire. In addition, see—among other programs—FTR#’s 305, 385, 411.) “For at least
four years while living in Hamburg during the 1990’s terrorist ringleader
Mohamed Atta was part of a ‘joint venture’ between the U.S. and German
Governments, the MadCowMorning News has learned, an elite international
‘exchange’ program run by a little-known private organization with close ties
to powerful American political figures like David Rockefeller and former
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The jointly-funded government effort picked
up the tab for Atta on sojourns in Cairo, Istanbul, and Aleppo in Syria during
the years 1994 and 1995 and employed him as a ‘tutor’ and ‘seminar participant’
during 1996 and 1997.” (“Atta
Worked for Elite US-German Exchange Program” by Daniel Hopsicker;
MadCowMorningNews; 4/24/2003; p. 1; accessed at www.madcowprod.com/index47a.htm.
)
78.
Note that Atta’s German sponsorship may have dated to 1992. “Moreover Atta’s
financial relationship with the U.S.-German government effort may even have
extended back to his initial move from Egypt to Germany in 1992, after being
‘recruited’ in Cairo by a mysterious German couple dubbed the ‘hijacker’s
sponsors’ in a recent news account in the Chicago
Tribune. In the years before he became a ‘terrorist ringleader,’ Atta was
enjoying the patronage of a government initiative overseen by the U.S. State
Department and the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, the
German equivalent of the U.S. Agency currently supervising the secretive
bidding race for tens of billions of dollars of post-war reconstruction
contracts in Iraq, the Agency for International Development.” (Idem.)