OBAMA'S JIHADIS

On 31 March 2011, the Economist has an article entitled "Islam and the Arab revolutions: A golden opportunity?"



From this we learn:



1. The rebels in Libya are people like (A) Sufian bin Qumu, who worked for Osama bin Laden in the Sudan.



(B) Abdel Hakim al-Hisadi, who trained at bin Laden's base in Afghanistan.



2. In the 1980s, Western governments armed and used the jihadis in Afghanistan.



In the mid-1990s they formed the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, to oppose Gaddafi.



3. Egypt and Tunisia have now freed thousands of Islamists.



Libya’s Islamic Fighting Group and Egypt's Jamaat Islamiya both pursued terror campaigns in the 1990s.



The Libyan Islamic Fighting Group has changed its name to the Libyan Islamic Movement, and its 12-member politburo has pledged allegiance to the National Council in Benghazi.



4. There are "disturbing manifestations of the Islamists' rise."



Anwar Mitri is a school administrator in Egypt.



He is a Christian.



On 20 March 2011, Muslim vigilantes in his village arrested him, 'tried' him and lopped off his right ear.



Similar attacks in other parts of Egypt have targeted alcohol stores.



One Moslem was murdered because of alleged apostasy.



A recent rumour that Islamists planned to throw acid at unveiled women led to the evacuation of Christian students from a university dormitory.



In Egypt, Islamic sharia is described as 'the principal source of legislation'.



5. The latest issue of Inspire, the mouthpiece of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), hails the Arab revolutions.



On 28 March 2011, in Yemen, AQAP raided a munitions factory in Yemen.



150 people were killed.



6. Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the 'star preacher' on Al Jazeera, approves of the Western intervention in Libya.



But, he has condemned Bahrain’s democracy activists.



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CIA USING AL QAEDA TO TOPPLE ARAB LEADERS

It looks as if the CIA, and members of the wealthy Arab elite, are using al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood to topple Arab rulers who are out of favour.

On 1 March 2011, in New America Media, Yoichi Shimatsu wrote "Mideast Revolutions and 9-11 Intrigues Created in Qatar."

(Mideast Revolutions and 9-11 intrigues crafted in Qatar. - link from Brian)

According to this article:

The protestors in North Africa and the Middle East are being manipulated by the right-wing Arab elite.

This elite has been backing people like al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood.

"Credible U.S. intelligence reports have cited evidence pointing to Qatar's long-running support for the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda and jihadist fighters returning from Afghanistan."

In Libya, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), which is friends with Al Qaeda, has seized armouries containing high-power explosives, rocket launchers and chemical weapons.

Al Jazeera let slip that the earliest Libyan protests were organized by the LIFG.

150 of Gaddafi's soldiers were reportedly "gunned down by war-hardened returned militants from Iraq and Afghanistan...."

Qatar - home to al Qaeda

According to the 9/11 Commission Report, Qatar's Interior Minister provided a safe haven to 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed during the mid-1990s.

Press reports show other 'terrorists' may have received financial support or safe haven in Qatar after September 11, 2001.

The national security chief, Interior Minister Abdullah bin Khalid al-Thani, is mentioned as paying for a 1995 trip by Khalid Shaikh Mohammed ‘to join the Bosnia jihad.'



On 25 March 2011, at Global Research and at The Asia-Pacific Journal., Peter Dale Scott has an artcle entitled 'Who are the Libyan Freedom Fighters and Their Patrons?'

(Peter Dale Scott, former Canadian diplomat and Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug Connection and the Road to Afghanistan. His website is here.)

According to Peter Dale Scott:

1. Gaddafi has long faced threats to his life from Mossad, the Saudis, MI6, and various Libyan groups trained by the US and Israel.

2. Israel and the US have trained anti-Libyan rebels in a number of African countries, including Chad.

3. In 1985, the US asked Egypt to invade Libya and overthrow Gadafi but President Mubarak refused.

4. The FNSL (National Front for the Salvation of Libya) held its national congress in the USA in July 2007.

5. The LIFG (Libyan Islamic Fighting Group) was founded in 1995 by a group of mujahideen veterans who had fought in Afghanistan.

(Libyan rebel commander, Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi, has admitted that his fighters have al-Qaeda links /Libyan “revolutionaries” aren’t so revolutionary.. )

Al Libi of al Qaeda

MI6 has been accused of supporting LIFG.

LIFG's Abdulwahab Mohammed Kayed is the brother of Abu Yahya Al Libi, one of al Qaeda's top propagandists.

LIFG's failed attempt to assassinate Qadhafi in February 1996 was said to have been financed by MI6.

According to one report, LIFG received up to $50,000 from al Qaeda's leader for each of its militants killed on the battlefield.

6. After the toppling of Mubarak, Egypt's military began shipping arms over the border to Libyan rebels.

There were hundreds of thousands of Egyptian labourers in Libya.

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CIA & AL QAEDA'S PLANS FOR EGYPT

Does the CIA want Egypt to be a strong democracy?

"In the weeks ahead, in Egypt, the CIA may start an assassination campaign against Brotherhood leaders.

"These are tactics the CIA has used in the past in Muslim countries.

"The CIA may try to discredit the new regime, through the assassinations of top government and army officials.

"The CIA may try to create sectarian divisions, by attacking Christian targets.

"The CIA does not want a fair and workable democracy."


What has the USA achieved in Afghanistan? Kabul by nick rain images

On 16 February 2011, in the UK's Financial Times, Ahmed Rashid wrote about al Qaeda's plans for Egypt. (Cairo needs help to avoid al-Qaeda's grip)

When we read about al Qaeda, we should remember that al Qaeda is said to be the CIA, and its friends.

Rashid, of Pakistani origin, was educated at an upper class private school in the UK called Malvern College, and at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.

He has written for a number of establishment publications such as the Wall Street Journal and the Daily Telegraph.

He sticks to the establishment line that al Qaeda is not a tool of the CIA and its friends.

He once tried to organise an uprising against Pakistan's leader Ayub Khan. (Ahmed Rashid - Wikipedia)

According to Rashid in his Financial Times article:

1. Egypt may give al-Qaeda the chance to expand its influence.

2. Al-Qaeda bombed a church just three weeks before the current revolution began.

This was an attempt to create Muslim-Christian tensions, and is similar to what al Qaeda has done in Iraq and Pakistan.

3. Creating anti-Christian (or anti-Shia) hysteria remains a strategy for al-Qaeda.

4. Al-Qaeda No 2, Ayman al'Zawarhiri, once headed Egypt's 'Islamic jihad'.

5. "In the weeks ahead, if instability continues, al-Qaeda will doubtless start an assassination campaign against Brotherhood leaders...

"These are tactics al-Qaeda has used in the past in other Muslim countries.

"Their other aim will be to discredit the new regime, through the assassinations of top government and army officials.

"Creating inter-sectarian divisions in the population, such as attacking Christian targets, is also likely..."

6. Al-Qaeda does not want a fair and workable democracy.

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THE CIA'S USE OF MILITANT MOSLEMS OVER A PERIOD OF 50 YEARS

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For more than fifty years, the CIA and its friends have been employing militant Moslems to do their dirty work.

1. Before World war II, British intelligence used the Moslem Brotherhood against Britain's German rivals in North Africa.

(The British, Muslim Terrorism and September 11)

2. Around 1955, the CIA began to co-operate with the Moslem Brotherhood.

The CIA and MI6 used the Moslem Brotherhood to weaken both Egypt and Syria.

(The British, Muslim Terrorism and September 11)

3. In the 1960s, MI6 supported Islamic guerrillas in Indonesia.

According to The Independent (UK): "Cabinet papers show that British spies, including MI6, supported Islamic guerrillas in order to destabilise Sukarno."

(The Secret State: MI5 (Home Office/MoD), The Security Service and ...)

4. Israel funded the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, in order to divide the Palestinians.

(The British, Muslim Terrorism and September 11)

5. In 1979, the CIA and MI6 used the Moslem Brotherhood to topple the Shah of Iran and install the Ayatollahs.

(The British, Muslim Terrorism and September 11)

6. In 1979 the CIA was building up and arming the militant Moslem Mujahadeen in Afghanistan.

The idea was to lure Russia into Afghanistan.

(CRG -- The CIA's Intervention in Afghanistan)

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7. In 1991, the CIA and NATO used Al Qaeda to break up Yugoslavia.

(Global Research, 8 September 2010, Andrew Gavin Marshall: "The Anglo-American Terror Network")

Yugoslavia was a friend of Russia and was next door to a lot of oil wealth.

Moslems arrived in Bosnia from Afghanistan and other Moslem countries.

Clinton gave the 'green light' to Iran to arm the Bosnian Muslims.

Israel armed the Bosnian Serbs.

The idea was to foment conflict.

The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), which took control of the Balkan heroin trafficking routes, fought the Serbs.

The KLA, which had links to bin Laden, was trained and armed by the USA.

8. The CIA and its friends employed Moslem militants to create trouble for Russia in its province of Chechnya.

("The Anglo-American Terror Network")

US intelligence helped fund and transport al-Qaeda into Chechnya in the early 1990s.

In Chechnya, the two main rebel leaders who came to power had been trained by the CIA in Afghanistan.

A war in Chechnya was planned in a secret meeting in 1996 attended by Osama bin Laden and officials of the Pakistani ISI.

In other words, the CIA was directing the war through the ISI.

US intelligence helped fund and transport al-Qaeda into Chechnya in the early 1990s.

9. In 2002, it was revealed that, “British intelligence paid large sums of money to an al-Qaeda cell in Libya in a doomed attempt to assassinate Colonel Gadaffi in 1996 and thwarted early attempts to bring Osama bin Laden to justice.”

Anas al-Liby, a Libyan al-Qaeda leader, “was given political asylum in Britain and lived in Manchester until May of 2000 when he eluded a police raid on his house and fled abroad.”

("The Anglo-American Terror Network")

10. In the 1990s, Osama bin Laden “built a shadow air force to support his terrorist activities, using Afghanistan's national airline Ariana, a surplus U.S. Air Force jet and clandestine charters.”
(Global Research, on 8 September 2010, Andrew Gavin Marshall: "The Anglo-American Terror Network")

Bin Laden’s US Air Force jet in 1992 “was used to ferry Al Qaeda commanders to East Africa, where they trained Somali tribesmen..."

And now, Algerians and Moroccans are said to be in El Qaeda training camps in Israel. (Algerians and Moroccans in El Qaida training camps in Israel )

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A HISTORY OF AL QAEDA

Andrew Gavin Marshall, at Global Research, 5 September 2010, (The “Arc of Crisis”) gives us a history of al Qaeda:

1. According to an article in Le Monde, Osama bin Laden was recruited by the CIA in 1979 in Istanbul.

(Veronique Maurus and Marc Rock, The Most Dreaded Man of the United States, Controlled a Long Time by the CIA. Le Monde Diplomatique: September 14, 2001: (http://www.wanttoknow.info/010914lemonde)

Osama bin Laden had the support of his friend Prince Turki bin Faisal, head of Saudi intelligence.

Osama was also close to drug lord Gulbaddin Hekmatyar in Afghanistan.

(http://www.wanttoknow.info/010914lemonde)

Prince Turki and Hekmatyar were key figures in the CIA's Safari Club network, a coalition of intelligence services.

Alexandre de Marenches, the head of French Intelligence, organised the CIA's Safari Club, a coalition of Intelligence agencies. (Photo Source: Thierry Orban/ Corbis Sygma)

2. In 1985, Osama bin Laden's brother, Salem, stated that Osama was "the liaison between the US, the Saudi government, and the Afghan rebels." (Steve Coll, The Bin Ladens.)

3. In 1988, Bin Laden discussed "the establishment of a new military group," which would come to be known as Al-Qaeda. (AP, Al Qaeda Financing Documents Turn Up in Bosnia Raid. Fox News: February 19, 2003: FOXNews.com - Al Qaeda Financing Documents Turn Up in Bosnia Raid ...)

4. In the late 1980s, Osama bin Laden's charity front, the MAK, (eventually to form Al-Qaeda) founded the al-Kifah Center in Brooklyn, New York, to recruit Muslims for the jihad against the Soviets.

The al-Kifah Center was founded with the support of the U.S. government.

The al-Kifah Refugee Center shared the same building as the Al-Farooq Mosque. Website for this image

5. The US government provided visas for known terrorists associated with the organization, including Ali Mohamed, the 'blind sheik' Omar Abdel Rahman and possibly Mohamed Atta. (Peter Dale Scott, The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America.)

This coincided with the creation of Al-Qaeda, of which the al-Kifah Center was a recruiting front.

Foot soldiers for Al-Qaeda were "admitted to the United States for training under a special visa program."

6. The FBI had been surveilling the training of terrorists, however, "it terminated this surveillance in the fall of 1989."

7. In 1990, the CIA granted Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman a visa to come run the al-Kifah Center.

He was considered an 'untouchable' as he was "being protected by no fewer than three agencies," including the State Department, the National Security Agency (NSA) and the CIA. (Peter Dale Scott, The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America.)

In July 2001, Bin Laden met the CIA.

8. Robin Cook, a former UK Minister of Foreign Affairs wrote that Al-Qaeda, "literally 'the database', was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians." (guardian./2005/jul/08/july7.t)

A former French military intelligence agent stated that, "The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida.

"And any informed intelligence officer knows this.

"But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the 'devil' only in order to drive the 'TV watcher' to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism.

"The country behind this propaganda is the US and the lobbyists for the US war on terrorism are only interested in making money." (Pierre-Henri Bunel, Al Qaeda - the Database. Global Research: November 20, 2005: globalresearch.1)

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