Thursday, August 4, 2011

Rather moonbatter.......

Than Tea Fag! Yep. How politically retarded are tea fags? They don't
even know who Lothrop Stoddard is? They think the Koch brothers are
libtarian rebels when they are white supremacist plutocrats! One tea
fag said they were Jewish! HA! HA! HEE! HEE! HO! HO! HA! HA! SARA
Palin Followers!!!!!! By the way, Liberal is tea fag code for Jewish.
Socialist is code word for Nigger! Silly white people!
WHAOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Hillary Clinton to Help Muslims Ban Free Speech

 






Hillary Clinton to host OIC to discuss 'defamation of Islam' implementation

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via The Death of the Grown-Up | Diana West > Home – Hillary's Headache: How to Shred the First Amendment.

The International Islamic News Agency (never heard of it before; get used to it a la "Gallup Abu Dhabi") reported on August 1, which, as the dateline notes, is also Ramadan 1 (or vice versa):

JEDDAH, Ramadan 1/Aug 1 (IINA)-During the next few months, Washington plans to host a coordination meeting to discuss with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) how to implement resolution no. 16/18 on combating defamation of religions, and how to prevent stereotypes depicting religions and their followers; as well as disseminating religious tolerance [sic], which has been endorsed by the UN Human Rights Council last March, in agreement with Western countries.

"Defamation of religions" is OIC-speak for "criticism of Islam."

The resolution was adopted after lengthy discussions held between the OIC and countries in which the phenomenon of Islamophobia is in the rise.

Why would that be?

The U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had announced the intention of the U.S. State Department to organize a coordination meeting during her participation in the meeting which she co-chaired with the OIC Secretary General, Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu in Istanbul on 15 July 2011. The meeting issued a joint statement emphasizing the dire need for the implementation of resolution 16/18.

According to informed sources in the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the two sides, in addition to other European parties, will hold a number of specialized meetings of experts in law and religion in order to finalize the legal aspect on how to better implement the UN resolution.

The sources said that the upcoming meetings aim at developing a legal basis for the UN Human Rights Council's resolution which help in enacting domestic laws for the countries involved in the issue, as well as formulating international laws preventing inciting hatred resulting from the continued defamation of religions.

That would be international laws against criticism of Islam.

In other words, the OIC is attempting to extinguish the democratic opposition to the end of Western civ — in itself what the OIC might someday call " defamatory democracy." And Hillary it seems, has decided to help.

 

 


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Bay of Pigs Top Secret CIA Documents Just Released and Available






 

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The CIA on August 1, 2011 made available several volumes of its formerly Top Secret official history of the Bay of Pigs invasion titled, "Official History of the Bay of Pigs Operation." This CIA Bay of Pigs official history was compiled between 1974 and 1984. Three volumes of this five volume report were not available to the public until August 1, 2011. One volume became publicized in 2005. The fifth volume is still Top Secret and has not been released by the CIA.

1,582 pages of the CIA Bay of Pigs Official History can be downloaded for free at:

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Twelve years after the failed invasion, CIA director William Colby commissioned CIA historians to produce an official history of the operation. On August 8, 1973, Colby's direction to the CIA history staff was that he wanted a report that would, "develop accurate accounts of certain of CIA's past activities in terms suitable for inclusion in Government-wide historical and declassification programs, while protecting intelligence sources and methods." Nine years later, CIA historian Jack Pfeiffer completed the task in five volumes. Pfeiffer conducted interviews with many CIA operatives and officials. He and his staff had access to thousands of pages of CIA documents.

Highlights from the currently available CIA history on the Bay of Pigs include:

Details of planned and actual use of air power during the operation.

The negotiations with and cooperation by Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Panama in the invasion.

Coverage of numerous controversial Bay of Pigs episodes including the role of Adlai Stevenson, the cancellation of the "Second Strike," the US Navy's air combat role on 19 April 1961, and the record of action and decisions of the principals most closely involved in the operations.

The role of Vice President Richard Nixon. The report shows that Nixon intervened in the planning of the invasion on behalf of William Pawley. A top Republican Party and Nixon campaign contributor, Pawley was a wealthy businessman who owned enterprises in Cuba. Pawley had previously been ambassador to Brazil and Peru.

One volume refers to a November 15, 1960 meeting of the Task Force overseeing the invasion planning. This meeting was convened to prepare a briefing for President-elect John Kennedy. The minutes of the meeting seem to show the Task Force was having doubts that the operation would succeed. The report quotes the minutes, "Our original concept is now seen to be unachievable in the face of the controls Castro has instituted." The report further accounts, "Our second concept (1,500-3000 man force to secure a beach with airstrip) is also now seen to be unachievable, except as a joint Agency/DOD action." According to the CIA official history, this opinion was never shared with Kennedy.

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Democrats announce nudism is the new green industry in Weingergate II... http://soc.li/wSjWziN


Democrats announce nudism is the new green industry in Weingergate II... 

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The beeyotch set him up!!

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**JP** Fw: PakNationalists - Dr. Fai Stages A Comeback From Behind US Bars






   

Kashmiri Dr. Fai Stages A Comeback Despite Pressure From Indian Lobby In Washington

Indian-occupied Kashmir's face in Washington DC vows from behind American bars to continue the struggle to expel India's occupation army from his native Kashmir 'in days, weeks, months and years to come.'

SPECIAL REPORT | Thursday | 4 August 2011
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WASHINGTON, DC—Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai, an American advocate of ending India's occupation of Kashmir, staged a surprise comeback today, vowing in a message that his struggle for ending Indian occupation of Kashmir will "continue…for years to come" despite efforts by India and pro-India elements in US capital to have him arrested and detained last month.

The surprise message came as US authorities continue to detain him on trumped up charges of receiving money from Pakistan. The list of charges against Dr. Fai includes working for Pakistan's premier spy arm, the ISI.

Pakistani and international analysts have said singling out ISI by US prosecutors appears to be an act of revenge by CIA. The American spy service is exacting revenge from its Pakistani counterpart as frustration grows in Washington at CIA's failure to stabilize Afghanistan in a decade.

"CIA has run Afghanistan for a decade," a congressional aide sympathetic to Kashmiri cause told PakNationalists.com. "Now when things are falling apart there for our country, Langley is looking for scapegoats."

The congressional staffer requested his name not be mentioned.

Although behind bars, Dr. Fai's statement was formally released online by the Kashmiri American Council, or KAC, which is run by Kashmiri-Americans who trace their roots to parts of Kashmir that lie today under Indian military occupation. Working on a budget considered peanuts by the standards of lobbying groups in the US capital, the KAC has managed on many occasions to drown the voices of Indians and their American lobbyists, offering an alternate version to the Indian storyline on the activities of its military and paramilitary forces in the occupied region, where more than half a million Indian soldiers are present at any given time.

In the statement, Dr. Fai quotes President Abraham Lincoln, avoids directly criticizing those who ran a smear campaign in the US media against the Kashmiri freedom struggle, and subtly reminds Washington's political establishment of US commitment to helping occupied peoples fight tyranny.

Here is the full text of his brief statement:

"It has been my lifelong commitment to the people of the State of Jammu & Kashmir, irrespective of their religious background and cultural affiliations, to help achieve the right of self-determination to decide their future. God willing! I will continue to do that in days, weeks, months and years to come.

Given the traditional support of the United States to the basic principles of fundamental freedoms and democratic processes;  given the personal vision of President Barack Obama about the region of South Asia which includes Pakistan, India, Afghanistan and Kashmir; given the traditional bipartisan expression of support by the United States Administration to the issue of Kashmir that 'India and Pakistan must resolve the issue of Kashmir after taking into account the wishes and aspirations of the people'; and given the indigenous, nonviolent and peaceful nature of the movement initiated by the people of Kashmir, in particular since June 2008 and thankfully sustaining that until today, I say with fullest possible consciousness that the people of Jammu & Kashmir have no reason to fear that the world powers in general, and the United States in particular, will let them down.

President Abraham Lincoln has said it the best, "The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."

FBI arrested Dr. Fai on July 21, charging him of receiving funding from a foreign spy agency to influence US government and legislators on Kashmir. The arrest coincided with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to India and appeared to be an attempt to placate the Indians in order to secure a multibillion dollar Indian contract for fighter jets.

The arrest could also be an attempt to compensate the Indians for curtailing their security and intelligence presence in US-controlled Afghanistan in recent months. Many officials in the US government feel giving India a free hand in the occupied nation, as CIA has done since 2002, has unnecessarily alienated the longtime Pakistani ally.

Legal experts say the case against Dr. Fai is weak. One of the main evidences that CIA is using against Dr. Fai is an email that dates back to 1995 and shows Dr. Fai writing to an unknown Pakistani acquaintance telling him 'we have worked together' on Kashmir cause. The CIA interprets this to be a conspiracy in collaboration with ISI.

Most of the remaining evidence is similarly vague and appears to be politically motivated.

It is unclear if Dr. Fai's statement indicates that the strong Kashmiri Diaspora, which is active worldwide, has finally decided to financially and morally counter the case against the KAC.  

 

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STOP THE ISLAMIZATION OF AMERICA - Pamela Geller's exciting new book about the stealth jihad that is infecting this country




STOP THE ISLAMIZATION OF AMERICA - Pamela Geller's exciting new book about the stealth jihad that is infecting this country

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Islamic supremacism is seeping into every aspect of American life. Islamic jihad groups aren't solely concentrating on terror attacks, but on the creeping encroachment to introduce Islamic law into this country, step-by-step and bit-by-bit, until finally America wakes up to a country transformed into an Islamic state. In Stop Islamization of America, the renowned activist [...]

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U.S. Treasury Confirms: Obama's borrowing has topped 100% of GDP

U.S. Treasury Confirms: Obama's borrowing has topped 100% of GDP

This didn't happen to any other president. Thanks to Obama's record deficit spending, and the idiots in Congress giving him another $2.4 trillion to spend, our borrowing has topped 100% of our GDP.

AFP reports:

US debt shot up $238 billion to reach 100 percent of gross domestic project after the government's debt ceiling was lifted, Treasury figures showed Wednesday.

Obama use to say that raising the debt ceiling showed a failure of leadership. That was back in 2006 when he was a Senator who accomplished nothing but "present" votes. Now he is a President who has accomplished nothing but pushing the U.S. towards insolvency.

Treasury borrowing jumped Tuesday, the data showed, immediately after President Barack Obama signed into law an increase in the debt ceiling as the country's spending commitments reached a breaking point and it threatened to default on its debt.

The new borrowing took total public debt to $14.58 trillion, over end-2010 GDP of $14.53 trillion, and putting it in a league with highly indebted countries like Italy and Belgium.

Obama wants the U.S. to be the next Greece so he can claim another "crisis" and implement more radical spending plans to "fundamentally transform" America.

Public debt subject to the official debt limit -- a slightly tighter definition -- was $14.53 trillion as of the end of Tuesday, rising from the previous official cap of $14.29 trillion a day earlier.

In only 2.5 years, Obama has added over $4 trillion to the national debt. Bush added only $5 trillion in 8 years. America can't afford Obama <<<2012 campaign bumper sticker.

Treasury had used extraordinary measures to hold under the $14.29 trillion cap since reaching it on May 16, while politicians battled over it and over addressing the country's bloating deficit.

The official limit was hiked $400 billion on Tuesday and will be increased in stages over the next 18 months.

The last time US debt topped the size of its annual economy was in 1947 just after World War II. By 1981 it had fallen to 32.5 percent.

Yet Obama continues to say that government spending is at its lowest in 60 years. You can believe Obama's lies or factual numbers.

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[Fwd: I need superior Drugs that this person must be one...]

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Re: Congressman Ron Paul Introduces H.R. 2768: Immediately Strip $1.6 Trillion From Rothschild's Federal Reserve.

(There was no federal reserve bank during Jackson's and Lincoln's era.....I think you are referencing a "National Bank")
 


 
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 11:46 AM, plainolamerican <plainolamerican@gmail.com> wrote:
the USA must free itself from the bonds of the FR

some don't forget:
Five US Presidents who sought to abolish the Jewish-owned Federal
Reserve Bank were assassinated:

1) Andrew Jackson (Survived); 2) Abraham Lincoln; 3) James Garfield;
4) William McKinley; 5) John Kennedy.

In a speech before Congress in 2002, entitled Abolish the Fed, Ron
Paul said:

— "Abolishing the Federal Reserve will allow Congress to reassert its
Constitutional authority over monetary policy. The Constitution does
not give Congress the authority to delegate control over monetary
policy to a Central Bank. I urge my colleagues to put an end to the
manipulation of the money supply which erodes Americans' standard of
living and enriches well-connected elites." —

— "The greatest threat facing America today is not terrorism or
illegal immigration. The greatest threat is the shameless deficit
spending of our government and Federal Reserve currency devaluation.
The Press sometimes criticizes Federal Reserve policy but the validity
of the fiat system itself is never challenged. History shows that when
the destruction of monetary value becomes rampant, the political
structure becomes unstable. We then have good reason to be concerned
about the future of our nation."



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> Rep. Ron Paul on Monday introduced legislation that would lower the federal
> government's debt by canceling the roughly $1.6 trillion in debt held by the
> Federal Reserve. Paul has argued for the last few weeks that the idea
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Re: Obama got elected president...



On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:57 AM, MJ <michaelj@america.net> wrote:

Bush's Third Term?
You're Living It
By David Swanson

It sounds like the plot for the latest summer horror movie. Imagine, for a moment, that George W. Bush had been allowed a third term as president, had run and had won or stolen it, and that we were all now living (and dying) through it. With the Democrats in control of Congress but Bush still in the Oval Office, the media would certainly be talking endlessly about a mandate for bipartisanship and the importance of taking into account the concerns of Republicans. Can't you just picture it?

There's Dubya now, still rewriting laws via signing statements. Still creating and destroying laws with executive orders. And still violating laws at his whim. Imagine Bush continuing his policy of extraordinary rendition, sending prisoners off to other countries with grim interrogation reputations to be held and tortured. I can even picture him formalizing his policy of preventive detention, sprucing it up with some "due process" even as he permanently removes habeas corpus from our culture.

I picture this demonic president still swearing he doesn't torture, still insisting that he wants to close Guantanamo, but assuring his subordinates that the commander-in-chief has the power to torture "if needed," and maintaining a prison at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan that makes Guantanamo look like summer camp. I can imagine him continuing to keep secret his warrantless spying programs while protecting the corporations and government officials involved.

If Bush were in his third term, we would already have seen him propose, yet again, the largest military budget in the history of the world. We might well have seen him pretend he was including war funding in the standard budget, and then claim that one final supplemental war budget was still needed, immediately after which he would surely announce that yet another war supplemental bill would be needed down the road. And of course, he would have held onto his Secretary of Defense from his second term, Robert Gates, to run the Pentagon, keep our ongoing wars rolling along, and oversee the better part of our public budget.

Bush would undoubtedly be following through on the agreement he signed with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for all U.S. troops to leave Iraq by the end of 2011 (except where he chose not to follow through). His generals would, in the meantime, be leaking word that the United States never intended to actually leave. He'd surely be maintaining current levels of troops in Iraq, while sending thousands more troops to Afghanistan and talking about a new "surge" there. He'd probably also be escalating the campaign he launched late in his second term to use drone aircraft to illegally and repeatedly strike into Pakistan's tribal borderlands with Afghanistan.

If Bush were still "the decider" he'd be employing mercenaries like Blackwater and propagandists like the Rendon Group and he might even be expanding the number of private security contractors in Afghanistan. In fact, the whole executive branch would be packed with disreputable corporate executive types. You'd have somebody like John ("May I torture this one some more, please?") Rizzo still serving, at least for a while, as general counsel at the CIA. The White House and Justice Department would be crawling with corporate cronies, people like John Brennan, Greg Craig, James Jones, and Eric Holder. Most of the top prosecutors hired at the Department of Justice for political purposes would still be on the job. And political prisoners, like former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman and former top Democratic donor Paul Minor would still be abandoned to their fate.

In addition, the bank bailouts Bush and his economic team initiated in his second term would still be rolling along -- with a similar crowd of people running the show. Ben Bernanke, for instance, would certainly have been reappointed to run the Fed. And Bush's third term would have guaranteed that there would be none of the monkeying around with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that the Democrats proposed or promised in their losing presidential campaign. At this point in Bush's third term, no significant new effort would have begun to restore Katrina-decimated New Orleans either.

If the Democrats in Congress attempted to pass any set of needed reforms like, to take an example, new healthcare legislation, Bush, the third termer, would have held secret meetings in the White House with insurance and drug company executives to devise a means to turn such proposals to their advantage. And he would have refused to release the visitor logs so that the American public would have no way of knowing just whom he'd been talking to.

During Bush's second term, some of the lowest ranking torturers from Abu Ghraib were prosecuted as bad apples, while those officials responsible for the policies that led to Abu Ghraib remained untouched. If the public continued to push for justice for torturers during the early months of Bush's third term, he would certainly have gone with another bad apple approach, perhaps targeting only low-ranking CIA interrogators and CIA contractors for prosecution. Bush would undoubtedly have decreed that any higher-ups would not be touched, that we should now be looking forward, not backward. And he would thereby have cemented in place the power of presidents to grant immunity for crimes they themselves authorized.

If Bush were in his third term, some of his first and second term secrets might, by now, have been forced out into the open by lawsuits, but what Americans actually read wouldn't be significantly worse than what we'd already known. What documents saw the light of day would surely have had large portions of their pages redacted, and the vast bulk of documentation that might prove threatening would remain hidden from the public eye. Bush's lawyers would be fighting in court, with ever grander claims of executive power, to keep his wrongdoing out of sight.

Now, here's the funny part. This dark fantasy of a third Bush term is also an accurate portrait of Obama's first term to date. In following Bush, Obama was given the opportunity either to restore the rule of law and the balance of powers or to firmly establish in place what were otherwise aberrant abuses of power. Thus far, President Obama has, in all the areas mentioned above, chosen the latter course. Everything described, from the continuation of crimes to the efforts to hide them away, from the corruption of corporate power to the assertion of the executive power to legislate, is Obama's presidency in its first seven months.

Which doesn't mean there aren't differences in the two moments. For one thing, Democrats have now joined Republicans in approving expanded presidential powers and even -- in the case of wars, military strikes, lawless detention and rendition, warrantless spying, and the obstruction of justice -- presidential crimes. In addition, in the new Democratic era of goodwill, peace and justice movements have been strikingly defunded and, in some cases, even shut down. Many progressive groups now, in fact, take their signals from the president and his team, rather than bringing the public's demands to his doorstep.

If we really were in Bush's third term, people would be far more active and outraged. There would already be a major push to really end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan/Pakistan. Undoubtedly, the Democrats still wouldn't impeach Bush, especially since they'd be able to vote him out before his fourth term, and surely four more years of him wouldn't make all that much difference.

David Swanson is the author of the new book Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union (Seven Stories Press, 2009). He holds a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Virginia and served as press secretary for Kucinich for President in 2004. Swanson is just beginning a book tour of 48 cities and hopes to see you on the road. Check out his tour schedule by clicking here.

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And they call the Republicans the Stupid Party? This guy shows that is the wrong name

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Re: Bosnia, Kosovo, and Now Libya

Jewish Americans carry on their culture's tradition of "tikkun olam"
-- or "to repair the world" -- through good deeds and service. As
they honor and maintain their ancient heritage, they set a positive
example for all Americans and continue to strengthen our Nation.

I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue
of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the
United States, do hereby proclaim May 2010 as Jewish American Heritage
Month. I call upon all Americans to observe this month with
appropriate programs, activities, and ceremonies to celebrate the
heritage and contributions of Jewish Americans.

Because we understand the challenges Israel faces, I and my
administration have made the security of Israel a priority. It's why
we've increased cooperation between our militaries to unprecedented
levels. It's why we're making our most advanced technologies
available to our Israeli allies. And it's why, despite tough fiscal
times, we've increased foreign military financing to record levels.

That includes additional support – beyond regular military aid – for
the Iron Dome anti-rocket system. This is a powerful example of
American-Israel cooperation which has already intercepted rockets from
Gaza and helped saved innocent Israeli lives. So make no mistake, we
will maintain Israel's qualitative military edge.

... let me be absolutely clear – we remain committed to preventing
Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines
with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are
established for both states. The Palestinian people must have the
right to govern themselves, and reach their potential, in a sovereign
and contiguous state.

The ultimate goal is two states for two peoples. Israel as a Jewish
state and the homeland for the Jewish people, and the state of
Palestine as the homeland for the Palestinian people

God bless Israel, and God bless the United States of America.

- BO


On Aug 3, 12:02 pm, MJ <micha...@america.net> wrote:
> Bosnia, Kosovo, and Now LibyaThe Human Costs of Washington's On-Going Collusion with Terroristsby Peter Dale Scott
> Twice in the last two decades, significant cuts in U.S. and western military spending were foreseen: first after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and then in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. But both times military spending soon increased, and among the factors contributing to the increase were America's interventions in new areas: the Balkans in the 1990s, and Libya today.1Hidden from public view in both cases was the extent to which al-Qaeda was a covert U.S. ally in both interventions, rather than its foe.
> U.S. interventions in the Balkans and then Libya were presented by the compliant U.S. and allied mainstream media as humanitarian. Indeed, some Washington interventionists may have sincerely believed this. But deeper motivations – from oil to geostrategic priorities – were also at work in both instances.
> In virtually all the wars since 1989, America and Islamist factions have been battling to determine who will control the heartlands of Eurasia in the post-Soviet era. In some countries – Somalia in 1993, Afghanistan in 2001 – the conflict has been straightforward, with each side using the other's excesses as an excuse for intervention.
> But there have been other interventions in which Americans have used al-Qaeda as a resource to increase their influence, for example Azerbaijan in 1993. There a pro-Moscow president was ousted afterlarge numbers of Arab and other foreign mujahedin veterans were secretly imported from Afghanistan, on an airline hastily organized by three former veterans of the CIA's airline Air America. (The three, all once detailed from the Pentagon to the CIA, were Richard Secord, Harry Aderholt, and Ed Dearborn.)2This was an ad hoc marriage of convenience: the mujahedin got to defend Muslims against Russian influence in the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, while the Americans got a new president who opened up the oilfields of Baku to western oil companies.
> The pattern of U.S. collaboration with Muslim fundamentalists against more secular enemies is not new. It dates back to at least 1953, when the CIA recruited right-wing mullahs to overthrow Prime Minister Mossadeq in Iran, and also began to cooperate with the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood.3But in Libya in 2011 we see a more complex marriage of convenience between US and al-Qaeda elements: one which repeats a pattern seen in Bosnia in 1992-95, and Kosovo in 1997-98. In those countries America responded to a local conflict in the name of a humanitarian intervention to restrain the side committing atrocities. But in all three cases both sides committed atrocities, and American intervention in fact favored the side allied with al-Qaeda.
> The cause of intervention was fostered in all three cases by blatant manipulation and falsification of the facts. What a historian has noted of the Bosnian conflict was true also of Kosovo and is being echoed today in Libya: though attacks were "perpetrated by Serbs and Muslims alike," the pattern in western media was "that killings of Muslims were newsworthy, while the deaths of non-Muslims were not."4Reports of mass rapes in the thousands proved to be wildly exaggerated: a French journalist "uncovered only four women willing to back up the story."5Meanwhile in 1994 the French intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy (BHL) traveled to Bosnia and fervently endorsed the case for intervention in Bosnia; in 2011 February BHL traveled to Benghazi and reprised his interventionist role for Libya.6In all of the countries mentioned above, furthermore, there are signs that some American and/or western intelligence groups were collaborating with al-Qaeda elements from the outset of conflict, before the atrocities cited as a reason for intervention.. This suggests that there were deeper reasons for America's interventions including the desire of western oil companies to exploit the petroleum reserves of Libya (as in Iraq) without having to deal with a troublesome and powerful strong man, or their desire to create a strategic oil pipeline across the Balkans (in Kosovo).7That the U.S. would support al-Qaeda in terrorist atrocities runs wholly counter to impressions created by the U.S. media. Yet this on-going unholy alliance resurrects and builds on the alliance underlying Zbigniew Brzezinski's 1978-79 strategy of provocation in Afghanistan, at a time when he was President Carter's National Security Adviser.
> In those years Brzezinski did not hesitate to play the terrorist card against the Soviet Union: he reinforced the efforts of the SAVAK (the Shah of Iran's intelligence service) to work with the Islamist antecedents of al-Qaeda to destabilize Afghanistan, in a way which soon led to a Soviet invasion of that country.8At the time, as he later boasted, Brzezinski told Carter, "We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam War."9CIA Director William Casey continued this strategy of using terrorists against the USSR in Afghanistan. At first the CIA channeled aid through the Pakistani ISI (Interservices Intelligence Service) to their client Afghan extremists like Gulbeddin Hekmatyar (today one of America's enemies in Afghanistan). But in 1986, "Casey committed CIA support to a long-standing ISI initiative to recruit radical Muslims from around the world to come to Pakistan and fight with the Afghan Mujaheddin."10CIA aid now reached their support Office of Services in Peshawar, headed by a Palestinian, Abdullah Azzam, and by Osama bin Laden. The al-Kifah Center, a U.S. recruitment office for their so-called Arab-Afghan foreign legion (the future al Qaeda), was set up in the al-Farook mosque in Brooklyn.11It is important to recall Brzezinski's and Casey's use of terrorists today. For in Libya, as earlier in Kosovo and Bosnia, there are alarming signs that America has continued to underwrite Islamist terrorism as a means to dismantle socialist or quasi-socialist nations not previously in its orbit: first the USSR, then Yugoslavia, today Libya. As I have written elsewhere, Gaddafi was using the wealth of Libya, the only Mediterranean nation still armed by Russia and independent of the NATO orbit, to impose more and more difficult terms for western oil companies, and to make the whole of Africa more independent of Europe and America.12Support for the mujahedin included collusion in law-breaking, at a heavy cost. In the second part of this essay, I will show how government protection of key figures in the Brooklyn al-Kifah Center left some of them free, even after they were known to have committed crimes, to engage in further terrorist acts in the United States – such as the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993.The U.S.-al-Qaeda Alliance in LibyaThe NATO intervention in Libya has been presented as a humanitarian campaign. But it is not: both factions have been committing atrocities. Thanks in part to the efforts of the well-connected p.r. firm the Harbour Group, working on behalf of the Benghazi opposition's National Transitional Council [NTC], Americans have heard many more press accounts of atrocities by pro-Gaddafi forces in Libya than by the Benghazi opposition.13But in fact, as the LondonDaily Telegraphreported,Under rebel control, Benghazi residents are terrorized, many "too frightened to drive through the dark streets at night, fearing a shakedown or worse at the proliferating checkpoints."Moreover, about 1.5 million black African migrant workers feel trapped under suspicion of supporting the wrong side. Numbers of them have been attacked, some hunted down, dragged from apartments, beaten and killed. So-called "revolutionaries" and "freedom fighters" are, in fact, rampaging gunmen committing atrocities airbrushed from mainstream reports, unwilling to reveal the new Libya if Gaddafi is deposed.14Thomas Mountain concurs that "Since the rebellion in Benghazi broke out several hundred Sudanese, Somali, Ethiopian and Eritrean guest workers have been robbed and murdered by racist rebel militias, a fact well hidden by the international media."15 Such reports have continued. Recently, Human Rights Watch accused the rebels of killing Gaddafi supporters who were just civilians and looting, burning and ransacking pro-Gaddafi supporters' houses and areas.16
> Americans and Europeans are still less likely to learn from their media that among the groups in the Benghazi transitional coalition, certainly the most battle-seasoned, are veterans of the Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah bi-Libya (Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, or LIFG). The importance of the LIFG contingent in the TNC has been downplayed in a recent issue of the International Business Times:The LIFG is a radical Islamic group which has been fighting small scale guerrilla warfare against Gaddafi for almost a decade. Much of the LIFG leadership came from soldiers who fought against the Soviet forces in Afghanistan, as part of the Mujahedeen. Since the beginning of the uprising reports said that some of the LIFG has joined the TNC rebel movement on the ground, and many accused the fighters of having links to Al-Qaeda, which the LIFG has since denied.Previously however, the LIFG had stated that its ultimate goal is to install an Islamic state inside Libya, which given the fact that many of its fighters are now on the side of the TNC is quite worrying.  However as the LIFG is reported to have a fighting force of no more than a few thousand men, it is believed it will not be able to cause much trouble within the opposition.17It remains to be seen whether a victorious TNC would be able to contain the Islamist aspirations of the ruthless jihadist veterans in their ranks.
> There are those who fear that, from their years of combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, the battle-hardened LIFG, although probably not dominant in the Benghazi coalition today, will come to enjoy more influence if Benghazi ever gets to distribute the spoils of victory. In February 2004, then-Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee that "one of the most immediate threats [to U.S. security in Iraq] is from smaller international Sunni extremist groups that have benefited from al-Qaida links. They include ... the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group."18 In 2007 a West Point study reported on "the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group's (LIFG) increasingly cooperative relationship with al-Qaeda, which culminated in the LIFG officially joining al-Qaeda on November 3, 2007."19 It is possible that the West Point study exaggerated the LIFG-Al Qaeda connection. What matters is that eBritain and the US were well aware of the West Point assessment, yet their special forces nevertheless secretly backed the Benghazi TNC, even before the launch of NATO air support:The bombing of the country came as it was revealed that hundreds of British special forces troops have been deployed deep inside Libya targeting Colonel Gaddafi's forces – and more are on standby....In total it is understood that just under 250 UK special forces soldiers and their support have been in Libya since before the launch of air strikes to enforce the no-fly zone against Gaddafi's forces.20There are also reports that U.S. Special Forces were also sent into Libya on February 23 and 24, 2011, almost a month before the commencement of NATO bombing.21
> UK support for the fundamentalist LIFG was in fact at least a decade old:Fierce clashes between [Qadhafi's] security forces and Islamist guerrillas erupted in Benghazi in September 1995, leaving dozens killed on both sides. After weeks of intense fighting, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) formally declared its existence in a communiqué calling Qadhafi's government "an apostate regime that has blasphemed against the faith of God Almighty" and declaring its overthrow to be "the foremost duty after faith in God." This and future LIFG communiqués were issued by Libyan Afghans who had been granted political asylum in Britain.... The involvement of the British government in the LIFG campaign against Qadhafi remains the subject of immense controversy. LIFG's next big operation, a failed attempt to assassinate Qadhafi in February 1996 that killed several of his bodyguards, was later said to have been financed by British intelligence to the tune of $160,000, according to ex-MI5 officer David Shayler.22David Shayler's detailed account has been challenged, but many other sources reveal that UK support for Libyan jihadists long antedates the present conflict.23
> Even more ominous for the future than the nationalistic LIFG may be the fighters from the more internationalist Al Qaeda in the Maghreb (AQIM) who have seized the opportunity presented by the war to enter the conflict, and equip themselves from Gaddafi's looted armories.24 AQIM presents a special concern because of recent reports that, like other al Qaeda associates from Afghanistan to Kosovo, it is increasingly financed by payoffs from regional drug traffickers.25
> In short, the NATO campaign in Libya is in support of a coalition in which the future status of present and former al-Qaeda allies is likely to be strengthened.26 And western forces have been secretly supporting them from the outset.
> The U.S.-al-Qaeda Alliance in Bosnia
> Similarly, Clinton's interventions in Bosnia and Kosovo were presented as humanitarian. But both sides had committed atrocities in those conflicts; Like the western media, Washington downplayed the Muslim atrocities because of its other interests.
> Most Americans are aware that Clinton dispatched U.S. forces to Bosnia to enforce the Dayton peace accords after a well-publicized Serbian atrocity: the massacre of thousands of Muslims at Srebrenica. Thanks to a vigorous campaign by the p.r. firm Ruder Finn, Americans heard a great deal about the Srebrenica massacre, but far less about the beheadings and other atrocities by Muslims that preceded and helped account for it.
> A major reason for the Serb attack on Srebrenica was to deal with the armed attacks mounted from that base on nearby villages: "intelligence sources said it was that harassment which precipitated the Serb attack on the 1,500 Muslim defenders inside the enclave."27 General Philippe Morillon, commander of the UN troops in Bosnia from 1992 to 1993, testified to the ICTY (International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia) that Muslim forces based in Srebrenica had "engaged in attacks during Orthodox holidays and destroyed villages, massacring all the inhabitants. This created a degree of hatred that was quite extraordinary in the region"28 According to Prof. John Schindler,Between May and December 1992, Muslim forces repeatedly attacked Serb villages around Srebrenica, killing and torturing civilians; some were mutilated and burned alive. Even pro-Sarajevo accounts concede that Muslim forces in Srebrenica...murdered over 1,300 Serbs...and had "ethnically cleansed a vast area.29Former U.S. ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith later admitted in an interview that the U.S. administration was aware of "small numbers of atrocities" being committed by the foreign mujahedin in Bosnia, but dismissed the atrocities as "in the scheme of things not a big issue."30
> Other sources reveal that Washington gave a tacit green light to Croatia's arming and augmentation of the Muslim presence in Srebrenica.31  Soon C-130 Hercules planes. some but not all of them Iranian, were dropping arms to the Muslims, in violation of the international arms embargo which the U.S. officially respected. More Arab-Afghan mujahedin arrived as well. Many of the airdrops and some of the mujahedin were at Tuzla, 70 kilometers from Srebrenica.32
> According to The Spectator (London), the Pentagon was using other countries such as Turkey and Iran in this flow of arms and warriors:From 1992 to 1995, the Pentagon assisted with the movement of thousands of Mujahideen and other Islamic elements from Central Asia into Europe, to fight alongside Bosnian Muslims against the Serbs. .... As part of the Dutch government's inquiry into the Srebrenica massacre of July 1995, Professor Cees Wiebes of Amsterdam University compiled a report entitled 'Intelligence and the War in Bosnia', published in April 2002. In it he details the secret alliance between the Pentagon and radical Islamic groups from the Middle East, and their efforts to assist Bosnia's Muslims. By 1993, there was a vast amount of weapons-smuggling through Croatia to the Muslims, organised by 'clandestine agencies' of the USA, Turkey and Iran, in association with a range of Islamic groups that included Afghan Mujahideen and the pro-Iranian Hezbollah. Arms bought by Iran and Turkey with the financial backing of Saudi Arabia were airlifted from the Middle East to Bosnia – airlifts with which, Wiebes points out, the USA was 'very closely involved'.33Cees Wiebes' detailed account, based on years of research, documents both the case for American responsibility and the vigorous American denials of it:At 17.45 on 10 February 1995, the Norwegian Captain Ivan Moldestad, a Norwegian helicopter detachment (NorAir) pilot, stood in the doorway of his temporary accommodation just outside Tuzla. It was dark, and suddenly he heard the sound of the propellers of an approaching transport aircraft? it was unmistakably a four engine Hercules C-130. Moldestad noticed that the Hercules was being escorted by two jet fighters, but could not tell their precise type in the darkness. There were other sightings of this secretive night-time flight to Tuzla Air Base (TAB). A sentry who was on guard duty outside the Norwegian medical UN unit in Tuzla also heard and saw the lights of the Hercules and the accompanying jet fighters. Other UN observers, making use of night vision equipment, also saw the cargo aircraft and the fighter planes concerned. The reports were immediately forwarded to the NATO Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC) in Vicenza and the UNPF Deny Flight Cell in Naples. When Moldestad phoned Vicenza, he was told that there was nothing in the air that night, and that he must be mistaken. When Moldestad persisted, the connection was broken.The secretive C-130 cargo aircraft flights and night-time arms drops on Tuzla caused great agitation within UNPROFOR and the international community in February and March 1995. When asked, a British general responded with great certainty to the question of the origin of the secret supplies via TAB: 'They were American arms deliveries. No doubt about that. And American private companies were involved in these deliveries.' This was no surprising answer, because this general had access to intelligence gathered by a unit of the British Special Air Services (SAS) in Tuzla. The aircraft had come within range of this unit's special night vision equipment, and the British saw them land.  It was a confirmation that a clandestine American operation had taken place in which arms, ammunition and military communication equipment were supplied to the ABiH. These night-time operations led to much consternation within the UN and NATO, and were the subject of countless speculations.34Wiebes reports the possibility that the C-130s, some of which were said to have taken off from a US Air Force base in Germany, were actually controlled by Turkish authorities.35 But U.S. involvement was detected in the elaborate cover-up, from the fact that US AWACS aircraft, which should have provided a record of the secret flights, were either withdrawn from duty at the relevant times, or manned with US crews.36
> A summary of Wiebes' exhaustive report was published in the Guardian:The Dutch report reveals how the Pentagon formed a secret alliance with Islamist groups in an Iran-Contra-style operation.US, Turkish and Iranian intelligence groups worked with the Islamists in what the Dutch report calls the "Croatian pipeline". Arms bought by Iran and Turkey and financed by Saudi Arabia were flown into Croatia initially by the official Iranian airline, Iran Air, and later in a fleet of black C-130 Hercules aircraft.The report says that mojahedin fighters were also flown in, and that the US was "very closely involved" in the operation which was in flagrant breach of the embargo. British secret services obtained documents proving that Iran also arranged deliveries of arms directly to Bosnia, it says.The operation was promoted by the Pentagon, rather than the CIA, which was cautious about using Islamist groups as a conduit for arms, and about breaching the embargo. When the CIA tried to place its own people on the ground in Bosnia, the agents were threatened by the mojahedin fighters and the Iranians who were training them.The UN relied on American intelligence to monitor the embargo, a dependency which allowed Washington to manipulate it at will.37Meanwhile the Al-Kifah Center in Brooklyn, which in the 1980s had supported the "Arab-Afghans" fighting in Afghanistan, turned its attentions to Bosnia.Al-Kifah's English-language newsletter Al-Hussam (The Sword) also began publishing regular updates on jihad action in Bosnia....Under the control of the minions of Shaykh Omar Abdel Rahman, the newsletter aggressively incited sympathetic Muslims to join the jihad in Bosnia and Afghanistan themselves....The Al-Kifah Bosnian branch office in Zagreb, Croatia, housed in a modern, two-story building, was evidently in close communication with the organizational headquarters in New York. The deputy director of the Zagreb office, Hassan Hakim, admitted to receiving all orders and funding directly from the main United States office of Al-Kifah on Atlantic Avenue controlled by Shaykh Omar Abdel Rahman.38One of the trainers at al-Kifah, Rodney Hampton-El, assisted in this support program, recruiting warriors from U.S. Army bases like Fort Belvoir, and also training them to be fighters in New Jersey.39 In 1995 Hampton-El was tried and convicted for his role (along with al-Kifah leader Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman) in the plot to blow up New York landmarks. At the trial Hampton-El testified how he was personally given thousands of dollars for this project by Saudi Crown Prince Faisal in the Washington Saudi Embassy.40
> About this time, Ayman al-Zawahiri, today the leader of al Qaeda, came to America to raise funds in Silicon Valley, where he was hosted by Ali Mohamed, a U.S. double agent and veteran of U.S. Army Special Forces who had been the top trainer at the Al-Kifah mosque.41 Almost certainly al-Zawahiri's fund-raising was in support of the mujahedin in Bosnia, reportedly his chief concern at the time. ("The Asian edition of the Wall Street Journal reported that, in 1993, Mr. bin Laden had appointed Sheik Ayman Al-Zawahiri, the al-Qaeda's second-in-command, to direct his operations in the Balkans.")42
> Wiebes' detailed report and the news stories based on it corroborated earlier charges made in 1997 by Sir Alfred Sherman, top adviser to Margaret Thatcher and co-founder of the influential rightwing nationalist Centre for Policy Studies, that "The U.S. encouraged and facilitated the dispatch of arms to the Moslems via Iran and Eastern Europe – a fact which was denied in Washington at the time in face of overwhelming evidence."43 This was part of his case thatThe war in Bosnia was America's war in every sense of the word. The US administration helped start it, kept it going, and prevented its early end. Indeed all the indications are that it intends to continue the war in the near future, as soon as its Moslem proteges are fully armed and trained.Specifically, Sherman charged that in 1992 Acting Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger had instructed Warren Zimmerman, U.S. Ambassador in Belgrade, to persuade Bosnian President Izetbegovic to renege on his agreement to preserve Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian unity, and instead accept American aid for an independent Bosnian state.44
> The U.S.-al-Qaeda Alliance in Kosovo
> This raises the disturbing question: were some Americans willing to ignore the atrocities of the al-Kifah mujahideen in Bosnia in exchange for mujahideen assistance in NATO's successive wars dismantling Yugoslavia, the last surviving socialist republic in Europe? One thing is clear: Sir Alfred Sherman's prediction in 1997 that America "intends to continue the war in the near future" soon proved accurate, when in 1999 American support for al-Qaeda's allies in Kosovo, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), led to a controversial NATO bombing campaign.
> As was widely reported at the time, the KLA was supported both by the networks of bin Laden and al-Zawahiri, and also by the traffic in Afghan heroin:Some members of the Kosovo Liberation Army, which has financed its war effort through the sale of heroin, were trained in terrorist camps run by international fugitive Osama bin Laden – who is wanted in the 1998 bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa that killed 224 persons, including 12 Americans.45According to former DEA agent Michael Levine, the decision of Clinton to back the KLA dismayed his DEA contacts who knew it to be a major drug-trafficking organization.46 As Ralf Mutschke of Interpol testified to Congress,In 1998, the U.S. State Department listed the KLA as a terrorist organization, indicating that it was financing its operations with money from the international heroin trade and loans from Islamic countries and individuals, among them allegedly Usama bin Laden. Another link to bin Laden is the fact that the brother of a leader in an Egyptian Djihad organization and also a military commander of Usama bin Laden, was leading an elite KLA unit during the Kosovo conflict. [This is almost certainly Zaiman or Mohammed al-Zawahiri, one of the brothers of Ayman al-Zawahiri.] In 1998, the KLA was described as a key player in the drugs for arms business in 1998, "helping to transport 2 billion USD worth of drugs annually into Western Europe". The KLA and other Albanian groups seem to utilize a sophisticated network of accounts and companies to process funds. In 1998, Germany froze two bank accounts belonging to the "United Kosova" organization after it had been discovered that several hundred thousand dollars had been deposited into those accounts by a convicted Kosovar Albanian drug trafficker.47According to the London Sunday Times, the KLA's background did not deter the US from training and strengthening it:American intelligence agents have admitted they helped to train the Kosovo Liberation Army before Nato's bombing of Yugoslavia. The disclosure angered some European diplomats, who said this had undermined moves for a political solution to the conflict between Serbs and Albanians. Central Intelligence Agency officers were ceasefire monitors in Kosovo in 1998 and 1999, developing ties with the KLA and giving American military training manuals and field advice on fighting the Yugoslav army and Serbian police.When the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), which co-ordinated the monitoring, left Kosovo a week before airstrikes began a year ago, many of its satellite telephones and global positioning systems were secretly handed to the KLA, ensuring that guerrilla commanders could stay in touch with Nato and Washington. Several KLA leaders had the mobile phone number of General Wesley Clark, the Nato commander.48According to former U.S. Army Captain David Hackworth, later Newsweek's contributing editor for defense, former US military officers in the private U.S. military contractor MPRI (Military Professional Resources Incorporated) not only trained KLA personnel, but even fought alongside them.49 This reinforced earlier reports that MPRI personnel had also been involved in training Croatians at the time of the illicit Croatian arms pipeline to Bosnia.50
> After Kosovo, Sherman repeated his warnings against "expanding American hegemony",exercised through NATO with varying degrees of partnership and subordination of other players. .... The process commenced with the deliberate break-up of Yugoslavia, led by Germany and acquiesced in by the other European Union members and the United States (1991). It progressed with sanctions against Serbia for attempting to help the western Serbs (1992). In Bosnia America's early involvement sparked off civil war (the Zimmerman Visit to Izetbegovic, in the aftermath of the Lisbon Agreement), and it eventually matured into the bombing campaign of 1999 and the occupation of Kosovo.51Others suspected that America's involvement was motivated by its desire to see a new Trans-Balkan pipeline and a new U.S. military base in the Balkans to defend it. Although such critics were initially ridiculed, both predictions soon proved true. The U.S.-registered AMBO corporation, headed by former BP executive Ted Ferguson, began construction of a pipeline from Albania to Macedonia in 2007.52 And nearby is a semi-permanent U.S. Army base, Camp Bondsteel, that can hold up to 7000 soldiers.
> In 2007, President George W. Bush created a new United States Africa Command, U.S. AFRICOM. But its HQ at present is in Stuttgart, Germany. This has led to speculation on the Internet that America has its eyes on Libya's international airport, which the U.S. Air Force had operated as Wheelus Air Force Base until its ouster in 1970.
> II. From the First WTC Bombing to 9/11: The Domestic U.S. Fallout from Collusion with Terrorists
> The fact that Americans have had repeated recourse to al-Qaeda Islamists as assets in their expansive projects does not constitute proof that there is any long-term systematic strategy to do so, still less that there is a secret alliance.
> I believe rather that America is suffering from a malignant condition of military power run amok – power which, like a malignant cancer, tends to reproduce itself at times in ways counterproductive to larger goals. Those who are appointed to manage this vast power become inured to using any available assets, in order to sustain a sociodynamic of global intervention that they are, ironically, powerless to challenge or turn around. The few dissenters who try to do so are predictably sidelined or even ejected from the heights of power, as not being "on the team."
> Those in Washington who decided to assist terrorists and drug traffickers seem not to have considered such "externalities" as the domestic consequences from official dealings with criminal terrorist networks that are global in scope. Yet the consequences were and are real, for the Islamist terrorists that were protected by the US in their subversion of order in Kosovo and other countries were soon being protected inside the US as well. As former DEA agent Michael Levine reported of the KLA-linked drug networks, "These guys have a network that's active on the streets of this country.... They're the worst elements of society that you can imagine, and now, according to my sources in drug enforcement, they're politically protected."53
> In other words, Kosovars were now enjoying the de facto protection in their U.S. drug trafficking that had earlier been enjoyed by the CIA's Chinese, Cuban, Italian, Thai, and other ethnic assets dating from the 1940s.54
> Mother Jones reported in 2000, after the NATO bombing in support of the KLA that Afghan heroin, much of it distributed by Kosovar Albanians, now accounted for almost 20 percent of the heroin seized in America – nearly double the percentage taken four years earlier.55 Meanwhile in Europe, it was estimated that "Kosovo Albanians control 40% of Europe's heroin."56 In addition there is a near universal consensus that the outcome of the war in Bosnia left al-Qaeda's jihadists much more strongly entrenched in the Balkans than they had been earlier. In the words of Professor John Schindler, Bosnia, "the most pro-Western society in the umma [Muslim world]," was "converted into a Jihadistan through domestic deceit, violent conflict, and misguided international intervention."57
> It is too soon to predict with confidence what will be the domestic fallout or "blowback" from NATO's empowerment of Islamists by creating chaos in Libya. But the domestic consequences of similar U.S. interventions in the past are indisputable, and have contributed to major acts of terrorism in this country.
> American protection for the Al-Kifah mujahedin support base in Brooklyn led to interference in domestic U.S. law enforcement. This enabled mujahedin recruits at al-Kifah to plot and/or engage in a number of domestic and foreign terrorist attacks on America. These attacks include the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, the so-called "New York landmarks plot" of 1995, and the Embassy attacks of 1998 in Kenya and Tanzania. Involved in all of these events were terrorists who should have been rounded up earlier because of crimes already committed, but were allowed to stay free.
> Central to all of these attacks was the role of Ali Mohamed, the former U.S. Special Forces double agent at al-Kifah, and his trainees. Ali Mohamed, despite being on a State Department Watch List, had come to America around 1984, on what an FBI consultant has called "a visa program controlled by the CIA."58 So did the "blind Sheik" Omar Abdel Rahman, the leader of al-Kifah; Rahman was issued two visas, one of them "by a CIA officer working undercover in the consular section of the American embassy in Sudan."59
> Ali Mohamed trained al-Kifah recruits in guerrilla tactics near Brooklyn. This operation was considered so sensitive that the New York police and the FBI later protected two of the recruits from arrest, when they murdered the Jewish extremist Meir Kahane. Instead, the New York Police called the third assassin (El Sayyid Nosair)  a "lone deranged gunman," and released the other two (Mahmoud Abouhalima and Mohammed Salameh) from detention. This enabled Abouhalima and Salameh, along with another Ali Mohamed trainee (Nidal Ayyad) to take part three years later in the first (1993) bombing of the World Trade Center.60
> Prosecutors protected Ali Mohamed again in the 1994-95 "Landmarks" trial, when Omar Abdul Rahman and some of Mohamed's trainees were convicted of conspiring to blow up New York buildings. In that case the prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, named Ali Mohamed as an unindicted co-conspirator, yet allowed him to remain free. When the defense issued a subpoena for Mohamed to appear in court, the prosecutor intervened to avoid Mohamed's having to testify.61
> Ali Mohamed was well aware of his protected status, and used it in early 1993 to obtain his release when detained by the RCMP at Vancouver Airport. As this episode has so ignored in the US press, I will quote the account of it in Canada's premier newspaper, the Toronto Globe and Mail:The RCMP had their hands on one of the key insiders of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network, but he was released after he had Mounties call his handler at the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.Ali Mohamed, a Californian of Egyptian origin who is believed to be the highest ranking al-Qaeda member to have landed in Canada, was working with U.S. counterterrorist agents, playing a double or triple game, when he was questioned in 1993. Mr. Mohamed now is in a U.S. prison."The people of the RCMP told me by midnight that I can go now," Mr. Mohamed – who confessed in the United States to being a close bin Laden associate – wrote at the time in an affidavit shown Wednesday to The Globe and Mail.The incident happened after customs agents at Vancouver International Airport detained Essam Marzouk, an Egyptian who had arrived from Damascus via Frankfurt, after they found him carrying two forged Saudi passports.Mr. Mohamed, who was waiting to pick him up at the airport, inquired of the police about his friend's detention. That made the RCMP curious about Mr. Mohamed, but he dispelled their suspicions by telling them he was a collaborator with the FBI.62The Globe and Mail story makes it clear that in 1993 Mohamed already had a handler at the FBI, to whom the RCMP deferred. Patrick Fitzgerald, in his statement to the 9/11 Commission, gave a quite different story: that Mohamed, after returning from Nairobi in 1994, applied for a job "as an FBI translator."63 The difference is vital: because the FBI told the RCMP to release Mohamed, he was then able to travel to Nairobi and plan for bombing the U.S. Embassy there.
> According to author Peter Lance, by 2007 Fitzgerald had enough evidence to arrest and indict Mohamed, but did not. Instead he interviewed Mohamed in California, along with an FBI agent, Jack Cloonan. After the interview Fitzgerald chose not to arrest Mohamed, but instead to tap his phone and bug his computer. Lance asks a very relevant question: did Fitzgerald fear that "any indictment of al Qaeda's chief spy would rip the lid off years of gross negligence by three of America's top intelligence agencies"?64
> One month after the Embassy bombings, Ali Mohamed was finally arrested, on September 10, 1998. Yet when Fitzgerald handed down thirteen indictments two months later, Mohamed's name was not among them. Instead Fitzgerald again allowed him to avoid cross-examination in court by accepting a plea bargain, the terms of which are still partly unknown. Specifically we do not know the term of Mohamed's sentence: that page of his court appearance transcript (p. 17) is filed under seal.65
> As part of the plea bargain, Mohamed told the court that at the personal request of bin Laden, he did surveillance on the U.S. Embassy in Kenya, "took pictures, drew diagrams, and wrote a report" which he personally delivered to bin Laden in the Sudan.66 Patrick Fitzgerald, the prosecutor who negotiated the plea bargain, testified at length about Mohamed to the 9/11 Commission, who concluded in their Report (p. 68) that Mohamed "led" the embassy bombing operation. Ironically, the Embassy bombing is the official reason today why Zawahiri (like bin Laden before him) is wanted by the FBI, with a $25 million bounty on his head.
> But the American public has been denied the right to learn about Ali Mohamed's involvement in other terrorist events. Particularly relevant would be his involvement in 9/11. As his FBI handler Cloonan later reported, Mohamed explained to him that he personally trained the accused hijackers in how to seize planes:He [had] conducted training for al Qaeda on how to hijack a plane. He ran practical exercises in Pakistan and he said, "This is how you get a box cutter on board. You take the knife, you remove the blade and you wrap it in [word blacked out] and put it in your carry-on luggage." They'd read the FAA regulations. They knew four inches wouldn't go through. "This is how you position yourself," he said. "I taught people how to sit in first class. You sit here and some sit here." He wrote the whole thing out.67Conclusion
> At present America is in the midst of an unprecedented budget crisis, brought on in large part by its multiple wars. Nevertheless it is also on the point of several further interventions: in Yemen, Somalia, possibly Syria or Iran (where the CIA is said to be in contact with the drug-trafficking al-Qaeda offshoot Jundallah),68 and most assuredly in Libya.
> Only the American public can stop them. But in order for the people to rise up and cry Stop! there must first be a better understanding of the dark alliances underlying America's alleged humanitarian interventions.
> This awareness may increase when Americans finally realize that there is domestic blowback from assisting terrorists as well. The long elaborate dance between Mohamed and his Justice Department overseers makes it clear that the handling of terrorists for corrupt purposes corrupts the handlers as well as the terrorists. Eventually both the handlers and the handled become in effect co-conspirators, with secrets about their collusion both parties need to conceal.
> Until the public takes notice, that concealment of collusion will continue. And as long as it continues, we will continue to be denied the truth about what collusions underlay 9/11.
> Worse, we are likely to see more terrorist attacks, at home as well as abroad, along with more illegal, costly, and unnecessary wars.
> Notes
> 1 Cf. Telegraph (London), "Defence Cuts in Doubt over Libya, Says Military Adviser," April 7, 2011, "The Libyan crisis has raised doubts about the Coalition's defence review and could force ministers to reverse cuts including the scrapping of Britain's Harrier jump jets, a senior military adviser has said," (link).
> 2 Scott, The Road to 9/11, 163-65.
> 3 Scott, The Road to 9/11, 44-45; citing Robert Dreyfuss, Devil's Game, 109-11; Saïd Aburish, A Brutal Friendship, 60-61; Miles Copeland, The Game Player, 149-54. Cf.Ian Johnson, "Washington's Secret History with the Muslim Brotherhood," New York Review of Books, February 5, 2011.
> 4 John R. Schindler, Unholy Terror: Bosnia, Al-Qa'ida, and the Rise of Global Jihad, 71, 81. According to Schindler, "CNN repeatedly showed images of 'dead Muslims' killed by Serbs that were actually Serbs murdered by Muslims" (92).
> 5 Schindler, Unholy Terror, 91.
> 6 Schindler, Unholy Terror, 179-80; Christian Science Monitor, March 28, 2011. In 1994 BHL presented Bosnian leader Izetbegovich to French President Mitterand; in 2011 BHL arranged for three Benghazi leaders to meet French President Sarkozy. Cf. "Libyan rebels will recognise Israel, Bernard-Henri Lévy tells Netanyahu," Radio France Internationale, June 2, 2011, "Libya's rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) is ready to recognise Israel, according to French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy, who says he has passed the message on to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu," (link).
> 7 For Big Oil's complaints with Gaddafi, seePeter Dale Scott, "The Libyan War, American Power and the Decline of the Petrodollar System", Asian-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, April 27, 2011.
> 8 Scott, Road to 9/11, 77; citing Diego Cordovez and Selig S. Harrison, Out of Afghanistan: The Inside Story of the Soviet Withdrawal (New York: Oxford University Press, 16), 16.
> 9 Scott, Road to 9/11, 72-75; quoting from "Les Révélations d'un Ancien Conseilleur de Carter: 'Oui, la CIA est Entrée en Afghanistan avant les Russes...'" Le Nouvel Observateur [Paris], January 15-21, 1998: "B[rzezinski]: [On Jul 3, 1979] I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.... Q: And neither do you regret having supported Islamic fundamentalism, which has given arms and advice to future terrorists?
> B: What is more important in world history? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some agitated Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?" 
> 10 Ahmed Rashid, Taliban, 129. According to the Spanish author Robert Montoya, the idea originated in the elite Safari Club that had been created by French intelligence chief Alexandre de Marenches in 1976, bringing together other intelligence chiefs such as General Akhtar Abdur Rahman of ISI in Pakistan and Kamal Adham of Saudi Arabia (Roberto Montoya, El Mundo [Madrid], February 16, 2003).
> 11 Scott, Road to 9/11, 139-40; citing Steven Emerson, American Jihad, 131-32.
> 12Peter Dale Scott, "The Libyan War, American Power and the Decline of the Petrodollar System", Asian-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, April 27, 2011.
> 13"PR firm helps Libyan rebels to campaign for support from US,"The Hill.com, April 12, 2011.
> 14 Rob Crilly, Daily Telegraph (London), March 23, 2011; quoted inStephen Lendman, "Planned Regime Change in Libya," SteveLendmanBlog, March 28, 2011. Cf. Los Angeles Times, March 24, 2011.
> 15 Morris Herman, "Rebel Militias Include the Human Traffickers of Benghazi," Foreign Policy Journal, July 28, 2011, quotingThomas C. Mountain.
> 16Anissa Haddadi, "Does the Transitional Council Really Represent Libyan Democracy and Opposition to Gaddafi?" International Business Times, July 20, 2011.
> 17 Haddadi, "Does the Transitional Council Really Represent Libyan Democracy and Opposition to Gaddafi?" International Business Times, July 20, 2011.
> 18 Center for Defense Information, "In the Spotlight: The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG)," January 18, 2005. That the LIFG is pursuing its own goals may explain the rebel seizure of anti-air force missiles from captured Gaddafi armories: these missiles, useless against Gaddafi (who no longer has an air force) are apparently being shipped out of Libya for sale or use elsewhere (New York Times, July 15, 2011).
> 19 December 2007 West Point Study, quoted inWebster Tarpley, "The CIA's Libya Rebels: The Same Terrorists who Killed US, NATO Troops in Iraq," Tarpley.net, March 24, 2011.
> 20 Daily Mail (London), March 25, 2001,link; cited in Lendman; "Planned Regime Change in Libya."
> 21Akhtar Jamal, "US UK, French forces land in Libya," Pakistan Observer, February 2011.
> 22 Gary Gambill, "The Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), Jamestown Foundation," Terrorism Monitor, May 5, 2005; citing Al-Hayat (London), 20 October 1995 ["communiqué"]; "The Shayler affair: The spooks, the Colonel and the jailed whistle-blower," The Observer (London), 9 August 1998; Jean-Charles Brisard and Guillaume Dasquié, Ben Laden: La Verite interdite (Bin Ladin: The Forbidden Truth). Cf. also Annie Machon, Spies, Lies and Whistleblowers: MI5, MI6 And the Shayler Affair (Book Guild Publishing, 2005) [Shayler].
> 23 E.g. Washington Post, October 7, 2001: "Over the years, some dissidents suspected by foreign governments of involvement in terrorist acts have been protected by the British government for one reason or another from deportation or extradition.... In the past, terrorism experts say, Britain benefited significantly from its willingness to extend at least conditional hospitality to a wide range of Arab dissidents and opposition figures .... Mustafa Alani, a terrorism expert at the Royal United Services Institute for Defense Studies, a London think tank, said [Anas] al-Liby was probably left in legal limbo by the British government, allowing him to be used or discarded as circumstances permitted."
> 24"Sahelian Concern Deepens over Libya, AQIM,"Sahel Blog, May 2, 2011. According to the Los Angeles Times, AQIM vowed on February 24, 2011 to "do whatever we can" to help the rebel cause. (Ken Dilanian, "US Finds no Firm Al Qaeda Presence in Libya Rebellion," Los Angeles Times, March 24, 2011). Cf. "Libya rebels not anti-West, but Qaeda a worry-group," Reuters, March 29, 2011; "The Evolving Threat of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb," Strategic Forum, National Defense University; CNN World, February 25, 2011.
> 25Andre Lesage, "The Evolving Threat of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb," Strategic Forum, National Defense University; CNN World, February 25, 2011, 6. Cf. "Rogue planes flying drugs across Atlantic; Al-Qaeda Links;," National Post, January 14, 2014; "Latin drug lords find allies in African Islamists," Washington Times, November 17, 2009.
> 26 A story in the New York Times ("Exiled Islamists Watch Rebellion Unfold at Home," July 19, 2011) reports that KIFG members of the TNC "have renounced Al Qaeda." But it supplies no independent evidence that their politics have changed.
> 27 Michael Evans, "Muslim soldiers 'failed to defend town from Serbs,'" Times (London), July 14, 1995.
> 28Richard Palmer. "What Really Happened in Bosnia," theTrumpet.com, July 12, 2011.
> 29 Schindler, Unholy Terror, 87; quoting from Jan Willem Honig and Norbert Both, Srebrenica: Record of a War Crime, 79.
> 30John Rosenthal, "The Other Crimes of Bosnia," BigPeace.com, June 2, 2011; summarizing interview of Galbraith byJ.M. Berger, "Exclusive: U.S. Policy on Bosnia.Arms Trafficking."
> 31Schindler, Unholy Terror, 182-83; "Exclusive: U.S. Policy on Bosnia Arms Trafficking"; Cees Wiebes, Intelligence and the War in Bosnia 1992 1995 (Munster: LIT Verlag, 2003), 166-69.
> 32"Allies and Lies,"BBC OnLine, June 22, 2001; Wiebes, Intelligence and the War, 183. Also present at Tuzla was an American who introduced himself as "Major Guy Sands," and who claimed to have been a ten-year veteran of the Vietnam War. Cf. a Swedish report from Tuzla, of an American there who made no secret of his Special Forces background (Brendan O'Shea, Crisis at Bihac: Bosnia's Bloody Battlefield [Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton, 1998], p. 159). For reports of foreign mujahedin in or near Tuzla, see Kohlmann, Al-Qaida's Jihad in Europe, 74, 155, 164.
> 33Brendan O'Neill, "How We Trained al-Qa'eda," Spectator (London), September 13, 2003.
> 34 Wiebes, Intelligence and the War in Bosnia, 177.
> 35 Wiebes, Intelligence and the War, 187, 196; citing Cameron Spence, All Necessary Measures, 99-104.
> 36 Wiebes, Intelligence and the War, 184, 197.
> 37"US used Islamists to arm Bosnians,"Guardian, April 22, 2002. Contrast the very different claim by Richard Clarke, Against All Enemies, 140: "The U.S. also blocked Iranian and al Qaeda influence in the country [Bosnia]."
> 38 Kohlmann, Al-Qaida's Jihad in Europe, 39-41; citing Steve Coll and Steve LeVine, "Global Network Provides Money, Haven," Washington Post, August 3, 1993. Cf. Schindler, Unholy Terror, 121-22.
> 39 Scott, Road to 9/11, 149-50; Kohlmann, Al-Qaida's Jihad in Europe, 45, 73-75.
> 40 Scott, Road to 9/11, 149.
>  
> 41 Lawrence Wright: "Zawahiri decided to look for money in the world center of venture capitalism-Silicon Valley. He had been to America once before, in 1989, when he paid a recruiting visit to the mujahideen's Services Bureau branch office in Brooklyn. According to the F.B.I., he returned in the spring of 1993, this time to Santa Clara, California, where he was greeted by Ali Mohamed, the double agent." For more about Ali Mohamed, and specifically how the FBI once told the RCMP not to detain him (this freeing Mohamed to plan the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kenya), see Peter Dale Scott, The Road to 9/11, 147-60.
> 42 Ottawa Citizen, December 15, 2001.
> 43Sir Alfred Sherman, Speech at International Conference, America's Intervention in the Balkans, February 28-March 2, 1997. html
> 44 Cf. Schindler, Unholy Terror, 74: Izetbegovic "decided to scrap the initiative, with the apparent encouragement of Warren Zimmermann [sic]." (Cf. 109-10). Zimmerman has denied that he so persuaded Izetbegovic, writing in a letter to the New York Times "that he had urged Izetbegovic to 'stick by his commitments,'" (Steven L. Burg and Paul Shoup, The War in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 114).
> 45 Washington Times, May 4, 1999. Frank Viviano, "Drugs Paying for Conflict in Europe," San Francisco Chronicle, June 10, 1994: "Narcotics smuggling has become a prime source of financing for civil wars already under way – or rapidly brewing – in southern Europe and the eastern Mediterranean, according to a report issued here this week. "The report, by the Paris-based Observatoire Geopolitique des Drogues, or Geopolitical Observatory of Drugs, identifies belligerents in the former Yugoslav republics and Turkey as key players in the region's accelerating drugs-for-arms traffic. "Albanian nationalists in ethnically tense Macedonia and the Serbian province of Kosovo have built a vast heroin network, leading from the opium fields of Pakistan to black-market arms dealers in Switzerland, which transports up to $2 billion worth of the drug annually into the heart of Europe, the report says. More than 500 Kosovo or Macedonian Albanians are in prison in Switzerland for drug- or arms-trafficking offenses, and more than 1,000 others are under indictment."
> 46 Michael Levine, New American, May 24, 1999; quoted in Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, The War on Truth, 41.
> 47Ralf Mutschke, testimony to Committee on the Judiciary, December 13, 2000.
> 48 Sunday Times (London), March 12, 2000: "Agim Ceku, the KLA commander in the latter stages of the conflict, had established American contacts through his work in the Croatian army, which had been modernised with the help of Military Professional Resources Inc, an American company specialising in military training and procurement. This company's personnel were in Kosovo, along with others from a similar company, Dyncorps [sic], that helped in the American-backed programme for the Bosnian army."
> 49David Hackworth, "Wanted: Guns for Hire," Hackworth.com, July 9, 2001. Cf. James R. Davis, Fortune's Warriors: Private Armies and the New World Order, 112; P.W. Singer, Corporate Warriors, 219.
> 50 Wiebes, Intelligence and the war in Bosnia 1992 – 1995, 66; Observer, November 5, 1995. J.M. Berger reports from declassified documents that MPRI's contract with Bosnia was arranged via a private company headed by neocon Richard Perle: "Controversial neocon philosopher Richard Perle led an obscure nongovernmental organization tasked with hiring a private company to run the U.S. State Department's "Train and Equip" program in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1996.
> Perle's group, the "Acquisition Support Institute," hired Military Professional Resources Inc., essentially a professional mercenary company nearly as controversial as Perle himself. It's not at all clear what or whom is responsible for the Institute, or why a "non-governmental, non-profit organization" would be responsible for selecting the recipient of a massive State Department contract on one of the most sensitive issues of the day.
> Equipped with a collection of retired military officers, MPRI set itself up as a virtual extension of the U.S. government in both Croatia and Bosnia, as documented in an extensive set of Freedom of Information Act documents I will be publishing over the next several weeks.
> MPRI operatives were given the run of the country – receiving payments and arms from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other Muslim countries, which underwrote operations to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.
> In many cases, these payments were brokered directly by the State Department. In some instances, funds and arms were routed into Bosnia without State's explicit approval but often with its knowledge, as documented in the newly declassified records. Unauthorized assistance appears to have come from Pakistan, UAE and Turkey, among others." (Richard Perle, MPRI and Bosnian Arms Shipments," Intelwire, February 7, 2007).
> 51Sir Alfred Sherman, "The Empire for the New Millenium?" The Centre for Peace in Balkans, May 22, 2000.
> 52 Cf. the cynical comments of the Swiss analytical group Zeit-Fragen: (Current Concerns,"Where's the 8th Corridor?"September/October 2001): "By creating a trouble spot in Kosovo the USA is able to control Albania and with it the planned AMBO pipeline.... The USA is showing a conspicuous interest in controlling these strategic transport corridor links in the Balkans. They prohibited a project scheduled to be constructed through Serbia, and they offered Rumania 100 million dollars to move the route of the planned SEEL pipeline (South Eastern European Line) further north, to Hungary. The Italian firm ENI had planned this pipeline project using existing pipeline infrastructure in Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia. The USA bombarded the Yugoslavian section of this infrastructure with remarkable doggedness."
> 53 Michael Levine, New American, May 24, 1999; quoted in Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, The War on Truth, 41.
> 54 For details, see Scott, American War Machine, 84, 123, 151, etc.; Scott, Deep Politics and the Death of JFK, 167.
> 55Peter Klebnikov, "Heroin Heroes," Mother Jones, January/February 2000. Clinton at the same time mounted a vigorous campaign against Colombian heroin, increasing the demand for Afghan heroin. As Klebnikov noted, "some White House officials fear Kosovar heroin could replace the Colombian supply. 'Even if we were to eliminate all the heroin production in Colombia, by no means do we think there would be no more heroin coming into the United States,' says Bob Agresti of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. 'Look at the numbers. Colombia accounts for only six percent of the world's heroin. Southwest Asia produces 75 percent.'"
> 56 Patrick Graham, "Drug Wars: Kosovo's New Battle," National Post, April 13, 2000.
> 57 Schindler, Unholy Terror, 324. Cf. Cristopher Deliso, The Coming Balkan Caliphate (New York: Praeger, 2007).
> 58 Scott, Road to 9/11, 152-53; citing Paul L. Williams, Al Qaeda, 117; Boston Globe, February 3, 1995, "Figure Cited in Terrorism Case Said to Enter U.S. with CIA Help."
> 59 Bergen, Holy War, Inc., 67; cf. Williams, Al Qaeda, 117.
> 60 Scott, Road to 9/11, 154-56, 160. Cf. Robert L. Friedman, "The CIA and the Sheikh," Village Voice, March 30, 1993: "As Jack Blum, investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee, put it: "One of the big problems here is that many suspects in the World Trade Center bombing were associated with the Mujahadeen. And there are components of our government that are absolutely disinterested in following that path because it leads back to people we supported in the Afghan war."
> 61 Scott, Road to 9/11, 156-57; citing J.M. Berger, Ali Mohamed: An Intelwire Sourcebook, 235-36.
> 62 Estanislao Oziewicz and Tu Thanh Ha, "Canada freed top al-Qaeda operative," Globe and Mail (Toronto), November 22, 2001. A Lexis-Nexis search for "Ali Mohamed" + Vancouver yields no relevant entries from the U.S. press.
> 63 Patrick Fitzgerald, Testimony before the 9/11 Commission, Twelfth Public Hearing, June 16, 2004.
> 64 Peter Lance, Triple Cross, 274-77.
> 65 United States District Court, Southern District of New York, "United States of America v. Ali Mohamed," S (7) 98 Cr. 1023, October 20, 2000,link, 17; in J.M. Berger, Ali Mohamed, 294.
> 66 United States District Court, Southern District of New York, "United States of America v. Ali Mohamed," S(7) 98 Cr. 1023, 27; in Berger, Ali Mohamed, 304.
> 67 FBI agent Jack Cloonan, summarizing a post-9/11 interview with Ali Mohamed, inWilliam F. Jasper, "Unleashing a Terrorist," New American, November 26, 2007. Cf. Lance, Triple Cross, 382.
> 68Paul Joseph Watson, "U.S. Attacks Iran Via CIA-Funded Jundullah Terror Group," NOW Observer, October 20, 2009.http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25829

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