by Starman » Fri Jun 17, 2005 1:31 am
This is incredible, confirming what many people suspected in noting that the CIA essentially created the whole facade of AlQaeda as a huge terrorist army -- which no one in Afghanistan identified with or even recognized until post-911 PR publicity gave the word meaning; This testimony by Ali Mohammed, providing details of the US's duplicity in covertly managing Bin Laden's construction/logistics operation, sure validates evidence that the CIA has been running an elaborate confidence racket creating a worthy 'target' to justify the immense fraud of US's 'war on terror';<br><br>Somehow I missed this post, glad I found it reviewing older topics. Thanks for the heads-up!<br>Starman<br><br>More on the US Roots of Middle East conflict:<br><br>How the CIA Created Osama Bin Laden, by Norm Dixon<br>... Ali Mohammed, had trained “Bin Laden’s operatives” in 1989. ... Al Qaeda (the Base), Bin Laden’s organisation, was established in 1987-88 to run the ...<br>www.kersplebedeb.com/mystuff/s11/ciacreate.html - 18k - Cached - Similar pages <br><br>The Largest Covert Operation in CIA History<br>... the United States returned in force after Al Qaeda retaliated against its ...<br>For the CIA legally to carry out a covert action, the president must ...<br>hnn.us/articles/1491.html - 30k - Cached - Similar pages <br><br>How to Fight Terrorism: A Reading of the 9/11 Commission Report ...<br>(Judy Aita, “Ali Mohammed: The Defendant Who Did Not Go to Trial," 5/15/01; ... 42) The Report’s sections on the rise of al-Qaeda begin with the year 1988,...<br>www.mindfully.org/Reform/ 2004/Fight-Terrorism-Scott1sep04.htm <br><br>How the CIA created Osama bin Laden<br>Among those trained by Mohammed were El Sayyid Nosair, who was jailed in 1995 for ... Al Qaeda (the Base), bin Laden's organisation, was established in ...<br>100777.com/node/231/print <br><br>Assassination of Haji Abdul Qadeer in Kabul<br>It is from such angry people that the new recruits to the Al Qaeda, ... When the CIA started its covert actions in Afghanistan on October 7, 2001, ...<br>www.saag.org/papers5/paper489.html <br><br>Osama bin Laden<br>... Ali Mohammed, had trained “bin Laden's operatives” in 1989. ... Most of what we read about al Qaeda and bin Laden is a CIA/ Mossad fiction, always based ...<br>members.austarmetro.com.au/~hubbca/osama.htm <br><br>Frankenstein: binLaden & other US IntelSec rogue monsters<br>Osama bin Laden & his al-Qaeda organization is credited with US embassies' ... One of the suspects, Ali Mohammed Omar Kurdi, was arrested and his house was ...<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://webnetarts.com/socialjustice/binladen.html">webnetarts.com/socialjust...laden.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>[ more ]<br>Frankenstein redux<br>The U.S.S. Cole attack, like Libya & the Gulf War, is a<br>rogue monster of our own creation; yet more are our shibboleths. Until we insist on financing peace in place of more war , cruel & implacable retribution will haunt us.<br><br>Just as we looked the opposite direction when Saddam Hussein used U.S. Agriculture Dept loans to buy biochemical weapons & strategic munitions, so is Osama bin Laden a manifestation of blowback from Ronald Reagan era machismo foreign policy & vestigal cold war colonialism. ] <br>*<br>"The goal has never been to get bin Laden" ¹ 4.6.02 AP <br>Gen. Richard Myers, chair U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff<br>Osama bin Laden, CIA creation & its "blowback" "Terrorist" connected to CIA, drugs. … ¹ <br>9.98 Michael C. Ruppert, From The Wilderness Publ.<br>On 8.20.98 the U.S. launched a series of cruise missile attacks against alleged terrorist camps in Afghanistan and a pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum, Sudan, both of which were said to be under the control of a rabid Islamic fundamentalist leader & arch terrorist named Osama bin-Laden. I did some checking on bin-Laden and what I found out leads me to suspect that the CIA & the U.S. govt would rather have this evil terrorist hiding in the mountains of Afghanistan than answering questions which might embarrass them.<br>. . .<br>US records indicate that we spent nearly $3 billion dollars over the next 8 years to train & equip the Afghan rebels. We even supplied them with Stinger missiles, which caused great concern in later years as we began to fear they would be turned against us. U.S. Congress appropriated ransom money to buy them back in the early 90s. Few were recovered. In addition the CIA, under Bill Casey, sponsored an explosion in the heroin trade to finance the war. This was nothing new.<br><br>In 1979, when Soviet invasion occurred, virtually none of the heroin entering U.S. came from the so-called Golden Crescent in Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. At the time it was coming from Mexico & SE Asia. By 1982 the region was producing exportable opium base equivalent to 20-30 tons of heroin a year. Of that, at least 4.5 tons reached the U.S. By 1988 those numbers had increased to 70 to 80 tons of heroin of which 15 to 20 tons reached the U.S. According to Alfred McCoy, in his outstanding book The Politics of Heroin (Lawrence Hill Books, 1972, 1991), Hekmatyar controlled no less than 6 heroin refineries in the Khyber District of Pakistan alone. At his side was Osama bin-Laden.<br><br>Around the time that Osama bin-Laden moved to Afghanistan in 1980 he was also curiously able to found a series of investment companies under the umbrella SICO which he headquartered in Geneva. Sources formerly in the intelligence community have confirmed to me that, as bin Laden established branches in the Cayman islands & the Bahamas, he employed law firms & consultants connected to Langley, VA & the CIA. Throughout the Afghan war bin-Laden grew in reputation as a fearless leader and devout Muslim. His wealth also increased rapidly. By the end of the war and the Soviet withdrawal he was known throughout Africa & the MidEast as a radical fundamentalist leader who had turned his sights against the U.S. But this was not without creating enemies both in Afghanistan and his home country of Saudi Arabia, which drew ever more securely into the U.S. sphere, especially during & after the Gulf War.<br><br>In the early 1990s bin-Laden took up sanctuary in the Sudan and was afforded a kind of safe haven. He threw himself into massive construction projects including road building. The Sudanese govt has admitted that it had an agreement with the U.S. to monitor bin-Laden and to curtail his terrorist activities. In exchange for this Sudan received unspecified rewards. It is, therefore, mystifying as to why, with bin-Laden under scrutiny in the reasonably accessible and penetrable Sudan, the U.S. govt forced the Sudanese govt to expel him in 1995. This drove him back into the arms of the increasingly hostile Taliban militia in Afghanistan. There, he re-established relations with Afghani drug lords in the towns of Jhost and Jalalabad.<br>When the U.S. cruise missiles struck the El-Shifa pharmaceutical factory in Khartoum, a host of conflicting stories appeared as to who owned the plant and when it was built. The British turned up a man named Tom Carnaffin who claimed to have helped build the plant and manage it from 1992 through 1996. Other records & sources indicated, however, that the plant was not built until 1996. Carnaffin claimed that he was intimately familiar with the plant and that it could not have produced nerve agents as the U.S. claimed. Later the U.S. backed down and said that it didn't have proof that bin Laden owned the plant. In the meantime about 4 other people were named who reportedly did. Some of them didn't know each other.<br><br>What really got my attention was the fact that French Internet publication Indigo reported bin Laden was London guest of British Intelligence as recently as 1996 and his treasurer last year defected to the Saudis as different factions shifted alliances for new MidEast campaigns. … <br><br>As my good friend, producer Marc Levin, points out, the CIA has a term for it when one of their operations goes awry and turns ugly, "It's called 'Blowback'." Levin produced an outstanding 1997 6 hour documentary on CIA for PBS entitled, "CIA, America's Secret Warriors". … Special thanks to Ralph McGehee's CIA BASE Program, Alfred McCoy's The Politics of Heroin and various unnamed sources who prefer it.]<br>*<br>Afghan myths 12.02.01 Sam Vaknin<br>auth. After the Rain How the West Lost the East <br>interview personal views, Anssi Kristian Kullberg, Finnish Dir. of Immigration Western & Central Asia Desk legal & country intelligence service researcher. <br><br>… during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. British intelligence and part of the Pakistani intelligence community clashed with the US already during the Cold War period, because they wanted to support Ahmad Shah Massoud, the "Lion of Panjshir". It was Massoud & his mujaheddin who finally, after getting Stingers from the British, managed to make the war too expensive for the Soviets, forcing them to retreat in 1989. Meanwhile, the CIA was incompetent enough to be dependent on the Pakistani intelligence services that, especially in Zia ul-Haq's period, favored Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a pompous figure who claimed to have extensive contacts throughout the Islamic world. He indeed had some contacts, incl with Osama bin Laden, but he was considered to be a KGB provocateur by Massoud & many others, and was never of any help in the Afghan independence struggle.<br>Instead of fighting the Soviet occupants, Hekmatyar preferred to fight other Afghans, and to conspire with suspicious Arab circles imported by his contact bin Laden to Peshawar. The Stingers that the CIA had provided to Hekmatyar, were not used to liberate Afghanistan. Instead, Hekmatyar sold them to Iran, and they were later used against the Americans in a well-known incident.<br><br>When the Soviet troops moved out, Hekmatyar pursued a bloody rebellion against the legal Afghan govt, devastating the country along with another rebel general, Dostum. (Though they were not aligned.) In 1993, Hekmatyar supported the KGB general & spymaster Haidar Aliyev's coup in Azerbaijan and, in 1994, Hekmatyar was involved in supporting pro-Russian Lezghin terrorists in the Caucasus.<br><br>As far as I know, Osama bin Laden was never a CIA agent. However, there are relatively plausible claims that he was close to Saudi intelligence, esp. to the recently fired intelligence chief Prince Turki bin Faizal, until they broke up. Osama first appeared in the Afghan War theater either in 1979, or, at the latest in 1984. But at the beginning he was first & foremost a businessman. He served the interests of those who wished to construct roads accessible for tanks to cross through Afghanistan to the Indian Ocean. This might also explain his characteristic opportunism, quite atypical for a self-proclaimed warrior of faith. International jihadists surely want to portray him as a religious fighter or Muslim hero, but this is not the true picture, but, mostly, a myth created by the Western media. This is where Arab, Pakistani and Indonesian teenagers learn that Osama is a fighter in a universal struggle of Islam against its oppressors. But bin Laden never fought the Soviets to liberate Afghanistan. For most of this period, he was not even in Afghanistan.<br> <br>He was managing an office in Peshawar, and the only credible claim about him being in a battle has been made by the former CIA official Milton Bearden concerning a minor skirmish that took place in spring 1987.<br>Bin Laden's first significant contact in Peshawar was the Palestinian Professor Abdullah Azzam, whom bin Laden has later described as his mentor. Azzam was an Arab idealist, who wanted to concentrate on the liberation of Afghanistan, and who wanted to support Massoud, whom he correctly regarded as being the right person to uphold. Bin Laden disagreed. He wanted to support the disloyal Islamist fanatic Hekmatyar. As a result, Azzam & his son were blown up in a car bomb in 1989, and consequently, bin Laden took over his organization and transformed it into Al-Qaida (the Base). Already before these events, he started to transform the agency by flooding it with his Arab contacts from the Middle East. These Arabs were not interested in liberating Afghanistan as much as in hiding from the law enforcement agencies of their own countries, most of all Egypt's.<br><br>When Russia attacked Tajikistan, bin Laden & his folks were by no means interested in liberating Tajikistan from a new communist yoke. Instead, bin Laden left Afghanistan and dispersed his terrorist network, directing it to act against the West. It is bizarre that a man claiming to be an Islamic fundamentalist supported the invasion by the Arab socialist (and thereby atheist) Iraq against Kuwait & Saudi Arabia, both with conservative Islamic regimes. Al-Qaida's supported all causes & activities against the West: the US, Turkey, Israel, and any pro- Western Muslim regime like Pakistan. Robbers on the island of Jolo in the Philippines qualified for Al-Qaida's support although they hardly knew anything about the Qur'an. They were immediately portrayed as "Islamic fighters". Even the strictly atheist anti-Turkish terrorist organization PKK has been welcomed. At the same time they definitely have not supported Muslims advocating Turkish-modeled moderate independence, like the Chechens, the original Tajik opposition or the Azeri govt under President Abulfaz Elchibey.<br><br>… Q: The "Arab" fighters in Afghanistan, are they a state with a state, or the long arm for covert operations (e.g., the assassination of Massoud) for the Taliban? Who is the dog and who is the tail?<br>A: The dog & tail can get very entangled here. Everybody is exploiting everybody, and finally all organizations & states are tools which consist of individuals and used by them.<br> <br>The Arabs form the hard core of Al-Qaida. They are the Egyptian, Syrian, Iraqi etc. professional revolutionaries & terrorists who have gathered around the figurehead of Osama bin Laden. Many of these share the same old background in Marxist-inspired revolutionary movements in the Middle East. Ideology & facade have changed when green replaced red, but their methods as well as foreign contacts have mainly remained the same. This is why they are much more interested in attacking the West & pro-Western Muslim regimes than in supporting any true national liberation movements. Even if they try to infiltrate & influence conflict outcomes in the Balkans, the Caucasus, East Turkistan and Kashmir, they are set against the nationalist & secular, and usually pro-Western, policies of the legitimate leadership of these secessionist movements. So the people whom Al-Qaida may support and try to infiltrate are usually exiled or otherwise opposition forces acting in fact against the idea of independence. This has been the case in Chechnya, Dagestan, Bosnia, Kashmir and so on. <br><br>And this has been the case in Afghanistan as well. Osama bin Laden & his Arabs never contributed to the actual Afghan national liberation struggle. Instead they acted against it by infiltrating Afghan circles and turning them against each other. Their jihad is not intended to defend the Muslims against infidel oppressors, but to cause chaos and destruction, in which they apparently hope to overthrow Muslim regimes and replace them with the utopia of Salafi rule. It is not hard to see how this set of mind was inherited from the communist utopian terrorist movements that preceded the present Islamist ones. They had the same structures, the same cadres, the same leaders, the same sponsors and the same methods.<br><br>The Arabs in Afghanistan have feathered their nests, though. Osama bin Laden & his closest associates have all married daughters of Afghan elders from different factions and tribes and their sons & daughters have, in turn, married the off-spring of eminent Afghan leaders. This is how they secured their foothold in Afghan social networks, something neither the West nor Pakistan succeeded to do. When issues are reduced to family relationships, it is not to be expected that the Afghans would hand over the Arabs to the West or to Pakistan. Al-Qaida is not only fortifying itself physically, but also socially. At the same time their cells and countless collaborating agencies, some of whom are clearly non-Islamist, and some of which are govt agencies of certain hostile states, are hoping to escalate this "war against terrorism" and to exploit it for their own purposes. … <br> <p></p><i></i>
