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“Wat we niet weten,
Waar men niet over schrijft,
Waar men over zwijgt,
Is hetgeen dat echt van belang is.?
Het terreur-spinnenweb
Als men het heeft over Al-Qaida weet bijna iedereen tegenwoordig waar
dat over gaat, maar bij de namen Tabligh, Takfir en Salafiem gaat nog geen
belletje rinkelen.
De wereld staat in brand. Aanslagen worden wereldwijd gepleegd door
terreurgroepen. Veel van deze terreurgroepen behoren tot het
terreurnetwerk Al Qaeda. Als Al Qaeda het spinnenweb is, Dan zijn Al
Zawahiri en Osama Bin Landen de spin. Maar waar steunt dit web aan.
Waaraan is het opgehangen?
Mocht Nederland een aanslag te verwerken krijgen dan krijgt de AIVD de
schuld. Dan krijgt politie en justitie de schuld. En dat is geheel ten
onrechte. AIVD en Justitie hebben allang geprobeerd om het meest
gevaarlijke onderdeel van het web aan te pakken. Helaas is de Nederlandse
wetgeving zo dat de AIVD dienstrapporten geen basis vormen voor
wettelijk bewijs.
Toch is Nederland een van de westerse staten die zeer nauw is verbonden
met Al Qaeda. Het meest gevreesde onderdeel, waarover iedereen zwijgt
uit vrees voor zijn leven en dat van zijn geliefden is de TAKFIR en de
SALAFIEM.
De meeste beleidsmakers weten geen eens wie of wat dit zijn. Laat staan
dat men weet met welk een gezwel men in de maatschappelijke maag zit
opgescheept.
Er zijn drie personen die wel durven te spreken over deze extremisten.
Peter Siebelt (onderzoeksjournalist), Emerson (onderzoeksjournalist) en
Siem Eikelenboom (Nova redacteur).
Ik vind het echter van groot belang dat je weet dat deze bewegingen
bestaan en wat hun ideeën zijn. Zelf kwam ik voor het eerst in 1985 in
aanraking met de Takfir toen deze in opdracht van Libisch Leider Khadaffi
een reeks aanslagen pleegde in Duitsland. Als jong terreurbestrijder kwam ik
hen tegen in Osnabruck (Duitsland). Later, in 1996/97 kwam ik hen
wederom tegen. Toen als jongerenwerker in Amsterdam Oost. In 2003 heb
ik verschillende kamerleden ingelicht over het bestaan van deze zeer
gevaarlijke groepen in Nederland en België. Het werd niet opgepikt.
Anno 2004 zie ik ze geregeld werken in Rotterdam, Utrecht, Amsterdam,
Den Haag en Leiden. En wie weet waar al niet meer in Nederland. De
kennis die ik hierbij vrijgeef is beslist niet ongevaarlijk. Maar als men het niet
weet, kan het ook niet met wortel en al worden uitgerukt. Doe er AUB uw
voordeel mee.
salafisme
Is in feiten niets meer of minder het islamitische geloof waarbij men terug
wil keren naar de tijd van de Profeet Mohammed en de Kalief.
Salafisme is echter niet zomaar een stroming. De meest linkse Salafisten zijn
het beste te vergelijken met de strikt gereformeerde christenen. De uiterst
rechtse tak is met niets te vergelijken. En juist daar, aan die zeer rechter
kant zit het netwerk van Al Qaeda. Gebaseerd op de ideologie van Al
Zawahiri met als meest gevreesde onderdeel de Takfir wal Hijra.
Sommige noemen deze vorm van Islam ook wel het Islamisme of de
Politieke Islam.
Voor de Salafiem is slechts één doel van belang: Het vestigen van een
wereldstaat waarin de superieure religie van Mohammed strikt wordt
nageleefd. Er is geen plaats voor joden, christenen, Hindoes, ongelovigen
en gematigde islamieten
Het laatste is misschien vreemd, maar niet onbekend. De gematigde moslims
verzetten zich dan wellicht tegen diepe integratie en keren zich af van
westerse normen en waarden. De Salafisten zijn veel steviger in deze
retoriek. Ze weigeren werk, leven van uitkeringen, criminaliteit, steun aan
verzet en terreurbewegingen, openlijke haatzaaiing, en daadwerkelijke
terreur.
Het Salafisme vind dat de moslims het slachtoffer zijn van een wereldwijd
complot van de VS, Israël en de westerse landen.
Aanslagen, moord, criminaliteit worden alle door de Koran verplicht waar het
gaat om het handhaven van het Salafisme, aldus hun voorgangers.
Bij aanslagen komen vele mensen om, van vaak evenzoveel verschillende
etniciteit en religieuze overtuiging.
Daarmee is de Salafiem een even groot gevaar voor de niet moslims als voor
de
gematigde moslims.
In Nederland is het Salafisme zeer diep geworteld in de samenleving.
Volgens de AIVD gaat het daarbij om enkele honderden die geweld tegen
het westen niet verafschuwen.
Men maakt gebruik van moskeeën, woonhuizen, verenigingen, stichtingen,
internet en de Takfir.
Op de achtergrond speelt de GSPC (Salafistische groep voor prediking en
strijd) uit Algerije een zeer belangrijke rol. Deze is voortgekomen uit de GIA.
De meest gruwelijke terreurorganisatie die ooit op de wereld heef geheers.
Hele plattelandsdorpen werden door hen gewoonweg uitgemoord.
Volgens het COT (Instituut voor Veiligheid en Crisismanagement) zal ook
Nederland in de nabije toekomst één of meerdere terreurdaden kunnen
verwachten.
Naast deze dreiging is er al een aantal andere zaken in het openbare leven
waar te nemen. De politiek laat het tot op heden koud. Nederland was als
enige afwezig toen eind april 2004 in Berlijn de Europese Ministers en die
van de VS samenkwamen om het toenemende antisemitisme te bespreken
en daar afspraken over te maken.
Ook tijdens het debat hierover in de tweede kamer waren velen elders
bezig.
Sam Pormes (voormalig terrorist en jarenlang gezocht door de BVD), is nu
Eerste Kamerlid van Groen Links. Hij deed op 3 mei 2004 tijdens een
openbare lezing, de uitspraak dat “Discriminatie van Joden niet erg is. Dan
moeten ze maar niet op joden lijken.? Hij werd hierin bijgestaan door Jaap
van Beek (Willem Hart) van Anti Fascistische Aktie (AFA), Kafka, Eurodusnie,
de fabel van de illegaal, TAART, en nog een aantal extreem linkse actie
comités.
En ook waren er in maart 2004 wederom leuzen op de Dam te horen
als “Hamas, joden aan het gas!?, “De strijd zal hard zijn tegen de zionistische
bezetter.?.
Ook AEL voorman Abou Jahjah meldde dat “Autochtonen zich moet
aanpassen aan allochtonen en als ze dat niet bevalt dan verhuizen ze maar!?
Chappi, voormalig voorzitter van de Nederlandse tak van de AEL neemt via
de moskee in Eindhoven (Al Foerkaan moskee) geregeld jongeren mee naar
Mekka.
Marchouti, de huidige voorzitter van de AEL Nederland is veroordeeld
wegens criminele praktijken en predikt vanuit zijn bedrijf in Utrecht tevens
de Jihad.
Organisaties die door links georiënteerde managers worden geleid ontdoen
zich van joodse werknemers.
In juni 2002 wilde NOVA twee uitzendingen besteden aan het onderwerp
Radicale Imams. Een stroom van dreigementen kwam bij hen binnen. Het
mediapark in Hilversum werd volledig uitgekamd op bommen, agenten in
burger beschermde de redactie.
Het zijn maar een paar simpele voorbeeldjes.
Het Arabisch Islamitische Nationaal Socialisme is hiermee de allereerste
beweging die is geglobaliseerd.
Een bijzonder voorvalletje
Op 6 december 2000 werd er op de Al Bilal basisschool uit Amersfoort een
feest georganiseerd ten behoeve van het suikerfeest. Men zamelde tevens
geld in voor de Palestijnse weeskinderen. Daartoe had men een videoband
besteld bij de Stichting Al Aksa. De video werd vertoond aan groep 5 (8 en
9 jarigen). Op de video was te zien dat ‘opsluiting een van de nazi
methoden is van het Israëlische regime?. Ook werd er beweerd dat de
Israëlisch jonge Palestijnen in open riolen gooien en dat de Israëli’s dol zijn
op wreedheden. In feiten betrof het een propagandavideo van de Hamas!
De schoolleiding vond dit niet geschikt voor de 5de groepers en stopte de
videovertoning. Op hoeveel scholen de video wel werd vertoond is niet
bekend.
Deze vertoning is VOOR de aanslagen van 11 september 2001 en is
vrijgegeven door de Stichting Al Aksa. Deze stichting staat op de lijst van
goede doelen vermeld. Zowel in Nederland (Ingeschreven in Heerlen, maar
kantoor in Rotterdam), België (Verviers) als Duitsland (Aken) is deze
stichting ingeschreven bij de kamer van koophandels. Telkens zijn het
dezelfde bestuurders en dezelfde statuten. Nog opvallender is dat de Duitse
veiligheidsdienst regelmatig melding maakt van de activiteiten van deze
stichting. In 1999 melde ze al dat deze stichting de dekmantel van
Humanitaire actie gebruikt om Hamas te ondersteunen. Sterker nog Al Aksa
is de financiële tak van de Hamas. De Al Aksa blijft ondanks dat gewoon als
goed doel staan op de lijsten.
Steve Emerson maakte de documentaire “Jihad in America?. Ook hij deed
dit VER VOOR de 11 september aanslagen. In 2000 moest hij al getuigen
voor de senaatscommissie Terrorisme. Hij legde daar onder ede een
verklaring af dat de heren van de Al Aksa Stichting in de VS waren geweest
om met radicale Imams te overleggen. Een van deze Imams is weer de
voorman van de “Holy Land Foundation?.
Emerson is ook bekend met de video die op Al Bilal is vertoond “Story of a
People?. Deze band is door justitie in beslag genomen en wordt angstvallig
achtergehouden. Er is tot op vandaag geen directe actie ondernomen
tegen deze organisatie. Ook al eerder kwam deze stichting Al Aksa in het
nieuws via NRC. Toen betrof het uitlatingen die nogal antisemitisch van aard
waren “Joden zijn vampiers?. Etc.
Geen enkele Nederlandse Media maakt melding van het voorval. Maar dan
maakt de Utrechtse omroep een klein item. Vervolgens pikt NOVA het op
en zend op 27 maart 2001 een item uit. Prompt wordt ze gedagvaard door
Al Aksa.
De voorzitter van de stichting Al Aksa is niemand minder dan: Mahmoud
Mousa Mahmoud Amr, de in 1958 geboren Palestijn met Jordaans paspoort
en een van de gezochte leiders van…..inderdaad Hamas.
Takfir wal hijra
In 1971 wordt de Takfir Wal Hijra opgericht door de Egyptische sjiek Choukri
Moustafa. Het gaat daarbij om de directe terugkeer naar de kern van het
leven van Mohammed en de letterlijke uitleg van de Koran.
Takfir wal hijra betekend letterlijk “Afvalligheid en emigratie?. Daarbij wordt
gewezen naar de emigratie van Mohammed uit Mekka in 622 naar Medina.
In dat jaar is de Islamitische kalender begonnen. De Mekkanen waren niet
erg blij met de strenge leer van Mohammed en hij moest vluchten. Nadat hij
de Joden van Medina had uitgemord keerde hij terug naar Mekka en
moordde daar de stad ook uit.
En zo wil de Takfir ook vanuit teruggetrokkenheid de maatschappij
ontwrichten en veroveren. Daardoor zijn hun acties voor heel veel mensen
niet zichtbaar.
Moustafa trok zich ook een tijdlang terug, hield het niet vol en kwam met
zijn groepering in de openbaarheid door de Egyptische minister van
Religieuze zaken te ontvoeren en te vermoorden.
Moustafa werd veroordeeld tot de strop voor deze daad in 1978.
Wie denkt dat daarmee de Takfir is uitgeroeid had het heel erg mis. In 1981
stormen een aantal officieren van de Egyptische strijdkrachten naar het
podium en schieten de Egyptische President Anwar Saddat dood. Dit omdat
hij een vredesverdrag met Israël had getekend.
Brein achter de aanslag is….Al Zawahiri. En inderdaad het is dezelfde Al
Zawahiri die nu samen met Osama Bin Laden leiding geeft aan het netwerk
Al Qaeda.
De Takfir Wal Hijra zijn in Europa diep ingegraven. Nadat ze in Algerije
hadden huisgehouden en hele dorpen hadden uitgemoord onder de
noemen GIA vertrokken ze naar Frankrijk en Spanje. Vochten samen met de
ETA. In Frankrijk was men beducht op deze organisatie. In de Banlieus, de
Parijse voorsteden ronselde men veel jongeren voor de Takfir. In 1995
pleegt ze een aanslag op de metro in Parijs. En daarna komt en weer een
aanslag op een metro. De lol is er af en men wil een vliegtuig van Air France
kapen. In 2000 organiseren Nederland en Belgie de EK voetbal. De Takfir wil
het franse nationale elftal gijzelen. Het mislukt, maar men kaapt een
vliegtuig en wil dit in de Eifeltoren boren. Ook dat mislukt.
Frankrijk opende het offensief tegen deze groep. Ze trokken daarna door
naar België, Nederland, Groot Brittanie en Duitsland. In al deze landen waren
sinds halverwege de jaren 80 al eenheden aanwezig. Het hoofdkwartier
wordt gevestigd in Den Haag door een sjiek die niemand schijnt te kennen.
De regels van de Takfir zijn super strikt. Enkele bekende zijn bijvoorbeeld:
• Koffie en thee zijn verboden
• Men mag uitsluitend een wit kameez dragen
• Cola is een Joods Amerikaanse drank en dus verboden. (In werkelijkheid is
het een oud Chinees recept maar ach wie geeft daar nu om).
• Contact met niet moslims is verboden
• Verblijf buiten islamitische landen is verboden (behalve voor de Takfiri zelf)
• Sharia wordt letterlijk gehandhaafd
• Moslims in westerse kleding zijn afvalligen
• Een baard is verplicht
• Vrouwen mogen tijdens de ramadan helemaal niet eten
• Tijdens de menstruatie mogen vrouwen niet eten.
• Geweld en moord tegen en op ongelovige is toegestaan.
Nova vermeld in februari 2002 dat 1/5 deel van de criminele opbrengsten
van de Takfiri gaan naar: Sudan, Eritrea, Algarije en Tsjetsjenie.
De Takfir is direct gelinieerd aan de GSPC, heeft nauwe samenwerking met
Hamas, Hizbollah, Osama Bin Laden, Al Zawahiri. Wordt mede in verband
gebracht met Jihad en openlijke geweldplegingen in:
Groot Brittanie
Duitsland
Nederland
België
Spanje
Frankrijk
Algerije
Marokko
Saoudi Arabie
VS
Israël
Tsjetsjenië
Afghanistan
Rusland
Dit zeer gevaarlijke neusje van de zalm is in Nederland ZEER actief.Het
merendeel van de bevolking weet echter geenszins wie of wat de Takfir,
Tabligh of Salafisten zijn. Laat staan dat ze weten welk gezwel er midden in
onze maatschappij groeit, direct onder onze ogen.
De meeste mensen weten weinig tot niets van de werkwijze van de Takfir.
Ik zal hier dan ook een inzicht in geven.
Tabligh
Tabligh=bekering, dit is het eerste onderdeel waarmee we in onze
samenleving te maken hebben. Dit is de ‘bekeerbeweging’ van de
Salafisten. Zeg maar de Jehova getuigen. Ze gaan naar jongeren op straat
toe. Spreken ze aan en nodigen ze uit om te komen eten. Geheel gratis
worden de jongeren, veelal van noord-afrikaanse afkomst op deze manier
benadert. Het gebeurde in 1996 al in Amsterdam-Oost op kleine schaal.
Jongeren ontmoetingsplaatsen en jongerencentra werden veelal bezocht.
Ook de jongerenwerkers waren daarbij van belang. Soms was het opvallend
stil tijdens de openstelling van jongerencentra. Zelfs jongerenwerkers
waren, zonder melding afwezig. Hun fiets stond echter wel voor de deur.
Ze waren met een busje bij ‘iemand’ op bezoek geweest. Steevast zonder
de gaouri jongerenwerkers
Gaouri jongerenwerkers werden gemeden. Gaouri is het noord-afrikaanse
woord voor Europeaan. Ik was zo’n gaouri. Sterker ik was in sommige
jongerencentra de enige niet Arabisch sprekende jongerenwerker.
Zodra er werd gesproken over zaken als Islam, moskee, Ramadam, Israël,
joden etc werd het gesprek gevoerd in het Arabisch.
Deze praktijk vind vandaag nog plaats. In Amsterdam, Utrecht, Den Haag,
Rotterdam en Leiden heb ik ze persoonlijk aan het werk gezien. Maar in
Eindhoven, Groningen, Nijmegen, Den Helder, Geldrop, Heerlen, Weert,
Roermond, Maastricht, Verviers, Antwerpen, Brussel, etc. zijn ook van deze
Tabligh actief.
Bekende groepen die zich actief bezig houden met de Tabligh zijn de
Amsterdamse Al Taweed moskee, De stichting Al Waqf al Islami uit
Tilburg/Rotterdam, de stichting Al Aksa uit Heerlen (Rotterdam
kantoorhoudend) en de Al Foerkaan moskee in Eindhoven. Eind 2002
stopte de Al Kuba moskee uit Verviers met deze activiteiten.
Fitna
Fitna= Twist, Chaos is het allereerste onderdeel dat duidelijk wordt gemaakt
aan de jongeren. Jongeren zijn hier extreem gevoelig voor. Zeker als ze nog
zoekende zijn naar de eigen identiteit, weinig scholing, arbeid en geld
hebben en veelal jointjes rokende op straathoeken rondhangen
.Ze kunnen dit Fitna stadium waarin ze leven ontstijgen door:
• meningsverschillen te vermijden
• oppassen voor aardse verleidingen zoals vrouwen
• gewoonten van christenen en vooral joden te vermijden
• niet te luisteren naar huichelaars (leraren, westerlingen, autoriteiten)
• Jihad uitvoeren om Gods wil.
De belangrijkste Fitna verhandeling werd geschreven door Khalid al Anwar
(koosnaam Khalid al Libi 24 april 1974 geboren in Tripoli Libië). de
leermeester van de twee Eindhovense jongeren die in Kasjmir werden
gedood.
Tijdens een maaltijd krijgen de jongeren al gaande weg steeds meer
vertrouwen in de Tabligh leiders. Ze worden Godsdienstig onderwezen.
Krijgen audiocassettes en videobanden te horen en zien en worden
langzaam maar zeker gehersenspoeld.
Chappi is een Tabligh man puur sang. Hij neemt de jongeren zelfs mee op
Hadj naar Mekka. Ook zorgt hij dat jongeren in Nederland en België worden
onderwezen in Jihad teksten en lichamelijke training. Hiervoor nemen
jongeren veelal deel aan thai- ,kickbox en freefightles, leren omgaan met
vuurwapens en krijgen autorijles aangeboden. Welke jongeren wil dat nu
niet?
De Islam betaald alles voor hen.
Criminaliteit
Criminaliteit afhankelijk van de plaats die de jongeren later in de organisatie
zal gaan innemen wordt hij onderwezen en gemotiveerd om criminele zaken
te ondernemen. De Koran staat dit volgens de Salafisten toe. De
activiteiten worden immers gepleegd om Allahs wil uit te voeren en altijd
tegen ongelovigen (daaronder vallen ook de gematigde moslims).
De toekomstige strijders worden aangespoord om ruzie uit te lokken met
autochtone jongeren. Als portier (1985-1999) heb ik dit soort gedrag
geregeld waargenomen.
Het is niet verwonderlijk dat veel portiers tegenwoordig Noord Afrikaanse
jongeren die in groepjes komen buiten hun etablissement houden. Daarvoor
is een nieuwe oplossing gekomen. Voetbalgeweld wordt niet uitsluitend
meer beheerst door de Nederlandse jongeren die op de vuist gaan voor hun
kluppie. Steeds meer komen we ook naffers (Noord Afrikaanse jongeren)
tegen tijdens deze vorm van straatgeweld.
Ook overvallen, straatroof, roofovervallen en ripdeals worden veel
ondernomen. Het geld verdwijnt in de zak van de Tabligh die deze weer
aanwend voor nieuwe rekrutering. Ook het Hawalla systeem is hierbij van
enorme hulp. Bij dit systeem gaat geld over de hele wereld heen, zonder
een enkele banktransactie.
Ook de daaruit voortvloeiende justitiële stappen worden gezien als training.
Naast deze activiteit is er ook de belangrijke handel en wandel in
documenten. Identiteitskaarten, paspoorten, rijbewijzen etc zijn in het
criminele milieu altijd zeer gewild en leveren geld op. Ook de terroristen zelf
hebben valse papieren nodig. Een heel handige manier om zowel geld te
verdienen als zelf ongezien aan het werk te kunnen.
Een ander onderdeel is de drugshandel. Vermoedelijk is 70% van de
wereldwijde drugshandel in handen van Al Qaeda aan, aan haar gelinieerde
organisaties. Een enorme inkomsten bron die ook weer door het hawalla
systeem enorme bedragen weet te transporteren.
Hawalla
Hawalla systeem is van vitaal belang voor terreurnetwerken als Al Qaeda. Dit
oude systeem wordt al in het nieuwe testament genoemd. Het is te vinden
bij Ananias en Saffira.
Het systeem is even eenvoudig als doeltreffend. Voor een goed begrip zal ik
hier een voorbeeld geven van een Hawalla actie met verstrekkende
gevolgen.
Ali verkoopt drugs en vangt 1000 euro. Deze levert hij in bij Mo. Mo,
plaatselijk restauranthouder stopt het geld in de Al Qaeda kas en belt naar
zijn neef Anwar in Cairo. Hij zegt dat hij 1000 euro heeft en dat hij deze wil
geven aan Osman. Osman kan de 1000 Euro afhalen bij Anwar als hij hem
de code ‘Soera 9-11’geeft.
Vervolgens belt Mo naar Osman en geeft hem het adres van Anwar en zegt
hem daar 1000 euro te halen voor Fatima met code “Soera 9-11?.
Vervolgens gaat Osman naar Anwar en haalt daar 1000 euro op voor Fatima.
Fatima meld haar zoon Memeth die in Rafah woont, dat ze 1000 euro heeft
gekregen van Osman. Memeth loopt vervolgens met een bom om zijn
middel een stadsbus van Jeruzalem in en laat zichzelf inclusief 20 passagiers
exploderen.
Fatima is zeer aangedaan…snapt het niet.
Als vervolgens Bilal bij Mo in Amsterdam komt eten geeft hij de code “Soera
9-11? aan Mo door. Deze geeft hem te eten en de 1000 euro. Bilal gaat
vervolgens naar zijn vriend Anwar in Cairo en geeft hem de 1000 euro.
Het systeem voorziet ook in de handel in sofi-nummers, ID kaarten, SIM
kaarten etc.
Irhab= terreur
dit is het meest gevreesde onderdeel van waar de Tabligh mee startte. Van
de 800 Takfir leden die Nederland heeft is ongeveer 10% direct actief in
het ultieme onderdeel/ Ze zijn getraind in dood en verderf. Ze schuwen het
doden van ongelovigen, en dat is iedere niet Takfir beslist niet.
Daarbij gaan ze zeer grof te werk om afschrikwekkende voorbeelden te
stellen. Zowel Daniel Pearl als Nick Berg (beide joodse jonge mannen)
werden door leden van de Takfir onthoofd voor de camera. Wereldwijd zit
de angst er goed in.
Dit zijn de mannen die niet zozeer met een auto ergens naar binnen rijden
en zichzelf opblazen. Dit is de SS van de Salafisten. En dat SS is niet voro
niets gekozen. Wie de achtergrond kent van de Arabische elite eenheid van
de SS die op de balkan heeft huisgehouden in de tweede wereldoorlog
weet ook hoe de vork in de steel zit.
Ook kan men bestellingen doen van materiaal van de GSPC en geld
doneren. Oa in Middlesex (GB) en in Lemiers (NL).
De bekendste propaganda film van de GSPC is die waarin men laat zien hoe
men Algerijnse soldaten verminkt en vermoord.
Maar dergelijk materiaal is ook beschikbaar over Tsjetsjenië.
Een preek van sjiek Abdelah ben Abdelrahman al Jabri is verkrijgbaar. Daarbij
doet de sjiek de oproep aan alle moslimjongeren om de strijd in Tsjetsjenië
te komen versterken.
Een video met Russische krijgsgevangenen die worden gemarteld en
geëxecuteerd is ook te krijgen.
Een video van Osama Bin Laden mag uiteraard in het assortiment niet
ontbreken. Daarin verkondigd OBL de moderne Jihadleer en geeft aan wie
de vijanden van de Islam zijn “Amerika en Rusland?. Ook hij roept op tot
Jihad in Tsjetsjenië, Indonesië, Palestina en Bosnië.
Dergelijke banden zijn o.a. aangetroffen bij een huiszoeking aan de
Bessenvlinderstraat in Eindhoven.
Denk nu niet dat dit nieuw is voor de AIVD. Al op 22 april 2002 gaf deze de
landelijke Officier terrorismebestrijding P.M.H. van der Molen-Maesen aan dat
er een actief netwerk in Nederland was dat banden onderhield met de
GSPC.
Het netwerk werft in Nederland actief mannen voor de Jihad “daartoe
spoort men deze jonge mannen aan zich voor te bereiden op het
martelaarschap en stelt men hen materiaal, financieel en logistiek in staat
richting een strijdtoneel te vertrekken.
Nauwe banden
Eite Homan, de onbetwiste leider van de Weerwolf Nederland uit
Groningen, en Constant Kusters de voorzitter van Nederlandse Volks Unie
hebben niet alleen onderling zeer goede banden. Beide staan in Israël op de
Hotlist, samen met Abu Tarif (Palestijns Syrische huurmoordenaar die ook in
Nederland actief was. Zo is er in Israël een videoband opgedoken waarop te
zien is hoe Abu Tarif betrokken was bij de moord op Pim Fortuyn).
Maar het kan verkeren. Dankzij de geschiedenis, de inzet van Bosnische
moslims en de Mufti Husseini is ook de band met de Takfir hen niet
onbekend.
Hun gezamenlijke vijand is de VS, het westen in het algemeen en de joden
in het bijzonder.
Opzienbarend zijn ook de contacten tussen deze groeperingen en de
extreem linksen. De Anti globalisten, Internationaal Socialisten etc. hebben
een aantal gemeenschappelijke doelen. Alle zijn tegen Amerika, Tegen
Israël, Tegen het democratische Russische regime, solidair met de
extremistische Islam en tegen alle westerse vormen van samenwerking,
waarden en normen en politiek.
In de VS heeft men hier inmiddels dikke dossiers van aangelegd.
Het is te hopen dat dit ook in Europa gebeurd (is) en dat men de gegevens
onderling uitwisselt. Anders zouden we wel eens een heel vervelende tijd
tegemoet kunnen gaan.
Met dank aan de IC.
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The Muslim Brotherhood
aka Jamiat al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun
The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in 1928 by a schoolteacher, with the goal of celebrating traditional Islamic family values. The Brotherhood is ostensibly like any other semi-political fraternal club: the Elks, the Moose, the Lions, the Rotary, the Masons. Except a lot more like the Masons than the Elks. And maybe a little more like al Qaeda than the Masons.
The Muslim Brotherhood first formed in Egypt, where it has been mostly banned since its creation. The ban may have something to do with the fact that the Brotherhood has been tied to at least half a dozen attempts to assassinate whoever happened to be president of Egypt at the time.
Hassan al-Banna, the teacher who founded the group, was a Wahabbi Sunni Muslim. Wahabbism is an extremely strict form of Islam, not dissimilar to the brand pushed by the Taliban.
In its early years, the Brotherhood focused on religious preaching, education and social programs. It was banned, then legalized again after the formation of Israel in 1948. Dissatisfied with Egyptian efforts against the "Zionist threat," the Brotherhood assassinated the prime minister of Egypt in late 1948, leading to the retributory killing of al-Banna in early 1949.
After being banned again 1954 (due to an attempt to assassinate Egyptian President Gamal Abdal Nasser), the membership was dispersed into surrounding nations, including Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. As it spread throughout the Middle East, the Brotherhood became increasingly associated with acts of violence, assassination and terrorism.
One of the Brotherhood's beefs with the Egyptian government was its support of the Soviet Union, which may have won the attention of the young Central Intelligence Agency. Rumors have swirled for years that the CIA may have supported the Brotherhood during the 1950s and 1960s. The allegations of an alliance have been widely reported, but not irrefutably documented. If true, the CIA has a lot to answer for.
After being ejected from Egypt, the Brotherhood and thousands of Wahabbi adherents fled to Saudi Arabia, where they were offered asylum. Wahabbism was already the Saudi state religion, but the Brotherhood is credited with politicizing the sect. Brotherhood members infiltrated the mosques, schools and social institutions of the kingdom through the 1960s, and by the 1970s, an even more radicalized version of Wahabbism dominated the Saudi government.
While retaining its power base in Egypt despite the ban, the Brotherhood now took hold in several key Arab states, including Syria and the Sudan.
In Syria, as in Egypt, the secular government battled the secret society. In Jordan, a constitutional monarchy, the regime struggled to control the group and a successor political party known as the Islamic Action Front, but the Brotherhood managed to gain control of a significant majority of the country's parliament.
In the Sudan, the Brotherhood simply overran the government. The organization had opened an outpost in Sudan in its earliest days, where it ran student activist programs. Its effective infiltration of the higher education system bred a generation of educated Muslims who had been introduced to the Brotherhood's goal of Islamicizing the Sudan's government. After a military coup installed an Islamic government -- falling short of the Brotherhood's goal of implementing sha'ria law -- the Brotherhood's Hassan al-Turabi remained a constant power broker (though consistently falling in and out of favor with the regime).
By the late 1970s, the Brotherhood had firmly established itself as a leading power broker in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and the Sudan, while playing important roles in Syria, Iraq, Iran and Palestinian territories (where it reconfigured as the terrorist group Hamas).
In Egypt and the Sudan, the Brotherhood extended its reach and spun off terrorist groups including Jamaat al-Islamiyya, aka Gama'a al-Islamiyya (The Islamic Group), and Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Sudan's al-Turabi was a key networker for the Brotherhood, cultivating such friends as "the blind Sheikh" Omar Abdel Rahman and Ayman Al-Zawahiri, who then carried word to others.
In 1981, the Brotherhood assassinated Anwar Sadat. Zawahiri and Rahman were both arrested, and Rahman eventually stood trial, accused of providing a fatwa to justify the killing. Rahman was acquitted.
Zawahiri served time with hundreds of other alleged extremists who had been haphazardly rounded up and tortured by the Egyptian government. (Those who weren't radicals to start with had certainly been radicalized by the time they got out of prison.) Zawahiri went on to take control of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Rahman eventually moved to New York City (after obtaining the CIA's help to get a visa), where he was linked to the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993 and the assassination of Rabbi Meir Kahane, before he was finally arrested and convicted for his role in a plot to destroy NYC landmarks.
The breadcrumb trails of Zawahiri and Rahman lead to the same well-known destination, of course -- the most famous Muslim Brother of them all.
In Saudi Arabia during the early 1970s, the thriving Brotherhood had reached out to the prodigal son of one of the kingdom's leading families. Osama bin Laden had been living the life of a dissolute Saudi prince, clubbing in Europe and consorting with loose women, when he was introduced to the Brotherhood's strict tenets and, in particular, the philosophies of Sayyid Qutb, a Muslim Brother who penned virulently anti-American texts after a trip to the States in the early 1950s.
bin Laden went to fight (and fund others fighting) the Soviets in Afghanistan, with CIA support, in the early 1980s, as well as the Muslim Brothers running the anti-Soviet jihad, including Sheikh Abdullah Azzam.
Azzam set up the Services Office, a CIA- and Saudi-sponsored support organization for the mujahideen, providing a network infrastructure based in Peshawar, Pakistan, that would later form the basis for al Qaeda. Rahman and Zawahiri were also supporting the jihad from Peshawar.
Muslim Brothers bin Laden, Zawahiri and Rahman all played crucial roles in defining the ideology that fuels al Qaeda with a steady stream of recruits. Azzam provided the infrastructure, and al-Turabi later provided bin Laden with safe haven in the Sudan for several years.
The public face of the Muslim Brotherhood today is still based in Egypt, where the organization continues to live and work despite being banned by the government. The Egyptian Brotherhood officially renounced violence in the 1970s. But the organization is believed to be structured to conceal its militant and jihad aspects. Most observers speculate, with some justification, that the Brotherhood still calls the shots for the militant "splinters" like Islamic Jihad and Hamas.
The future likely holds a continued drive toward outward respectability for the Brotherhood's visible components. In Jordan, the Brotherhood is now the dominant political force. In Egypt, there is increasing pressure on the government to include the Brotherhood in the political process, as the group is now considered "moderate" relative to those Islamists who advocate burning Jerusalem to the ground without any regard for the possible consequences.
Which, if you think about it, is a pretty brilliant strategy: Create terrorist groups that use violence to advance your goals, distance yourself from those groups, present yourself as the "reasonable" alternative, and enjoy the accolades of the very people you're trying to destroy.
Not bad for day's work. Or even several decades.
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Al Takfir Wal Hijra
Al Takfir Wal Hijra may be the most terrifically terrifying terrorist operation in the world today. The fact that you've never heard of it is part of the problem.
Al Takfir Wal Hijra means "anathema and exile" or possibly "excommunication and emigration." A theologically extreme extension of the Saudi Arabia's Wahabbi doctrines, Takfir is dedicated to restoring the Caliphate, the Islamic political empire that once spanned the Near and Middle East.
Ayman Al-Zawahiri is a member of the Takfir sect. While Osama bin Laden is usually called the leader of al Qaeda, Zawahri runs the terrorist network in most meaningful respects, including ordering attacks and concocting theological justifications for killing.
The founder of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad organization and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Zawahiri is one of several international terror masterminds linked to Takfir Wal Hijra.
Takfir is as fundamentalist a sect as you can imagine. Its major tenet holds that all the world's non-Muslim leaders should be overthrown by any means including (and especially) violence. Not only are infidels subject to sanctions up to and including death, but even other Muslims who don't fit the Takfir ideal.
It isn't just the bloodthirstiness that makes Takfir Wal Hijra dangerous, however. It's the techniques. A major element of Takfir religious practice is subterfuge. The threat of Takfir is that its cold, heartless killers could easily be the boy or girl next door. Takfir Wal Hijra members are permitted to disregard the injunctions of Islamic law in order to blend into infidel societies.
In other words, Takfirs can have sex with loose women, drink alcohol, eat pork and do whatever else they feel is appropriate to advance their mission.
In the wake of September 11, and even before, the U.S. and media pundits have frequently engaged in head-scratching over the fact that terrorist operatives often don't appear to be especially Islamic. It seems paradoxical that the 9/11 hijackers could be so dedicated that they would die for the cause, but not so dedicated that they avoided picking up girls at nightclubs.
"(They seem like) regular, fun-loving guys -- but they'd slit your throat or bomb your building in a second," a French official told Time Magazine.
Mohammed Atta, although puritanical in his behavior, was believed to be Takfiri. He's not the only al Qaeda operative you could point the finger at. Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed went to discos, drank alcohol and dated call girls. Yousef in particular is renowned for being generally unIslamic and non-observant of prayers and fasting. Although no one has suggested openly that Yousef and KSM were Takfiri, it's hardly a stretch.
Other al Qaeda operatives in the U.S. might be Takfiri, including Ali Mohammed, a senior al Qaeda operative who served with the U.S. Special Forces in the late 1980s, or Mahmud Abouhalima, who joined the NRA before getting mixed up in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
In addition to its unparalleled ability to infiltrate Western societies, Takfir also distinguishes itself for its sheer violence and cheerful lack of discrimination among its targets. Even bin Laden has been a target of Takfir killers, supposedly, during a 1996 assassination attempt in the Sudan. This rumor persists despite the fact that Takfirs fought alongside bin Laden's mujahideen in Afghanistan, which tells you something cautionary about being on the wrong side of a Takfir.
The U.S. government is deeply concerned about the Takfiri movement, although you wouldn't be able to tell from the way they never talk much about it.
In 2002, the Justice Department charged four men with running a Takfiri terrorist sleeper cell in Michigan. Members were charged with planning shoe bombings, airline attacks and casing the U.S. embassy in Jordan, Disneyland and a Las Vegas casino for potential attacks. The case began to disintegrate after a series of missteps and illegal acts by the Justice Department. Only two of the four were convicted, and even those convictions may not stand up to review.
After those named above, the next most famous Takfir may be Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian-born Palestinian who is currently making life miserable for the U.S. in Iraq. Although little credible information is known about Zarqawi, his M.O. and stated beliefs are generally consistent with the Takfir cult. It's also worth noting that he recently attempted to stage a chemical attack on the same Jordanian embassy allegedly targeted by the Michigan cell.
Strangely, there's some conventional wisdom circulating which holds that Takfir Wal Hijra was founded by Lebanese immigrant and Boston taxi cab driver Bassam Ahmed Kanj. However, there's some room for debate. It's likely that the sect (in some form) predates Kanj's involvement beginning in 1996. (He was killed in an uprising in Lebanon in 2000.)
According to the Justice Department, Takfiris are guided by fatwas issued by influential radicals, like the following, issued in 1998 by Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, an exiled Egyptian cleric now imprisoned in the U.S.:
Cut all links with the [United States]. Destroy them thoroughly and erase them from the face of the earth. Ruin their economies, set their companies on fire, turn their conspiracies to powder and dust. Sink their ships, bring their planes down. Slay them in the air, on land, on water. And [with the Command of Allah] kill them wherever you find them. Catch them and put them in prison. Lie in wait for them and kill these infidels. They will surely get great oppression from you. God will make you the means of wreaking a terrible revenge upon them, of degrading them. He will support you against them. He will cure the afflicted hearts of the faithful and take all anger out of their hearts.
Clearly, God will have his hands full with some of these hearts. In the meantime, you can only hope that the boy or girl next door isn't planning to slit your throat any time soon.
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al Qaeda
Ah, scenic Peshawar!
Pakistan's government tourism department has the following to say about the city: "Peshawar derives its name from a Sanskrit word 'Pushpapura' meaning the city of flowers. Peshawar’s flowers were mentioned even in Moghal Emperor Babur’s memoirs."
However, a 1967 travel brochure gives a more accurate picture of Peshawar's main attraction -- depicting a beautiful mountain range as the backdrop for a mujahideen fighter brandishing a rifle.
1988, the "city of flowers" played host to the birth of al Qaeda -- the most feared and most dangerous terrorist organization in history.
Many Americans were unfamiliar with al Qaeda until Sept. 11, 2001, when the terror conglomerate staged the September 11 attacks on America. Using the group's trademark style of tightly coordinated, high-profile violence, al Qaeda operatives hijacked four U.S. airliners and successfully crashed two of them into the World Trade Center towers, with a third hitting the Pentagon and a fourth crashing in rural Pennsylvania after the passengers attempted to regain control of the plane.
Osama bin Laden is the primary founder of al Qaeda (which means "The Base" in Arabic), and he continues to be the organization's leader and driving force. After fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan, with the backing of the United States, bin Laden had developed a taste for jihad, which was originally the concept of a holy war designed to liberate occupied Muslim lands.
During the Afghan jihad, bin Laden worked for Sheikh Abdullah Azzam, who ran a paramilitary group of mujahideen (holy warriors) called "The Office of Services." bin Laden quietly broke with Azzam to create al Qaeda in 1988, just before the Soviet withdrawal. The CIA was aware of the split. Azzam was assassinated several months later.
Like any enemy of the Soviets, bin Laden was a favored ally of the CIA, which for a time tried to foment a full-fledged jihad between Islamic extremists and the Soviets. bin Laden and many of the mujahideen had been trained and funded by the CIA over the court of the decade-long occupation.
After the Soviet withdrawal, al Qaeda was quiescent for a couple of years, quietly building a financial and operation infrastructure while bin Laden returned to his native Saudi Arabia as a war hero. bin Laden raised money for the cause among his wealthy Saudi peers. When the Gulf War broke out in 1991, bin Laden offered to raise an army of mujahideen in defense of Saudi Arabia, but he was spurned in favor of U.S. assistance. He considered the U.S. presence in the Persian Gulf offensive and beginning around 1992, he led al Qaeda into a new role, with the stated purpose of driving U.S. forces out of the Gulf.
al Qaeda launched a series of terrorist attacks against the United States, starting with a failed attempt to target U.S. troops in Yemen in 1992, Subsequent attacks include numerous embassy bombings, a boat attack on the U.S.S. Cole, bombings of airplanes and movie theaters out of the Philippines. al Qaeda has also been linked to recent attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, and on a nightclub in Bali.
Some theories suggest that al Qaeda was behind the Oklahoma City bombing, but there is no conclusive evidence to support that -- yet.
Worldwide Reach
From the Peshawar tourism brochure: "Peshawar is now, as always, very much a frontier town. The formalities of dress and manner give way here to a free and easy style, as men encounter men with a firm hand-clasp and a straight but friendly look. Hefty handsome men in baggy trousers and long, losse shirts, wear bullet studded bandoleers across their chests or pistols at their sides as a normal part of their dress."
al Qaeda's operational headquarters in Afghanistan was disrupted by a U.S. invasion in early 2002. No intelligence exists as to what sort of headquarters operation might remain, but several of the group's top leaders have been captured in Pakistan in 2002 and 2003, and several more are suspected to be hiding in the region.
At heart, however, al Qaeda is a highly decentralized international organization. According to Jane's Intelligence Review, al Qaeda is a "conglomerate of quasi-independent Islamic terrorist cells in countries spread across at least 26 countries, including Algeria, Morocco, Turkey, Egypt, Syria, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Burma, Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Indonesia, Kenya, Tanzania, Azerbaijan, Dagestan, Uganda, Ethiopia, Syria, Tunisia, Bahrain, Yemen, Bosnia as well as the West Bank [and China]." Other countries where al Qaeda is known to have covert operational cells include Pakistan, the Philippines, Malaysia, the United States, Britain, France and Canada.
It might be easier to list countries where al Qaeda is known not to be operating. For instance, um... Well, the Principality of Sealand is probably a safe bet. And possibly the Vatican.
According to Jane's, al Qaeda is informally allied with at least 24 other terrorist groups, including Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Abu Sayyaf, Jemaah Islamiah, Hezbollah, Hamas, Hesb' I Islami and the Islamic Group.
bin Laden is the top leader of al Qaeda, and its most visible figurehead. While he provides inspiration and a cohesive ideological center for the organization, he is likely not involved in day-to-day operations. According to an intelligence source quoted by Simon Reeve in his book "The New Jackals," "Going after bin Laden to stop terror is like going after the Colonel to attack KFC."
After being stripped of his Saudi citizenship, he set up operations in Sudan and subsequently in Afghanistan. His current whereabouts are unknown, but rumor places him in the mountainous border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan. He is the most wanted terrorist in the world, and the FBI offers a $25 million reward for information leading to his capture.
al Qaeda's second-in-command and functional chief of operations is Ayman Al-Zawahiri. A former surgeon and lifelong jihadist, Zawahiri was previously a top leader of Islamic Jihad, who joined forces with bin Laden sometime in the 1990s. If bin Laden is the heart of al Qaeda, Zawahiri is the brain. Zawahiri has traveled the world working for al Qaeda and other jihad organizations. He was charged with complicity in the assassination of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat. On two occasions during the early 1990s, Zawahiri traveled to the U.S., where he reportedly raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for terrorist operations under the guise of charity. Zawahiri is the second-most wanted terrorist in the world, according to the FBI, and also carries a $25 million price on his head.
Until March 2003, al Qaeda's third-in-command was thought to be Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a tactical mastermind connected to nearly every major al Qaeda attack in the last decade, including the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Thought to be the mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attack, he was recently captured in Pakistan and is being held by the United States in an unknown location.
Current Status
From the Peshawar tourism brochure: "There is just that little touch of excitement and drama in the air that makes for a frontier land. An occasional salvo of gun fire-no, not a tribal raid or a skirmish in the streets but a lively part of wedding celebrations."
The invasion of Afghanistan drove most of Qaeda's leadership out of the country, and many of them are now thought to be in Pakistan, whose intelligence services have been in cahoots with the terrorist network for several years. Now a U.S. "ally" in the war on terrorism, Pakistan has been working closely with the CIA and the FBI to capture Qaeda operatives working throughout the country, including at safehouses and in training camps around "the City of Flowers."
The regional and international manhunts have likely damaged al Qaeda's ability to execute major attacks, substantial evidence suggests that the network still has hundreds or thousands of operatives at large across the globe, including sleeper agents and others in the United States.
Other centers of activity include Southeast Asia. The Islamic terrorist organization Jemaah Islamiah is closely aligned with al Qaeda, and is engaged in an active war of terror with the goal of creating what Time Magazine called an "Islamic super-state," a single unified Islamic regime ruling "Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Sultanate of Brunei and parts of the southernmost areas of the Philippines, Thailand and even Cambodia."
Jemaah Islamiah is one of the biggest wild cards in estimating al Qaeda's current capabilities. The group is led by an enigmatic fanatic known as Hambali. Reports are unclear as to whether Hambali is a lieutenant of Osama bin Laden, or a peer. The only thing that is certain is that the two are tied.
A 2002 terrorist attack on nightclubs in Bali was executed by JI and is thought to have been planned by Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. bin Laden's brother-in-law Mohammed Jamal Khalifa is financially linked to Hambali, as well as to several terror groups operating in the Philippines. Wanted by the FBI and the CIA, Khalifa is living freely in Saudi Arabia with the sanction of the government there.
Whatever the future holds, al Qaeda will almost certainly continue to pose a threat to Western influences and the stability of governments across the Mideast and Southeast Asia. Just one small gift to the world from the "City of Flowers." As the government-sanctioned tourism brochure notes, the colorful natives are still busily "keeping the border simmering with commotion and the flame of freedom proudly burning." Whose side are these guys on again?
Timeline
12 Oct 2000 Two al Qaeda agents pull alongside the USS Cole in a fiberglass boat disguised as a tender at the harbor in Aden, Yemen. Then the boat explodes, ripping a 40-foot hole along the port side of the destroyer's hull, killing 17 sailors and wounding 39 others.
11 Sep 2001 The single largest terrorist attack in history occurs when four commercial jetliners are hijacked, two of which slam into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York. Another plane is crashed into the Pentagon. 2,915 people are killed in the attacks, coordinated by Saudi terrorist Osama bin Laden. The civilized world is horrified; especially after seeing footage of Palestinians celebrating in the streets.
14 Oct 2002 During a speech in Dearborn, Michigan, President George W Bush declares that Saddam Hussein maintains active ties to al Qaeda: "This is a man that we know has had connections with al Qaeda. This is a man who, in my judgment, would like to use al Qaeda as a forward army."
7 Nov 2002 During a press conference, President George W Bush declares: "Some people say, 'Oh, we must leave Saddam alone, otherwise, if we did something against him, he might attack us.' Well, if we don't do something he might attack us, and he might attack us with a more serious weapon. The man is a threat... He's a threat because he is dealing with al Qaeda... And we're going to deal with him."
10 Nov 2003 During a five-minute interview via satellite with Fox affiliate WTVT-TV, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice declares: "I think that the administration has made it clear that we have no evidence and have never claimed a direct link of Saddam Hussein and his regime to the events of September 11th, saying that he planned them or controlled them or something. It is very clear that he had links to terrorism that were broad and deep, including numerous contacts with al Qaeda, including an al Qaeda associate, a man named al Zarqawi, who was operating his network out of Baghdad. The network that ended up ordering the killing of an American citizen, an American diplomat in Jordan, Mr. Foley. So, yes, Saddam Hussein had links to al Qaeda, links to terrorism. But we have never claimed that he had a direct link to the September 11th events."
17 Jun 2004 President Bush reiterates: "The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and al Qaeda, because there was a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda. This administration never said that the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated between Saddam and al Qaeda. We did say there were numerous contacts between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda. For example, Iraqi intelligence officers met with bin Laden, the head of al Qaeda, in the Sudan. There's numerous contacts between the two."
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al Qaeda and the Assassins
Could al Qaeda be connected to the Islamic Assassin cults of the 11th Century?
After September 11, publishers rushed to rebrand a series of academic and popular books on the Assassins as tomes on the origins of terrorism, much to the consternation of the authors in most cases. Although it's an easy and obvious sort of comparison, there are a number of reasons why al Qaeda couldn't possibly be connected to the Assassins...
Cue the mandatory: "Or could they?"
The idea sounds great at first blush, but when you look into it, you quickly discover a handful of Really Good Reasons why it can't possibly be true.
But if you keep on digging, dribs and drabs of historical clues begin to emerge. Whether or not it's true, the premise is just as dramatic and perhaps significantly more credible than the premise of The DaVinci Code, just for instance.
Whether or not the premise is actually true, the tale that unwinds offers a fresh perspective on the War on Terrorism. Whether you want to take it as a time-killing lark, or study every word with all the burning gravity of grim unrelenting death, Rotten.com presents...
The Eternal War
How al Qaeda could be descended from the 11th century Assassin cult, and why that's bad news for everyone
Chapter 1: Secret Agents of Islam
Chapter 2: Mind Control And Murder Cults
Chapter 3: al Qaeda as Ecumenical Outreach
Chapter 4: Then And Now: The Missing Link
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Then And Now: The Missing Link
al Qaeda as Ecumenical Outreach
Mind Control And Murder Cults
Secret Agents of Islam
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Secret Agents of Islam
When Ramzi Yousef was captured and brought to trial, many people were surprised to hear about his lifestyle.
Yousef was an inveterate womanizer. He drank, he went to all-night discos, he took scuba diving vacations. He was not known to pray much (outside of prison), nor to observe Islamic holidays.
Nevertheless, he presented himself -- in court and in life -- as a warrior for Islam. He took money from strict Muslim fundamentalists, and he worked to help advance their aims. He wrote poems about his love for God. In 1997 and 1998, Osama bin Laden praised him in interviews as a man devoted to protecting the Muslim community.
He also warned that Yousef was not unique.
"(I)f the American government is serious about avoiding the explosions inside the U.S., then let it stop provoking the feelings of 1,250 million Muslims," bin Laden warned, four years before the September 11 attack. "Those hundreds of thousands who have been killed or displaced in Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, do have brothers and relatives. They would make of Ramzi Yousef a symbol and a teacher. The U.S. will drive them to transfer the battle into the United States."
This was not idle talk, it was the open declaration of a war which had already been underway for nearly a decade. When bin Laden spoke those words to CNN's Peter Arnett in 1997, al Qaeda had already moved dozens of sleeper agents inside the United States - dozens at minimum.
Like Ramzi Yousef, these men were enigmas. Some devoutly followed the strictures of Islam. Others seemed to flaunt them. Yousef's explosive genius might have been unique, but his status as an infiltrator of Western society was not.
al Qaeda's No. 3 official Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was a well-known womanizer. Khalid Shaikh, Yousef and other accomplices frequented seedy clubs in Manila's red-light district, such as the Manila Bay Club and Sir Williams Karaoke, according to CNN reporter Maria Ressa, writing in Seeds of Terror. Later, in Florida and Massachusetts, several of the September 11 hijackers even patronized strip clubs and prostitutes.
Western observers were quick to point out the seeming hypocrisy - killing in the name of Islam, while failing to follow Islamic traditions and laws. When the topic was raised, however, it was usually as a propaganda tool, a rhetorical device to diminish the terrorists by deriding them as perverts, hypocrites and bad Muslims.
But it's more complicated than that.
al Qaeda operatives routinely take on deep cover roles in order to infiltrate an enemy's society. This isn't simply a pragmatic decision to disregard the tenets of Islam in order to accomplish a goal. Rather, it's a specific, traditional practice, justified through an elaborate theological framework.
The approach was first employed in the 11th century, by the Assassins, a notorious cult of Islamic extremists. Today, the practice is continued by a similar sect, known as Al Takfir Wal Hijra, which represents a key faction in the top leadership of al Qaeda.
There are numerous similarities between the Assassins and the Takfiri - including operational structure, strategy and theology. But the sects are separated by a centuries-long chasm of deep sectarian conflict.
But, then and now, these men shared a common vocation - secret agents for an extreme vision of Islam.
They were - and are - the ultimate infiltrators, unbound by moral restraint. These men are not subject to any meaningful cultural repercussions for their acts. Nor are they subject to an inner moral conflict. The are amoral machines by design, licensed to kill.
al Qaeda's Assassins
The modern Sunni Islamic sect known as Al Takfir Wal Hijira is a nearly perfect ideological vehicle for terrorism.
The Arabic name translates roughly as "anathema and exile" or "excommunication and emigration.? A theologically extreme extension of fundamentalist Islamic doctrines, Takfir is dedicated to restoring the Caliphate, the Islamic political empire that once spanned the Near and Middle East.
Takfir differs from establishment fundamentalists (such as Saudi Arabian Wahabbism) in two major respects. First, Takfiri cultists practice an extreme form of assimilation. And second, they openly embrace of violent, evangelistic jihad.
An essential part of Takfiri religious practice is the infiltration of enemy societies, usually meaning Western society. Like the Assassins before them, Takfiri members are permitted to take any measure necessary to assimilate, a stipulation which amounts to a blanket exemption from virtually every aspect of Islamic law.
To outsiders, Takfiri can appear to be entirely secular, frequently engaging in sexual activity and drinking alcohol in order to hide their religious beliefs. This behavior has been seen repeatedly among key al Qaeda operatives such as Yousef and Khalid Shaikh (who have not previously been identified as Takfiri).
The other element that distinguishes Takfir from simple fundamentalism is the sect's violence - specifically its obligation to violent jihad.
Even among extremely rigid Islamist movements such as Wahabbism, jihad can be read to include any number of nonviolent activities. But Takfiris believe that violent struggle is essential to jihad.
Going further still, the sect believes violence may justly be directed toward any non-Muslim, or even toward observant Muslims whose activities are perceived as undercutting the establishment of Islamic governments.
Targets can include governments that actively oppose Takfir efforts, those perceived to be collaborators, competing sects whose beliefs are considered heretical, and innocent bystanders (Muslim or not) whose deaths advance the cult's political purpose.
"(O)nce you're in, you never get out," said Roland Jacquard, an expert on Islamic terrorism, in a 2001 interview with Time Magazine. "The Takfir rely on brainwashing and an extreme regime of discipline to weed out the weak links and ensure loyalty and obedience from those taken as members."
Attacked From An Egyptian Base
Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's second-in-command, is believed to be a member of the Takfir sect. Zawahiri founded Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ), an organization that in many ways authored the philosophy of jihad that now drives al Qaeda. EIJ helped assassinate Anwar Sadat in 1981.
Starting in the late 1980s, Zawahiri sent a group of terrorist sleeper agents to the United States. The first wave consisted of at least a half dozen agents, but it's likely the total number was significantly higher.
Made up mostly of Egyptian nationals, the group emigrated to the U.S. over the the course of several years, forming a sleeper cell that would wreak great damage before finally being exposed.
On their arrival, the first-wave infiltrators did not turn immediately to plotting attacks. Instead, they started building an infrastructure, networks through which they would provide crucial financial and logistical support to plots on U.S. soil and abroad.
Members of this Egyptian clique were linked through the al-Kifah mosque, in Brooklyn, a conduit for funds and personnel tied to al Qaeda and the jihad against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.
From Brooklyn, the sleepers recruited foreign nationals, U.S. citizens and even American war veterans to join their ranks.
No one in this first wave of infiltrators fit any sort of predictable profile for an Islamic fundamentalist at the time, although some did portray themselves as devout Muslims.
The first wave assimilated almost effortlessly into U.S. society. Mahmud Abouhalima joined the NRA. One member, Ali Mohammed, even joined the U.S. Army, rising to the rank of sergeant in the Special Forces. Later, Mohammed would train Osama bin Laden's personal bodyguards in the Sudan.
Another member of this EIJ sleeper cell, El Sayyid Nosair, assassinated right-wing Rabbi Meir Kahane in 1990. Nosair was not only acquitted of the murder, which took place in front of a room full of witnesses, but authorities didn't detect the larger conspiracy behind his act until years later.
Several cell members assisted Ramzi Yousef in bombing the World Trade Center in February 1993. Other cell operatives, including some recruited on U.S. soil, attempted to bomb New York City landmarks in the spring of that year. Both plots were directly tied to al Qaeda. bin Laden is believed to have helped finance the attacks, and he may have had a role in directing them as well.
Dozens of terrorist operatives and collaborators were exposed when the FBI finally broke the cell, with the help of another Egyptian national, an informant named Emad Salem. Even faced with hundreds of hours of testimony, and thousands of pages of documents, the United States failed to realize the depth of the infiltration or its meaning.
While many members of that first wave of infiltrators have since been convicted of terrorism and related crimes, some members of the cell are still at large - some evading arrest all together, others cutting top-secret plea bargains in exchange for testimony.
Q Prime
It's fair to ask what Takfir Wal Hijra and Egyptian Islamic Jihad have to do with al Qaeda. There are two ways to usefully answer that question, one simplistic, the other holistic.
On a simplistic level, al Qaeda and Takfir and EIJ share key members and funding mechanisms. These can be drawn on a chart or listed. They are concrete connections, if not simple.
On a holistic level, the issue becomes more complicated. There is a broad public debate about the organization of al Qaeda. Many terrorism experts have touched on this by defining a difference between "al Qaeda, the movement" (seemingly independent terror groups sharing al Qaeda's ideology) and the "corporate al Qaeda" (a cohesive operational group led by Osama bin Laden).
As it is commonly understood, "corporate al Qaeda" is too rigid and limited to illustrate the real reach of the corresponding terror network. al Qaeda "the movement" implies the absence of a command-and-control relationship between AQ and a group like EIJ.
When most people use the term "al Qaeda," they're talking about the broad international conspiracy focused on attacking the U.S. with a specific set of tactics and under the theological umbrella of Osama bin Laden. Think of this grouping as "QPrime," an inner circle command-and-control structure which effectively coordinates terrorist activity across many ethnic and organizational lines.
QPrime is essentially a real network that most closely matches the popular understanding of al Qaeda. Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri are just two members of QPrime, part of the network's inner leadership circle. When people talk about al Qaeda, they're usually talking about the network, QPrime, which includes components such as EIJ and the Takfiri cult. All references to al Qaeda in this series of articles are inclusive of the broad QPrime network.
Coming To America
The first wave of al Qaeda assassins represented a conspiracy of shocking scale. A component of al Qaeda for most meaningful purposes, the Egyptian Islamic Jihad cell in New York City had operatives within several mosques and Islamic centers around the country, even within the U.S. Army.
EIJ's sleeper agents were stationed in at least seven states, including Arizona, Illinois, California, New York, Virginia, Texas and Florida, according to trial evidence and testimony in terrorist prosecutions from 1995 to the present.
Before the attacks of September 11, most Americans - even within the U.S. intelligence community - would have dismissed as paranoid nonsense the very notion that hundreds of Islamic extremists could be living undercover in places such as Arizona, Oklahoma and Kansas.
After September 11, Americans were instead asking: "How did this happen?"
The answer to that question begins 900 years in the past, when the Assassins raised the act of religious violence to an art form.
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Mind Control And Murder Cults
The Assassins were members of an Islamic secret society born in the 11th century.
Still shrouded in mystery nearly a millennium after its birth, members of the sect were known at the time as Nizaris. The name "assassin" was a European word coined to describe the sect. Its exact origin is uncertain, but legend holds that it meant "user of hashish," the drug rumored to be the secret of the Nizaris' fanatical and even suicidal fervor.
Ruthless and stealthy, the Assassins were skilled in the use of fear and violence for political manipulation and to advance their radical Islamic theology. Their operatives would go deep undercover, sometimes waiting years for an order to strike. Members of the sect used only daggers, adding a ritual mystique to their work. They kept a roll of honor, listing the names of martyred assassins and their victims.
The loyalty of the Assassins was legendary, and even suicidal in its intensity. The most famous story told of the sect dates to the 12th century and various versions of the tale run through the Crusades. As related by Islamic scholar Bernard Lewis in his landmark study, The Assassins:
The word (assassin) first appears in the chronicles of the Crusades, as the name of a strange group of Muslim sectaries in the Levant, led by a mysterious figure known as the Old Man of the Mountain, and abhorrent, by their beliefs and practices, to good Christians and Muslims alike. (...)
"I shall now relate things about this elder," says the German chronicler Arnold of Lubeck, "which appear ridiculous, but which are attested to me by the evidence of reliable witnesses. This Old Man has by his witchcraft so bemused the men of his country ... (that) many of them even, when standing on a high wall, will jump off at his nod or command, and, shattering their skulls, die a miserable death. The most blessed, so he affirms, are those who shed the blood of men and in revenge for such deeds themselves suffer death."
It's not difficult to see why the September 11 attack inspired a resurgence of interest in the cult, as publishers rushed to rebrand academic books on the Nizaris with titles like "The Assassins: History's First Terrorists," usually to the consternation of authors. Most of that initial surge quickly faded. For all their similarities, there were seemingly insurmountable obstacles that caused many to consider comparisons between the Assassins and al Qaeda to be more glib than accurate.
But the practice of terrorism is as much about illusion and misdirection as it is about fear. At first glance, the comparison seemed valid. On closer examination, it didn't hold water. The reality is complicated.
Without resorting to a simplistic view of "they're both Muslims and they both kill people," al Qaeda and the Assassins have interesting similarities in structure, theology and history.
It's useful to begin with the structure. Both al Qaeda and the Assassins employ an a organizational chart drawn in concentric circles. The result is an organization that is extraordinarily efficient at manipulating its adherents, creating a loyalty so intense that soldiers gladly die for the cause, while entrenching an inner management that is extremely resistant to attack.
(The religious parallels are the subject of al Qaeda as Ecumenical Outreach. The historical relationships are covered in Then And Now: The Missing Link.)
Circular Structures
Similarities between al Qaeda and the Assassins are not surprising or significant in themselves. Both groups are religiously oriented secret societies on a wartime footing. It's natural that there would be some parallels. The question is how deep the similarities run.
Governments tend to be organized in pyramids. An individual rules from the top, then a series of bureaucratic layers that fatten and sprawl as you get further and further from the leadership. In contrast, religious cults and secret societies tend to be organized in circles.
These groups usually have a large outer circle, often consisting of people with only a casual interest in the society's goals. Within that circle are a finite number of increasingly exclusive degrees, made up from agents and members who are increasingly informed about the society's real goals and methods.
Circular organizations are more resistant to assault than pyramid hierarchies, in part because their internal mechanisms are hidden. The point of a pyramid is to create a clear path to a visible apex, a single leadership position that dominates the structure. The pyramid structure is therefore largely transparent. Standing at the foot of a pyramid, you can see its tip.
Circular structure hides and protects the center. Standing on the surface of a globe, you cannot see its center. It's difficult to strike at the center without burrowing into the structure.
There are other advantages. Gravity, for instance, works to the advantage of a spherical structure, but acts to the detriment of a pyramid.
When you attack the structure of a globe, everything falls in toward the center, consolidating strength at the middle and healing ruptures in the exterior, a mechanism which experts see working in al Qaeda as it recovers from a U.S. onslaught.
In a pyramid, however, the vitally important apex rests on top of the subsequent layers. By hacking away at the middle, or the bottom, the structure can become so destabilized that the apex may fall.
The Organization of the Assassins
The Assassins, or the Nizaris, were a sect of Shi'a Islam founded in the 11th century by a charismatic religious leader named Hasan I-Sabbah. Educated in Egypt, Hassan formally founded the order around 1090, when he took control of the Persian fortress of Alamut (in what is now Iran).
Religion and subterfuge went hand in hand for the Assassins from their earliest days. Legend has it that Hassan won Alamut by infiltrating the fortress with his missionaries, who converted and recruited the castle's guards to Hasan's version of Ismaili Islam.
By the time the lord of the castle figured out what was going on, Hassan was already inside the fortress and in control of its army. Hassan reportedly paid off his predecessor to clinch the deal without a sword being drawn.
According to legend, the Assassins famously relied only on their daggers to kill. They were said to be fanatically committed to their leader, Hasan, and his successors as Grand Master, and they considered martyrdom a great honor. Legend states that Nizari leaders drugged the Assassins with hashish in order to brainwash them into believing they would enter paradise as martyrs, but it's unclear whether that really happened. It's certainly feasible.
The Assassins earned their fame with a series of political murders that helped reshape Persia and Syria during their heyday. The murders were accomplished by stealth and infiltration, and the Nizaris were said to have agents within the courts of many regional kings. They struck Muslims and non-Muslims alike, as it suited their needs. Although they are perhaps most known for their fight against the Crusaders, their "honor roll" of victims included more Muslims by far.
The Assassins were structured as a secret society, or in religious terms, a mystery school. In this sort of structure, the flow of information is controlled by layers. A sect has different levels of initiation, circular layers that proceed from an outer shell to an inner core. As one progresses through the organization, one is initiated into each layer, or degree, with a ritual that culminates in the sharing of new and secret information.
In the outer circles, the information revealed is often pragmatic - codes, martial techniques, secret signals and the like. Deeper into the organization, the initiation information invariably becomes more important and more shocking, usually consisting of powerful religious content.
Each degree of the Assassins' represented an increasingly sophisticated theological view, with corresponding increases in the presumed power and freedom of the initiate.
The Nizaris employed a form of missionary known as a dai. The dais covertly traveled to Sunni Muslim areas and sought to convert selected individuals to their brand of Shi'ite Islam, known as Ismailism.
Dais often practiced taqiyya, a religiously sanctioned form of deception under which they were permitted to disguise themselves as believers in non-Nizari sects or even to pose as non-Muslims. At one point, the entire sect virtually converted from Shi'a Islam to Sunni Islam in order to secure a political alliance and the safety of the Assassin fortresses. They reverted when the guise was no longer expedient.
Much of the Assassins' own literature was destroyed when Alamut finally fell to a Mongol invasion in the 13th century. That defeat marked the end of the Assassins' visible power in the world. Many of the surviving documents are accounts written by the sects' Christian and Sunni enemies.
Because of this, the description of the sects' inner workings should be taken with a large grain of salt. But enough data exists to approximate the beliefs and functions of each degree. While the surviving accounts likely don't reflect the exact beliefs of the ancient Assassins, they are probably close enough to be instructive.
The following descriptions are culled primarily from "Secret Societies" by Arkon Daraul, and "The Milita of Heaven," by James Wasserman. Their accounts were in turn derived from Crusader records and Sunni Muslim heresiologists. The source texts were written in the 14th century, but cited a supposed source from the 10th century.
The outermost circle of the church, the first circle, relied on classic cult recruiting techniques to draw a prospect into the sect. Once a likely prospect was selected by the dai, the teacher launched an attack on his preconceptions, pointing out inconsistencies in the Koran and logical errors in mainstream theology.
While undermining the recruit's confidence, the dai simultaneously indicated that the answers to these troubling questions lay within the sect, at a deeper level of initiation. And the subsequent degrees were designed to deliver on that promise. In the second through fourth degrees, initiates were introduced to increasingly complex explanations of the symbolism and prophecies of the Koran, including secret symbols, number codes and magical practices.
In addition to unfolding levels of knowledge, the revelations of each degree further estranged the initiates from mainstream Islam, undermining and eventually flatly denying both Shi'ite and Sunni beliefs, and denying the truth of the Koran.
In the fifth and sixth degrees, the instruction became densely esoteric, including teaching on astrology, kabbala, the calendar and Greek philosophy.
More significantly, at the sixth degree, initiates were freed from the constraints of Shariah law, the fundamental code of behavior underlying Islam, which includes detailed instructions on fasting, prayer, pilgrimage and a multitude of other issues. The denial of Shariah was the ultimate in heresy, binding the initiate to the cult and alienating him profoundly from his fellow Muslims.
Sixth degree initiates could become dais in their own right. It was an exclusive level of initiation. Few made it so far, and even fewer moved beyond.
Sixth degree initiates could also be members of the class of Assassin warrior known as a fidai, an Arabic word meaning "faithful." The fidais are the classic Assassins, as the word is understood in modern usage.
Fidais were dagger-wielding killers who would strike at the command of their Grand Master, embracing martyrdom without showing fear or doubt. No one knows how many fidais there were at any given time, which only made them more effective. They would spend years infiltrating the courts of regional powers, where they would simply wait for the command to strike - no matter how long it took.
Seventh and eighth degree initiates were the elite among dais. In the seventh and eighth circles, initiates were exposed to distinctly Gnostic concepts, including a Manichean view of a universe in which God and his creation are divided into two principles.
This was a radical departure from the extraordinarily intense monotheism practiced in the outer Islam. The learnings at this level continued to become more and more esoteric, having less and less to do with the mundanities of daily life.
Importantly, at the eighth level, according to Daraul, "The proselyte is also taught that a Prophet is known as such not by miracles, but by his ability to construct and impose in a kind of system at once political, social, religious, and philosophical." The eighth degree opened the door to a level of aspiration that was fantastically blasphemous to Muslims outside the sect, the notion that one could aspire to reach the status of a Prophet.
The ninth degree, the final circle of initiation known to the outside world, was purportedly the introduction of the Antinomian heresy to the Islamic world. Those initiated to the ninth degree learned the ultimate secret - that there is no sin - and became pure Gnostics in the sense that all further wisdom was to be received directly from God.
It's difficult to judge how truly accurate the accounts of the inner circles of the cult might be. After all, these accounts were written by the enemies of the Nizaris. It's not at all unusual for the victors in a religious conflict to characterize their enemies as Antinomians. And only a handful of extremely devoted and loyal subjects ever reached the seventh, eighth and ninth circles.
Still, there is a powerful poetry to the quote famously attributed to the sect's founder, Hasan I-Sabbah, summing up the ultimate secret of the Nizaris' ninth circle:
"Nothing is true, everything is permitted."
That saying could be inscribed on the coat of arms for Al Takfir Wal Hijra, the Islamic cult that dominates the leadership of al Qaeda. (See al Qaeda as Ecumenical Outreach.)
The Organization of al Qaeda
al Qaeda also uses degrees of initiation, but they aren't as clearly delineated to the outside world.
With the perspective of history, it's easier - and safer - to speculate about the Assassins' secret teachings and methods.
In the event of capture, Al Qaeda members are taught to encumber interrogation, providing mountains of trivia while misdirecting on key points. Nevertheless, a fairly coherent picture has emerged after years of arrests and indictments, with their mountains of evidence, testimony and seized documents. We can only estimate, but we can estimate fairly well.
As with the Assassins, the exact boundaries of the degrees may differ slightly, but al Qaeda does use a few clearly defined levels of engagement, starting with casual alliances to running to the most fanatical of true believers, some of whom are still unknown to the West.
From the outside looking in, it appears al Qaeda's degrees of initiation are arranged by function, rather than religious revelation. It's quite likely that this appearance is misleading or incomplete, but it provides a starting point for analyzing the terror network.
According to the 9/11 Commission's final report, al Qaeda's "structure included as its operating arms an intelligence component, a military committee, a financial committee, a political committee, and a committee in charge of media affairs and propaganda. It also had an Advisory Council (Shura) made up of Bin Ladin’s inner circle."
Breaking the network down to its areas of functioning is useful, but only to a point. Most governments perform all of these functions (sometimes excepting religion), but a Communist dictatorship is dramatically different from a representative democracy which is different from a constitutional monarchy. The question is: How do the components interact? What is the shape of the network?
Rather than trying to cram al Qaeda into a Western corporate model, as many observers do, it makes more sense to view it as a secret society with a circular structure of degrees, like the Assassins or the Freemasons.
The degrees identified here should not be considered a complete list, nor should they necessarily be treated as the formal hierarchy used internally by al Qaeda. This overview represents one "best guess" attempt to divine the structure of al Qaeda from the outside.
Much like the Assassins, al Qaeda identifies potential recruits through an evangelical religious program (see al Qaeda as Ecumenical Outreach). Some of these potentials become freelance operatives, financial supporters or simply sympathizers. This, the first degree is the outer ring of al Qaeda, consisting of casual helpers and interested parties. Often, these individuals will never move deeper into the group. There is no initiation at this level.
Many members of the "media committee" fall within this circle, including a cadre of Webmasters, systems analysts and hackers who help disseminate terrorist messages.
Some of these potentials are identified as having promise, and invited to attend indoctrination, which culminates in entry to the second degree. Everyone invited at this level is male, although a handful of women have worked their way into the organization through various unique avenues.
Where the ancient Assassins had remote fortresses to indoctrinate new initiates, al Qaeda has camps. Qaeda training camps are fortified and as secure as any location in the modern world. Here, initiation into the core al Qaeda organization takes place.
These camps are found all around the globe - in Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Philippines, Malaysia, the Sudan and Saudi Arabia, just to name a few of the most prominent locales. Some camps are even located in Europe and the United States. There were a few small training sites in Iraq before the U.S. invasion; now the camps are much bigger and more numerous.
In addition to their practical utility in teaching the finer points of firearms, explosives and poisons, these camps served as isolation tanks. While in training, new recruits simply drop off the face of the earth. It's a classic cult technique, separating potential recruits from family and friends, moving them into an insular community with few outsider influences and strictly controlled communication with the outer world.
According to accounts from captured operatives, these second-degree initiates are given false names (or real names that belong to other people). They are explicitly instructed on how to fit into Western societies, even at the expense of strict adherence to Shariah law.
Members at this level usually meet with one or more members of the charismatic inner circle of al Qaeda, figures like bin Laden or Zawahiri. These meetings are important mostly for their psychological impact.
At this level, members can be considered the equivalent of the fidais within the Assassins. Second-degree initiates can be selected for martyrdom missions, or sent to live abroad as a sleeper agents. These sleepers are sometimes exempted from Shariah requirements in order to successfully blend in.
After indoctrination is complete, recruits are usually sent back out into the world. The second-degree members of al Qaeda are the footsoldiers of global terrorism. They carry messages and supplies around the world. They assist acts of terrorism, large and small. They perform reconnaissance, move money, and perform dozens of other pragmatic tasks.
The third degree of al Qaeda consists of lieutenants, who direct the actions of the fidais. These trusted operatives are more thoroughly trained than the footsoldiers. Often, they specialize in certain kinds of terrorism, such as explosives or chemical weapons.
Members of the third circle are military and political strategists; they often originate proposals for terrorist operations, sometimes working under general guidelines provided by the innermost circle.
Terrorism experts sometimes refer to this circle as al Qaeda's military committee. Members of this circle have included Mohammed Atta, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and probably Ramzi Yousef. Third degree members are initiated, but they do not swear loyalty to bin Laden.
When he was at large, KSM was commonly referred to as "al Qaeda's No. 3 leader." This was true in the sense that as a third degree member, he was two steps from the center. But many others share that status. Khalid's energy and creativity enhanced the appearance of his stature. But was not associated with al Qaeda's religious and theological activities. His role, while vitally important, was limited.
Religion is key to advancement past the third degree, and thus evangelists, recruiters and financiers represent the fourth degree of al Qaeda membership. It's virtually impossible to separate the three functions. As practiced by al Qaeda, these roles are interdependent and interchangeable.
These operatives are al Qaeda's dais. From a strategic viewpoint, the fourth degree is perhaps the most important level of the organization. The dais carry an evangelical message, sweetened with money and fortified with guns.
In the modern world, dais work the networks and systems of mainstream Islam to their advantage. They have substantially infiltrated the world of Islamic charities, which provides multiple benefits to al Qaeda. Missionary status allows the dais to travel freely under the guise of charitable and religious work, and funds donated with good intentions, out of legitimate Islamic generosity, are misdirected to support al Qaeda's definition of jihad.
There are at least dozens of fourth-degree initiates in al Qaeda's network; there may be several hundred or even thousands. Like the dais of the Assassins, these operatives are trained to hide themselves in sophisticated ways. Generally, only the major operators ever become visible.
Likely members of the fourth degree include men such as Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, bin Laden's brother-in-law and allegedly a top Qaeda financier; Mohamed Loay Bayazid, a Qaeda moneyman accused of trying to buy uranium for a nuclear weapon; and Enaam Arnaout, head of the Benevolence International Foundation, an Islamic charity shut down by Western authorities as a major al Qaeda money laundering operation. Bayazid and Khalifa are still at large; Arnaout pleaded guilty to charges not related to al Qaeda and is serving time in a U.S. prison.
Other operatives within this fourth circle may have include Hambali and Abu Bak'r Bashir. Either man could also have been part of the inner leadership circle. Despite the fact that both men are in custody, there is still much we don't know about their roles.
While it's sometimes tough to keep score, it appears the U.S. and its allies have barely penetrated the fourth degree, including the financial and political committees.
There have not been consistent reports of a formal initiation ceremony for second and third degree initiates, although one may well exist. In contrast, Western intelligence has learned that fourth degree initiates are required to formally swear loyalty to bin Laden (or another member of the innermost circle).
This ritual is a variation on a traditional Islamic oath of loyalty called bayat (or bay'a) in Arabic. According to GlobalSecurity.org, a Washington, D.C.-area think tank, "bayat is the ritual of accepting (a) shaykh as guide and coming under the protection of the lineage of the order. The number of actual members pledging bayat is unknown, but al-Qaida is said to have trained as many as 5,000 militants in camps in Afghanistan and perhaps Indonesia."
As observed above, not everyone who passes through the camps swears bayat. According to the Final Report of the 9/11 Commission, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed told his captors he refused to pledge fealty to bin Laden, despite being pressured to do so. While that may be a self-serving account, his "job" function fits with the third degree of the organization.
While all second-degree operatives appear to have sworn bayat, some members of lower degrees also take the oath. What this means, to be strictly accurate, the actual gradation of degrees in al Qaeda is almost certainly more complex than the estimate presented here. bin Laden's personal bodyguards reportedly are required to swear bayat.
Little is known of the actual ceremony. According to the Chicago Tribune, one captured fidai-level operative told the FBI that while he was at a training camp in Afghanistan, a group of initiates took the oath in a mountaintop ritual. (As a second-degree initiate, he was not among them.)
The innermost circle of al Qaeda is its leadership, the fifth degree. The leadership of al Qaeda is commonly referred to as a council, or as the "Shura Council," a description first used in 1998's U.S. v bin Laden criminal case.
Western authorities know virtually nothing concrete about the actual leadership of al Qaeda, a testament to the efficiency of the secret society organizational structure. They don't even know the size of the Shura Council for certain, but a common guess is 20 to 30 members.
Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri are members of this innermost council. Beyond them, a handful of names are known and others may be inferred. Mullah Omar, leader of the Taliban, is likely one of these core leaders. These leaders are considered warriors, and they directly contribute to Qaeda's military and financial functions, but their public importance hinges on religious authority.
Some likely members of the Shura Council have been apprehended by the West, without significantly damaging al Qaeda's ability to function. The "blind Sheikh," Omar Abdel Rahman, currently in U.S. custody for his role in plot to destroy New York City landmarks, was likely part of al Qaeda's fifth degree leadership at the time of his arrest.
Other names associated with this core leadership include Saif al Islam el Masry, currently believed to be an inmate at Camp X-Ray, and Mohammed Atef and Abu Ubaidah al Banshiri, both believed to be deceased.
There appears to be one key difference between the Assassins' structure and the visible framework of al Qaeda - centralized leadership. There is every reason to suspect that Osama bin Laden is not crucial to the survival and operations of al Qaeda. Hassan I-Sabbah, on the other hand, is believed to have been the absolute ruler of the Assassins, in both its inward and outward modes.
The Psychology Of Structure
All these gradations of knowledge and authority, combined with the specific training and initiation techniques, amount to a quick course in Mind Control 101. Both the Assassins and al Qaeda use tried and true methods to manipulate their members - the techniques of a cult. The degreed initiation structure, and techniques applied to members entering each circle, is designed to create specific mental conditions that bind them more and more completely to the cult.
Robert Lifton, an expert in cult psychology, outlined three defining characteristics of a cult in a 1981 article for The Harvard Mental Health Letter:
1) a charismatic leader who increasingly becomes an object of worship as the general principles that may have originally sustained the group lose their power; 2) a process I call coercive persuasion or thought reform; 3) economic, sexual, and other exploitation of group members by the leader and the ruling coterie.
It's difficult to be sure, when so little is known about the fifth degree leadership, but it appears that there is not a solitary leader of al Qaeda akin to the President of the United States (or the Grand Master of the Assassins).
But that's a purely structural consideration. On a practical level, Osama bin Laden is clearly the charismatic personality that al Qaeda revolves around, as Hassan I-Sabbah was to the original Assassins. The prevailing importance of martyrdom as a virtue in al Qaeda ensures that he can continue to perform that function, even in the event of his death.
The cultish element of exploitation is arguable, given the enormity of the political and religious motivation that motivates many members of al Qaeda. In the final analysis, however, the recurrent use of suicide bombers to advance a political agenda is probably enough to qualify as Lifton's third criterion.
That leaves us with the process of "coercive persuasion." Lifton details this phrase with admirable specificity. Coercive persuasion includes the following elements, according to Lifton:
Milieu control: Controlling every aspect of the initiate's environment. For the Assassins, it was a fortress. For al Qaeda, this means the training camp environment. In either case, the cult completely controls the setting under which indoctrination is performed, in the complete absence of outside influences.
Mystical manipulation (planned spontaneity): The instigation of a mystical-style experience through "religious techniques such as fasting, chanting and limited sleep." Lifton adds that "mystical manipulation may also legitimate deception of outsiders," obviously a key element in both Assassin and al Qaeda practice. In one example, a document found in Mohammed Atta's luggage instructed the September 11 hijackers to prepare themselves by chanting specific verses from the Koran late into the night.
Demand for purity: Lifton calls this "a call for radical separation of good and evil within the environment and within oneself." It doesn't take a lot of imagination to see how this works in both cults. al Takfir Wal Hijra, believed to be the dominant ideology in al Qaeda, is Arabic for "excommunication and emigration." In its original incarnation, it was a separatist movement that demanded its followers remove themselves entirely from the corrupt secular world.
Purification: The document in Atta's luggage also contained detailed instructions on this topic. "Purify your soul from all unclean things," it exhorted in Arabic. "Completely forget something called 'this world.' The time for play is over and the serious time is upon us." While our knowledge of the Assassins is incomplete, the purification process appears to have been more symbolic and intellectual, a cleansing of the "impure" versions of Islam as represented in outer Sunni and Shi'a teaching.
Both the Assassins and al Qaeda mix these techniques to maximum effect. The Assassins operated from remote fortresses in rural areas of Persia and Syria. While inside, initiates of the order were intensely manipulated. Consider this account from Daraul's Secret Societies:
The ancient Art of Imposture, by Abdel-Rahman of Damascus, gives away another trick of Hasan's. He had a deep, narrow pit sunk into the floor of his audience-chamber. One of his disciples stood in this, in such a way that his head and neck alone were visible above the floor. Around the neck was placed a circular dish in two pieces which fitted together, with a hole in the middle. This gave the impression that there was a severed head on a metal plate standing on the floor. In order to make the scene more plausible (if that is the word) Hasan had some fresh blood poured around the head, on the plate.
Now certain recruits were brought in. "Tell them," commanded the chief, "what thou hast seen." The disciple then described the delights of Paradise. "You have seen the head of a man who died, whom you all knew. I have reanimated him to speak with his own tongue."
Later, the head was treacherously severed in real earnest, and stuck for some time somewhere that the faithful would see it. The effect of this conjuring trick plus murder increased the enthusiasm for martyrdom to the required degree.
Complete milieu control allows you to pull off tricks like this, and the element of mystical manipulation is plain to see. While there are no reports of al Qaeda using quite so colorful techniques, the training camp setting is another example of milieu control. From deep in the mountains of Afghanistan, there is no opportunity to call home, check in with friends and family, or watch the game at a local pub.
The end goal of these techniques is identical for both the Assassins and al Qaeda - breeding fanatics. Both organizations used the techniques of a mystical secret society in order to command absolute loyalty and submission from their followers. That submission is then employed to advance a purely religious goal of sweeping scope - a forcefully evangelical conversion of the entire world to their specific visions of Islam, and the extermination of those who stand in their way.
Next: al Qaeda as Ecumenical Outreach
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Jihad in de Polder van Siem Eikelenboom, onderzoeksjournalist voor de NOVA, uitgeverij L.J. Veen, o.a. te verkrijgen bij Bruna. 
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Eigenlijk zouden Wouter Bos en Femke Halsema deze dingen verplicht moeten lezen.
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Ik zal het ze mailen.
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Wouter en Femke zijn ook slechts speelballen van de vrijmetselarij. Zij hebben geen werkelijke macht.
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al Qaeda as Ecumenical Outreach
After September 11, many casual observers sought to draw comparisons between al Qaeda's brand of deadly Islamic fundamentalism and the Assassin cult. But it doesn't take long to identify the big problem with the notion.
al Qaeda is a Sunni Muslim fundamentalist sect; the Assassins were Shi'ites. And when you think about fundamentalists, you usually think about people who too intolerant to work with those who do not share their beliefs.
But since the fall of the Soviet Union, a direct result of the Afghanistan jihad, experts have tracked a surprising amount of cooperation among disparate groups of Islamic extremists. They may not like each other, but they can work together when it serves their purposes.
The trend began in the late 1970s, when a series of events rocked the Islamic world. For politically minded Muslims of every sect (sometimes referred to as Islamists), 1979 was a year to remember, with three watershed developments that permanently changed the world's political and religious landscape.
On February 1, 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini led a revolutionary force that drove out Iran's U.S.-supported monarch and instituted an Islamic fundamentalist theocracy - in the very heart of the Assassins' ancestral homeland. Although Khomeini was a Shi'ite Muslim, the overthrow of a secular Westernized regime in favor of an Islamic government reverberated across the Middle East, resonating with Sunnis as well as Shi'ites.
On November 20, 1979, about 500 militants seized control of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, one of the holiest sites in Islam. Affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, the militants were members of a Sunni sect who believed their spiritual leader was the Mahdi, the approximate Islamic equivalent of the Messiah. Some experts claim Mahrous bin Laden, a brother of Osama, may have collaborated in the assault, which was intended to overthrow the Saudi monarchy. Although the militants were defeated, the Saudi victory came only after a long standoff that incited a great deal of hostility toward the royal family. The debacle was one factor that led the Saudis to begin exporting extremism around the globe, rather than allowing it to foment at home.
Conveniently, the Soviet Union created the perfect destination for those extremists when it invaded Afghanistan in December 1979, just days after the standoff. The country's Communist bloc government was on the verge of collapsing in the face of an Islamic revolution, and the invasion caught everyone off guard. Two major powers set their sights on reversing the invasion - the United States of America and the Islamic 'umma, (world community). The resulting war, though fought largely in secret, would permanently change the face of the world.
The first event created a broad surge of enthusiasm among many Muslims, whether Sunni or Shi'ite. As Washington Post editor Steven Coll noted in Ghost Wars: The Secret History of Afghanistan, the CIA and bin Laden, the Iranian revolution reverberated powerfully among small bands of Sunni militants around the world.
Perhaps the most powerful such group at the time the Muslim Brotherhood, a secret society with the goal of establishing Islamic governments around the world, which many believe was responsible for the 1979 attack on Mecca.
Although closely associated with Sunni fundamentalism, the Brotherhood's reach extended into many diverse communities in pursuit of its stated political goal of creating Islamic governments.
The third domino was the sum of the first two. Abdullah Azzam, a member of of the Muslim Brotherhood and Osama bin Laden's mentor, led a pan-Islamist charge into Afghanistan to repel the Soviets.
It was the first step toward creating al Qaeda in the form we know it today. Although the Afghan jihad reached across many sectarian lines, a deeper agenda played out over the course of the conflict.
The Theology of Misdirection
Everyone knows Osama bin Laden wants to kill Americans, but if you asked people on the street, you would find very who can articulate what bin Laden actually believes.
al Qaeda's top leadership is dominated by a few specific fundamentalist influences. The most dominant of these is Al Takfir Wal Hijra, an Arabic phrase meaning "excommunication and exile."
The Takfir cult originated as an Egyptian separatist movement. Led by an agricultural specialist named Shukri Ahmed Mustafa, the original Takfiris believed in emulating the Prophet Muhammad's flight from Mecca to live a purified life in the desert.
Mustafa and some followers set up a self-sufficient survivalist-style camp in a remote area, where inhabitants lived according to the strictest interpretation of Shariah law. The group was derisively referred to as "the Desert Flogging Group," after their habit of kidnapping and flogging those who didn't live up to their moral standards.
As a local operation, Takfir Wal Hijra was something of a bust. It quickly came into conflict with Egypt's secular leadership (which represented everything the sect hated) and adopted the methods of terrorism, including kidnapping, firebombing and intimidation. Mustafa, known as the sect's "Commander of the Faithful," was hung in 1978 after the sect kidnapped and executed an Egyptian government official.
For a while, people thought that was the end of the sect. Unfortunately, they were dead wrong.
It's unclear whether the survivors regrouped, or whether the sect reconstituted itself under a different name.The most likely scenario is that it was reconstituted by its original parent group, the Muslim Brotherhood.
Although the original Takfiris were concerned with isolating themselves and battling the secular government of Egypt, the cult is believed to have been an offshoot of the Brotherhood, an international movement. Shukri Mustafa was a member of the Brotherhood, once arrested for distributing its literature in Egypt.
The Takfiris and the Saudi Wahabbi sects both drew inspiration from the writings of another Muslim Brother, Sayyid Qutb. Qutb was an Egyptian writer who traveled to the United States during the late 1940s. Appalled by American culture, he returned to Egypt, joined the Brotherhood and began outlining a philosophy of jihad. He died a martyr to his cause, executed by the government in 1966.
Qutb believed that the world is repeating the events that occurred at the birth of Islam, when Muhammad arrived to redeem Arabia from what Muslims believe was a period of barbarism, great depravity and ignorance of the true God - a condition summed up by the Arabic word jahiliyyah. In Qutb's view, Muhammad's solution was to convert as many as he could and conquer those he could not. Qutb proposed much the same scenario as the solution to the evils of the modern, Western world.
Among Qutb's major points are the need to purify a sinful world, and he urged Muslims to avoid living with kuffar (infidels) in order to avoid being contaminated by their lax morals. The most efficient solution to the problem, of course, is to get rid of the kuffar.
"This movement uses the methods of preaching and persuasion for reforming ideas and beliefs, and it uses physical power and jihad for abolishing the organizations and authorities of the jahili system which prevents people from reforming their ideas and beliefs," Qutb wrote.
Qutb became the theological voice of the Muslim Brotherhood, and his writings strongly influenced the Takfiris as well as the Wahabbis, the fundamentalist sect that dominates Saudi Arabia. His writings were not subtle in their intent:
(T)his religion forbids the imposition of its belief by force, as is clear from the (Koranic) verse, 'There is no compulsion in religion,' while on the other hand it tries to annihilate all those political and material powers which stand between people and Islam, which force one people to bow before another people and prevent them from accepting the sovereignty of God. (...)
After Qutb, another Egyptian writer helped delineate the boundaries of jihad, or more accurately, he helped eradicate any boundaries to jihad. One of the most influential extremist tracts in the Muslim world, The Neglected Duty by Muhammad Abd al-Salam Faraj was a significant text for the Takfir cult.
Printed during that momentous year of 1979, The Neglected Duty (also known as The Absent Obligation) urges Muslims to undertake violent jihad with the ultimate goal of creating the global caliphate. For its justification, Duty turns to a verse in the Koran known as "the verse of the sword":
So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
Even more significantly, from the perspective of the terrorist, Faraj - yet another former member of the Muslim Brotherhood - endorsed the use of any means necessary to advance the cause of jihad. The sword was not the only Assassin's art he endorsed. A paper titled Apocalypse 9/11, written by John R. Hall and published online by the University of California's Davis Center for History, Society, and Culture, describes the broad exemptions outlined by Faraj:
Faraj insisted that jihad is not subject to codified Islamic legal restraints-for example, prohibiting the killing of non-combatants-and that it does not require a fatwa, or religious ruling affirming approval by Muslim authorities. Moreover, for Faraj, according to sociologist Charles Seligman, jihad is no longer simply a series of battles between soldiers; it can draw on “deception and deceit, surprise attacks, trickery and large scale violence.?
Available evidence suggests that Egyptian Islamicists Qutb and Faraj were central figures in the broad movement that constructed a radicalized theology of jihad, and that a key conduit of these ideas to al Qa’ida was Ayman al-Zawahiri, a doctor who participated in the Egyptian movement and later became a close associate of Osama bin Laden.
Farah also redefined taqiyya, an Arabic word for theologically justified deception in Islam. Among moderates, taqiyya is the act of pretending to be non-Muslim in order to avoid persecution. Moderate Muslims have a very narrow view of circumstances under which it is acceptable to practice taqiyya.
Faraj expanded the concept to include taqiyya and terrorism, hand-in-hand, as weapons for jihad. While the strategy pervades al Qaeda and may cross sectarian lines, taqiyya and terrorism are particularly employed by the reconstituted Takfiri cult. According to a 2002 U.S. indictment:
Takfiri cells are trained to blend into Western societies, which they view as “kufar? (atheist, corrupt, or infidel) in order to plot terrorist attacks against those “corrupt? societies. Members of Takfiri cells may live together, not pray or attend Mosque, partake in alcohol and narcotics, and dress to assimilate and integrate into the communities they live in an attempt to avoid suspicion and/or detection.
Using these tactics, the Takfiris expanded out of Egypt and across the Middle East, Europe and Africa. They are known or suspected to operate actively in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, Lebanon and Algeria. Much like the fidais of the Assassins, Takfiri agents have infiltrated in Germany and the U.K. Al-Zawahiri, the sect's best known member, traveled to the United States and Australia to raise funds and seek recruits during the 1990s, with assistance from sleeper operatives in the host countries.
According to Time Magazine, Takfiri recruits were sent to train in the Afghanistan indoctrination camps, where they were inducted into al Qaeda and further trained in Takfiri ideology.
By the time al-Qaeda had resettled in Afghanistan, ideological training was an integral part of the curriculum, according to a (Middle Eastern) recruit who went on to bomb the U.S. embassy in Nairobi. Students were asked to learn all about demolition, artillery and light-weapon use, but they were also expected to be familiar with the fatwas of al-Qaeda, including those that called for violence against Muslim rulers who contradicted Islam-a basic Takfiri tenet. French terrorism expert Jacquard describes Takfiri indoctrination this way: "Takfir is like a sect: once you're in, you never get out. The Takfir rely on brainwashing and an extreme regime of discipline to weed out the weak links and ensure loyalty and obedience from those taken as members."
The results of the boot camps are die-hard but undetectable soldiers of the movement. "The Takfir," says Jacquard, "are the hard core of the hard core: they are the ones who will be called upon to organize and execute the really big attacks." French officials think that Takfiri beliefs have bred a distinct form of terrorism. "The goal of Takfir," says one, "is to blend into corrupt societies in order to plot attacks against them better. Members live together, will drink alcohol, eat during Ramadan, become smart dressers and ladies' men to show just how integrated they are."
The result of all this was to subtly shift the dynamic of the political Muslim community. Abdullah Azzam, who led the jihad against the Soviet Union until his assassination in 1989, was a "pan-Islamist," running what seemed to be a broadly inclusive campaign.
Azzam went to Afghanistan and united the disparate Islamic constituency there by appealing to Muslim identity over and above the many tribal and sectarian splits. The same appeal was used to summon a flood of Muslims from around the region as holy warriors.
bin Laden has used similar appeals, issuing statements under broadly inclusive language. In a 1998 statement on behalf of a coalition of terrorist groups called the World Islamic Front, bin Laden ruled that it is the obligation of Muslims everywhere to kill Americans, quoting the Koran in urging Muslims to "fight the pagans all together as they fight you all together."
But once the volunteer fighters arrived in Afghanistan, the definition of "all together" became more clear. Recruits were indoctrinated at training camps into a secret society, using a system of initiated degrees similar to the structure employed by the Assassins a millennium earlier (see Mind Control And Murder Cults). This organization is the core al Qaeda network. Using a strategy of outward inclusiveness, the Takfiri seized an opportunity to indoctrinate new recruits with its ideology.
Modus Operandi
The use of such subterfuge under the guise of Islamic unification is not new. Like the Takfiris, The Assassins used deceptive tactics to recruit new members, as well as to protect themselves in times of danger and forge alliances across sectarian lines.
Both sects have both used the principle of taqiyya - religiously sanctioned deception - to assimilate and cooperate with other Muslims - for as long as it suits their purposes.
Like the Takfiris, the Assassins had always practiced taqiyya as part of infiltrating hostile cultures. But at one point, the entire sect underwent a radical change of outer religious practice in order to integrate with the politically dominant Sunni empire that surrounded them.
In 1164, Hassan II (descendant of the sect's founder, Hassan I-Sabbah) declared the coming of the Millennium, known as the Qiyama. According to Hassan, the absolute leader of the Nizaris, the end of the world was at hand. During Ramadan, a monthlong period of fasting and contemplation, Hassan told his followers that they had been freed from the constraints of Islamic law, the Shariah.
Declaring himself Caliph, the divinely appointed leader of Islam, Hassan demanded that they turn their backs to Mecca when they prayed, then led them in a debauch of wine, pork and orgies. He even ordered those who clung to the Shariah to be stoned as blasphemers.
Not surprisingly, this development did not endear the Assassins to the mainstream Muslim community, and they were branded as heretics. The tension between the Nizaris and mainstream Muslims in the region continued for almost 50 years, until the reign of Hassan III.
Hassan III didn't just take the Assassins back to its Shi'ite origins; he constructed a rapprochement with the Sunni caliphate, the dominant political force in the region.
While outwardly embracing Shariah, the Assassins maintained the inward radicalism of the sect with a complex theological argument for "occultation," according to James Wasserman, author of The Templars and the Assassins, The Militia of Heaven.
A variation on taqiyya, the doctrine called for the outward practice of Shariah as a transitional period before the final emergence of the Mahdi (messiah). As a result, the Assassins forged peace with the Sunni empire, and even accepted the authority of the Sunni Caliph, who allowed his court to intermarry with the Nizaris.
But the core beliefs of the sect endured until their final military defeat in the mid-13th century, and beyond, when the group broke up into small scattered communities and dispersed around the world.
The occultation doctrine was not widely known at the time, of course, or else the Sunnis would not have accepted the Nizari efforts at reconciliation. There is no information about the Takfiris attitude on the subject either, but al Qaeda has frequently presented an ecumenical call that belies its fundamentalist roots. The result is a seemingly paradoxical pattern.
Although establishment fundamentalists such as the Wahabbis decry the Shi'ites as apostates, the core al Qaeda group has called for Muslim unity at the same time that its affiliates attack Shi'ite mosques.
al Qaeda has frequently worked with Shi'ite regimes and organizations, including the government of Iran and terror groups like Hezbollah. It isn't known how deep these ties run, but the evidence suggests that the relationship is at least comfortable.
Even Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - one of the most strident anti-Shi'ites - has reportedly been sheltered by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, along with other top al Qaeda military commanders.
On its surface, the relationship is inherently duplicitous on both sides, perhaps appropriate for Iran, the homeland of the Assassins.
"The Iranians play a double game. Everything they can do to trouble the Americans, without going too far, they do it," a French official recently told the L.A. Times. "They have arrested important al Qaeda, but they have permitted other important al Qaeda people to operate. It is a classic Iranian style of ambiguity, deception, manipulation."
It's a classic al Qaeda style of operation as well, and the approach was practically invented by the Assassins. But these rough parallels between the beliefs and practices of the Assassins and al Qaeda are simply that - parallel lines that never meet - unless some historical track can show where and how those lines might converge.
To search for that possible convergence, we must trace al Qaeda's practice of taqiyya back to the terror network's origins, to the original secret society that shaped virtually every aspect of Osama bin Laden's terror network - the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Then and Now: The Missing Link
A direct connection between the 11th-century Assassins cults and al Qaeda would be a conspiracy theorist's dream come true. Unfortunately, the intense secrecy around both groups and the passing of nearly 1,000 years of history makes a link virtually impossible to prove.
It's much easier, however, to show whether it could be true. The story captures the imagination in much the same way as the real-life historical theories behind The DaVinci Code. And along the way, the theory might offer an important insight into the War on Terrorism, surely the great challenge of our times.
In comparing the Assassins to al Qaeda, there are four key points of convergence:
The use of secret infiltration: As best can be determined, components of the broad al Qaeda network first began infiltrating the U.S. in the mid-1980s. Not only did this infiltration go undetected for years, but it started five years before the U.S. government believes al Qaeda was even founded. This use of sleeper agents and deceptive practices closely matches the practices of the Assassins, who buried agents under deep cover for years until their services were needed.
The secret society model: The Assassins were structured as a secret society, with circles of initiation that heightened the effects of cultlike brainwashing techniques. al Qaeda's structure can be viewed as a parallel construct, and the terrorist network is known to employ some of the same techniques.
Manipulation of the Muslim community: Both the Assassins and al Qaeda employed deceptive techniques to manipulate fellow Muslims, either for political gains or to recruit operatives from outside their sects. Both groups also used taqiyya, an Islamic theological concept which they construed as permission to freely use deception in furtherance of their goals.
A historical narrative connecting the two sects: So how do you get from point A to point B? Is there some way to construct a reasonable theory connecting al Qaeda and the Assassins? The reader will make his or her own determination of "reasonable," but Rotten.com will provide the "theory."
A Tale Of Two Hassans
Hassan I-Sabbah, the founder of the Assassins, was born near Tehran during the 11th century. He received a religious education in Shi'a Islam and was exposed to the Ismaili sect at an early age.
The Shi'ites believed that the Islamic state should rightfully be led by the descendents of Ali, the son-in-law of the Prophet Muhmmad. The Ismailis supported leaders, known as Fatimids, who claimed a specific line of descent from Muhammed after an eighth-century dispute over succession. After splitting from the Shi'ites, the Ismailis took a more mystical turn, integrating elements of Gnosticism and Greek philosophy.
Hassan traveled to Cairo, Egypt, where he was educated as a dai at the Ismaili university of al-Azhar. The details of his education are unknown, but the setting is well-documented.
al-Azhar was established as a university in the late 10th century and quickly became a leading educational institution. Ismaili dais were educated at al-Azhar, in a special wing known as Dar al-Hikma, which was dedicated to revealing the sect's inner teachings. The main university was open to the public and put forward a more ecumenical face.
At the time of Hassan's trip to Cairo, the Ismailis were in the middle of a schism over the succession of the caliphate. Hassan supported Nizar ibn al-Mustansir, whose name was eventually lent to the Assassin cult, the Nizaris. Hassan was deported from Egypt for supporting Nizar. After traveling in search of converts for a few years, he took control of the fortress of Alamut in what is now Iran, and the Assassins were born.
Almost 900 years later, another Hassan emerged in Egypt as the leader of a potent Islamic secret society. Born in 1906, Hassan al-Banna was the son of a watchmaker who grew up to be a schoolteacher. Like Hassan I-Sabbah, he was educated at al-Azhar University.
Much had changed at al-Azhar over the intervening centuries. After the collapse of Ismaili political power, the university had become a Sunni institution in the late Middle Ages. By the time al-Banna arrived in Cairo in the 1920s, the city and the university lifestyle had also become largely secularized, at least on the surface. While still a religious establishment, Islam was often treated as a academic matter, to be kept within the University's walls.
al-Banna was admitted to al-Azhar at the age of 16, according to legend, because he had memorized the entire Koran. He founded the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928 to promote Islamic values. Like his namesake, Hassan traveled the world in search of new members for his organization, setting up branches in several countries around the Middle East.
In the late 1940s, the establishment of the state of Israel sparked a regional war, and within that violent conflict, the Brotherhood suddenly emerged as a militant political group, using violence to further its goal of establishing Islamic governments in the region.
In pursuit of its modern goals, al-Banna's organization employed an ancient tool - assassination. Like Hassan I-Sabbah, al-Banna sought to reshape the political fortunes of the Middle East through strategic killing, such as the 1948 assassination of Egyptian prime minister Mahmud Fahmi Nokrashi, committed by a member of the Brotherhood. Unlike the leader of the Assassin cult, al-Banna did not have a fortress to protect him from the consequences of his killings. al-Banna died at the hands of the Egyptian government one year later.
The Missing Link
Each Hassan passed through the University of al-Azhar, albeit with a millennium between them.
al-Azhar and the Muslim Brotherhood both played a central role in the development of al Qaeda.
Combined with the other points of convergence between al Qaeda and the Assassins, Cairo offers the possibility of a missing link between the ancient cult and the modern scourge.
The Muslim Brotherhood runs like a colored thread through the fabric of al Qaeda. A young Osama bin Laden was introduced to fundamentalist Islam by a Muslim Brother, and when he went to Afghanistan, he was the protege of jihadist Abdallah Azzam, another member of the organization and a former student at al-Azhar.
al Qaeda's No. 2, Ayman Al-Zawahiri was another member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Egyptian Islamic Jihad - Zawahiri's original terror network, now part of al Qaeda - was visibly entwined with the Brotherhood. Zawahiri himself studied medicine at al-Azhar. Zawahiri's great-uncle had been Grand Imam at al-Azhar, and his grandfather and great grandfather were scholars at the University. EIJ's spiritual leader, "Blind Sheikh" Omar Abdel Rahman, was a professor at al-Azhar.
The architects of modern jihadi theology - Sayyid Qutb and Abd al-Salam Faraj - were both members of the Brotherhood. Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the founder of Hamas, was both a member of the Brotherhood and an al-Azhar alumni.
The infiltration of the Brotherhood into Egyptian society resembles Hassan I-Sabbah's covert infiltration of Alamut in the 11th century. Through misdirection and sometimes outright deception, the Brotherhood has established a stronghold of sorts in the middle of a country considered to be one of America's most steadfast allies in the Middle East. According to Mary Anne Weaver, author of A Portrait of Egypt:
Al-Azhar had long been a prime recruiting ground for the Muslim Brotherhood, and its graduates had, in turn, reexported the Brotherhood's brand of militant Islam throughout the Middle East. What is far more worrisome, however, to Egyptian secularists is the Brotherhood's recent success - thanks largely to Saudi funding - in recruiting prominent sheikhs from within al-Azhar itself. The sheiks have then, in turn, infiltrated the Egyptian courts in their efforts to implement Shariah law.
Slowly, almost imperceptibly, over the years, Egypt's Islamist revolution by stealth has burrowed its way into the very heart of the institutions of the Arab world's largest and most important state.
The notion that some sort of secret society with ties to the Assassins could have endured for 1,000 years in Cairo, in the vicinity of al-Azhar University, is not as outrageous as it sounds. After all, al-Azhar itself has endured that long.
Like our theoretical society, al-Azhar has survived and thrived. Like our secret society, al-Azhar has metamorphosed from a Shi'ite institution into a Sunni institution. And like our secret society, al-Azhar has spread its influence around the globe to dramatic effect even in this modern, secularized world.
Perhaps our long-lost Assassin sect exists side-by-side with the University, waiting on the sidelines to single out the best of the intellects who make their way to al-Azhar - in much the same way Skull and Bones taps the shoulders of elite students at Yale, without the formal sanction of the university.
The Secret of al Qaeda's Success
If al Qaeda and the Assassins share a possible geographical center, structural elements and theological tenets, the question that remains is still daunting: What mechanism could ensure the survival of a secret sect for so long? How could such a society remain concealed for so long? A romantic appeal to the legendary proficiency of the Assassins isn't enough. A practical description is required.
Fortunately, al Qaeda itself provides a template for how this theoretical secret sect could survive
The War on Terrorism has provided an unparalleled opportunity to see how the secret society model functions over time and under intense pressure. The development of al Qaeda over the approximately 20 years of its history can be charted simulate, to an extent, the pressures that a secretive sect might face over the course of a much longer time.
Since its founding, al Qaeda has primarily been an aggregator of terrorist groups. Although it exists as an terrorist cell in its own right, the network's function is more often to support and coordinate the efforts of other terror groups, while creating entirely new organizations with links back to the original.
In its early days, al Qaeda worked with pre-existing terror groups like Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Ayman Al-Zawahiri's terrorist organization. Conventional wisdom says al Qaeda was founded in 1989, and that it merged with EIJ in 1998. But the pattern of activity argues for much earlier dates for both those events.
By the late 1980s, EIJ had a sweeping network of sleeper agents in place within the United States, and those agents worked closely with figures now known to be associated with al Qaeda. bin Laden and Zawahiri first met in 1987, according to Washington Post editor Stephen Coll's Ghost Wars.
Ali Mohammed - an Egyptian who infiltrated the U.S. Army and worked closely with the blind sheikh - later became al Qaeda's chief of security, training bin Laden's personal bodyguards. The blind sheikh's cell summoned Ramzi Yousef from Pakistan to New York so that he could execute the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed helped fund the attack. bin Laden himself was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the EIJ cell's thwarted bombing attack on New York City landmarks in 1993.
At first, al Qaeda's function was to absorb these other organizations. A southeast Asian militant named Hambali fought in Afghanistan in the mid-1980s, where he encountered bin Laden and attended al Qaeda's training camps. There, like others who attended the camps, he was indoctrinated into the core al Qaeda group.
In the early 1990s, Hambali was sent back to Asia, where he rejoined Jemaah Islamiah, the group he had originally belong to. Armed with bin Laden's cash and the connections he made in Afghanistan, Hambali took over JI in short order, transforming it into al Qaeda's affiliate in the region.
In addition to working with existing terror organizations like EIJ, the young al Qaeda group sponsored the formation of new groups. In the late 1980s, perhaps even earlier than the commonly accepted date of al Qaeda's founding, bin Laden invested in the Philippines.
First, he funneled money to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, a local militant group that had operated for more than a decade. A few years later, a veteran of the Afghanistan camps split the Abu Sayyaf Group off from MILF, resulting in a new organization more directly under al Qaeda's control.
As in New York, Ramzi Yousef and KSM traveled to the Philippines to coordinate massive terrorist attacks on the U.S. with the help of the local network. In turn, Yousef helped train new Filipino recruits at bin Laden-sponsored camps in the country.
al Qaeda is a generator of terrorist groups. When the organization is pressured, it splits off segments, or seeds, which grow into semi-autonomous operations. This process has accelerated in recent years, since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. In August 2004, the Associated Press reported:
The emergence of small, little known groups with ideologies like al-Qaida's has made the fight against terrorism a far more daunting task. Instead of targeting just al-Qaida, the West and its allies now face many "al-Qaidas," splinter groups that are mostly unrelated to each other but are bound by the same hatred of the West - especially the United States and its allies, including Israel. The groups are small, little known and highly militant. (...)
The different "franchises" act under different names. For instance, the group behind last month's abduction of four Jordanians in Iraq called itself "Mujahedeen of Iraq, the Group of Death." "Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula" is the umbrella group for militants active in the kingdom. (...)
"Now what you find are remnants of al-Qaida," said Kevin Rosser, an analyst with the London-based Control Risks Group. "There's no central nervous system anymore. Al-Qaida is the kind of brand name that we're giving to Islamic extremists of all kind, whether or not they've got real connection to bin Laden or any of his associates."
Except that there may be a central nervous system after all. The example of al Qaeda and EIJ above is telling.
Although there are numerous proven direct links between EIJ and al Qaeda starting no later than the early 1990s, virtually every source dates the "merger" between the groups to 1998.
If you pull back to look at the big picture, including Muslim Brotherhood linkages, the integration of the two organizations looks like a much earlier event, perhaps as early al Qaeda's founding in the mid-1980s.
From The Root
Finally, we must delve into an entirely speculative zone to answer the original question. How could al Qaeda be a direct descendent of the Assassins?
Perhaps both groups grew from the same root.
What if there were a core Islamic militant sect, call them the "Assassins Prime," a sect buried in so many layers of misdirection and initiation that only a very few even became aware of its existence?
The Assassins and al Qaeda have proven that the sectarian difference between Sunni and Shi'ite isn't insurmountable, the example of al-Azhar shows it even more clearly. The Assassins Prime are not constrained by sect, school or theology. In the words of Hassan I-Sabbah, "Nothing is true, everything is permitted."
Instead of being controlled by theology, the Primal Assassins would manipulate it for the sake of political Islam, for the sake of the global caliphate.
Since the time of the original caliphate more than 1,000 years ago, there have always been those who sought to restore and expand the empire's reach. However, the Assassins Prime would not perform the work of empire-building directly.
al Qaeda, in the end, is a hybrid. In addition to creating shell after shell, and cell after cell, al Qaeda also directly executes attacks. That makes it vulnerable to disruption and opposition.
The Assassin Prime sect would not execute attacks. If it exists, it's a secret society that exists for one reason only, to spawn new secret societies that share its ideology.
Its children perform the work of war, fight and die on the front lines, whether in combat or in the cockpit of an airplane speeding toward a skyscraper at 500 miles per hour. The Assassin Prime sect remains safe in its hidden fortress, watching and waiting, and breeding still more children.
How far back does it go? Certainly, the Assassins had predecessors who were remarkably similar in both methods and beliefs. Writing in The Assassins, scholar Bernard Lewis notes:
In the early eighth century, the Muslim authors tell us, a man called Abu Mansur al-Ijli, of Kufa, claimed to be the (divinely appointed religious leader of Islam) and taught that the prescriptions of the law had a symbolic meaning and need not be obeyed in their literal sense. ... His followers practiced murder as a religious duty. Similar doctrines - and practices - were ascribed to his contemporary and fellow-tribesman Mughira b. Sa'id. Both groups were suppressed by the authorities. ... The parallel they offer to both the antinomianism and the weapon-cult of the later Ismailis is striking.
It's not paranoid or grandiose to assume that there are people who will fight, kill, lie and die for a cause they themselves barely understand. Nineteen terrorists died for such a cause on September 11, in the most visible way possible. The only really difficult question is: Could such a sect have remained secret for 1,000 years or more?
The example of al Qaeda is extremely instructive in this respect. The original Assassin cult lasted for hundreds of years before exhausting its usefulness. These days, the world is much faster, and the life cycle of a terrorist group is much shorter.
The Muslim Brotherhood spawned the core al Qaeda group, which spawned the EIJ cell in New York City. U.S. authorities caught the members of the EIJ cell, but didn't even realize there was such a thing as al Qaeda for nearly five years. Many Americans still haven't heard of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Ayman Al-Zawahiri, who has been described in Congressional testimony as the "functional leader" of the Muslim Brotherhood, explicitly outlined the seeding process that sustains these interlinked organizations in a manuscript published after September 11.
In a translation quoted by Stephen Coll in Ghost Wars, Zawahiri said "(A) jihadist movement needs an arena that would act like an incubator, where its seeds would grow."
He was speaking of Afghanistan at the time, but both Iraq and Afghanistan fill that role today. While there is a growing realization that al Qaeda is now spreading its own seeds, U.S. policymakers have largely failed to acknowledge that al Qaeda itself is a seed planted by the Brotherhood.
Although America attacked al Qaeda after 2001, the West has taken virtually no action against the Muslim Brotherhood, despite its reach and the influence it exercised over the architects of September 11.
The Brotherhood continues to gain power and influence in Egypt and abroad. But if the West did turns its attention to containing or destroying the Muslim Brotherhood, who can say there isn't another shadowy network beyond that? Even if there isn't a formal group that preceded the Brotherhood, we are already seeing a proliferation of groups that will come after it.
Tracing the steps of this hypothetical sect that invisibly spawns new terrorist groups isn't just an exercise in academic wheel-spinning. It's an important to the question of strategy in the War on Terror.
Recent history shows that by striking hard at al Qaeda, the West may only have shattered it into dozens of shards, each of which holds the potential to grow up and become a full-grown al Qaeda itself.
The current strategy is creating new terrorist groups by the day. That isn't speculation, it's an unfortunate fact.
Who's winning this war?
Perhaps, out there somewhere, the Assassin cult is still marking down names on its centuries-long honor roll, with no end in sight.
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Egyptian Islamic Jihad
aka al-Jihad
Egypt has been home to rabble-rousers and troublemakers since the days of Moses.
But while Moses had frogs, boils, locusts and baby-killing angels at his disposal, Egyptian Islamic Jihad only has guns, knives and explosives to work with.
They've made the most of their tools. EIJ is perhaps the most overtly successful terrorist operation in history.
An offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, EIJ splintered off in the early 1970s as a student-oriented rebellion against the right-wing military dictatorship run by former Nazi spy Anwar Sadat. The members of Egyptian Islamic Jihad are Sunni Islamic fundamentalists who want to overthrow Egypt's secular government and replace it with a Taliban-style theocracy. Affiliated groups include Gama'a al-Islamiyah (aka Jamaat al-Islamiyya) al-Jihad.
By paying lip service to nonviolence, the Muslim Brotherhood began to push for mainstream political acceptance, while EIJ acted as its "covert-overt" militant arm, along with several other groups. Although the Brotherhood denied any tie to the actions of EIJ and groups like al-Jihad, journalists and the Egyptian government believe the Brotherhood calls the shots when it comes to terrorist attacks in Egypt.
And there have been an awful lot of terrorist attacks in Egypt. Egyptian Islamic Jihad and other domestic groups have distinguished themselves in both ambition and sheer bloodiness. In 1981, EIJ and other affiliated groups changed the course of Middle Eastern history by assassinating Sadat, who had been attempting to negotiate peace with Israel.
Sadat's assassins were connected to the Brotherhood, EIJ and Gama'a al-Islamiyah, via radical Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, a blind cleric who doubles as "spiritual leader" for both groups. "The Blind Sheikh," who was later tied to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, reputedly pronounced a fatwa approving the assassination. (He was suspected of a similar role in the WTC attack.) Abdel-Rahman stood trial alongside the Sadat triggermen, but he was acquitted.
Ayman Al-Zawahiri, a former doctor, also served hard time for allegedly playing a part in Sadat's assassinations (along with thousands of others arrested almost indiscriminately by the Egyptian government).
In the mid-1980s, Zawahiri took over EIJ. A member of the ultraviolent Al Takfir Wal Hijra sect, Zawahiri led Egyptian Islamic Jihad to new levels of global accomplishment.
Shortly after Zawahiri took the reins, EIJ went international. A handful of Egyptian terrorists came to the U.S. and created sleeper cells which were eventually tied back to Egyptian Islamic Jihad and the still young al Qaeda. One member of this group, Ali Mohammed, even joined the U.S. Special Forces, where he served as a sergeant. Another, Mahmud Abouhalima, moved to New York City and joined the NRA. El Sayyid Nosair, an Egyptian militant associated with the cell, shot and killed a right-wing rabbi named Meir Kahane in 1990.
The advance team moved to key locations and began setting up networks for moving money and weapons around the U.S. and overseas. The U.S. government looked the other way while this was happening, since the team's efforts were largely directed toward fighting the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, where the CIA was running a proxy war on behalf of the U.S. using a volunteer army made up of Islamic extremists.
At some point, EIJ became formally consolidated with al Qaeda, after Zawahiri and Osama bin Laden became close friends and theological sparring partners. The conventional wisdom holds that this happened around 1998, but there is a substantial body of evidence to suggest it happened much earlier.
Al Qaeda and Egyptian Islamic Jihad operatives cooperated extensively to pull off the 1993 WTC attack, in which Ramzi Yousef worked closely with followers of the blind sheikh in Brooklyn. In 1995, Zawahiri came to the U.S. for a fundraising visit. While in California, he stayed with Ali Mohammed, who by then had become bin Laden's chief of security.
Regardless of exactly when the alliance formally took place, Egyptian Islamic Jihad is today considered to be a regional adjunct of al Qaeda, a branch office in Egypt, much like Jemaah Islamiah in Southeast Asia.
Zawahiri himself is now considered to be the No. 2 figure in al Qaeda, after bin Laden. In most meaningful respects, he's probably more like the No. 1 figure in al Qaeda, although bin Laden is the visible outer head of the organization.
Despite its status as a satellite to al Qaeda, Egyptian Islamic Jihad is far from irrelevant, however. Before hooking up with al Qaeda, EIJ mostly targeted political leaders and military figures, rather than random civilians. The group has tried to assassinate Egyptian president Hosni Mubarek on more than one occasion, including at least one effort directly tied to al Qaeda. EIJ has also tried to kill various lesser officials in the Egyptian government.
But since the mid 1990s, the organization has increasingly focused its attention overseas and its efforts have been largely indistinguishable from those of al Qaeda. It may not be so much Egyptian any more, but the Islamic Jihad goes on... and on... and on... After Zawahiri, probably the most famous member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad is Mohammed Atta, who flew an airplane into the World Trade Center on September 11.
EIJ is also believed to be responsible for the 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, an attack which led to the historic "U.S. vs. bin Laden," the criminal case that first brought bin Laden's name out of the shadows and into the headlines. Zawahiri's pal Ali Mohammed was a key suspect in this case, and he cut a plea deal in which he provided information in exchange for a sentence which is still under seal. His current whereabouts are one of the great "national security" secrets of the day...
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Fatwas
A fatwa is simply an Islamic religious decree. Usually these pronouncements are innocuous -- for example, the fatwa regarding mechanically separated chicken -- but they have gained notoriety in recent years as a vehicle for militant Islamic fundamentalists to declare wars and death sentences on those who displease them.
The dynamics of controversial, high-profile fatwa issuance as it is practiced is fascinating. The targets of the decree in many cases have not even visited the country where it was issued. There is a near-inspiring volunteerism to it all: anyone who follows the teachings of that religion is authorized to carry it out. This last aspect makes it especially troubling for a hapless author like Salman Rushdie to get around, since anywhere he is, at any time, there might be a follower ready to get some easy points with the authorities of his religion. If the Pope told all Catholics to whack Larry Flynt in return for a place in heaven, how long do you think Flynt would be wheeling around?
Osama bin Laden has issued fatwas on very thin religious basis. The American television show Who Wants to be a Millionaire, starring Regis Philbin, had a fatwa issued against it.
In October 2002, an Iranian cleric declared that Jerry Falwell must die after he announced on 60 Minutes: "I think Mohammed was a terrorist." Mohsen Mojtahed Shabestari proclaimed: "The death of that man is a religious duty, but his case should not be tied to the Christian community." Shabestari is a spokesman for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The Turkish Daily News published an article in 1997 on best-selling "fatwa books" among Muslims, which spell out the rules for a variety of every day issues. The article is excerpted below:
On board games:
To play backgammon is not right.The Prophet said: "The man who plays backgammon is as if he had painted his hands with pig's meat and blood." (Halil Gunenc, Fatwas on Contemporary Problems, Ilim Publishers, 1983.)
On the arts:
"On the day of Judgement, those who painted pictures will be asked to give life to their paintings. Angels keep away from the house in which there are paintings, Muhammad said. To paint the pictures of live beings is to imitate God's creativity. Only to paint pictures of trees and camel's packsaddles are allowed." (Halil Gunenc,Fatwas on Contemporary Problems, Ilim Publishers, 1983.)
On looking at young ladies:
"When a woman attracts the attention of your eyes, do not look at her a second time. The first look, is not a sin," said Muhammad. (Mehmet Paksoy, Special Fatwas on Family Life, Yeni Asya Publishers, 1996)
On erotic pictures:
Because the indecent pictures in newspapers and magazines, and the indecent scenes on television are not real but imaginary, looking at them is not comparable to looking at the real body of a woman. Therefore, it is not a sin to look at them. (Mehmet Paksoy, Special Fatwas on Family Life, Yeni Asya Publishers, 1996.)
On masturbation:
For Hanefi, Safi'i and Maliki sects, masturbation is a sin.For Safi'i and Maliki sects, though, wives' masturbation is not a sin, on the condition that she does it with her hand.For Hanbeli sect, if there is a fear of adultery and if it is done in order to avoid committing adultery, masturbation is allowed. (Dr. Faruk Beser, Special Fatwas for Women, Nun Publishers, 1996)
On man's sexual intercourse with another man:
The sexual intercourse of a man with another man is one of the heaviest of the sins. If this murderous act is spread in a country, that country will be subjected to God's wrath. The legal punishment of male homosexuality should be worse than adultery. (Mehmet Paksoy, Special Fatwas on Family Life, Yeni Asya Publishers, 1996.)
On the parts of body not to be seen:
The private parts of a man is between the belly and knees, and those of a woman are all parts of the body, apart from the hands, feet and face. It is illicit to uncover privates and look at these parts. However, a man can look at the chest, arms and thighs of his wife. Neither a man or a woman should look at his or her partner's sexual organ. (Dr. Faruk Beser, Special Fatwas for Women, 2 volumes, Nun Publishers, 1996)
On Jinns:
It is blasphemous to deny jinns' existence, since they are mentioned in Qu`ran. The Prophet Muhammad spoke to jinns. In pagan times, some perverts denied jinns' existence as their inheritors do in modern times.The denial of jinns' existence originates from the denial of the basis of Islam. (Halil Gunenc, Fatwas on Contemporary Problems, Ilim Publishers, 1983.)
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Online videos shows children training for jihad; young son of Osama bin Laden reads statement
By J.M. Berger
INTELWIRE.com
INTELWIRE has uncovered a video of young boys training in jihad techniques. The video includes a statement read in Arabic by a young son of Osama bin Laden, according to a terrorism investigator.
The video was hosted on an Arabic-language Web site connected to Tawhid Wal Jihad, the terror organization led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
The video, titled "Hamza Laden," appears to show young boys between the ages of 10 and 14 engaged in commando training, including marching in formation, running a military-style obstacle course, rappelling and reading written statements in Arabic.
The training scenes appear to be closely modeled on a video of adults in commando traning that was included in the collection of images. The two videos may have been filmed in the same location, and several shots from the video of adult trainees appear to have been specifically recreated for the scenes that appear to feature children.
According to Neil Doyle, author of Terror Tracker, the child reading a statement in Arabic is one of Osama bin Laden's sons. The date the clip was filmed is unknown. The child is featured prominently in several other jihadi propaganda videos, in what is possibly the same clip recycled.
The quality of the video is extremely poor, but there are several discernable shots of young, beardless males. Viewers may evaluate the video themselves. The "Hamza Laden" video may be downloaded as a zip file (which expands to play in Real Media format) by clicking here.
Although INTELWIRE has scanned the file for viruses, download the file at your own risk. If mirroring or reposting the clip, please credit INTELWIRE as the source.
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U.S.-Based Al Qaeda Websites Operate Freely; Shocking Pix!
Jeremy Reynalds, July 22, 2004, MensNewsDaily.com
Continuing to use a confusing maze of false addresses and telephone numbers to avoid detection, a web site operator who apparently wants to make people believe he's based in Seattle and California is helping Al Qaeda and other terror groups get their message of terror out to millions.
The Internet Service provider is HostingAnime. Spot checks find the company is hosting new terror sites daily.
One of the latest is www.hostinganime.com/seer/ – home to this shocking picture.
Another Hosting Anime site is www.hostinganime.com/haramin/index.htm, home to the terrorist Saudi Arabian Al Haramain Brigades. There a link is provided (https://k1mrm.notlong.com and https://k2mrm.notlong.com – also at www.abualbukhary.net) to access video interviews of the attackers who blew up the police building in Saudi Arabia on April 21 2004.
This threatening image is displayed at www.hostinganime.com/qaedoon/index.htm
Hosting Anime appears to run with impunity from at least one branch of the FBI. An agent from the Phoenix FBI recently told a reporter that the Internet Service provider was not suspected of being involved with terrorism, and that investigative efforts toward that end were going down the wrong road.
A few weeks ago the agent ominously said that it would not be a good idea for a reporter to look for additional information about the operators of Hosting Anime.
He added, "You could end up helping people you don't want to help. You may already have." The agent refused to clarify what he meant by the statement.
However, an agent from the Seattle FBI said the bureau would look into the situation.
According to its current Internet registration, the contact information for Hosting Anime is listed as 8939 S. Sepulveda Blvd. in Westchester, CA 90045. However, the building manager for that address said that Hosting Anime is not located at this address.
That is also the same location as the one used by www.namecheap.com, an Internet name registration service operated by Richard Kirkendall. That service buys its ability to operate from the Bellevue, WA-based www.enom.com. An employee from that company asked that communications be directed to the abuse department of the organization.
Reached by telephone a few weeks ago, Kirkendall's mother Irma Hernandez said her son lives part of the year in France and could only be reached by e-mail, but she explained the location situation by saying that the Sepulveda address is a mail drop she rented for her son's business.
Hosting Anime's "Mike Smith" supposedly lives in Seattle Washington. However, a phone number listed for Smith was for Seattle's Wharfside Pointe Apartments. The apartment manager said she didn't know anyone called Mike Smith.
During the last few months, Smith has also provided other addresses and contact telephone numbers for his registrant site contact (which in addition to Hosting Anime include among others www.darkfiles.net and www.onefreehost.com). A call to one Seattle number listed was answered by an woman who said she knew nothing about terror and was a very peaceful citizen.
However, an individual speaking on condition of anonymity who called a reporter soon after may have shed some light on the puzzle. He said his teenage son, who has been in trouble before, may have been somehow involved as the telephone number given was for the boy's grandmother and the address given was for his (the father's) home.
The source said, "I'm shocked for both me and my mother. I don't know what's going on. I really don't have any idea but my son plays around with computers a lot."
Due to personal reasons, the individual said he was initially unable to contact his son to find out for sure whether or not he was responsible. However, he later called a reporter and said he had been told indirectly that his son was cooperating with the FBI.
When the father's apparent concern about his son was expressed to the Phoenix FBI agent, the same individual told a reporter that the father wasn't concerned at all. The agent refused to elaborate and a call to the individual who made the statement was not returned.
In addition to the threats of upcoming terrorism and increasing use of Hosting Anime by radical Islamic groups, two beheadings of innocent victims by Islamic militants have been shown on the free web site pages of www.hostinganime.com.
Citing free speech (and now backed up by a court victory in another case), the operators of Hosting Anime continue to make available at www.hostinganime.com/iraqnews1/index.html the gruesome beheading video and still pictures of 33-year-old South Korean translator Kim Sun-Il.
Hosting Anime also hosts a number of other terror related sites. They include: www.hostinganime.com/gim/GIMfaroq.htm, www.hostinganime.com/neda2/page/new.htm,
www.hostinganime.com/neda3/sout/index.htm and www.hostinganime.com/meshawir/aljhad.html
Pictures of engineer Paul Johnson after he was beheaded are still prominently displayed on www.hostinganime.com/neda3/sout/index.htm, and www.hostinganime.com/neda2/page/new.htm is a web site with the same design and graphics as an al Qaeda site formerly known as www.alneda.com.
Commenting on the company's hosting of these sites, a Hosting Anime company official commented on a company forum site; https://forums.hostinganime.com/viewtopic.php?t=176 In that forum, Hosting Anime was asked on June 18,
"Did you know your services are being used as the official web page for the group that beheaded the American in Saudi? I would hope your company is smart to remove this site from your database."
A Hosting Anime official initially thanked the individual for bringing fact that to his attention. However, when the site remained on line, another letter was written to Hosting Anime, (sic)
"This is ... pathetic. Delete it already. Block the freaking IP address. QUIT ALLOWING TERRORIST WEBSITES TO BE HOSTED ON YOUR SYSTEM FOR DAYS BEFORE YOU GET RID OF THEM. Block this IP, find all other ones, block them. You are American? Quit letting them spread their message unless you agree with what they do."
He received a shocking response (https://forums.hostinganime.com/viewtopic.php?t=176) from Hosting Anime.
"We will look into this manner when we have time, this is a free hosting company, and there are no profits being made, so that we can afford to sit and review all emails/abuse reports as this takes a large amount of time. Please give us time to get that done, in the mean time, please take the first amendment into consideration, free speech, just because you don't like the content of a site does that mean it should be shutdown?
"An email sent to me this morning I think is worth posting on the subject:
"‘Hey, screw those people that didn't like the site. They didn't have to go there to begin with, and whoever accused you of supporting terrorism has totally lost it. What about us who want to know why these people think the way they do and act the way they do ??? It's about communicating and I think it SUCKS that you cave to a few that would rather just throw a blanket over their head's and hope when they lift it off themselves, everything will be just fine. It makes me SICK !!'
"As stated, we will take a look into this site and see what can be done in good time."
In response to a further complaint, the Hosting Anime System Administrator wrote, (https://forums.hostinganime.com/viewtopic.php?t=176),
"Thank you for your additional comments on this matter, nothing can be done at this time, we will review the site and decide what is best.
"If you have looked at some of our users web pages, you will see that there are no banners/pop ups on our users pages, that means no income. If you don't want me to use that excuse, what excuse would you like to hear? It's either I lie to you or tell you the truth, I have told you the truth, if you don't accept that, feel free to imagine whatever you would like."
Hosting Anime appears to host its terror sites by renting space on the servers of the Houston based Everyone's Internet, which has hosted sites in the past for groups such as the Hamas.
Everyone's Internet did not return a number of e-mails seeking comment but did generate an automated response which read in part,
"We have received your report of possible abuse of our network resources. The current number of notifications that require investigations limits the number of personal responses from the staff to senders and this might be the only response you receive regarding your notification; however, we do investigate each report."
In addition, when asked recently if EV1 administration would respond to an e-mail seeking answers about the company's continued relationship with Hosting Anime, a receptionist said,
"If they're interested they will contact you. All we say is that they're unavailable and we can take a message."
Jeremy Reynalds
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Can anyone get us more info on HostingAnime.com? Something really strange is going on...
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This is the list of terrorist organisations who are forbidden in the European Union.
DEN HAAG/BRUSSEL -
1. Abu Nidal Organisation (ANO), (alias Fatah Revolutionaire Raad, Arabische Revolutionaire Brigades, Zwarte September en Revolutionaire Organisatie van Socialistische Moslims)
2. Al-Aqsa Martelarenbrigades
3. Al-Takfir en al-Hijra
4. Nuclei Territoriali Antimperialisti (Anti-imperialistische territoriale eenheden)
5. Cooperativa Artigiana Fuoco ed Affini - Occasionalmente Spettacolare (Occasioneel spectaculaire artisinale Coöperatie Vuur en dergelijke)
6. Nuclei Armati per il Comunismo (Gewapende eenheden voor het communisme)
7. Aum Shinrikyo (alias AUM; alias Aum Hoogste Waarheid, alias Aleph)
8. Babbar Khalsa
9. CCCCC - Cellula Contro Capitale, Carcere i suoi Carcerieri e le sue Celle (Cel tegen kapitaal, gevangenissen, cipiers en gevangeniscellen)
10. Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA)
11. Euskadi Ta Askatasuna/Tierra Vasca y Libertad/Baskenland en Vrijheid (E.T.A.) (De volgende organisaties maken deel uit van de terroristische groep E.T.A.: K.a.s., Xaki; Ekin, Jarrai-Haika-Segi, Gestoras pro-amnistìa, Askatasuna, Batasuna (alias Herri Batasuna, alias Euskal Herritarrok)
12. Gama a al-Islamiyya (Islamitische Groep), (alias Al-Gama a al-Islamiyya, IG)
13. Great Islamic Eastern Warriors Front (IBDA-C)
14. Grupos de Resistencia Antifascista Primero de Octubre/Antifascistische Verzetsgroepen Een Oktober (G.R.A.P.O.)
15. Hamas (inbegrepen Hamas-Izz al-Din al-Qassem)
16. Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development
17. International Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF)
18. Solidarietà Internazionale (Internationale solidariteit)
19. Kahane Chai (Kach)
20. Koerdische Arbeiderspartij (PKK), (alias KADEK; alias KONGRA-GEL)
21. Lashkar e Tayyaba (LET)/Pashan-e-Ahle Hadis
22. Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF)
23. Mujahedeen-e Khalq Organisatie (MEK of MKO) (min de Nationale Raad van verzet van Iran (NCRI)) (alias het Nationaal Bevrijdingsleger van Iran (NLA, de militante tak van MEK), Volksmujahedeen van Iran (PMOI), Iraanse Islamitische Studentenassociatie)
24. Ejército de Liberación Nacional (Nationaal Bevrijdingsleger)
25. New Peoples Army (NPA), Filipijnen, onderhoudt banden met Sison Jose Maria C. (alias Armando Liwanag, alias Joma, hoofd van de NPA)
26. Orange Volunteers (OV)
27. Palestinian Liberation Front (PLF) (Palestijns Bevrijdingsfront)
28. Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) (Palestijnse Islamitische Jihad)
29. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestina (PFLP) (Volksfront voor de bevrijding van Palestina)
30. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (alias PFLP-General Command, PFLP-GC) (Volksfront voor de bevrijding van Palestina-Algemeen Commando)
31. Real IRA
32. Brigate Rosse per la Costruzione del Partito Comunista Combattente (Rode Brigades voor de opbouw van de strijdende communistische partij)
33. Red Hand Defenders (RHD)
34. Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) (Revolutionaire Gewapende Krachten van Colombia)
35. Revolutionary Nuclei/Epanastatiki Pirines (Revolutionaire Kernen)
36. Revolutionary Organisation 17 November/Dekati Evdomi Noemvri (Revolutionaire Organisatie 17 november)
37. Revolutionair Volksbevrijdingsleger/front/partij (DHKP/C), (alias Devrimci Sol (Revolutionair Links), Dev Sol)
38. Revolutionary Popular Struggle/Epanastatikos Laikos Agonas (ELA) (Revolutionaire Volksstrijd)
39. Sendero Luminoso (SL) (Lichtend Pad)
40. Stichting Al Aqsa (alias Stichting Al Aqsa Nederland, alias Al Aqsa Nederland)
41. Brigata XX Luglio (Brigade van de twintigste juli)
42. Ulster Defence Association/Ulster Freedom Fighters (UDA/UFF)
43. Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC) (Verenigde Zelfverdedigingsgroepen van Colombia)
44. Nucleo di Iniziativa Proletaria Rivoluzionaria (Eenheid van het revolutionaire proletarische initiatief)
45. Nuclei di Iniziativa Proletaria (Eenheden van het proletarische initiatief)
46. F.A.I. - Federazione Anarchica Informale (Informele anarchistische federatie).
Gij zult geen landverraad plegen!
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Wat een hoop onzin (en dan bedoel ik NIET degene die dit geplaatst heeft en hebben bewerkt).
WAMY, kijk ik scheel?
World Assembly Moslem Youth van Abdullah Bin Laden uit Virginia nabij Washington DC; HET militair industrieel complex van de USA?
Deed de wapenhandel voor de CIA naar Bosnie, "opgemerkt door de Dutch Intelligence"
Bleef geld inzamelen en wapens doen en de CIA en FBI kregen een persoonlijk verbod van Bush om onderzoeken naar gelden van de Bin Laden familie te doen, daar dit zijn zakenvrienden waren.
Kennelijk ook nu nog..!
Neem daarbij dat de eerste kaper sinds 1985 woonachtig was rond Tucson Arizona en volgens de Moskee alle medewerking moest krijgen VAN DE CIA die hem als FREEDOM FIGHTER beschouwde.
Ondertussen werd daar wel de Mullah vermoord en vervangen door een Wahabist; eentje van het type dat de Saoudische heersers het liefst zagen.
CIA-sect-operations...
Later ontmoette die Mohammed Atta in Duitsland, geholpen door het Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft, enzovoorts.
Kopieer het hier maar, want eerder was dit stuk totaal onvindbaar en bleek pas sinds kort weer teruggevonden te worden door de zoekmachines (met dank voor de vraag waar dat in vredesnaam te vinden was door Robbie):
Nederlandse 9-11 getuige gedeporteerd uit USA
https://www.indymedia.nl/nl/2004/04/18188.shtml
Nederlandse 9-11 getuige gedeporteerd uit USA
World Wide Watch - 11.04.2004 21:42
Hopsicker: Fed/Gov Deporting Key 911 Witnesses I.N.S. Deporting 'Magic Dutch Boy' Rudi Dekkers. "The I.N.S. is acting to place the prime suspect in a wider-ranging 9/11 conspiracy investigation out of the reach of the Independent Investigation."
https://www.federalobserver.com/archive.php?aid=4724
De Nederlander Rudi Dekkers, bekend met wat vliegtuigkapers van die vliegschool, wordt Amerika uitgewezen.
Volgens de schrijver om zodoende het komende onderzoek en hearings te ondermijnen.
Zie verder artikel met veel info.
aanvullingen
11.04.2004 21:53
Oeps...
Artikel lijkt iets te suggereren in de richting van:
It where the Evil Dutch Worldwide conpirors...
11.04.2004 22:04
https://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/031403_dekkers.html
"
Feb. 17, 2003 - Mohamed Atta was twice seen with flight school owner Rudi Dekkers in Venice, FL. during the final month before he crashed American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, directly contradicting Dekker's account of his relationship with the terrorist ringleader. ..."
Meer connectie 9-11 met NL -high society
11.04.2004 22:20
RUDI DEKKERS DITCHES HELICOPTER IN WATER OFF FORT MYERS, FL. Is someone trying to kill the Magic Dutch Boys?
https://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0301/S00139.htm
Jackson Stephens active in Venice, FL
www.onlinejournal.com/archive/11-25-01_Hopsicker-printable.pdf+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8" target="_blank">https://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:xLBF6tK-jzsJ:www.onlinejournal.com/archive/11-25-01_Hopsicker-printable.pdf+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
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Jackson Stephens, a name often linked with America’s super-secret National Security Agency, has been an influential presence for several decades in the tiny town that served as port of entry into U.S. flight and even military training for the terrorist cadre implicated in the Sept 11 attacks..."
+ veel meer info over de vuile spelletjes van J.S. en met welke personen hij in het verleden samenzweerde.
(dit bericht kon ik slechts via de cache van Google bereiken)
"...
Most notably, Jackson Stephens has already been named in one intelligence-related aviation scandal: the gun-running and cocaine smuggling at Mena, Arkansas, during the 1980s that was behind Iran-Contra and Whitewater.
..."
BINGO!
Daar was Clinton gouverneur = Rhodes Scholar society = British connection; Rothschild, Britse Koningshuis, Pamela Harriman, Wesley Clark, Holbrooke, George Soros EN BEATRIX EN BERNHARD.
Wie achterhaalt eventjes de Curriculum Vitae en levensloop van deze Rudi Dekkers? Ik heb zo'n vermoeden...
CIA & Pakistaanse dienst ISI betrokken
11.04.2004 22:38
https://www.libertythink.com/2003_02_16_archives.html
"from the Chicago Tribune
HAMBURG, Germany - (KRT) - Nearly two years before the Sept. 11 hijackings, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency began persistent efforts to recruit as an informer a Syrian-born Hamburg businessman with links to al-Qaida and the key hijackers, the Chicago Tribune has learned.
..."
https://indymedia.nl/nl/2002/11/7540.shtml
Jabber - 24.11.2002 18:43
"...
- De $100.000, die aan de groep rond Mohammed Atta, voor verblijf en de vliegtrainingen, is overgemaakt vanuit Pakistan. De Pakistaanse inlichtingendienst ISI is hier bij betrokken. Er bestaan al jarenlang, innige banden van Pakistaanse leger en inlichtingen diensten met de Verenigde Staten. Er zijn mensen die beweren dat David Pearl, de journalist, is vermoord, omdat hij op het spoor van de bron van de bewuste $100.000 was gekomen. Uit zijn laatste artikelen blijkt inderdaad dat hij, in Pakistan, 11 september gerelateerde financiele bronnen natrok.
- Volgens de Duitse inlichtingendienst, werden Atta en co. al twee jaar voor de 11 september aanslagen, in Duitsland, geschaduwd door CIA en Mossad. De hierbij betrokken Mossad agenten zijn uitgewezen. Volgens de officiële lezing, zouden deze inlichtingendiensten Atta en co, zodra ze naar de VS verhuisden, uit het oog zijn verloren. Vreemd..
- Huffman Aviation, de vliegschool/onderhoudsbedrijf van o.a. de (oud?) Nederlander Rudi Dekkers, maakte in de periode voor 11 september gericht reclame in Duitsland. Rudi Dekkers beweerde, al vlak na 11 september, dat de door hem getrainde vligers, w.o. Atta, geen nattur talenten waren, en dat hij het onwaarschijnlijkk achtte dat in de korte periode, die resteerde voor 11 september, genoeg ervaring konden opdoen om op 11 september complexe manouvres uit te kunnen voeren. Bij het tweede bedrijf, waar weinig over bekend is, zouden de kapers, in peperdure Boeing simulatoren, verdere training hebben gehad. Rudi Dekkers, zegt dat het bewuste bedrijf geen vlieglicenties mag afgeven, en daarom moeilijk zijn apparatuur op normale wijze zou kunnen benutten.
- Er zijn een aantal gegevens, die met het officiële verhaal tegenstrijdig lijken, zoals de door, o.a. zijn Duitse professoren geclaimde zachtmoedige aard van Atta. Het ongeloof van zijn ouders etc. passen makkelijk in het alternatieve verhaal. Ook zijn er beweringen dat Atta regelmatig alcohol en zelfs cocaine zou hebben gebruikt en een Amerikaanse vriendin had met paars haar! Deze beweringen lijken tegenstrijdig met Islamitisch fundamentalistische karakter, die hij in Al Qaeda verband zou moeten hebben gehad.
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Politieuitje Rudi Dekkers?
11.04.2004 22:45
https://www.polizei-dertag.de/website_2001/pol_gaestebuch/guestbook.html
Danke Gerhard Auringer der Flensburger WasserschutzPolizei für den Tip auf diese hochinteressante Website. Auf alle Fälle viel Vergnügen an diesem Tage, und hoffentlich Mal gutes Wetter. Vielleicht schaue ich noch rein bei euch.
Alles gute
Rudi
Rudi Dekkers
Zeven, NiSa DE - 28.09.2001 um 09:34:15 (CEST)
Met een politieauto (Volkswagen Polo) kwamen wij op verzoek van de International Police Association naar Flensburg.
Een perfect programma werd ons geboden en DER TAG was inderdaad een dag die wij niet snel zullen vergeten.
Bedankt en tot volgende jaar.
Rienk Halma (National polizei Nederland)
George Medendorp (Region polizei Groningen - Nederland)
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Hmmm, een politieuitje van de Nederlandse politie in Duitsland.
Zou dit dezelfde Rudi Dekkers zijn?
11.04.2004 22:47
Rudi Dekkers
Zeven, NiSa DE - 28.09.2001 um 09:34:15 (CEST)
Meer contacten Nederland
11.04.2004 22:56
https://krant.telegraaf.nl/krant/archief/20020523/teksten/bin.alshehhi.amerikaanse.html
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Zelfmoordpiloot Marwan Alshehhi, die op 11 september het tweede toestel bestuurde dat het World Trade Center in New York verwoestte, blijkt in het voorjaar van 2001 in Nederland te zijn geweest.
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Marwan Alshehhi (23) vertrok op 18 april vorig jaar van de internationale luchthaven in Miami naar Amsterdam. De terrorist keerde op 2 mei terug in Miami op een vlucht uit onze hoofdstad. Alshehhi verbleef samen met Mohammed Atta, de vermeende aanvoerder van de kapers, in Florida ter voorbereiding van de aanslagen. Het duo volgde in de zomer van 2000 vlieglessen bij de door Nederlander Rudi Dekkers geleide vliegschool Huffman Aviation in Venice, Florida.
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Acoord Rudi Dekkers met NL inlichtingendienst
11.04.2004 23:11
https://www.indymedia.nl/nl/2003/01/8790.shtml
met de volgende belangrijke reactie:
spin in een fraude web
_ - 26.02.2004 19:24
Vliegleraar kapers ontdook belastingen
https://oud.refdag.nl/bui/011004bui09.html
Ruud a.k.a. Rudi Dekkers hield zich voor zijn vertrek naar de Verenigde Staten bezig met fraude praktijken. D.m.v. o.a. de BTW-carrousel-methode en andere oplichtings praktijken stal hij 7 miljoen gulden en sluisde deze door naar de Verenigde Staten.
Volgens, de advocaten van de gedupeerden, wordt normaal gesproken beslag gelegd op bezittingen van misdadigers in de V.S.. De Nederlandse overheid werkt in deze zaak echter niet mee.
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Zie artikel:
Het lijkt erop dat hij het op een accoordje heeft gegooid met een Nederlandse geheime dienst (c.q. vadertje Bernhard) die geregeld heeft dat er geen beslag op de verduisterde gelden zou worden gelegd.
Dat zijn standaard werkmethodes van 'diensten': jij bent fout geweest, dus aan jou de keuze; of je werkt voor ons, of je wordt hard aangepakt voor wat je gedaan hebt.
11.04.2004 23:23
'Rudi' is eigenlijk Ruud Dekkers.
Voordat hij naar de V.S. vertrok is hij veroordeeld voor oplichting en belastingfraude.
https://oud.refdag.nl/bui/011004bui09.html
Veel meer info Rudi Dekkers
11.04.2004 23:28
https://www.spitfirelist.com/f405.html
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involvement of elements of the Rudi Dekkers flying school to drug trafficking
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17. The article stresses the structural similarity of Atta’s German associates with the background of Andreas Strassmeir, alleged mastermind of the Oklahoma City bombing and associate of Timothy McVeigh. “ . . . Strassmeir’s father was once a top aide to German Chancellor Helmut Kohl; Atta’s German friends are all children of the German elite. But before delving further into Atta’s German connections, there were two other related developments in Florida last week. In the first, the former owner of the terror flight school in Venice, FL., Rudi Dekkers, was arrested last week on a single count of felony fraud, and booked into the Collier County jail in Naples, FL.? (Ibid.; p. 2.)
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19. Is someone working to silence Dekkers and Kruithof? “ . . . Then, too Dekker’s helicopter crashed recently, while he was en route to a showdown meeting with partner Wally Hilliard over control of Huffman Aviation. In another freak coincidence, owner of the second Dutch-owned flight school at the Venice Airport, Arne Kruithof, also suffered a near-fatal aviation mishap last summer when his plane fell from a hundred feet in the air onto the runway of the Venice Airport. It appears as if both would be well-advised to stay away from open windows.? (Ibid.; pp. 2-3.)
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26. One of the activities that may have been undertaken by the milieu of the “Flying Dutchmen? was drug-trafficking. “In point of fact, the revelation of the four additional terror suspects brings the current total of 9/11 cadre terrorists known to have been enrolled at flight schools owned by Dutch nationals Rudi Dekkers and Arne Kruithof to eight. Rudi Dekkers’ figure alone stands at five . . . and counting. Hilliard [Dekkers’ partner] was asked about his business associations with persons of dubious repute, like Rudi Dekkers. One of Hilliard’s prized Lear jets was confiscated from him by the DEA after having been found with 43 pounds of heroin aboard.? (“Four More 9/11 Terrorists Linked to Rudi Dekker’s Flight School? by Daniel Hopsicker; 2/5/2003; p. 2; accessed at his important website www.madcowprod.com .)
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Rudi Dekkers - Bernhard
11.04.2004 23:35
Venice, Florida black-ops air base:
a key to high-level satanists behind 9/11
https://www.econcrisis.homestead.com/SFAN_VeniceFLKey911Satanists.html
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The latest evidence that its connections to 9/11 are being covered up at the highest levels, is that Rudi Dekkers, the owner-manager of one of the patsy factories emerged unscathed from an uninvestigated plane crash after 9/11, is being deported to the Netherlands. This country, which along with England and other countries in the region, became the "Venice of the north" when new shipping routes were discovered and the original Venice lost its strategic significance, was ruled after WWII by Prince Bernhard, a "former" member of the Nazi SS. According to The Nazi Roots of the House of Windsor [3], Bernhard signed his letter of resignation to Adolf Hitler, "Heil Hitler!''
..."
meer info Arne Kruithof en Rudi Dekkers
12.04.2004 00:04
https://www.madcowprod.com/issue24.html
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Kruithof is expected to testify at Congressional Hearings at some point both about his relationship with Rudi Dekkers--the other Dutch national flight school owner at the Venice Airport--and partner Pascal Schreier, a German national living in Munich.
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Pascal Schreier?
"...
Their company, Aviation Aspirations, (Kruithof is VP) provides both financial assistance and a "Mentor Programme."
Schreier recruited students in, among other places, Hamburg. The company's motto, somewhat ironically, is: "Better training because we care."
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Florida Flight Training Center
https://www.fftc.info/employees.asp
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Widersprüche zum 11. September
Unanswered Questions – Demanding Answers
https://www.hintergrund.de/wichtige-zeugen.html
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6. To Rudi Dekkers and Arne Kruithof, manager-owners of flight schools in Venice, Florida where the alleged 9/11 pilots Atta, Alshehhi and Jarrah trained starting in the summer of 2000 (or earlier):
Were the two of you, who purchased your flight schools less than a year before the terrorists arrived, operating as cut-outs for a clandestine operation? NOTE: In July 2000, the same month that the terrorists are said to have arrived, the real owner of Dekkers's Huffman Aviation, Wally Hilliard, had one of his planes (on a regular flight) impounded with 42 kilos of heroin on board.
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https://www.freedomdomain.com/Templemount/10_19a.html
"...
"Rudi’s greedy, and when you’re greedy you can be used for something," a Special Operations Commando leader from the nearby McDill Air Force Base told us.
"I've always had some suspicions about the way he breezed into town out of nowhere," said one observer at the Venice Airport. "Just too many odd little things. For example, he has absolutely no aviation background as far as anyone can tell. And he evidently had no use for, nor knowledge of, FAA rules and regs."
..."
Zie verder het artikel.
Kapers 9-11 opzet NL-dienst &DL-Aristocratie?
Verat+Berat/Be Rhad=Bernhard - 12.04.2004 16:48
STRANGER THAN FICTION
AN INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION OF 9-11 AND THE WAR ON TERRORISM
https://www.refuse-resist.com/content/wtc/STRANGER%20THAN%20FICTION%20-%20AN%20INDEPENDENT%20INVESTIGATION%20OF%209-11.php
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LEFT: BIN LADEN: " I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ATTACKS."
RIGHT: NETANYAHU: "ATTACKS ARE GOOD FOR US-ISRAEL RELATIONS."
WHO WAS REALLY FLYING THOSE PLANES ON 9-11?
Hours after the 9-11 attacks, authorities began to find clues conveniently left for them to stumble upon. The Boston Globe reported that a copy of the Koran, instructions on how to fly a commercial airplane and a fuel consumption calculator were found in a pair of bags meant for one of the hijacked flights that left from Logan.
Authorities also received a "tip" about a suspicious white car left behind at Boston's Logan Airport. An Arabic-language flight training manual was found inside the car.
How fortunate for investigators that the hijackers "forgot" to take their Koran and Arab flight manuals with them! Within a few days, all "19 hijackers" were "identified" and their faces were plastered all over our television screens.
Then, like a script from a corny "B" spy movie, the official story gets even more ridiculous. The passport of the supposed "ringleader" Mohammed Atta, somehow managed to survive the explosion, inferno, and smoldering collapse to be oh-so-conveniently "found" just a few blocks away from the World Trade Center!
It is obvious that this "evidence" was planted by individuals wishing to direct the blame towards Osama Bin Laden. How is it possible that Arab students who had never flown an airplane could take a simulator course and then fly jumbo jets with the skill and precision of "top-gun" pilots? It is not possible and the fact is, the true identities of the 9-11 hijackers remains a mystery. In the days following the disclosure of the "hijackers" names and faces, no less than 7 of the Arab individuals named came forward to protest their obvious innocence.
That's right! Seven of the nineteen "hijackers" are alive and well. They were victims of identity theft, some of whom had had their passports stolen. They were interviewed by several news organizations including the Telegraph of England. Here’s an excerpt from David Harrison’s Telegraph story entitled:
Revealed: The Men With Stolen Identities:
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Zo!
En veel sporen gaan dus naar Nederland en Duitsland.
1)
Elders in deze thread worden de mogelijke kapers in verband gebracht met de Duitse Aristocratie, familie of zo.
Zullen we dan maar op dat spoor verdergaan?
2)
Het andere spoor is dat een of andere geheime dienst binnen de Nederlandse overheid er voor gezorgd heeft dat: De fraudeurs van die Nederlands terroristische drugshandel en witwas 'vlieg'school in Florida niet vervolgd worden en er geen beslag op die verduisterde 7 miljoen gelegd wordt.
3) Is er misschien heel toevallig een overlap tussen punt 1 en 2? M.a.w.: een geheime dienst die met Duitse Aristocratie en/of high society in verbinding staat, binnen de NLse overheid daartoe bezig is geweest?
Prins Bernhard bijvoorbeeld?
Uiteraard alleen als een spil in het web van o.a. Bilderberg, CIA, NSA, Mosad, Windsor, etc.
Voor wie zich nog niet in deze materie verdiept heeft, wellicht ongeloofwaardig, daarom de volgende toelichting: Bernhard wordt door vele mensen die in verband met inlichtingendiensten staan, nationaal en internationaal, genoemd als respectiefelijk "de machtigste man van Nederland" en "he is internationally a very powerfull man".
gerelateerd artikel met Duitse connecties
Ali Bin Fabel - 12.04.2004 17:03
Waarom aanslagen 9-11 een opzetje waren:
Fabel Ali Bin Laden
https://www.indymedia.nl/nl/2004/04/18116.shtml
Met veel discussie over Duitse (hogere) connecties.
DE connecties met o.a. Duitse elite
Saod Arab - 13.04.2004 00:48
O.K. dan; ik herhaal dan maar even deze zinsnede van eerder in dit verhaal:
"...The article stresses the structural similarity of Atta’s German associates with the background of Andreas Strassmeir, alleged mastermind of the Oklahoma City bombing and associate of Timothy McVeigh. “ . . . Strassmeir’s father was once a top aide to German Chancellor Helmut Kohl; Atta’s German friends are all children of the German elite. ..."
Zie voor verder onderzoek met name de andere punten van:
https://www.spitfirelist.com/f405.html
Er wordt naar iets van IBID3 verwezen als bronvermelding van een van de belangrijke stukken, heb deze nog niet kunnen achterhalen voor meer info.
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En dan nog die (familie van Robert?) Mueller die door Kissinger naar de VS is overgehaald om met andere SS-ers de CIA op te zetten:
The Mueller File
https://www.spitfirelist.com/f283.html
Dit sluit perfect aan bij de eerdere verwijzingen naar o.a. Zuid-Amerika:
The Bormann Organization;
link Bush-Hitler, zuid-Amerika enz. enz.:
https://www.spitfirelist.com/f305.html
Waar haalt die man het allemaal vandaan?
Dit verzin je toch niet allemaal bij elkaar?
Zie ENKELE van de overzichtspagina's:
https://spitfirelist.com/ftr.html
13.04.2004 19:21
MOHAMED ATTA WORKED FOR ELITE U.S.—GERMAN
GOVERNMENT EXCHANGE PROGRAM
https://www.madcowprod.com/issue42.html
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For at least four years while living in Hamburg during the 1990’s terrorist ringleader Mohamed Atta was part of a 'joint venture' between the U.S. and German Governments, the MadCowMorningNews has learned, an elite international “exchange? program run by a little-known private organization with close ties to powerful American political figures like David Rockefeller and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
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Moreover Atta’s financial relationship with the U.S.—German government effort may even extend back to his initial move from Egypt to Germany in 1992, after being “recruited? in Cairo by a mysterious German couple dubbed the “hijacker’s sponsors? in a recent news account in the Chicago Tribune.
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News that Mohamed Atta had been on the payroll of the elite international program surfaced in a curious way just a month after the 9/11 attack: a brief seven-line report by German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Oct. 18, 2001, under the headline “ATTA WAS TUTOR FOR SCHOLARSHIP HOLDERS.?
The story quoted spokesmen for “Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft,? described as a “German international further education organisation,? as having admitted paying Hamburg cadre principal Atta as a “scholarship holder? and “tutor,? between 1995 and 1997.
But what makes the story curious is that the German paper concealed the shocking implications of their story, that Mohamed Atta had been on the payroll of a joint U.S.—German government program, through the simple expedient of neglecting to mention that the “Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft? was merely a private entity set up to administer the "exchange" initiative of the two governments.
The U.S. end of the program is run out of an address at United Nations Plaza in New York by CDS International. The letters stand for Carl Duisberg Society, also the name of its German counterpart in Cologne, the Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft. Both are named for Carl Duisberg, a German chemist and industrialist who headed the Bayer Corporation during the 1920’s.
The list of elite power brokers backing CDS International ranges from the aforementioned Kissinger and Rockefeller to former President Bill Clinton and other Democratic heavyweights like former First Lady Hillary Clinton and Clinton White House adviser Ira Magaziner.
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Having big juice in high places may also explain more equally-curious omissions in a second story about Mohamed Atta’s time in Germany, which appeared recently in the March 7,2003 Chicago Tribune, under the headline “9/11 haunts hijacker's sponsors; German couple talks of living with pilot Atta.?
The article describes the 1992 meeting in Cairo between Atta and a German couple running an "international student exchange program," a meeting which the Tribune says led Atta to move to Hamburg.
During a visit to the Egyptian capital in fall 1991, the Tribune reported, the German couple had stayed with friends who knew Atta's father, a Cairo lawyer, and his father's friends had then introduced the German couple to Atta.
...
Why did this German couple running an international exchange program leap at the opportunity to help a young man not considered promising enough to gain entrance to graduate school in Cairo, and offer him a place to live at their house?
..."
13.04.2004 19:35
Dus "Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft" ongeveer opgericht in de tijd van "Thule Gesellschaft" welke de partij van Hitler oprichtte en waarvan de leden op hoge posities zaten.
Even wat rechercheren daarop:
https://www.cdg.de/indexv.htm
"Seit der Gründung der Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft 1949 ..."
Dus ietsje later; de vergelijking met Thule Gesellschaft was in dat jaar kennelijk echter geen belemmering.
Nou ja; gesellschaft is een doodnormaal Duist woord; hoeft niets te betekenen.
Oeps... duidelijke vrijmetselarij, vandaar die naam gesellschaft:
"Training für die Reformen in Mittel und Osteuropa
...
die einst sozialistischen Länder bei ihren wirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Transformationsprozessen zu unterstützen. Schwerpunkte der Trainingskooperationen mit den Reformstaaten sind Rußland, die Ukraine, die EU-Beitrittsländer und die mittelasiatischen Republiken der GUS.
...
Neben den Trainingsmaßnahmen für Fach- und Führungskräfte aus den Reformstaaten Mittel- und Osteuropas bietet die CDG auch Programme an, die Aufenthalte für Deutsche in dieser Region fördern:
Praxissemester im Ausland
Hermann-Strenger-Stiftung
Weiterbildung in besonderen Fachgebieten
Internationaler Fachkräfteaustausch in der beruflichen Bildung (IFKA)
Berufsbildungswissenschaftleraustausch (BBWA)
EU-Studienbesuchsprogramm für Fachleute der Berufsbildung (EUS)
LEONARDO DA VINCI: Programm für Ausbilder und Berufsbildungsexperten
LEONARDO DA VINCI: Austausch von Auszubildenden und jungen Arbeitnehmern
SOKRATES/COMENIUS 1.2:- Das Fremdsprachenprojekt
SOKRATES/COMENIUS2.2.c:Aus -und Weiterbildung des Schulpersonals
SOKRATES/GRUNDTVIG 3: Fortbildung für Beschäftigte in der Erwachsenenbildung
SOKRATES/COMENIUS & GRUNDTVIG - Katalog
..."
Ja en dat Socrates en Leonardo da Vinci heeft hier toevallig niets met vrijmetselarij te maken!
Was het niet Leonardo da Vinci van wie de technieken afkomstig zijn om het lage volk een rad voor de ogen te draaien door high society? Iets van die strekking; wie helpt mij met het excate verhaal?
Wel weer genoeg voor vandaag: vrijmetselarij.
Verder onderzoek volgt.
Carl Duisberg en de vergassing van Joden
13.04.2004 20:38
https://www.mindspring.com/~bayerly/publications/october30,1996bayercorporation.htm
1891 - Bayer buys property near Cologne, on the east bank of the
Rhine. It was formerly the property of a firm, D. C. Leverkus
& Sons. Later to become Leverkusen when a massive new and
state-of-the art plant is constructed by Carl Duisberg and Bayer.
1904 - Carl Duisberg and Bayer form the Triple Association or
"Dreibund" with B.A.S.F. and Agfa in response to Hoechst and
Casella forming an "Interessengemeinschaft" also known as an
I.G. or a community of interests where Board of Directors seats
are exchanged and companies involved consult with one another
regarding all relevant business.
1926 - I..G Farben formed from Bayer, BASF, Hoechst and 5 other
smaller companies. Carl Duisberg from Bayer is elected chairman
of the I.G. Farben supervisory board, retiring from an active
management role. Carl Bosch from BASF is elected the chairman
of the managing board.
February 20, 1933 - Secret meeting at the home of Hermann
Goering for German industrialists who are concerned about the Communists gaining more power. Georg von Schnitzler, member of the managing board for I.G. Farben announces his support and a pledge of 400,000 DM to the Nazi party for the upcoming March 5 election, the largest single donation to the Nazi Party.
1942-1945 - I.G. Auschwitz in operation as a slave labor facility
for I.G. Farben.
En nu hebben we lieflijke Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft, de zogenaamde "white knights" onder de vrijmetselarij, genoemd naar deze massamoordenaar?????????????????????????????????
Daar zou elke welgemeende 'white knight' toch onmiddelijk voor bednaken, om daarmee geassocieerd te worden?
Bernhard-Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft/IG Farben
Fatwah Oranje - 22.04.2004 04:26
https://www.ritualabuse.net/illuminati.htm
(hierin vind je de green dragon; boot van Beatrix heet de Groene Draak en ligt naast die van Bruinsma; verder zijn de banden met Japanse high society historisch, neem bijv. Hirohito en Oranje)
...
"In Berlin, Haushofer had founded the Luminous Lodge or the Vril Society. The Lodge's objective was to explore the origins of the Aryan race and to perform exercises in concentration to awaken the forces of 'Vril'. Haushofer was a student of the Russian magician and metaphysician Gregor Ivanovich Gurdyev (George Gurdjieff). Both Gurdjeiff and Haushofer maintained that they had contacts with secret Tibetan lodges that possessed the secret of the 'Superman'. The Lodge included Hitler, Aalfred Rosenberg, Himmler, Göring, and Hitler's subsequent personal physician Dr. Morell. It is also known that Aleister
Crowley and Gurdjieff sought contact with Hitler. Hitler's unusual powers of suggestion become more understandable if one keeps in mind that he had access to the 'secret' psychological techniques of the esoteric lodges. Haushofer taught him the techniques of Gurdjieff which, in turn, were based on the teachings of the Sufis and the Tibetan lamas-
and familiarized him with the Zen teaching of the Japanese Society of the Green Dragon."
- Wulf Schwartzwaller, The Unknown Hitler
...
During World War II "most of the concentration camp factories were operated by the giant German chemical combine, I. G. Farben. In fact, one of Farben's subsidiaries manufactured the poison gas used in concentration camp gas chambers. A remarkable book, The Crime and Punishment of I. G. Farben , by Joseph Borkin, documents how the Farben companies, in cooperation with the Nazi SS, ran the concentration camps and adjacent factories as a business enterprise."
...
"Prince Bernhard of the House of Orange in the Netherlands had been a member of the SS before the war, followed by a stint as an employee of I. G. Farben. He then married into the House of Orange and assumed his position as chairman of Shell Oil."
- William Bramley, The Gods of Eden
..."
BINGO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hier hebben we de connectie tussen Carl Duisberg (+Gesellschaft), de oprichter van IG Farben, financier van Hitler en vergasser van de Joden MET PRINS BERNHARD
Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft bracht ook de ringleider Mohammed Atta over!
het artikel gaat nog even verder over Orange:
"...
Three centuries ago, "a powerful group of Englishmen and Scots had formed a Protestant political faction in England known as the Whigs. The Whigs were actually headquartered in Holland which...was under the monarchy of the House of Orange. From their Dutch base, the Whigs launched the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and quickly unseated James II in a bloodless coup. The Whigs then placed James II's son-in-law, William III of Orange, on the British throne. The House of Orange now reigned over both Holland and England, as well as over their original German homeland."
"William II is reported to have been a Freemason. In fact, in 1688, a militant secret society was formed to support William II. It was called the Order of Orange after William II's family, and it patterned itself after Freemasonry. The Orange Order was anti-Catholic and its purpose was to ensure that Protestantism remained the dominant Christian religion of England."
...
In 1949 werden vrijwel gelijktijdig het Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft en de Bilderberg Groep opgericht naar analogie van het Thule Gesellschaft die Hitlers partij oprichtte en waarvan de leden in zijn regering en andere hoge posten zaten.
Bij de Thule Gesellschaft gebeurde dat in hotel Four Seisons (vier seizoenen; solarwheel; swastika).
De Scottisch Masonry zit tegenwoordig in de Four Seisons hotel in Houston.
Bilderberg groiup werd wijselijk geen Gesellschaft genoemd, maar tevens in een hotelketen opgericht, Bilderberg Hotels. En Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft... verder info volgt.
Met deze informatie is er de rechtstreekse link tussen Bernhard en IG Farben, oftewel het Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft. dat ringleider Mohammed Atta overbracht.
Zie bovenstaande info over de Nederlandse betrokkenheid bij de aanslagen van 9-11 en dat het Bernhard is die de machtigste man in Nederland is en de meest waarschijnlijke persoon om via zijn geheime dienst de Nederlandse regering en ministerie af te laten zien van het beslag laten leggen op de 7 miljoen en de vliegtuigschool, waar een frauderende Nederlander, dus met steun van de NL-overheid, de vliegtuigkapers opleidde.
Oranje invasie: Green Dragon operatief in GB
O' Killroy - 22.04.2004 04:47
Iets dat -zeker in samenhang met de Oranje invasie in Engeland kort daarvoor- "Green Dragon" society dichter naar Nederland brengt:
https://64.106.152.60/~admin290/anti-federalist/files/wakeup.txt
"... But in 1752, an 'irregular' lodge, without an
official warrant, was found to be operating at another
tavern, the Green Dragon, renamed Freemasons' Hall in
1764. When the scandalised members of St John's
complained, the 'irregular' lodge duly applied for a
warrant of its own, not from the Grand Lodge of
England, however, but from Grand Lodge of Scotland,
which offered higher degrees. The warrant was not
forthcoming until 1756, [At the outbreak of the "French
and Indian" War, ed.] when British troops and their
regimental field lodges, chartered by both Irish and
Scottish Grand Lodge, began to arrive in America.
..."
Dat komt ook dichtbij de zogenaamde onafhankelijkheid van Amerika, ben het jaar even kwijt.
Toen werd Amerika via een omweg opnieuw afhankelijk gemaakt, doordat de Federal Reserve eigendom is van enkele vrijmetselaar families, waravan sommige sporen via J.P. Morgan naar het Britse Koningshuis lijken te gaan, precieser: naar de vermelde Bank of England, waar Morgan lange tijd werkte cq zijn opleiding kreeg.
Daarover meld het artikel dit:
"...
Although the Stuarts later regained (ever so briefly) the Crown under James II, and once again under Queen Anne (an
even shorter tenure), the Glorious Revolution of 1688,
which put William, Duke of Orange on the throne,
demonstrated that the Dutch (Jewish) banking houses
were securing their influence over the English Crown.
Not surprisingly, the House of Orange were Dutch, and
their investiture coincided with the creation of the
Bank of England in 1694.
..."
nog meer oranje & green dragon
oranje+groen =bruine schijt - 22.04.2004 04:57
Nog meer info; wie kan de link leggen; Hertz, Caroll?
https://www.beyond-the-illusion.com/files/Conspiracy/A-Albionic/pro-cath
Hertz, Solange. Title: The Star-Spangled Heresy
Subtitle: Americanism--How the Catholic Church in America Became the AmericanCatholic Church
"...
In the Spring 1988 Project we review Hertz' The Triumph of the Green Dragon which provided fascinating information on the role of the Carroll (founders of Georgetown University) in the founding of America, especially their compromises with Masonic founders of America. Finally, Hertz has organized his ideas into full length book.
..."
"Book "Philip II"
...
This massive tome explains the crucial Elizabethan period from the point-of-view of the Catholic Emperor of Austria and Spain.
Especially good on the Judeo/Masonic conspiracy and the
ultra-conspiratorial role of Elizabeth I's advisor William Cecil. Also valuable history of the Dutch, Judeo-Masonic-Protestant revolt against Catholic rule that lead to the rise of the House of Orange.
..."
green dragon
groentje - 22.04.2004 05:04
https://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Green%20Dragon
"...to the time of the famous Green Dragon of Atlantis..."
The Green Dragon Tavern - For the Sons of Liberty
https://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/4116/
Moet nu stoppen, shop gaat sluiten; er is nog wat meer te vinden onder "green dragon" met netherlands society en dergelijk zoekwoorden. |
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