UIGHUR PSUEDO GANG IN PLAY

Turkestan Islamic Party, TIP. Chinese Uighur of Xinjiang. Chinese officials
say ethnic Uighurs trained in Pakistan and Afghanistan by Al Qaeda are aiming to destabilize Xinjiang.

The origins of TIP, based in Waziristan, are murky. The East Turkestan Islamic Movement, ETIM. Rebiya Kadeer, a Uighur businesswoman living in the US.

Turkestan Islamic Party is the same group as East Turkestan Islamic Party, ETIP. They removed the “East”. group’s founder, Hasan Mahsum was killed by Pakistani army in 2003.

in 2008, TIP released a video where a masked Commander Seyfullah was identified



Apr 2009, the US designated Abdul Haq as leader of TIP. The UN made a similar pronouncement. Abdul Haq, also known as Maimaitiming Maimaiti, succeeded Hasan Masum in 2003.

In January 2010, a Predator killed 15 TIP in Waziristan. Some said Abdul Haq was among those killed. There has been an uptick in Qaeda urging Muslims to attack China
2009, Abu Yahya al-Libi, a leading Qaeda figure stated: Chinese forces had massacred Uighurs and would crumble

David Ray Griffin

Questioning the official story of 9/11 is now a matter of human survival. We can not ignore the calling of history any longer. We live in a state of perpetual emergency

Professor David Ray Griffin has painstakingly excavating all the facts that are recoverable about 9/11, and then juxtaposing them with details of the official story in his article,

"Did 9/11 Justify the War in Afghanistan?"

two narratives have emerged - the first a blatant falsehood forces people to view the present and the future through the narrow lens of fear, and endless violence second begins with a clear truth about the evil that was done on 9/11, and asks of us to collectively challenge the authority of the U.S. government

trying to build peace on the ground that was laid by the hands of war is hopeless. The truth about 9/11 is so explosive that America's wars in the Middle East would totally collapse.

Opposing a war of perceptions without a firm grasp of the truth is like fighting with a pointless spear. Why oppose the war on terrorism if you are not determined to attack the basic claims, and justifications made by its extreme proponents?

peace in our time can't be done unless we separate perception from reality, propaganda from news, lies from the truth, and speak our minds accordingly

the war on terrorism is mythology, the official 9/11 story is a fairy tale, and Al Qaeda is a fictitious villain. We must control the narrative, and let the truth shine.

The "long war" is not a reaction to the 9/11 attacks, but a diabolical enterprise that was hatched by the U.S. military machine after the fall of Communism.

It is not a war against Muslim extremism, but a war against Muslim self-determination
The Islamic enemy is not a threat. They have survived because they are protected and funded by the CIA. Without covert funding of Islamic fighters by the CIA, and U.S. military support of puppet regimes, the Middle East would be free and democratic by now.

freedom and democracy can not emerge in the shadows of the "long war", in which "the battlefield is society itself," because the long war is, above all, a state of historical consciousness. It is a primitive reaction by tyrants and elites to the rising surge of freedom across the world,

Gen. John Abizaid, in December, 2004 that; "Victory will be hard to measure," "Success will instead be an incremental process.

evidence gathered by Professor David Ray Griffin, Richard Gage, AIA, Dr. Steven E. Jones, Dr. Niels Harrit, and others

General Frank Kitson: Trail Blazing Fake Terrorism

General Frank Kitson, “who first thought up the concept that was later used in the formation of Al Qaeda. He called it the ‘pseudo gang’—a state sponsored group used to advance an agenda, while discrediting the real opposition

used in Kenya and Northern Ireland. most of the violence attributed to ‘Loyalists was the result of British secret state death squads

in Malaya (against the Malayan Peoples Anti British army led by the Communist leader Chin Peng) and Kenya (against the Mau Mau) and also General Edward Geary Lansdale’s use of psychological warfare in the Philippines and Vietnam.

Rhodesians “pseudo gang” used to bomb churches and blame on “communist atheists” or Patriotic Front guerrillas fighting for national determination.

writes Stan Winer, South Africa staged “black-on-black”. death-squad commander admitted clandestine attacks on white people, to provoke a right-wing backlash.”

this sort of “backlash” fake terror to provoke against Muslims and Arabs, as per the neocon

the “clash of civilizations” crew of the Straussian-Machiavellian stripe) currently in control of the Anglo-American globalist empire desire to preserve and expand and a faux schism or conflict between western and eastern civilization fits the ticket

Kitson simply paved the way. covert tricks under the guise of Islamic terrorism. Islam is a near perfect manufactured enemy

Webster Tarpley on Alex Jones Tv 1/6: Underwear Bomber "Establishment Controlled Patsy!"

FROM INFORMED CONSENT

Meanwhile, the main strategy of the Israeli and Jewish-American Right to preserve Israeli capacity to continue the colonization and to act belligerently in the region had been the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. That strategem has failed, as I argued in Salon. The Shiite fundamentalists who have taken over Baghdad are pro-Hizbullah and pro-Palestinian. (Hizbullah was in part set up by the Islamic Mission Party, Da'wa, of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, and Da'wa supported Hamas in the recent Gaza War). Moreover, Baghdad has ceased helping contain Iran for the Sunni Arab world and the West, and is now a close ally of Tehran. The prospect of a well-armed, 250,000-man Iraqi army now being reconstituted, and riddled with agents of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, must be a matter of consternation for Israelis. Only Jordan separates them from Iraq, now an outpost of the Shiite religious parties allied with Khamenei. The Neoconservatives, such as Richard Perle, David Frum, Paul Wolfowitz, Irv Lewis Libby, Michael Rubin, Douglas Feith, John Bolton, Larry Franklin and others thus not only shot themselves in the foot, but they shot Israel in the chest.

This Iraq strategy, which intended to stop the Rabin peace process and prevent the return of Gaza and the West Bank to the Palestinians for their state, was laid out by Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, and other Neoconservatives in a white paper for Bibi Netanyahu in 1996. Many of the authors were subsequently put in high office by Bush-Cheney and pushed for an American war on Iraq with dirty tricks and false propaganda in 2002-2003. They included Canadian gadfly journalist David Frum, who authored Bush's 2002 'Axis of Evil' speech in consultation with Perle. The mostly Jewish Neoconservatives were only one faction in the Bush-Cheney coalition that wanted regime change in Baghdad, which included the Christian Right, Big Oil, and the military-industrial complex. However influential, they were not 'in control' and most Jewish Americans opposed their ideas and policies.

HAMID GUL

Lieutenant-General Hamid Gul was a military commander in the Pakistani Army in the 1980s, and served as the head of the country's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency from 1987 to 1989
During
Bush
sought to put Gul on a UN list of international terrorists
blocked by the Chinese
Domestically
opponent of Asif Ali Zardari
Supreme Court to be reinstated
Americans are defeated
their own people are sick and tired
Karzai is no more
They have
end of this year
shoulder the responsibility
civilian casualties
made the Taliban a popular
80 per cent
support
fed up with corruption
sick of
warlords
drug barons
occupation
they stayed on betrays their real intentions
want to prop up and build the Afghan Army
they don't give the money to build
just $140mn
US to
one soldier
$1mn dollars
Americans can't take casualties
started employing security contractors
whoever has more money
employ
mercenaries
latest
offensive
not going to work
political purpose back home
dislodging the civilians
very harsh weather
fields abandoned
Pakistani Taliban

sponsored by the Indian intelligence and the Mossad
Mossad is very active in Pakistan
providing
guidance
to the Indian intelligence
The Americans fear the return of the Supreme Court
could rule that the US drone attacks are violations
US officials have accused you
close ties with
Taliban and al-Qaeda
wrong
al-Qaeda
come up with the evidence for 911
You haven't
charged Osama bin Laden
you don't have hard evidence
full story is yet to come out.
a gimmick, an inside job
Taliban
national spirit of resistance
Americans talk of freedom of speech
my speech hurts them
jihad is our right when a nation is oppressed
national resistance for liberation is a right. We call this a jihad.

Fear is no policy, Surrender is no option
Clash between moral and material, whenever it takes place moral always always win.

AFGAN MERRY GO ROUND

Marjah

opening salvo in the plan for escalation of the counterinsurgency war
strategy, McChrystal issued blueprint, transitioning from counterterrorist strategy to a counterinsurgency one

adversary, Quetta Shura Taliban (05T), the Haqqani Network (HQN), and the Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin (HiG)



last two, Jalaluddin Haqqani and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, respectively lost an old friend Charlie Wilson

It was called Operation Cyclone. Largest Covert Operation in History. The bulk
directed to Hekmatyar and Haqqani

In the first Afghan war of 1979-1992 Wilson referred to Haqqani as "goodness personified

Times of London says, In helping to beat the Soviet menace, Charlie Wilson unleashed a monster. Indian news agency operation that killed seven CIA employees was masterminded by Jalaluddin Haqqani

Wilson's chief partner, Avrakotos controlled more than 70 percent of the money which was "later were used in the fratricidal war in Afghanistan before the Taliban took control.

Hekmatyar, renowned opium smuggler and warlord. another aspect, not only
install the CIA's Mujahideen but extend the war into the Soviet Union

other U.S. officials, William P. Clark who assisted Afghan rebels to Polish rebels to Nicaraguan rebels



Clark and Reagan authorized rebels to cross the Amu Dar’ya River and sabotaged

"Fact: Covert funding for the mujahideen began long before the Soviet invasion, not after.

"Fact: This covert aid was intended to lure the Soviets into the Afghan trap and hold them there, not drive them out, as claimed by Wilson.

provided a secure multibillion-dollar technological training base for Islamic terrorism, and set the stage for a privatized heroin industry of historic proportions.

US meddling began as early as 1973 under president Nixon

July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive

But Wilson's project for a second Vietnam-style war may well be realized. America's second Vietnam.

ONCE AGAIN OSAMA SPEAKS FROM THE GRAVE

Bin Laden audio-tape
Al-Jazeera, based in Qatar, the most American friendly Arab state
originated in Pakistan, which has four modern TV stations, but it had to be aired by Al-Jazeera
warned his ‘half-Muslim brother’, Barack Hussein Obama, not to act an Israeli poodle
helped Obama’s anti-Muslim rhetoric by
Mossad-CIA false-flag Nigerian terrorist operation
threat warning given a few hours after
by British
David Miliband
the THREE (Tareq, his wife Michaele Salahis and Carlos Allen) uninvited guest
Could it be a ‘drill’
to create fear and Islamophobia
and
etting the future 9/11B2
Jeff Gates
sraeli planned assassination of Barack Obama
“To assassinate
requires pre-staging
require an Evil Doer
pre-staging is
underway
manipulated impressions become
building blocks
Should he hint
justice
for the Palestinians
shut down the ongoing oligarch-ization
piling on of disabling debt
Senator Fulbright
1973
“Israel controls the U.S. Senate.”

PEPE ESCOBAR ON YEMEN

United States intelligence has now focused its lasers on the alleged 300 al-Qaeda jihadis concealed in Yemen's craggy, rural Maarib province

Al Qaeda will be young, perversely addicted to the virtual ummah, live in a Western, will have honed their yearning to join jihad in a third country

They may go to Yemen after they have idealizing the ummah on the Internet broken communication with their families. from Dhiren Barot to the Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, deterritorialization, virtual, individualistic. There is no "al-Qaeda" network, in English, virtual jihadi nomad, like characters in a Fyodor Dostoevsky or Albert Camus novel.

al-Qaeda treats local regimes as US lackeys

a hefty case can be made that "al-Qaeda" is nothing but a dissidence (or a "rogue" arm) of Saudi intelligence, notice the close relationship between Osama bin Laden and wily Prince Turki bin Faisal, the former director general of Saudi intelligence.

al-Qaeda's fight has nothing to do with Che Guevara's in the 1960s, it is not about ideology - but about an idea/flame that seduces

"the lonely avenger, the hero, who can redeem a life he is not happy with by achieving fame while escaping a world where he finds no room"
a portrait of John Lennon's murderer.

American intelligence is still hostage to "territory". in Yemen and in the Waziristans. They will find nothing but ghosts

The holy trinity of building "development" and "governance", and counter-terrorism. counter-insurgency as Israelis in Gaza and West Bank, Americans in AfPak with Pakistani Taliban enhanced, and "al-Qaeda" left the building

Obama branding al-Qaeda ghost to "soft" invasion of Yemen

President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sana'a accuses Huthis of being linked to both al-Qaeda (Wahhabi radicals who consider Shi'ites as worse than the plague) and Iran (Shi'ites who abhor al-Qaeda

utter nonsense. Washington will inevitably brand the Huthis as "terrorists" - just like every resistance in Iraq was "terrorist", whether they were Sunni or Sadrists

Tens of thousands of foreign troops are bogged down in Afghanistan. NATO will also hit Yemen, "war on terror", all cogs in the relentless full spectrum dominance machine, the real deal is to scramble to control and/or monitor as many global sources of oil and gas as possible.

getting deeper in the "arc of instability", instilling Cold War between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Blessed are those "al-Qaeda" virtual jihadi nomads

AMID MEDIA BLACKOUT

Congressional hearing reveals US intelligence agencies shielded Flight 253 bomber

By Alex Lantier
3 February 2010

A January 27 hearing of the House Committee on Homeland Security established that US intelligence agencies stopped the State Department from revoking the US visa of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.

The hearing was reported in a brief article posted January 27 on the web site of the Detroit News, headlined, “Terror Suspect Kept Visa to Avoid Tipping Off Larger Investigation.”

As of this writing, nearly a week after the hearing, the NYT, WSJ, WaPo and LA Times have published no articles on the subject

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strained credulity from the outset

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Abdulmutallab’s father, a former Nigerian government minister and prominent banker, went to the US embassy in Abuja in November to warn that his son was involved with radical Islamists in Yemen

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In his prepared statement to the House Committee on Homeland Security on Jan 27, State Dept Under-Sec for Management Patrick Kennedy said:

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on the day following his father’s Nov 19 visit to the Embassy, we sen

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Kennedy explained why the State Dept might not revoke

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And one of the members, and we’d be glad to give you that in private, said, ‘Please, do not revoke this visa. We have eyes on this person. We are following this person who has the visa for the purpose of trying to roll up an entire network, not just stop one person.’

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Amazingly, the US government did not declare AQAP a terrorist group until Jan 19 2010

AND THE REASON...ONCE AGAIN..

"What is the motivation?" she asked. "We never hear what you find out on why."

Mr. Brennan's reply: "Al-Qaeda is an organization that is dedicated to murder and wanton slaughter of innocents. ... They attract individuals like Mr. [Umar Farouk] Abdulmutallab and use them for these types of attacks. He was motivated by a sense of religious sort of drive. Unfortunately, al-Qaeda has perverted Islam, and has corrupted the concept of Islam, so that he's [sic] able to attract these individuals. But al-Qaeda has the agenda of destruction and death."



"The time has come for you," said the purported voice of Mr. bin Laden,

• "to liberate yourself from fear and the ideological terrorism of neoconservatives and the Israeli lobby;

• the reason for our dispute with you is your support for your ally, Israel, occupying our land in Palestine."

• They included America's support of Israel in its subordination of the Palestinians and

• its attacks on Lebanon;

• the propping up of pro-American kleptocracies in Muslim lands; and

• the presence of U.S. forces on the "sacred soil" of Saudi Arabia after the first Gulf War.

The American people should be given enough credit by its leaders to be told the truth about why we are in this "long war" with Islamic extremists, a war that is hastening our bankruptcy, just as Osama bin Laden dreamed it would.

We proclaim our innate goodness, our pure motives, while decrying "terrorism" and never conceding that to the bulk of the world's Muslims, the greatest terrorism is the destruction of Iraq, a war we started that has seen the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and the displacement of more than 4.5 million from their homes. To them, understandably, the bombings from American drones, now killing Afghans and Pakistanis by remote control, are acts of terror. To them, the plight of the Palestinians under siege in Gaza is the result of American-supported Israeli terrorism. This is widely understood around the world, except for the purposefully misled American public.

HELEN THOMAS

"Why is al-Qaeda at war with us? What is its motivation?"

Helen Thomas at a recent White House press briefing asked this simple question, and it is a simple question, and our national corporate media apparatus goes to a great deal of trouble to bury this question with a non-answer. The question strikes a nerve. Quickly flipping, last night, I heard Bill O'Reilly mention her name. I didn't linger, being a long time "moral equivocator", I've heard the response a thousand times. The mere fact that Bill takes time from his busy schedule to bother with little old Helen Thomas indicates that it is a central question, and a potential problem.

"Why is al-Qaeda at war with us? What is its motivation?"

Now, at some point, the question will be answered. At some point it seems that the American public will stand up and demand an answer to this question, but, apparently, not until, as Glenn Greenwald says, "the Republic is bankrupted and in ruins and its unemployed have to live in tent cities."

And so, the question is answered on the right, and on the left, it is even answered by retired CIA, but the great, unwashed middle remains clueless.

OBL'S FULL BODY SCANS

Think about it. One angry young man with about three ounces (around 80 grams) of explosive material, $2,000, and a pair of specially tailored underwear has completely disrupted the US aviation system.
It does not even matter that he failed to blow up the plane.
The costs associated with preventing the next attack from succeeding will measure in the tens of billions of dollars
Will the US ramp up its efforts in a new country each time there is an attempted attack, putting US "boots on the ground" against an enemy that is impossible to defeat?
Such a policy would fulfill al-Qaeda's wildest dreams, as the US suffers death by a thousand cuts, bleeding out in an ever wider web of interconnected and unsustainable global conflicts.
The rampant poverty, corruption and violence that
plague Nigeria are an inheritance of British rule
built up on centuries of slave raiding and trading

It took decades after the end of the British empire for the impact of British colonialism in South Asia and Africa to blow back onto British soil. The US has not even finished her imperial moment and it has already arrived.
"Yemen's government is corrupt and repressive," the paper intoned. "But President Ali Abdullah Saleh seems to want to cooperate."
The world's paper of record is utterly clueless as to the intimate link between the corruption and oppression of the Yemeni government and its willingness to "cooperate" with the US, and the roots of radicalism in Yemen.
press
Obama
re unwilling to recognise the inextricable ties between oppression, poverty, corruption and violence by governments like Nigeria and Yemen, and the rise of religiously grounded extremism and violence there, then its increasing foot- or boot-print there will strengthen rather than weaken al-Qaeda and similar movements
Invasive frisking of the most intimate areas
full body scans
Salafi perspective an almost unbearable

indignity -one they will surely relish seeing millions of the enemy routinely suffer, especially when such violations mirror the daily indignities and sexual humiliation infamously suffered by inmates in Guantanamo and other US-run prisons.
Call it a politics or strategy of shame
which will erode support for the 'war on terror' from within even as Western governments strengthen their ties to oppressive front line states.
Osama bin Laden could not have planned it better if he tried.
Mark LeVine
Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University, Sweden

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab

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HOW TO SCARE THE SHIT OUT OF AMERICANS

How to scare the shit out of America and make them do anything

by Mr. Charrington on January 10, 2008

The Rise of Neoconservatism to power in America is documented in the BBC’s series “The Power of Nightmares”. All the NeoCon myths exposed and the obvious exploitation of American values in to twisted patriotism. Great information on the Fathers and minions of Neoconservatism, Strauss, Wolfowitz and Kristol. Basing their entire theory on failing liberalism and personal independence being the cause for the people’s negative reaction to Government policies. Deducing that the only way to give America it’s “True” course was to “Invent” good and evil so the country would unite in a common cause — a fabricated War against evil.

Follow the Money How John Kerry busted the terrorists' favorite bank.

Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) was a highly respected financial titan. In 1987, when its subsidiary helped finance a deal involving Texas oilman George W. Bush,
It had high-powered allies in Washington
1988, when John Kerry, then a young senator from Massachusetts, decided to probe the finances of Latin American drug cartels.
Kerry fought against intense opposition
from senior members of his own party
from the Reagan and Bush administrations,
By the end,
exposed the infrastructure of BCCI
a model for international terrorist financing
Despite having helmed the initial probe which led to the Iran-Contra investigation, Kerry was left off the elite Iran-Contra committee in 1987.
the Democratic leadership in Congress made Kerry the chairman of the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations and told him to dig into the Contra-drug connection. Kerry turned to BCCI
Manuel Noriega was laundering drug profits through the bank on behalf of the Medellin cartel.

By March 1988, Kerry's subcommittee had obtained permission from the Foreign Relations Committee to seek subpoenas for both BCCI and individuals at the bank involved in handling Noriega's assets, as well as those handling the accounts of others in Panama and Colombia.
faced a roadblock
would interfere with an ongoing sting operation in Tampa, the Justice Department delayed the subpoenas until 1988, at which point the subcommittee's mandate was running out.
Prominent figures with ties to the bank included former president Jimmy Carter's budget director, Bert Lance, and a bevy of powerful Washington lobbyists with close ties to President George H.W. Bush,
In 1985 and 1986
Reagan administration launched no investigation even after the CIA had sent reports to the Treasury, Commerce, and State Departments bluntly describing the bank's role in drug-money laundering and other illegal activities.
1989, Kerry hit another obstacle.
Foreign Relations Committee chairman Claiborne Pell (D-R.I.),

under pressure from both parties, formally asked Kerry to end his probe.
Kerry quickly dispatched investigator Jack Blum to present the information his committee had found about BCCI's money-laundering operations to the Justice Department. But according to Blum, the Justice Department failed to follow up.
Kerry could play ball with the establishment and back away from BCCI,
Kerry opted in 1989 to take the same information that had been coldly received
to New York District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, who agreed to begin a criminal investigation of BCCI,
In 1990, when the Bush administration gave the bank a minor slap on the wrist for its money laundering practices, Kerry went on national television
"We send drug people to jail for the rest of their life," he said, "and these guys who are bankers in the corporate world seem to just walk away, and it's business as usual…When banks engage knowingly in the laundering of money, they should be shut down. It's that simple, it really is."

In early 1991, the Justice Department concluded its Tampa probe with a plea deal allowing BCCI officials to stay out of court. At the same time, news reports indicated that Washington elder statesman Clark Clifford might be indicted for defrauding bank regulators and helping BCCI maintain a shell in the United States.
Kerry pounced, demanding (and winning) authorization from the Foreign Relations Committee to open a broad investigation into the bank in May 1991.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Democratic doyenne Pamela Harriman personally called Kerry to object, as did his fellow senators.
BCCI itself hired an army of lawyers, PR specialists, and lobbyists, including former members of Congress, to thwart the investigation.
Kerry refused to back off
began to expose the ways in which international terrorism was financed.
BCCI catered to many of the most notorious tyrants and thugs
Saddam Hussein
Medellin cocaine cartel,
Abu Nidal,
those who went on to lead al Qaeda.

BCCI went beyond merely offering financial assistance to dictators and terrorists:
the operation itself was an elaborate fraud, replete with a "global intelligence operation and a Mafia-like enforcement squad."
July 1991
British and U.S. regulators finally responded
BCCI was shut down in seven countries,
put it out of business what Morgenthau called, "one of the biggest criminal enterprises in world history."
The current president's career as an oilman was always marked by the kind of insider cronyism
as a director of Texas-based Harken Energy, Bush himself did business with BCCI-connected institutions almost at the same time Kerry was fighting the bank.
there was a "mosaic of BCCI connections surrounding [Harken] since George W. Bush came on board." In 1987, Bush secured a critical $25 million-loan from a bank the Kerry Commission would later reveal to be a BCCI joint venture.
A decade after
CIA discovered Osama bin Laden was among those with accounts at the bank.
French intelligence
in 2002

identified dozens of companies and individuals who were involved with BCCI and were found to be dealing with bin Laden
the financial network operated by bin Laden today "is similar to the network put in place in the 1980s by BCCI." As one senior U.S. investigator said in 2002, "BCCI was the mother and father of terrorist financing operations."
difficult investigation," Brown said. "Because many important members of his own party were involved in this scandal, it was a distasteful subject for other committee and subcommittee chairmen to investigate. They did not. John Kerry did."

CASTRO ON AL QAEDA

Former Cuban president Fidel Castro says al-Qaeda terrorists have been engineered in order to advance the Bush administration's agenda.

In an essay published on Sunday, Castro said the terrorist group "was born from the empire's own entrails", using the term "empire" to refer to the United States.

After the Sept. 11 attacks, the Bush administration vowed to capture al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who has reportedly taken responsibility for the deadly attacks on US soils.

"[Al-Qaeda] is a typical example of an enemy that the hegemonic power dangles in a place of its choosing where it needs to justify its actions, as it has done throughout its history, fabricating enemies and attacks destined to strengthen its plans of domination," the former Cuban leader argued.

According to Castro, the American public has been mislead by the US government about the real extent of the terrorist attacks in 2001. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has also suggested that Washington could have been somehow involved in the planning of the attacks.

In the aftermath of the attacks, the White House launched the 'War on Terror' in a bid to disband al-Qaeda. While many civilians have been killed since the 2001 invasions of Afghanistan, followed by the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the US has failed to achieve its objectives in the region.

The US government is looking for Bin Laden since the 9/11 attacks in 2001.
A Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program called "Operation Cyclone" is reportedly responsible for the creation of the terrorist group, when the CIA funded native Afghan militants in the conflict with the Soviet Union.

The al-Qaeda leader is reportedly planning a new terror attack against the US as President-elect Barack Obama takes office from the incumbent president, George W. Bush.

Earlier this month, a source close to the group claimed that Bin Laden is supervising preparations for another attack which will be far greater than those of 9/11.

US Vice President-elect Joe Biden had warned in October that Obama would face an international crisis early in his presidency.