Genesis, Part 28

We continue reviewing declassified State Department cables addressing the rise of the Taliban.





This is an April 14, 1996, cable from the US Embassy in Islamabad to the US Secretary of State's office, and addresses a discussion between a US delegation (Senator Brown and Congressman Wilson) and Pakistani officials about Afghanistan policy. The acronym GOP here means Government of Pakistan.

SUBJECT: SENATOR BROWN AND CONGRESSMAN WILSON DISCUSS AFGHANISTAN WITH PAKISTANI OFFICIALS

REF: ISLAMABAD 2945

1. (U) CLASSIFIED BY JOHN C. HOLZMAN, DEPUTY CHIEF OF MISSION, EMBASSY ISLAMABAD. REASON: 1.5 (D).

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2. (C) PRIME MINISTER BHUTTO TOLD SENATOR BROWN (R-CO) AND CONGRESSMAN WILSON (D-TX) APRIL 7 THAT THE GOP BACKED THE U.N., NOT THE TALIBAN, IN AFGHANISTAN. SHE SAID A TRANS-AFGHAN GAS/OIL PIPELINE WAS NEEDED QUICKLY TO MEET GROWING PAKISTANI DEMAND, PROVIDE AN OUTLET FOR THE CENTRAL ASIAN REPUBLICS OTHER THAN VIA IRAN AND RUSSIA AND TO HELP BRING PEACE TO AFGHANISTAN. THE PM SAID THE U.S. SHOULD HAVE REPRESENTATION INSIDE AFGHANISTAN, NOTING THAT KANDAHAR AND JALALABAD WERE SECURE; SHE URGED THE U.S. TO PLAY A MORE ACTIVE ROLE, SAYING SHE FEARED AFGHANISTAN COULD DISSOLVE UNLESS STEPS TO PROMOTE PEACE WERE TAKEN SOON. FOREIGN MINISTER ASSEF ALI, IN A SEPARATE MEETING, SAID PAKISTAN WANTS TO WORK WITH THE US, EU AND RUSSIA TO DRAFT A SET OF "PRINCIPLES" TO GOVERN A FUTURE AFGHAN PEACE PLAN, AND THAT HE HOPES TO WORK ON THE DRAFT PRINICPLES WITH SA A/S RAPHEL ON HER UPCOMING VISIT. ASSEF ALI ASKED SEN. BROWN TO TELL AFGHAN PRESIDENT RABBANI THAT PAKISTAN IS NOT AGAINST THE KABUL GOVERNMENT, WILL NOT BUILD ROADS OR SIGN A PIPELINE AGREEMENT WITHOUT KABUL'S ASSENT, AND IS WILLING TO TALK TO SETTLE OUSTANDING DIPLOMATIC PROBLEMS. END SUMMARY.

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PM BHUTTO ON AFGHANISTAN
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3. (C) PRIME MINISTER BENAZIR BHUTTO TOLD VISITING SENATOR HANK BROWN AND CONGRESSMAN CHARLIE WILSON OVER LUNCH APRIL 7 THAT THE PERCEPTION PUT ABOUT BY THE KABUL GOVERNMENT AND OTHERS THAT HER GOVERNMENT WAS BACKING THE TALIBAN WAS SIMPLY UNTRUE. INSTEAD, SHE NOTED, PAKISTAN STRONGLY SUPPORTS THE U.N. PEACE MISSION. STRESSING THE NEED TO BRING PEACE QUICKLY TO AFGHANISTAN TO PREVENT ITS POSSIBLE DISSOLUTION INTO A TALIBAN, PASHTUN SOUTH AND A PRO-IRANIAN, MINORITY ETHNIC NORTH, THE PM SUGGESTED THAT A TRANS-AFGHAN PIPELINE COULD HELP ACHIEVE A NATIONAL RECONCILIATION SINCE, SHE STATED, THE KABUL GOVERNMENT AND ALL THE OTHER FACTIONS SUPPORTED THE PROJECT. THE PIPELINE SHOULD BE BEGUN AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, SHE REMARKED, BEFORE OTHER ROUTES CAME ON LINE; THE GOA SHOULD BE TO PROVIDE AN OUTLET FOR THE CENTRAL ASIAN STATES WHICH DID NOT RUN THROUGH RUSSIA OR IRAN. THE PM WAS ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT THE PIPELINE IDEA, WHICH SHE SAID WOULD HELP MEET PAKISTANI DEMAND FOR GAS AND ALSO WOULD ENCOURAGE EFFORTS TOWARDS NATIONAL RECONCILIATION IN AFGHANISTAN. THE PM URGED THE UNITED STATES TO GET MORE INVOLVED IN AFGHANISTAN, SAYING THE U.S. SHOULD HAVE REPRESENTATION INSIDE THE COUNTRY -- PERHAPS IN EITHER KANDAHAR OR JALALABAD WHERE SECURITY WAS GOOD. THE U.S. SHOULD GIVE MORE BACKING TO THE U.N. TO HELP ESTABLISH A BROAD-BASED GOVERNMENT, BUT FIRST A PEACE FORCE WOULD BE NEEDED, THE PM CONCLUDED.

Of course there is the possibility that Prime Minister Bhutto was being deceptive here, but I would rather focus on the possibility that she was telling the truth as she saw it.

As we have seen in previous posts, there are extensive ties between the Pakistani military and Islamic extremists in Pakistan. One reason for these ties dates back to the 1940's, when Muslims in what was then India under British administration agitated for independence in a separate state. It is possible this was just a negotiating position, intended to be yielded in exchange for significant autonomy within a federal Indian structure. Regardless, the idea took on a life of its own, and a few short years later, when India was granted its independence, this was done dividing the country into India and Pakistan; Pakistan was the Muslim state, divided at the time into East and West Pakistan, what is now Bangladesh and Pakistan.

During this time, ethnic rivalries that detracted from the push for Muslim Pakistan were painted as un-Islamic, and later, as hostilities came into being between India and Pakistan, Islam was the rallying point to unite Pakistanis in the face of India's numerical superiority. Islam came to be seen as patriotic, and anything un-Islamic was seen as treasonous.

The Pakistani military also began to use the madrassas. Religious students were taught these ideas regarding patriotism, Islamism, and unity against the infidels -- mainly India -- and many were then fed into special camps where they learned the military arts needed by Islamic holy warriors. The mujahideen were then used in a proxy fight against India in Jammu and Kashmir.

The classic formula of state-sponsored terrorism developed. While everybody knew of the connections between the Kashmiri terrorists and Pakistan, Islamabad could always say that the terrorists were independent of Islamabad and thus were not supported by the Pakistani government. Any support the terrorists received could be painted as the unsanctioned activity of rogue elements in the Pakistani armed forces. These lines of diplomatic defense would be adequate to prevent India from garnering world support to deal decisively with Pakistan's sponsorship of terrorism, so much more so since this was happening against a backdrop of the Cold War, where Pakistan was intended by the United States to help shore up the anti-communist flank in Asia, and where Moscow was thus cultivating ties with the world's largest democracy, India, as a counterbalance to American efforts in Pakistan, Iran and elsewhere along the Soviet Union's southern border.

The ties between Pakistan's military and Islamic militants have continued ever since. In the intervening years, Pakistan has seen few years of civilian rule. During the 1980's, the Islamic militant card was played with gusto by Pakistan's military dictatorship against Soviet forces in Afghanistan during the jihad and, of course, this happened with full US support.

By the time Bhutto came to power, ties between Pakistan's military and Islamic militants were so entrenched that the whole thing was hard to turn off; it is possible that Bhutto did not support the Taliban as a matter of official policy, but nevertheless, someone in Pakistan was actively supporting the Taliban, providing supplies and weapons, technology and expertise, and even active military support. When the Taliban began their offensive near Spin Boldak, it was with Pakistani artillery support fired from across the border, and ultimately Pakistani military personnel are said to have fought as far inside Afghanistan as regions north of Kabul.

This brings Pakistan to a dilemma. The people of Pakistan have, for over sixty years, been fed a diet of Islamist propaganda to keep Pakistan -- an artificial state -- united against India. Pakistan, for its activity in Jammu and Kashmir, is a state that sponsors terrorism. Pakistan is now at a critical crossroads, and Pakistanis need to make a decision: will they allow their elites to continue to support terrorism, which targets not just India, but which has now reached to Manhattan and the Pentagon, as well as to the Philippines and the Balkans? Or, will Pakistanis put an end to the militancy that is cultivated within Pakistan's borders?

It can be argued that many if not most Germans were peace-loving people, and never intended to allow the Nazis to come to power and start a war that ultimately led to Germany being devastated as the world defended itself. Pakistanis are now in a similar situation; it is a problem not just with India over the Kashmir issue. Many of Pakistan's madrassas are linked to terrorist-training facilities that spread jihad around the world, and perhaps the main things keeping the world from dealing with the issue are that the matter is not high enough on the agendas of most countries, and the fact that the United States labels Pakistan an ally in the "War on Terror". Even Pakistan's nuclear weapons will matter little if the combined forces of India, Russia, some Central Asian and Southeastern European countries -- with a few Southeast Asian and Southwest Pacific nations thrown in for good measure -- are sent in to deal with the sponsorship of jihad at its source.

If the Pakistani people do not break the links between their ruling elites and the militants, this might be Pakistan's future.

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4. (C) FOREIGN SECRETARY NAJMUDDIN SHAIKH, WHO ALSO ATTENDED THE APRIL 7 LUNCH, SAID NEUTRAL PEACEKEEPERS WOULD BE NECESSARY TO MONITOR AND REINFORCE A TRANSITIONAL GOVERNMENT. IN THE CURRENT SITUATION, HEKMATYAR AND MASOOD WERE "RECONCILING NOT FOR PEACE, BUT FOR CONFRONTATION WITH THE TALIBAN." A PIPELINE PROJECT, BY CREATING REASONS FOR THE FACTIONS TO COOPERATE WHILE OFFERING SIGNIFICANT FINANCIAL BENEFITS TO THE NATION, WOULD BOTH HELP LAY THE GROUNDWORK FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A BROAD-BASED GOVERNMENT AND HELP CREATE CONDITIONS IN WHICH SUCH A GOVERNMENT COULD OPERATE, HE OPINED. IN TERMS OF PAKISTAN'S APPETITE FOR NATURAL GAS, SHAIKH SAID DEMAND WOULD OUTSTRIP SUPPLY, EVEN OVER THE NEXT 30 YEARS. AN EXPECTED 22 PERCENT INCREASE IN PAKISTANI INDUSTRIAL USE OF GAS, PLUS CONVERSION FROM OIL TO GAS, SUGGESTED THAT THERE WOULD BE NO PROBLEMS WITH SURPLUS GAS OUT OF THE 1.4 BILLION CUBIC FEET OF GAS BEING PLANNED FOR DELIVERY VIA AFGHANISTAN. THE PROJECT COULD PROCEED, SHAIKH CONCLUDED, BECAUSE ALL THAT WAS NEEDED WAS THE KABUL GOVERNMENT'S "PASSIVE ACQUIESCENCE," NOT FORMAL APPROVAL -- AND, OF COURSE, THE AGREEMENT OF LOCAL AFGHAN COMMANDERS ALONG THE ROUTE.

This same rationale undoubtedly was part of the thinking behind those who sponsored the Taliban; indeed, Bhutto and Shaikh may have been among the Taliban's sponsors at some point. Regardless, as we saw beginning in the very first post of this series, the Taliban immediately began to deviate from whatever its sponsors had planned for it.

Was Bhutto's government going along with supporting the Taliban at first, then having second thoughts as things developed in an unexpected manner? Or, was Pakistani support for the Taliban indeed under Bhutto's radar?

However it happened, between Bhutto's comments in Paragraph 3 and Shaikh's comments in Paragraph 4, we see the real issue involved; Pakistan supported the Taliban to secure a route through Afghanistan for a supply of Central Asian natural gas, as well as for other trade.

Were Pakistan's Islamist elites, via the Taliban in Afghanistan, intent on spreading jihad to the Central Asian Republics, a dream that seemed within reach beginning with the jihad in Afghanistan against the Soviets?

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GOP WANTS TO WORK WITH US, EU, RUSSIA ON AFGHAN "PRINCIPLES"
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5. (C) FOREIGN MINISTER SARDAR ASSEF ALI TOLD SEN. BROWN IN A SEPARATE MEETING APRIL 7 THAT PAKISTAN WANTS TO WORK WITH THE U.S., THE EU, AND RUSSIA TO COME UP WITH A SET OF "PRINCIPLES" TO GOVERN A FUTURE PEACE PLAN FOR AFGHANISTAN. AMPLIFYING ON POINTS IN REFTEL, ASSEF SAID SUCH A SET OF PRINCIPLES -- IF COORDINATED WITH AND SUPPORTED BY THE US, EU, AND RUSSIA -- COULD REENERGIZE THE UN MISSION OF MAHMOOD MESTIRI, WHICH HAS OTHERWISE "RUN OUT OF STEAM." ASSEF ALI HOPED HE AND SA A/S ROBIN RAPHEL COULD BEGIN A DRAFT OF THESE PRINCIPLES ON HER UPCOMING VISIT TO PAKISTAN. HE SAID HE HAD ALREADY DISCUSSED THE PRINCIPLES CONCEPT WITH THE BRITISH, FRENCH, GERMANS, AND RUSSIANS.

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GOP NOT AGAINST KABUL GOVERNMENT
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6. (C) ASSEF ALI ASKED SEN. BROWN TO CARRY A MESSAGE TO AFGHAN PRESIDENT RABBANI WHEN HE MET HIM APRIL 8. HE ASKED THE SENATOR TO MAKE THE FOLLOWING POINTS:

-- PAKISTAN IS NOT AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT OF AFGHANISTAN;

-- THE PAKISTANI PEOPLE HAVE A GREAT DEAL OF AFFECTION FOR THE AFGHANS, AND WERE PLEASED TO BE OF ASSISTANCE DURING THE AFGHAN WAR;

-- PAKISTAN HAS NOT DE-RECOGNIZED THE KABUL GOVERNMENT; IT SITS AND WORKS WITH IT REGULARLY IN THE U.N., THE ORGANIZATION OF THE ISLAMIC CONFERENCE (OIC), AND THE ECONOMIC COOPERATION ORGANIZATION (ECO);

-- PAKISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN ARE WELL ON THE WAY TO SOLVING THE DIPLOMATIC PROBLEM CAUSED BY THE ATTACK ON THE PAKISTANI EMBASSY IN KABUL; THE GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN IS READY FOR A MEETING FOCUSSED ON THESE ISSUES;

-- PAKISTAN DOES NOT INTEND TO BUILD A ROAD OR A PIPELINE THROUGH AFGHANISTAN WITHOUT THE AGREEMENT OF THE KABUL GOVERNMENT;

-- PAKISTAN BELIEVES THERE SHOULD BE A PLACE FOR THE TAJIKS IN ANY FUTURE AFGHAN GOVERNMENT, PARTICULARLY SINCE THE TAJIKS PRESENTLY CONTROL KABUL;

-- PAKISTAN DOES NOT BELIEVE THERE CAN BE A MILITARY SOLUTION IN AFGHANISTAN, OR THAT ANY GROUP OR FACTION CAN WIN -- HENCE PAKISTAN SUPPORTS PROGRESS TOWARD A BROAD-BASED GOVERNMENT IN WHICH ALL GROUPS ARE FAIRLY REPRESENTED.

7. (U) CODEL BROWN HAS APPROVED THIS MESSAGE. CODEL WILSON DEPARTED BEFORE THE MESSAGE WAS PREPARED.

SIMONS

ADMIN
END OF MESSAGE CONFIDENTIAL

In fact, the message may be very contemporary -- if ever there was a place where a military solution seems elusive, Afghanistan is that place.

The question before us, though, is whether infidel and takfir countries -- excluding the United States -- may at some point seek a military solution to their problems in Pakistan. For example, Islamabad's drive for strategic depth against India by supporting the Taliban may provoke the very war it is intended to help Pakistan survive -- war with India, as India, with possible allies, goes after the source of the Kashmiri terrorist problem.

The Heroin Lobby, Part 11

In The Heroin Lobby, Part 5, I quote Sibel Edmonds (The Highjacking of a Nation, Part 2: The Auctioning of Former Statesmen & Dime a Dozen Generals, November 29, 2006) as implicating Democrat Congressman Robert Wexler as a key player in the activities of Turkish Organized Crime to influence American policy via the American Turkish Council (ATC), an organization heavily implicated in the Sibel Edmonds case.

In The Heroin Lobby, Part 4, I point out that Congressman Wexler also plays a key role in the Turkish Coalition of America (TCA), an organization founded by G. Lincoln McCurdy, a key ATC operative and likely frontman for the Turkish Deep State (see The Turkish Lobby, Obstruction of Justice and Henry Waxman and The Heroin Lobby, Part 2). Specifically, in The Heroin Lobby, Part 4, I raised the following point:

I would be most interested to find out why Congressman Wexler is not just a member of the TCA's Congressional Caucus, but a co-chair -- and, why contributions from the TC-USA PAC to his campaign have been maxed out.

In that context, it is interesting to again review the money that Congressman Wexler has received from TC-USA PAC:

WEXLER, ROBERT VIA ROBERT WEXLER FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE, 03/16/2007, $1000.00, 27990339101

WEXLER, ROBERT VIA ROBERT WEXLER FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE, 07/25/2007, $1000.00, 28930167811

WEXLER, ROBERT VIA ROBERT WEXLER FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE, 12/11/2007, $300.00, 28930167811

Keep in mind that this is only the tip of the iceberg. Once these guys decide to steer money to a politician, that money comes from all directions. For example, two students together have contributed tens of thousands of dollars to political campaigns in this election cycle; these students are important sources of funding to the TC-USA PAC and to candidates that the TC-USA PAC backs. Included in that list of candidates is Congressman Wexler, who received the maximum allowable contribution from each of these two students:

AYASLI, BOHAN, LEXINGTON, MA 02173, SELF/STUDENT, WEXLER, ROBERT, VIA ROBERT WEXLER FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE, 03/16/2007, $2300.00, 27930593206

AYASLI, ORHAN, LEXINGTON, MA 02173, SELF/STUDENT, WEXLER, ROBERT, VIA ROBERT WEXLER FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE, 03/16/2007, $2300.00, 27930593201

In The Heroin Lobby, Part 8 I addressed the contributions of these two students in more detail.

The point is, organizations that front for foreign -- specifically, Turkish -- organized crime are steering money to Congressman Robert Wexler of Florida.

Why?

Why is Congressman Wexler a co-chair of the TCA's Congressional Caucus, and why are they taking such good care of him?





From Former FBI Translator Sibel Edmonds Calls Current 9/11 Investigation Inadequate by Jim Hogue, May 07, 2004:

JH: Can you explain more about what money you are talking about?

SE: The most significant information that we were receiving did not come from counter-terrorism investigations, and I want to emphasize this. It came from counter-intelligence, and certain criminal investigations, and issues that have to do with money laundering operations.

You get to a point where it gets very complex, where you have money laundering activities, drug related activities, and terrorist support activities converging at certain points and becoming one. In certain points -- and they [the intelligence community] are separating those portions from just the terrorist activities. And, as I said, they are citing "foreign relations" which is not the case, because we are not talking about only governmental levels. And I keep underlining semi-legit organizations and following the money. When you do that the picture gets grim. It gets really ugly.

From The Highjacking of a Nation, Part 2: The Auctioning of Former Statesmen & Dime a Dozen Generals by Sibel Edmonds, November 29, 2006:

Long gone are the days when generals were content to retire and go back home where they held their heads high as honorable patriots and heroes who had served their nation; where they marched in their towns' parades as proud distinguished men and women who had fulfilled their duty to the people. Today, as we clearly see, they perceive themselves and their authority as a commodity; they go about marketing their worth (nationally and internationally; foreign and domestic) long before they leave their positions as public servants.

[snip]

The foreign influence, the lobbyists, the current highly positioned civil servants who are determined future 'wanna be' lobbyists, and the fat cats of the Military Industrial Complex, operate successfully under the radar, with unlimited reach and power, with no scrutiny, while selling your interests, benefiting from your tax money, and serving the highest bidders regardless of what or who they may be. This deep state seems to operate at all levels of our government; from the President’s office to Congress, from the military quarters to the civil servants' offices.

From Did Speaker Hastert Accept Turkish Bribes to Deny Armenian Genocide and Approve Weapons Sales?, an interview with Amy Goodman, 2005:

Sibel Edmonds: [snip] They are not speaking about the link between the narcotics and al Qaeda. Yes, we are hearing about them coming down on some charities as the real funds behind al Qaeda, but most of al Qaeda's funding is not through these charity organizations. It's through narcotics. And have you heard anything to this date, anything about these issues which we have had information since 1997? And as I would again emphasize, we are talking about countries. And they are blocking this information, and also the fact that certain officials in this country are engaged in treason against the United States and its interests and its national security, be it the Department of State or certain elected officials.

From Former FBI Translator Sibel Edmonds Calls Current 9/11 Investigation Inadequate by Jim Hogue, May 07, 2004:

JH: Here's a question that you might be able to answer: What is al-Qaeda?

SE: This is a very interesting and complex question. When you think of al-Qaeda, you are not thinking of al-Qaeda in terms of one particular country, or one particular organization. You are looking at this massive movement that stretches to tens and tens of countries. And it involves a lot of sub-organizations and sub-sub-organizations and branches and it's extremely complicated. So to just narrow it down and say al-Qaeda and the Saudis, or to say it's what they had at the camp in Afghanistan, is extremely misleading. And we don't hear the extent of the penetration that this organization and the sub-organizations have throughout the world, throughout their networks and throughout their various activities. It's extremely sophisticated. And then you involve a significant amount of money into this equation. Then things start getting a lot of overlap -- money laundering, and drugs and terrorist activities and their support networks converging in several points. That's what I'm trying to convey without being too specific. And this money travels. And you start trying to go to the root of it and it's getting into somebody's political campaign, and somebody's lobbying. And people don't want to be traced back to this money.

From 'The Stakes Are Too High for Us to Stop Fighting Now' An interview with FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds by Christopher Deliso August 15, 2005:

SE: The fact that there are no investigations -- I will give you an analogy, okay? Say if we decided to have a "war on drugs," but said in the beginning, "right, we're only going to go after the young black guys on the street level." Hey, we already have tens of thousands of them in our jails anyway, why not a few more? But we decided never to go after the middle levels, let alone the top levels...

It's like this with the so-called war on terror. We go for the Attas and Hamdis -- but never touch the guys on the top.

CD: You think they [the government] know who they are, the top guys, and where?

SE: Oh yeah, they know.

CD: So why don't they get them?

SE: It's like I told you before -- this would upset "certain foreign relations." But it would also expose certain of our elected officials, who have significant connections with high-level drugs- and weapons-smuggling -- and thus with the criminal underground, even with the terrorists themselves.

It seems to me that Democrat Congressman Robert Wexler of Florida is a politician who has been "traced back to this money", and who has "significant connections with high-level drugs- and weapons-smuggling -- and thus with the criminal underground, even with the terrorists themselves."

I think it's worth sniffing around a little more, don't you?

Out of Context, Part 7

We continue from Part 6, reviewing a September, 2004, interview entitled The Third Terrorist, where FrontPageMag.com talks with journalist and author Jayna Davis about the Middle Eastern connection to the Oklahoma City bombing.

Specifically, Davis had just named an Iraqi "defector" -- in reality a likely member of an elite Iraqi military intelligence clandestine operations unit sent by Hussein for Trojan Horse operations in the US -- as a very probably candidate for John Doe Two.

Soon after that fateful day in 1995, Al-Hussaini moved to Massachusetts and sought employment at the Boston Logan International Airport. In November 1997, four years before two planes were hijacked from that very airport on a deadly trek to incinerate the World Trade Center, the Iraqi national began suffering panic attacks about his airport job and sought psychiatric hospitalization. When his therapist asked why he was experiencing sudden and intense trepidation about working at Boston Logan, the patient replied, "If something happens there, I will be a suspect."

I later learned that during this same time frame, Al-Hussaini was residing with two former Iraqi Gulf War veterans who provided food-catering services to the commercial airlines at the Boston airport. In the wake of the suicide hijackings of 2001, law enforcement speculated that food services workers might have planted box cutters aboard the doomed flights. Hussain Al-Hussaini's uncanny foreknowledge of a possible event slated to take place at Boston Logan Airport, the point of origin for Al-Qaeda's murderous rampage of 2001, just grazes the surface of the disturbing nexus I have uncovered between 4-19 and 9-11.

The case for Middle Eastern complicity that I have outlined, thus far, centers primarily upon Timothy McVeigh's collaboration with men whom witnesses described as Iraqi intelligence agents. However, I have also uncovered strong indicators of an Al-Qaeda component to the Oklahoma bombing. I outline in my book, The Third Terrorist, compelling evidence that McVeigh's defense team developed which suggested Terry Nichols might have received bomb making expertise from Al-Qaeda operatives based in the Philippines.

We know that the small-time Kansas farmer of modest means took frequent and unexplained trips to the South Pacific islands, many times without his Filipino mail order bride. The court record revealed that the Oklahoma City bomber was in Cebu City in December 1994 at the same time as the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center attack, Ramzi Yousef. Did these two men cross paths? According to the sworn statement of the co-founder of the Muslim terrorist group Abu Sayyaf, a spin-off chapter of Al-Qaeda, Nichols and Yousef did, indeed, meet in the early 1990's to discuss bomb making.

Richard Clarke, President Bill Clinton's former terrorism czar, disclosed in his book, Against All Enemies, that the FBI "could never disprove" the theory that Terry Nichols learned the macabre genius of terrorist bomb construction under the tutelage of the Al-Qaeda lieutenant, Ramzi Yousef. Clarke writes, "We do know that Nichols' bombs did not work before his Philippine stay and were deadly when he returned."

Phone records reveal that Nichols received and placed a slew of calls to a boarding house in Cebu City, which according to McVeigh's defense lawyers, sheltered students from a local university known for Islamic militancy. Additionally, Nichols and McVeigh used a phone debit card to make a series of cryptic calls to untraceable numbers and pay phones in the Philippines from pay phones in Kansas in an apparent effort to cover their tracks. Why? That question has never been addressed or answered by the Department of Justice.

This connection was addressed in this series going all the way back to Part 1. It should be noted that Congressman Rohrabacher's report, which we reviewed beginning in Part 1, mentioned Jayna Davis' work -- Davis did the original digging on this one.

So the issue is before us -- indeed, quite a case is made -- that there may well have been both an Iraqi connection and an Al Qaeda connection to the Oklahoma City bombing, even though our government has us believe it was a case of domestic terrorism.

Is there any government documentation that could substantiate the idea that the plot was larger than our government has led us to believe?

Well, to some extent, we may never know the answer to that. However, shortly before McVeigh was to be executed, news broke that a great many documents pertinent to his case had never been turned over to his defense. This resulted in a Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General (DOJ/OIG) investigation. In the report, An Investigation of the Belated Production of Documents in the Oklahoma City Bombing Case, Chapter 3: Analysis of the Causes for the Belated Production of Discoverable Items, is found the following (see original regarding footnotes):

2. Defense Exhibit 10

Defense Exhibit 10 is a 2-paragraph insert dated April 24, 1995, from the Colorado Springs Resident Agency relaying information from a confidential informant that a prison inmate had information that someone other than McVeigh and Nichols was involved in the bombing. The former agent who drafted the insert told the OIG that he believed he would have followed normal procedure, which was to send the original to the confidential source file in Denver, the Headquarters City for the Denver Division, and a copy to the OKBOMB Auxiliary Office file, also located in Denver. He could not recall who in the office was responsible for sending information to the OKBOMB Task Force. He stated that he knew that "everything" was supposed to be sent to the OKBOMB Task Force, and he had no explanation for why this particular insert had not been sent.

3. Defense Exhibit 11

Defense Exhibit 11 is a 1-page insert provided by the Kansas City Field Office. In the insert, a confidential informant provided information on October 10, 1997, about individuals other than McVeigh and Nichols who the informant described "as persons behind the scenes of the Oklahoma City bombing." The defense stated that it never received this information during the trial.⁵³ Kansas City located this document as part of the second wave after receiving a telephone call from FBI Headquarters on May 16, 2001, directing Kansas City to provide all informant serials bearing the Oklahoma City case number. The FD-209 contains the OKBOMB case number and a 266G-0 number, which is Kansas City's domestic terrorism miscellaneous file.⁵⁴

How many more such leads did the government investigators have?

Regardless, why was this information not passed to McVeigh's defense?

From An Investigation of the Belated Production of Documents in the Oklahoma City Bombing Case, Chapter 8: Conclusion:

The disclosure of hundreds of OKBOMB documents one week before the scheduled execution of McVeigh raised questions as to whether the FBI had intentionally failed to disclose the documents and how the belated disclosures could have occurred. Because of the importance of these issues, the OIG expended significant resources to investigate the circumstances surrounding the belated production of documents. These issues have critical implications not only for the Oklahoma City bombing case, but also for how the FBI handles documents in its other investigations.

Based on our investigation, we concluded that the FBI had not intentionally withheld discoverable documents. Rather, the evidence showed that the FBI’s failure to disclose these documents resulted primarily from individual errors in document handling, failures to follow FBI policies, failures to fully comply with directives from the OKBOMB Task Force, and cumbersome and complex document handling procedures. The failures were widespread and not confined to one office or a few individuals. Nor was the fault confined to either the FBI field offices or the Task Force; both share responsibility for the problems.

We are most critical of the way certain senior FBI managers responded when they became aware of the belated documents problem. In January 2001, the belated documents were initially identified as a potential problem by two conscientious employees in the FBI’s Oklahoma City field office. Yet, the managers to whom they reported the problem failed to address the issue in a timely way, or notify FBI Headquarters or the prosecutors in the case until the beginning of May, one week before McVeigh’s scheduled execution. We believe these delays were a significant neglect of their duties. We therefore recommend that the FBI consider disciplinary action for these managers’ failure to resolve and disclose the problem in a timely way.

They sat on it. And when it began to leak out, they tried harder to sit on it, then, when it could no longer be contained, FBI leadership played the blame game.

Why?

Was McVeigh guilty? I think he was. Did he and Nichols act alone? Definitely not, and that is what the government is trying to cover up.

The criminal conspiracy (oops -- there's the "c-word") loops in both Hussein's regime in Iraq, a secular Arab government, and Al Qaeda, who long ago made takfir out of anyone like Saddam Hussein.

Who else is involved?



From Former FBI Translator Sibel Edmonds Calls Current 9/11 Investigation Inadequate by Jim Hogue, May 07, 2004:

JH: Here's a question that you might be able to answer: What is al-Qaeda?

SE: This is a very interesting and complex question. When you think of al-Qaeda, you are not thinking of al-Qaeda in terms of one particular country, or one particular organization. You are looking at this massive movement that stretches to tens and tens of countries. And it involves a lot of sub-organizations and sub-sub-organizations and branches and it's extremely complicated. So to just narrow it down and say al-Qaeda and the Saudis, or to say it's what they had at the camp in Afghanistan, is extremely misleading. And we don't hear the extent of the penetration that this organization and the sub-organizations have throughout the world, throughout their networks and throughout their various activities. It's extremely sophisticated. And then you involve a significant amount of money into this equation. Then things start getting a lot of overlap -- money laundering, and drugs and terrorist activities and their support networks converging in several points. That's what I'm trying to convey without being too specific. And this money travels. And you start trying to go to the root of it and it's getting into somebody's political campaign, and somebody's lobbying. And people don't want to be traced back to this money.

"And you start trying to go to the root of it and it's getting into somebody's political campaign, and somebody's lobbying. And people don't want to be traced back to this money."

Is it not interesting that Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, whose report has been featured in this series, is one of the politicians who have been "traced back to this money" (see The Heroin Lobby, Part 6)?

In fact, as Aurora commented on that post, "Whoever played a role in this, I hope they are fully exposed."



As I said to Aurora, "Stick around."

Out of Context, Part 6

In Part 5, we were reviewing a FrontPageMag.com interview with journalist and author Jayna Davis entitled The Third Terrorist, dated September, 2004.

When we left off, Davis had just explained that some "defectors" from the Iraqi Army were living in Oklahoma City, and that when they heard of the Oklahoma City bombing, they "cheered deliriously, exuberantly pledging their allegiance to the now deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, vowing they would 'die for Saddam.'"

We then recapped how President Clinton had stated in the immediate aftermath of the bombing, "God, I hope there's no Middle Eastern connection to this."

We now continue with the Davis interview:

Nearly two dozen Oklahomans have signed sworn affidavits in which they accuse these ardent Saddam supporters and ex-enemy combatants of aiding and abetting McVeigh and Nichols.

The most incriminating testimony centered around one man – Hussain Hashem Al-Hussaini. Al-Hussaini not only fit the FBI's physical description in the official arrest warrant for John Doe 2, but according to veteran law enforcement officials, was a dead ringer for the government's profile sketch of the elusive suspect.

Witnesses identified this Iraqi immigrant socializing with McVeigh at an Oklahoma City nightclub prior to the bombing. An Oklahoma City gas station attendant also fingered Al-Hussaini as the customer who paid one hundred dollars cash to fill up a large Ryder truck with diesel fuel (key chemical component used in Ryder truck bomb) on eve of the bombing - April 18, 1995. The next morning, a maintenance working at the motel located adjacent to the service station observed what was very likely the same Ryder truck emanating an odorous stench of diesel, yet according to the witness, the gas cap bore a warning sticker which read: "Unleaded Fuel Only."

Two witnesses named the Iraqi soldier as the dark-haired, olive-skinned male they observed timing his run at a breathless pace from the Murrah Building one block east shortly before daybreak on April 19. Moreover, several Oklahoma City residents claimed to have seen Al-Hussaini climbing into the cab of a Ryder truck that reeked of diesel fuel at a local motel an hour before the explosion. The witnesses indicated that Timothy McVeigh was seated behind the wheel of that moving van as it pulled off the lot and headed toward downtown.

Furthermore, the Iraqi soldier was positively identified sitting in the passenger seat of the Ryder truck next to McVeigh a few blocks north of the Murrah Building at 8:30 a.m., stepping out of that truck at ground zero directly in front of the ill-fated federal complex moments before the massive fertilizer/fuel oil bomb detonated, and speeding away from downtown in the driver's seat of a brown Chevrolet pickup targeted by the FBI in an official teletype for foreign suspects.

Five witnesses independently fingered Al-Hussaini and several of his Middle Eastern associates as frequent visitors at an Oklahoma City motel in the months, weeks, days, and hours leading up to 9:02 a.m. on April 19. On numerous occasions the Arab subjects were seen in the company of Timothy McVeigh, and during a few rare instances, associating with Terry Nichols. More significantly, detailed interviews with key witnesses proved conclusively that the man whom witnesses named as the nefarious "third terrorist" had no provable alibi for the critical hours of April 19.

Colonel Patrick Lang, a Middle East expert who formerly served as the chief of human intelligence for the Defense Intelligence Agency, determined that the Iraqi soldier’s military tattoo and immigration file indicated that he was likely a trusted member of Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard before being recruited into the elite Unit 999 of the Estikhabarat, more commonly known as the Iraqi Military Intelligence Service. Before the 2003 Iraq War, Unit 999 was headquartered in Salman Pak, southeast of Baghdad, and was tasked with clandestine operations at home and overseas. Several defense and intelligence analysts, with whom I consulted, concurred with Colonel Lang's conclusions.

Basically, it sounds like these guys were sent out on a Trojan Horse-type operation.

How, though, do we reconcile this with President Clinton's comment ("God, I hope there's no Middle Eastern connection to this.")?

Why would President Clinton have said something like that?

And then, the federal investigation narrows its focus on McVeigh and Nichols, with no foreign involvement.

Why was this information, easily obtainable by the FBI, not used to indict these Iraqi "defectors"?

Indeed, if the FBI had done a marginally competent investigation, they already had this information, n'est-ce pas?

But, why would we want to cover up Saddam Hussein's involvement in a terrorist act?

Okay, so President Clinton wanted to protect Hussein (why is anybody's guess), but why would President Bush, spoiling for war with Iraq, have continued the cover-up? Why could Bush not simply have re-opened the case, prosecuted these Iraqi defectors, then used that as ample justification for war to topple Hussein's regime?

Perhaps this didn't stop with Iraq.

From Cracking the Case: An Interview With Sibel Edmonds by Scott Horton, August 22, 2005:

SE: [snip] The most important issue is: What were these criminal activities, and why instead of pursuing these our government chooses to cover it up and actually issue classification and gag orders so the American public will not know about what is going on within these agencies within their government -- and even within the Congress? [snip] I'm saying, "I came forward because criminal activities are taking place -- have been taking place -- some of them since 1997." Some of these activities are 100 percent related to the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States, and they are giving this illusion that they are pursuing these cases, but they are not. If the case touches upon certain countries or certain high level people, certain sensitive relations, then they don't. But, on the other hand, they go and talk about lower-level criminal activity that boils down to people like Atta and Hamdi.

Sibel Edmonds is aware of information showing that these connections go back to 1997.

Do you suppose such corruption might go back a little farther -- say, to the time of the Oklahoma City bombing, and perhaps before?

From 'The Stakes Are Too High for Us to Stop Fighting Now' An interview with FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds by Christopher Deliso August 15, 2005:

CD: So you're saying that the whole process of sorting through the intelligence you received, executing investigations, and getting information where it needed to go was prevented by the State Department?

SE: Several times, yes.

CD: And again, because of the "sensitive foreign relations" excuse?

SE: Well, yes, obviously all of these high-level criminal operations involve working with foreign people, foreign countries, the outside world -- and to a certain extent these relations do depend on the continuation of criminal activities.

Do you suppose we couldn't get these Iraqi "defectors" indicted for the same reason we can't get straight answers about 9/11?

From 'The Stakes Are Too High for Us to Stop Fighting Now' An interview with FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds by Christopher Deliso August 15, 2005:

SE: The fact that there are no investigations -- I will give you an analogy, okay? Say if we decided to have a "war on drugs," but said in the beginning, "right, we're only going to go after the young black guys on the street level." Hey, we already have tens of thousands of them in our jails anyway, why not a few more? But we decided never to go after the middle levels, let alone the top levels...

It's like this with the so-called war on terror. We go for the Attas and Hamdis -- but never touch the guys on the top.

CD: You think they [the government] know who they are, the top guys, and where?

SE: Oh yeah, they know.

CD: So why don't they get them?

SE: It's like I told you before -- this would upset "certain foreign relations." But it would also expose certain of our elected officials, who have significant connections with high-level drugs- and weapons-smuggling -- and thus with the criminal underground, even with the terrorists themselves.

From An Interview with Sibel Edmonds, Page Three by Chris Deliso, July 1, 2004:

CD: What are they so afraid of?

SE: They're afraid of information, of the truth coming out, and accountability -- the whole accountability issue that will arise. But it's not as complicated as it might seem. If they were to allow the whole picture to emerge, it would just boil down to a whole lot of money and illegal activities.

CD: Hmm, well I know you can't name names, but can you tell me if any specific officials will suffer if your testimony comes out?

SE: Yes. Certain elected officials will stand trial and go to prison.

Perhaps Presidents Clinton and Bush among them?

Stay tuned to Stop Islamic Conquest as Out of Context continues.

The Dark Knight, Part 1 of 5

"It was the night of June 26th. I remember it very clearly. I was coming back from my trip to Asia, and had taken a short vacation in Russia with Talia. We had just been to St. Petersburg to see the White Nights, and were spending a few days in Moscow. From there, we were going to leave for Europe. We had no particular plans, other than to go to Venice, and compare it to St. Petersburg. We were on the bank of a river near Moscow – I don't recall if it was the Moscow River or not – and I had fallen asleep. That was the first time it happened."

"What, Bruce?"

"I used to have frequent nightmares about my parents' death," he explained, recalling how they were killed in a mugging attempt in front of him. "But, this was the first night that I had the new dream."

Bruce Wayne paused. Obviously, this was difficult for him to discuss.

She looked at him closely, trying not to be obvious... was that a tear in his eye? She had always known that this had had a tremendous impact on him, but she had always known an angry Bruce Wayne, not a vulnerable one.

She reached over gently, and held his hand.

"It's okay, Bruce."

Wiping his eye, he swallowed, then, summoning his strength, continued to speak.

"I used to have a recurring dream, where I watched my parents get shot, then fall in slow motion to the pavement. My mother was dead when she hit the street, but my father was still alive," he explained, then paused again.

He picked up his water glass, and took a sip of his water.

"In this recurring dream, I saw them die, again and again. It was always the same. I would have it once every several months. But, this night it was different. My parents died when I was eight. They were killed at 10:47 PM on June 26th. So, there I was in Moscow with Talia, on the night of June 26th, the anniversary of my parents' death, with Talia..." he paused, wondering if he should tell her this.

"With Talia, I had almost forgotten about my parents' death – for the first time ever, especially on the anniversary of their deaths, and then, the dream came back... but, this time...."

He stopped, and drank some more water.

"This time, it started out as my parents that were falling, but suddenly... suddenly, it was these two tall buildings. They were tall, squarish, two nearly-identical buildings, and the smoke, instead of being the smoke from a revolver, was the smoke from a fire in these buildings. Then one fell, hitting the pavement below, then the other fell."

He stopped his narrative, thinking. Reliving this dream, and the events it depicted, was having an enormous impact on him. She reached over with her other hand, both hands now grasping his left hand, as his right hand reached again for his water, and he took another long sip.

"It scared me, and when I woke up, frightened, Talia sensed something was wrong. I looked at my watch, and it was 10:47 PM, the very time when my parents had been killed so many years ago." He stopped, staring off into space, and, for what seemed like an eternity, it was as if he were reliving those horrifying moments. Then, he looked at her. "That very night, I called Alfred, and began packing. My vacation with Talia was over, and I was on my way back to Gotham City. For months, I had no idea what it all meant, all I knew was that it disturbed me. Then, that Tuesday morning in September, it was a beautiful late-summer day, the sky was blue, and I saw how two fires had started in the Gotham Trade Center, high up in the Gotham Towers, and it happened, just like I saw in my dream – first one, then the other, the buildings collapsed, falling to the pavement below." He stopped again.

He swallowed hard, gripping her hands.

"Aladdin's warning... it was as if he were saying, 'See ya 'round,' just like Joe Chill did when he pointed the gun at my head after shooting Mom and Dad."

Rachel Dawes looked at her childhood friend, Bruce Wayne. Many times she had looked at him, and thought of him as a little boy – an angry, hurt little boy – but for the first time, ever, tonight she looked at him, and felt almost like he was her son. All the times she had argued with him, disapproving of his anger, his lust for revenge... now, years later, she saw that anger had mellowed, and the lust for revenge was gone, replaced by an understanding of what justice truly was... but instead of happy, she felt sad, because now, for the first time ever, she understood his anger and his lust for revenge, and, even if she didn't agree with it, she felt it was justified, and perhaps even missed it, realizing now how it had helped him survive something that no one should have to experience, how his anger had been a defense, and now, with it gone, Bruce Wayne was left defenseless and vulnerable.

"It's okay, Bruce," she repeated, not knowing what else to say.

Bruce Wayne looked at her, and managed an insincere smile – the kind of smile that covers up other emotions, the kind of smile that substitutes for loneliness and sadness.

No way, he thought, could he tell her the rest of the story – how, that night, the dream came back again, only it didn't end with the collapse of the Gotham Towers.

He recalled the dream.

"The danger is not past, Bruce," his mother's voice said behind him.

Bruce looked. Some men had an object, and they were moving it into place in Gotham City. It was some kind of piece of equipment of some sort, some kind of container.

"Now it is Gotham City's turn to touch the sun," a cold, masculine voice came from behind him.

Bruce looked at the container... inside it was the power of the sun!

"Bruce... don't be afraid." Bruce turned and looked; it was his father, Dr. Thomas Wayne, speaking to him. "This disaster can still be prevented. Just don't be afraid."

"What must I do?" Bruce had asked his father in his dream.

That Tuesday night in September, almost seven years ago, was the night – on that night, after many years in the back of his mind, his alter ego came forward – Batman was born. Batman would defend Gotham City against Aladdin and his henchmen, against the syndicate of which Aladdin's Mujahideen were only a part – a syndicate determined to destroy Gotham City by unleashing on it the power of the sun.



Jim Gordon sat back in his chair and thought about the day's events.

Usually on June 26th, the anniversary of the day when Bruce Wayne's parents were murdered, Jim Gordon called Bruce Wayne to check on him and see how he was doing. Today, however, Bruce Wayne called Jim Gordon, and congratulated him on his promotion to Inspector in the Gotham Police Department.

"Next thing we know, you'll be the Commissioner," joked Wayne.

Gordon was just a patrolman that day that Wayne's parents, Dr. Thomas Wayne and his wife Martha, were murdered. As such, Officer Gordon was first on the scene, and to this day, he remembers the look on young Bruce Wayne's face.

Since then, the two developed a special bond. Over the years, Gordon looked in on Bruce Wayne when he could, and, although they didn't spend much time together, Jim Gordon had become kind of like an uncle to Bruce Wayne.

Now an adult, Wayne and Gordon continued to greet each other periodically, often on holidays, but always on June 26th of every year.

It so happens that this June 26th was the first day that Jim Gordon showed up to work with his new job as Inspector of the Gotham Police Department.

Gordon laughed. "I'm just trying to take it one day at a time, Bruce."

"I know the feeling," Wayne answered.

An awkward pause followed, then Gordon asked, "Do you have any plans for tonight?"

"Yes, as a matter of fact, I plan to pay a visit to some friends tonight."

"Why don't we get together for a cup of coffee?"

"Is tomorrow afternoon okay, Jim?"

"That's fine, Bruce. You have my cell phone number, right?"

"Yes, I do. I'll call you, and we'll set something up."

"It's a deal, Bruce," Gordon answered. Truth was, he knew Wayne might not call him, and it was okay. The main thing is they stayed in touch.

Gordon spun his chair around and looked out the window. Late June, the days were long, and there were still some glimmers of sunlight in the western sky as the sun set over Gotham City. Gordon stood up and walked over to the window.

Somewhere out there, he thought, was that Batman. He looked out the window and wondered what Batman's story was.



"Where is he?" Sasha asked Alfred. "He's not downstairs, he's not working out. As far as I know, he didn't go out – if he did, no one is driving him. Where did he go? And, how am I supposed to look out for him, if I don't know where he is?"

"It's his way, Sasha," Alfred answered reassuringly. "He'll call us if he needs us."



The woman watched from her balcony.

It was night time in Gotham City, the night of June 26th, to be exact. The sun had just set, and Gotham City was beautiful against the night sky.

She had been watching the passers-by on the street below. Under her balcony was an alleyway that ran behind an old theater. In years past, it had been patronized by Gotham City's elite, but in the past twenty years or so, the neighborhood had gone downhill. The theater closed, and reopened as a movie theater; its clientele certainly was not as upscale as it had been before.

She looked down. One man, well-dressed, entered the alleyway. He looked out-of-place, although he seemed like he knew his way around. He was carrying a small, longish box, the kind one might have flowers in.

She looked up at the night sky. The city lights drowned out nearly all the stars, but she could see that the night was clear, and not cloudy.

There was something about the alleyway below, but she couldn't remember what it was.

That's right! Some twenty-five years ago or so, two prominent Gotham citizens, a doctor and his wife, were murdered there in a mugging attempt.

She looked back down. The man was crouched down on the side of the alley, along the curb.

Suddenly he stood up, and walked away. She squinted. It looked as if he had left flowers on the curb. Curious, she watched him walk back down the alley to the street. At the entrance to the alleyway, he paused for a moment, looking down the street toward where the Gotham Towers had stood, in the Gotham Trade Center. Then, he turned and went in the other direction.

She looked back down at the flowers on the curb, then, shaking her head, she looked inside her apartment.

The clock on the wall showed 10:47 PM.

The Basics

At a Muslim blog, I found a post entitled In Friendswood, TX, Islam 101 is less than welcome; it is quite amusing.

Apparently, there was an alleged hate crime against a Muslim student, followed by an assembly where CAIR came in and taught students about Islam.

Parents were somewhat concerned about this, to put it mildly.

The blog post addresses this polemic, with the following near the end:

When Christian students are on no-fly lists, when Christianity is reviled as a scourge of evil on the planet, and when the number of hate crimes against Christians is on the rise, an assembly about the basics of Christianity may well be in order.

May we then start booking such assemblies in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, and in certain minority neighborhoods throughout Sweden, France, the UK and elsewhere in Western Europe?

Of course, the implication is that Muslim students are on no-fly lists, Islam is reviled as a scourge of evil on the planet, etc.

Assuming that to be true, may I ask how it came about?

Financial Onslaught, Part 3

We continue from Part 2 reviewing an article entitled The Fifth Generation Warfare by Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen.

As I mentioned previously, please keep in mind as you read this that Dr. Ehrenfeld is the target of a legal jihad, and needs contributions to her organization to continue her work and defend herself against the legal harassment of the libel terrorists that target her. See my sidebar for links for further information.

According to a 1991 U.S. Library of Congress report on Sudan, the IDB also supported Faisal Islamic Bank, established in 1977 under Sudan's Faisal Islamic Bank Act by Saudi prince Muhammad ibn Faisal Al Saud and managed by local Muslim Brotherhood members and their party, the National Islamic Front. Soon other political groups and parties formed their own Islamic banks. Together, Sudanese Islamic banks then acquired 20 percent of the country's deposits "providing the financial basis to turn Sudan into an Islamic state in 1983, and promoting the Islamic governmental policies to date."²⁵ Sudan Islamized its banking in 1989. However, Pakistan was the first country to officially Islamize its banking practices, in 1979.

Rising oil revenues encouraged MB leaders to formalize al-Banna's vision. In 1977 and 1982, they convened in Lugano, Switzerland, to chart a master plan to co-opt Western economic "foundations, capitalism and democracy" in a treatise entitled "Towards a Worldwide Strategy for Islamic Policy," also known as The Project. MB spiritual leader al-Qaradawi wrote the explicit document, dated 1 December 1982.²⁶ The 12-point strategy includes diktats to establish the Islamic state and gradual, parallel work to control local power centers ... using institutional work as means to this end. This requires "special Islamic economic, social and other institutions," and "the necessary economic institutions to provide financial support" to spread fundamentalist Islam.²⁷

In other words, this is a coordinated plan to spread not some "Religion of Peace", but the very ideology that terrorists adhere to.

Consequently, the IDB founded the AAOIFI in 1990. AAOIFI members include the Saudi Dallah al Baraka Group, al-Rajhi Banking & Investment Corporation, and Kuwait Finance House²⁸ -- all implicated in funding al Qaeda and other MB offspring, according to Richard Clarke, the former national coordinator for security, infrastructure protection, and counter-terrorism.²⁹ The 18 AAOIFI members also include Iran and Sudan, both on the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctions list; Iran is a U.S. State Department-designated terror-sponsoring state, too. UAE banks wired most of the funding for the 9/11 attacks.³⁰

In addition, the "de facto Islamic Central Bank," the Islamic Financial Services Board (IFSB),³¹ was established in 2002 in Kuala Lumpur "to absorb the 11 September shock and reinforce the stability of Islamic finance." Chairing the organizers' meeting, then Malaysian Prime Minister Mohamed Mahathir stated, "A universal Islamic banking system is a jihad worth pursuing to abolish this slavery [to the West]." IFSB members include the central banks of Iran, Sudan, and Syria (all designated state sponsors of terrorism) and the Palestinian Monetary Authority (PMA), which is widely documented since its inception to be a terror funder.³²

I hope my regular readers by now understand that terrorism is not occurring on a shoe-string budget; rather, it is a proxy war being waged by people who know that if we really understood what was going on, we'd regime change them right out of a job, so they do this covertly.

Was it Benjamin Netanyahu? "It's the regimes, stupid."

According to Dallah al Baraka Group and Islamic Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) president Saleh Kamel,³³ more than 400 Islamic financial institutions³⁴ currently operate in 75 countries.³⁵ They now hold more than $800 billion in assets³⁶ growing 15 percent annually. HSBC, UBS, J.P. Morgan Chase, Deutsche Bank, Lloyds TSB, and BNP Paribas are but a few that offer Islamic banking and shari'a-based products to their Western clients -- and promote them as "ethical investments."

So what is at risk, here?

"It's the economy, stupid."

And much, much more.

Billionaire Sheikh Saleh Abdullah Kamel and his family, like other wealthy Saudis, have built their terror-funding-affiliated $3.5 billion Dallah al Baraka Group to service the shari'a.³⁷ Its business, finance, and media sectors incorporate agriculture, communication, health care, real estate, tourism, trade, transportation, and finance companies -- including 10 banks and many leasing and finance firms, Arab Radio & Television and Arab Digital Distribution, and the International Information & Trading Service Co., producing the Top 1000 Saudi Companies Directory, among other publications.

Rapidly rising oil prices fill the coffers of Islamic banks, fuel the expansion of shari'a economics and financial jihad -- and threaten the United States and the entire non-Muslim world, in real time. Indeed, shortly after 9/11, Osama bin Laden called on Muslims "to concentrate on hitting the U.S. economy through all possible means.... Look for the key pillars of the U.S. economy. Strike the key pillars of the enemy again and again and they will fall as one."³⁸

Of course we won't hear about any of this from Bush & Cheney, nor will we hear about this from McCain or Obama. They will argue over federal taxes on gasoline, and debate health care and social security, and we will think we have an election; the real issue about how not just Western but all infidel societies everywhere are being targeted by Islamist economic warfare, with the sole goal of bringing us to our knees in forced submission, will not be addressed.

Why?

The NASDAQ acquisition, purchases of over 52 percent of the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and 47.6 percent of OMX (Nordic exchange), and vigorous expansion of shari'a finance all steadily implement al-Banna's plan to spread and ultimately impose shari'a worldwide.

Bourse Dubai in December 2006 loudly proclaimed its new conversion to "shari'a compliance and accounting practices."³⁹ Yet, responding to a specific inquiry on the Islamic nature of Bourse Dubai from the Partnership for New York City on 22 October 2007, Bourse Dubai denied being an Islamic exchange.⁴⁰ Still unaware of the implications of importing shari'a finance, however, hoards of Westerners eagerly attend such pricey events as the October 2007 Islamic Finance Summit in New York,⁴¹ which focused on the "innovations in shari'a compliant finance." According to an eyewitness, when one participant timidly inquired, "What is shari'a law?" a leading Islamic scholar responded from the podium: "It's good for you."

Executing rape victims, gays and lesbians, and anyone who wishes to leave Islam -- "It's good for you."

Lost on the attendees was the inescapable fact that shari'a calls for the supremacy of Islam, thus negating the U.S. Constitution.⁴²

Does anybody even read that document anymore?

I do, and I'll be most of my American readership is familiar with it, too.

Stay tuned to Stop Islamic Conquest as Financial Onslaught continues.

Wahhabi Girls

I previously did a post entitled Submissive Girls to the tune of California Girls by the Beach Boys. It seemed to go over fairly well, but it's amazing how many readers now stumble onto my blog by googling "Submissive Girls" -- ;)

This post is a remix, and I would like to dedicate it to all the Financiers of Holy Terror -- May Allah be pleased with you!

Wahhabi Girls

Well infidel girls are hip
I really dig those styles they wear
Things the Prophet said we should never permit
A woman shouldn't even show her hair

The Prophet said we could have them if they promise to submit
We can rape them too if we take them in war
But if it's consensual I'm a hypocrite

I wish they all could be Wahhabi
I wish they all could be Wahhabi
I wish they all could be Wahhabi girls

The Saudi desert has the sunshine
But the girls are kept inside
I dig a sex object in my family tent
Harems by an oil rig in the sand

I been all around the House of War
And I seen those infidel girls
Yeah, but I couldn't wait to get back to the Kingdom
To the most oppressed girls in the world

I wish they all could be Wahhabi
I wish they all could be Wahhabi
I wish they all could be Wahhabi girls

You know I have four wives and that means
Three Saudi men just do without
They just go and wage the jihad
That's how they get their frustrations out

The Prophet promised virgins
To all our dead mujahideen
Oh, those dark-eyed ones promised by Allah
Better than anything you've ever seen

I wish they all could be Wahhabi
I wish they all could be Wahhabi
I wish they all could be Wahhabi girls

The Prophet spoke about holy war
Relaying Allah's great command
Kill the infidels and die spreading Islam
Such men are really in demand

But fighting for Allah costs big bucks
And petrodollars don't grow on trees
So I give of my wealth then go back to my tent
For me jihad's such a breeze!

I wish they all could be Wahhabi
I wish they all could be Wahhabi
I wish they all could be Wahhabi girls

I wish they all could be Wahhabi
(girls, girls, girls yeah I dig the)
I wish they all could be Wahhabi
(girls, girls, girls yeah I dig the)
I wish they all could be Wahhabi
(girls, girls, girls yeah I dig the)
I wish they all could be Wahhabi
(girls, girls, girls yeah I dig the)



Riddle me this!
Financiers of Holy Terror
What kind of a man makes mistakes
But refuses to admit an error?

Riddle me again,
For your answers I can't wait;
Puzzle over this rhyme,
As you ponder your funding of hate:

Salt water relieves thirst,
Which grows stronger after you drink;
And so like an all-consuming fire
Am I to those who don't think.

Financial Onslaught, Part 2

We continue from Part 1 reviewing an article entitled The Fifth Generation Warfare by Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen.

As I mentioned in Part 1, please keep in mind as you read this that Dr. Ehrenfeld is the target of a legal jihad, and needs contributions to her organization to continue her work and defend herself against the legal harassment of the libel terrorists that target her. See my sidebar for links for further information.

HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT

The origins of the modern financial jihad infrastructure, including all Islamic economic and financial regulatory organizations like the 1991-Bahrain-registered and -based Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI), date back to the 1920s and were an invention of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna. He designed political, economic, and financial foundations to enable Muslims to fulfill a key form of jihad mandated by the Qur'an -- financial jihad.⁸

Terrorism is big business.

We have a popular misconception of underfunded and oppressed peoples battling their oppressors. This view was to some extent accurate during the jihad in Afghanistan against the Soviets, but there the mujahideen were not terrorists.

What is the difference?

To my view, targets make the difference. Guerrillas attack military targets, whereas terrorists attack defenseless and innocent civilian targets; guerrillas have a military objective, whereas terrorists have the political objective of terrorizing people.

Terrorists are criminals, plain and simple; one motivation for criminals is money, big money is needed in conducting terrorism, and with the extensive links modern terrorism has with organized crime and smuggling, there is big money to be made in terrorism.

He viewed finance as a critical weapon to undermine the infidels -- and "work towards establishing an Islamic rule on earth." ⁹ He was first to understand that to achieve world domination, Muslims needed an independent Islamic financial system to parallel and later supersede the Western economy. Al-Banna's contemporaries and successors (such as the late Sayed Qutb and current Yusuf al-Qaradawi) set his theories and practices into motion, developing shari'a-based terminology and mechanisms to advance the financial jihad -- "Islamic economics," finance, and banking.¹⁰

Early 1930s MB attempts to establish Islamic banking in India failed. Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser shut down the second attempt, in 1964, after only one year, later arresting and expelling the Muslim Brotherhood for attempts to kill him.¹¹

It is important to note that these secular Arab governments, such as Nasser's Egypt (and later Sadat's Egypt and now Mubarrak's Egypt) are enemies of the jihadists. The jihadists accuse these secular Arabs of apostasy and make takfir out of them.

Which brings us to a question: why did we invade Iraq? There was not one Iraqi alleged to have been on those planes on 9/11. Hussein's regime was despicable, but his was just another dictator-centered personality cult.

Or, was Iraq involved in the Oklahoma City bombing, as has been very credibly alleged? (See Out of Context, Part 5.) And thus, was the OKBOMB just a dress-rehearsal for 9/11?

But, if that's the case, why does no one in the government say so?

Speaking of all this money it takes to fund terrorism... from Former FBI Translator Sibel Edmonds Calls Current 9/11 Investigation Inadequate by Jim Hogue, May 07, 2004:

....JH: Let me read you a short quote from Dr. Griffin's book, quoting from War and Globalization: The Truth Behind September 11 by Michel Chossudovsky and ask you to comment on it. "...The transfer of money to Atta [$325,000], in conjunction with the presence of the ISI chief in Washington during the week, [is] the missing link behind 9/11....The evidence confirms that al-Qaeda is supported by Pakistan's ISI (and it is amply documented that) the ISI owes its existence to the CIA."

SE: I cannot comment on that. But I can tell that once, and if, and when this issue gets to be, under real terms, investigated, you will be seeing certain people that we know from this country standing trial; and they will be prosecuted criminally.

Returning now to Ehrenfeld and Lappen:

But Saudi Arabia welcomed this new wave of Egyptian dissidents, as did King Saud bin Abdel Aziz earlier waves in 1954 and 1961.¹² Their ideas so appealed to him and his clerics that in 1961, Saud funded the MB's establishment of the Islamic University in Medina to proselytize its fundamentalist Islamic ideology, especially to foreign students.¹³ In 1962, the MB convinced the king to launch a global financial joint venture, which became the cornerstone and engine to spread Islam worldwide. This venture created charitable foundations, which the MB oversees and from which most Islamic terrorist groups benefit.¹⁴

The first were the Muslim World League (MWL) and Rabitta al-Alam al-Islami, uniting Islamic radicals from 22 nations and spinning a web of many other charities with hundreds of offices worldwide.¹⁵ In 1978, the kingdom backed another MB initiative, the International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO), which, with all these "charities," is implicated for funding al Qaeda, the 9/11 attacks, Hamas, and others.¹⁶ These "charities" are used to advance the Muslim Brotherhood and Saudi political agenda, namely empowering the ummah and imposing worldwide shari'a. "I don't like this word 'donations'," al-Qaradawi told BBC Panorama on 30 July 2006. "I like to call it Jihad with money, because God has ordered us to fight enemies with our lives and our money."¹⁷

In 1969, the Saudis convened Arab and Muslim states to unify the "struggle for Islam," and have ever since been the Organization of the Islamic Conference's (OIC's) major sponsor. The 56 OIC members include Iran, Sudan, and Syria. The Jidda-based, "pending the liberation of Jerusalem," OIC's charter mandates and coordinates "support [of] the struggle of the Palestinian people, ... recovering their rights and liberating their occupied territories." ¹⁸ The OIC charter includes all the MB principles. Its first international undertaking in 1973 was to establish the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) "in accordance with the principles of the shariah,"¹⁹ as prescribed by the MB -- and to launch the fast-growing petrodollar-based Islamic financing market. The IDB, more a development than commercial bank, was established largely "to promote Islamic banking worldwide." ²⁰ "[A]n Islamic organization must serve God ... and ultimately sustain ... the growth and advancement of the Islamic way of life," writes Nasser M. Suleiman in "Corporate Governance in Islamic Banking."²¹

If we're going to change a regime, Saudi Arabia is the place to do it -- not Iraq, and not Iran. Saudi Arabia is the major instigator and a major source of the money; pull the plug on The Kingdom, and you pull the plug on most of the terrorist organizations that have been causing the problems. Riyadh is a critical node in the web of terror.

And the IDB has done just that. Between 1975 to 2005, the IDB approved over $50 billion in funding to Muslim countries,²² ostensibly to develop their economic and educational infrastructures, but effected little regional economic impact. Its educational efforts, however, paid huge yields -- via the rapid and significant spread of radical Islam worldwide. Moreover, in 2001 alone, the IDB transferred $538 million²³ raised publicly by Saudi and Gulf royal telethons to support the Palestinian intifada and families of Palestinian suicide bombers. The IDB has also channeled UN funds to Hamas, as documented by bank records discovered in the West Bank and Gaza. Yet, the IDB received UN observer status in 2007.²⁴

Imagine if that money and that kind of effort had gone into the economic development of the Palestinian people.

But these guys don't want peace, and it's worth recalling from Part 1 the interpretation from one "holy man", that those who sacrifice money to fund the jihad are making a bigger contribution than those who sacrifice their lives actually fighting it.

In other words, some rich sheikh sending money to pay for terrorism, then going inside his harem and having a good time, is more pleasing to this "Allah" of theirs than the holy warriors who actually die bringing the Religion of Peace to the world.

This "Allah" that these guys are trying so hard to please isn't just evil; he's a cynical manipulating user.

Stay tuned to Stop Islamic Conquest as Financial Onslaught continues.

Out of Context, Part 5

In Part 4, we were looking at a report from Congressman Rohrabacher, entitled Chairman’s Report Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House International Relations Committee, subtitled The Oklahoma City Bombing: Was There A Foreign Connection?

Now, we pick up this story by reviewing an interview with Jayna Davis, whose work was mentioned in the Rohrabacher report. Davis was interviewed by FrontPageMag.com in September, 2004. We now begin to look at that interview, entitled The Third Terrorist:

FP: Jayna Davis, welcome to Frontpage Interview. It's a pleasure to have you here.

Davis: I'm delighted that Frontpage considers my investigative work worthy of an interview. It's a pleasure to join you in this discussion.

FP: First and foremost, what motivated you to write this book? How did you become interested in the topic?

Davis: My tumultuous journey began nine years ago amidst widespread death and destruction on a scale Americans had never before seen. As an investigative reporter for the NBC affiliate in Oklahoma City, KFOR-TV, I was among the first correspondents on the scene of the bombing of the Alfred. P. Murrah Building.

The concussive wave of fury had blown out windows in every office building and high-rise within my immediate range of sight and beyond. My eyes drank in the staggering devastation and the surreal panorama of human slaughter, but my mind could not comprehend the possibility of terrorism. Not in my hometown.

On April 20, 1995, my news director assigned me to cover the international manhunt for suspects. During the first forty-eight hours, all eyes were trained exclusively on the Middle East. Pundits and terrorism experts, including retired officials from the CIA and FBI, opined that the destruction to the federal complex shared striking parallels with the 1993 World Trade Center attack and the modus operandi of Middle Eastern truck bombings.

As a reporter from a Midwestern television station, I obviously did not have access to sources inside the intelligence corridors of the Washington beltway. Therefore, I did what any enterprising journalist would do – start manning the newsroom telephones hoping to develop eyewitness testimony near the crime scene.

I soon found myself swimming in a sea of conspiracy theories espoused by people seeking their proverbial fifteen minutes of fame. That is, until, one groundbreaking tip led me directly to the doorstep of what several esteemed intelligence experts, including the former Director of the CIA Jim Woolsey, later determined to be a Middle Eastern terrorist cell living and operating in the heart of Oklahoma City.

Outside a dilapidated business office located thirty blocks north of the burned out Murrah Building, under the very nose of FBI investigators, I began my nine-year quest to expose the greatest law enforcement failure of the 20^th century, a legal breakdown that I firmly believe might have led, in part, to the terrorism holocaust of the young 21^st century.

A Middle East terrorist cell in the heart of Oklahoma City!

Why, a Middle East terrorist cell in the heart of a Western city is unheard-of and unimaginable!

FP: Many individuals probably find the theme of your book quite far-fetched at first glance: that Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were not the lone conspirators in the Oklahoma City bombing. You argue that they were part of a larger scheme which involved Islamic/Iraqi terrorists. Can you give us a few of the facts?

Davis: The Third Terrorist is the culmination of nearly a decade of exhaustive research. Throughout the course of my investigation, I interviewed eighty potential witnesses, twenty-two of whom I deemed credible because their testimonies could be independently corroborated, and more importantly, their stories did not conflict with the government's case against McVeigh and Nichols.

Davis' research was meticulous and well-documented. She focused on the documented and documentable facts; the information she "deemed credible" was "corroborated", and "did not conflict with the government's case".

In detailed affidavits, these witnesses confidently identified eight specific Middle Eastern men, the majority of whom were former Iraqi soldiers, colluding with the Oklahoma City bombers, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, during various stages of the bombing plot.

All of these suspects immigrated to the United States following the Persian Gulf War, ostensibly seeking political asylum from the tyranny of Saddam Hussein. However, my investigation revealed they were, in fact, false defectors – not outspoken dissidents as they had claimed.

This cadre of Iraqi servicemen moved to Oklahoma City in the fall of 1994 and began performing handiwork for a property management company that was owned and operated by a Palestinian expatriate. The affluent real estate mogul, who operated under eight known aliases, funded his vast, multi-million dollar housing empire from monies contributed by siblings living in Baghdad, Jerusalem, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, and Amman, Jordan.

In the early 1990's, the Palestinian property owner pleaded guilty to federal insurance fraud and served time in the penitentiary. Court records revealed that the FBI once suspected the ex-convict of having ties to the Palestinian Liberation Organization.

Six months prior to the bombing, the Palestinian felon hired a group of self-professed "defectors" from the Iraqi army to do maintenance work on his low-income rental houses. On April 19, several witnesses watched in stunned amazement as their Middle Eastern co-workers expressed prideful excitement upon hearing the first radio broadcasts that Islamic extremists had claimed responsibility for the attack on the Murrah Building. The men cheered deliriously, exuberantly pledging their allegiance to the now deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, vowing they would "die for Saddam."

Keep in mind what we learned in Part 1 from Chairman’s Report Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House International Relations Committee, subtitled The Oklahoma City Bombing: Was There A Foreign Connection?

Note: at the outset of the subcommittee's investigation, former Oklahoma governor Frank Keating personally requested that the investigation be called off. During his meeting with the subcommittee chairman, Governor Keating mentioned that then-President Bill Clinton had called him only hours after the bombing. According to Keating, President Clinton's first comment to him after the bombing was "God, I hope there's no Middle Eastern connection to this."

But, McVeigh and Nichols were convicted, no Middle Eastern connection to the OKBOMB, case closed -- looks like President Bill Clinton, a President known for telling lies and obstructing justice, got what he wanted.

What I don't understand is why this connection, which was being revealed publicly at the beginning of the Bush-43 Administration, wasn't officially acknowledged by "Dubya". After all, here's a nice, meaty reason for regime change in Iraq, as well as a chance to slam the Democrats not just for lies, but for jeopardizing national security as well.

So why was this not capitalized upon?

From An Interview with Sibel Edmonds, Page Three by Chris Deliso, July 1, 2004:

CD: If your full testimony is heard by the public, who or what agencies are going to be in the biggest trouble?

SE: Well, as for agencies I guess the DOJ, FBI, State Department. But in a way these agencies get some kind of immunity when you charge them like this ... I hate to see how a lot of agents get stigmatized in this. Most of the field agents I met in the FBI were good, honest and hardworking individuals. They were trying to do their best, but up against this ingrown bureaucracy -- this is where you have the problem, as will as with certain elected officials.

CD: What are they so afraid of?

SE: They're afraid of information, of the truth coming out, and accountability -- the whole accountability issue that will arise. But it's not as complicated as it might seem. If they were to allow the whole picture to emerge, it would just boil down to a whole lot of money and illegal activities.

CD: Hmm, well I know you can't name names, but can you tell me if any specific officials will suffer if your testimony comes out?

SE: Yes. Certain elected officials will stand trial and go to prison.

Out of Context, Part 4

We continue from Part 3 reviewing the Chairman’s Report Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House International Relations Committee, subtitled The Oklahoma City Bombing: Was There A Foreign Connection?

Phone Records Possibly Linking Yousef to Nichols

Ramzi Yousef was in the United States for about five months prior to his attack on the World Trade Center in February 1993. His cell phone records from that time period show that he placed three phone calls to the residence of a Filipina in Queens, New York named Mila Densing, with one call lasting approximately 30 minutes. At the time of the phone calls, Densing was living in the same row-house apartment building as Adora and Ernesto Malaluan, close friends and neighbors, who were also from Cebu City. Ernesto Malaluan is the cousin of Marife Nichols and owned the boarding house in Cebu City where Terry and Marife lived during their last trip to the Philippines.

The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee interviewed Ernesto and Adora Malaluan, who said they knew nothing about Ramzi Yousef or any of the aliases he used while in the United States. Mila Densing denied speaking to Yousef according to a source of the subcommittee, but she was unresponsive to official efforts to reach her, including certified mail sent by the subcommittee and numerous phone calls.

As Chairman of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee in October 2005, I provided the FBI with the evidence showing Yousef’s phone calls to the close friends and neighbors of Terry Nichols' in-laws in Queens, but have not received a response that addressed these facts. To date, the FBI has not responded to my request for their assessment. Additionally, I asked the FBI for information from their Yousef investigation concerning Mila Densing. Inexplicably, they do not seem to have interviewed her.
As one would expect of someone willing to plot the death of fellow Americans, Nichols' own veracity is far from clear. His initial interview with police was replete with lies and half-truths. To this day, he repeatedly promises to disclose more information about the case, only to blame it on Arkansas gun dealer Roger Moore, or hint of a sinister government conspiracy. At the same time, he has convinced his friends and family that he was a virtual patsy. Contrary to this passive image, McVeigh told his defense team that Nichols had actually threatened to kill him if he caught McVeigh sleeping with his wife. Furthermore, Nichols was on his own in the Philippines where he obviously believed his life was in danger.

Nichols has gotten something of a pass on the culpability of his participation in this horrific act of violence. His complicated attempts to manipulate those investigating OKBOMB, including the subcommittee, suggest capabilities that belie his image as subservient to McVeigh. To this day, Nichols does not fully acknowledge his complicity in this monstrous crime, seeking instead to draw attention to others, some of whom he self-servingly hints have yet to be exposed.

Nichols is obviously a liar and a manipulator -- he seems to have set up McVeigh to take most of the heat for the OKBOMB and, indeed, McVeigh was convicted and executed.

Just because Nichols is a liar, does that mean that everything he says is a lie?

Or, might there be some half-truths mixed in his stories, half-truths which, if properly sifted and analyzed, might yield valuable insights.

"To this day, he repeatedly promises to disclose more information about the case, only to blame it on Arkansas gun dealer Roger Moore, or hint of a sinister government conspiracy."

What if Nichols -- a criminal conspirator -- was aware of other conspiratorial activities, perhaps involving government officials?

Here are some more quotes from the Sibel Edmonds case -- specifically from Former FBI Translator Sibel Edmonds Calls Current 9/11 Investigation Inadequate by Jim Hogue, May 07, 2004, which I am taking out of context (in case you hadn't figured it out, that is where the name for this series came from):

JH: Can you explain more about what money you are talking about?

SE: The most significant information that we were receiving did not come from counter-terrorism investigations, and I want to emphasize this. It came from counter-intelligence, and certain criminal investigations, and issues that have to do with money laundering operations.

You get to a point where it gets very complex, where you have money laundering activities, drug related activities, and terrorist support activities converging at certain points and becoming one. In certain points -- and they [the intelligence community] are separating those portions from just the terrorist activities. And, as I said, they are citing "foreign relations" which is not the case, because we are not talking about only governmental levels. And I keep underlining semi-legit organizations and following the money. When you do that the picture gets grim. It gets really ugly.

JH: Here's a question that you might be able to answer: What is al-Qaeda?

SE: This is a very interesting and complex question. When you think of al-Qaeda, you are not thinking of al-Qaeda in terms of one particular country, or one particular organization. You are looking at this massive movement that stretches to tens and tens of countries. And it involves a lot of sub-organizations and sub-sub-organizations and branches and it's extremely complicated. So to just narrow it down and say al-Qaeda and the Saudis, or to say it's what they had at the camp in Afghanistan, is extremely misleading. And we don't hear the extent of the penetration that this organization and the sub-organizations have throughout the world, throughout their networks and throughout their various activities. It's extremely sophisticated. And then you involve a significant amount of money into this equation. Then things start getting a lot of overlap -- money laundering, and drugs and terrorist activities and their support networks converging in several points. That's what I'm trying to convey without being too specific. And this money travels. And you start trying to go to the root of it and it's getting into somebody's political campaign, and somebody's lobbying. And people don't want to be traced back to this money.

Finally, this quote comes first in Former FBI Translator Sibel Edmonds Calls Current 9/11 Investigation Inadequate, but I put it here last:

JH: Are you allowed to say that it's the Saudis?

SE: I cannot name any country. And I would emphasize that it's plural. I understand the Saudis have been named because fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. However, the names of people from other countries, and semi-legit organizations from other countries, to this day, have not been made public.

With these thoughts in mind, is it not interesting to consider the Ehrenfeld / Lappen article we are reviewing, beginning in my last post, Financial Onslaught, Part 1?

Stay tuned for Out of Context, Part 5 and Financial Onslaught, Part 2 !