Unthinkable Torsion Secrets Of Our Most Recondite Delusion

Unthinkable Torsion Secrets Of Our Most Recondite Delusion

I'll say right up front and unapologetically that I hope this article severely torques your mind and catapults you right into another realm of awareness that is so weird, so unabashedly strange, that you cannot help but reexamine every single preconception you have about how this world really works, and what the fundamental nature of reality is, whether physical or social.

There, I've said it, and I'm not ashamed, on the contrary.

To put it another way, where the commonly accepted precepts of physical and social reality are concerned, where does the truth lie? It's just unthinkable, that's what it is. See what I mean? See the problem? True lies?

You think you know the truth, you've read history, current events, you've learned some chemistry or physics. You may even have a university degree or two in history, or physics or chemistry. You may even work in these fields in some professional capacity. And so you know what's going on. You know how things are put together. You know how the world and the Universe function.

Except you don't, not really.

Lester Hendershot's Fuelless Generator

Consider the case of Lester Hendershot's fuelless motor which most of my readers have probably never heard of. There is no question that that is by design, done on purpose, intended to keep the mass of humanity smugly ignorant and blissfully unaware of the degree of their slavery to powerful interests who manipulate the world in myriad ways that most people scarcely even suspect.

Interestingly, Hendershot's invention attracted the interest of Charles Lindbergh, the pioneering aviator of the early 20th century and a good deal of press attention. And then he was bought off by a major corporation he never deigned to reveal, and his revolutionary electrical generator languished undeveloped. Hendershot's explanation for the method of operation of his invention was that his generator simply tapped the energy potential of the Earth's magnetic field, by cutting the magnetic lines of flux as the Earth rotated. And why not?

Charles Dellschau & The Mysterious "Sonora Aero Club"

This had already occurred to others before him, such as Nikola Tesla. Indeed, it is a realization which is apparent to anyone with an open mind, anyone who regards the Earth's rapid rotation, the global magnetic field of the Earth and some of the elementary concepts of electrical and electromagnetic theory.

But it appears there were others, even before Tesla, who were tapping the fundamental energy sources of nature, albeit in an extreme, very careful secrecy, the better to occult their hidden society's trailblazing work. The discovery in a junk shop of the long-forgotten art work of Charles Dellschau, revealed a veritable 19th century treasure trove of hitherto unknown, genial splendor. Go ahead, click the link and read the story. Linger over Dellschau's lavish illustrations.

Found in a Junk Shop: Secrets of an Undiscovered Visionary Artist

Think of it, or maybe, unthink of it, as you wish: "... a secret society of flight enthusiasts which met in California in the mid-19th century called the ‘Sonora Aero Club’."

But there's more, so much more: "The club’s secret mission? To design and build the first navigable aircrafts using a secret formula he coded as “NB Gas” which could negate gravity and drive the ships wheels, side panels and compressor motors … "

Shades of Joseph Farrell's "red mercury," his NAZI bell technology and philosopher' stone, and by the way, Farrell's books are all rollicking good reads that probably have a great deal more truth in them than the majority of text books in use in the world's universities. I don't doubt that the same thing(s) or closely related class of energetic phenomena and associated engineering exigencies have been independently invented and reinvented, time and again, on the planet and off, over mind bending spans of space and time.

Thank goodness for the artist and UFOlogist Pete Navarro who rescued Charles Dellschau's important work from oblivion. The subtlety and gracious delicateness of Dellschau's renderings are most pleasing to the eye. He had a sophisticated aesthetic sensibility.

I could not help but notice the San Antonio, Texas association with one of the mysterious, 1897 airship sightings, being as I lived in that city for more than ten years. For my part, I accept that Charles Dellschau's Sonora Aero Club really existed and is likely the entity behind the wave of mysterious airship sightings all over the USA, in the late 19th century, many of which sightings were highly bizarre, to say the least, and for that reason, dismissed by many observers as nonsense and fantasy.

The USA Army Explores Dream Time(lessness)

I especially like Dellschau's illustration no. 33, because, well, you know.

I also like it because what he depicts here, and which I had not previously seen until very recently, is rather reminiscent of something that I have repeatedly seen in my deep dreaming, and that would be a time machine piloted by USA Army officers in khaki uniforms. The machine that I have repeatedly inwardly seen has two, large, circular, horizontal, rapidly rotating, fan-like mechanisms toward the center rear, and gangways or catwalks that connect the various parts of the vessel and along which the crew walk as the machine travels along. The time field itself appears to be featureless and grey, like a void, an indistinct nothingness that is difficult to describe with any precision. It is blank, empty and without discernible form. And through this featureless nothing, the time machine travels. I have to say that it is tremendously exciting to see the machine come and go -- you can sense it and feel it coming before you can actually see it; it has a real sense of magical imminence and mysterious wonder. I deduce that that is because it is accessing the featureless field of all that is. The personnel who operate this machine would not be ordinary men. Nevertheless, I have seen them (they are young Caucasians with military crew cuts), and they in turn look at me. I have no idea what they may be thinking or seeing. Neither do I know why I have seen them and the machine, other than that, for whatever reason, I somehow drift into states of consciousness where I perceive them and their activities.

Though could it perhaps have something to do with my intense interest in electronics when I was younger? I knew almost nothing of accepted electrical theory, but I saved my pennies and nickles and at a young age acquired a soldering gun. I remember putting odd collections of resistors, capacitors, transformers, coils and so forth together, connecting batteries to the hodgepodge of assorted electronic components that I stripped out of junked radios and discarded circuit boards I salvaged from trash I found in the neighborhood and --- nothing happened. I had no idea what I was doing, but in my imagination I was connecting up circuits that would do -- God only knows what. I was flying completely blind.

However, in light of the numerous flying saucers I have subsequently seen over the years, and the many sorties I have made into other realms of consciousness and spiritual dimensions, as well as the fact that I just don't think like the run of the great bulk of humanity (and thank God for that!) maybe the cobbled together hodgepodge of odd electronic parts I assembled from here and there and activated with no discernible results (at least to me, at the time) really did have results, but with a lag time of a few years, or decades.

And I don't know where to mention another USA Army time machine that I have also seen in the very clear, deep dream state. This one is a more modern looking model, that somewhat resembles a helicopter, in that it appears to use a modified Huey helicopter chassis, but the rotor is short, blunt and stunted. Inside the "flight" officer operates a console that somewhat resembles a complex panel of avionics controls, but in reality is not conventional electronics. The controls are radionic, or harmonic controls, that have to do with temporal resonance, with tuning into a desired temporal-spatial coordinate in the time-space flow. This machine is operated by two young, male Caucasians, and a young, African-American woman, who is the officer in charge of the time missions. They are all dressed in USA Army officers' uniforms. This particular machine operates by starting the rotor, which rotates faster and faster, until the machine lifts off the ground about two meters, and then it abruptly transitions to the grey, featureless, blank, nothingness of the universal time field, and is lost to physical sight.

It's About Time, It's About Space

It all has to do with time, timing, charged intent and torquing the field.

If you have perhaps ever chanced to read through Patrick Bailey's "OTHER VOICES: A SUMMARY OF RESEARCH NOT PRESENT," report to the Second International Symposium on New Energy (2nd ISNE), 12-15 May 1994, in Denver, Colorado, USA, and I truly encourage you to do so, you will have spotted the idea that: "bucking (opposite) electromagnetic fields can cancel their vector fields and generate a time varying quantum potential (the "A field," for those in the know)."

So who knows what kind of subtle "time varying quantum potential" the little butterfly-delicate "vector fields" of the capacitors, transformers, batteries and coils, that I dragged out of the neighborhood garbage, might have produced? Who knows? It was a kind of mania for me, there for awhile. During those years I also played with a little crystal radio set that I built, and spent many hours listening to the engaging transmissions that came in. They really fired my imagination. I understood that in certain respects the little crystal in my simple radio (or was it simple?) was not altogether ordinary. Thinking back on those days, I am not sure that everything that I received were all regular, commercial radio broadcasts. I spent hours, hours and hours, listening to the voices talk, from right out of thin air, deep into the night.

Due to my extensive reading in many fields, and close personal observation of nature itself, I arrived at the same position that many tinkerers, inventors, theorists, scientists and engineers have reached. I realized that the time field, and its closely related time-space field can be engineered, and the technical means of doing so involve very high electrical energies and/or the physics of rapid rotation (of almost anything really).

As to the time-effect aspect, or time-space-altering effect of very high powered electrical fields, currents or voltages, and/or rapidly rotating physical objects or energy fields, for whatever reason, when you place them in opposition, in the right configuration, and the energy fields cancel each other out, you can be left with -- um, well sometimes you are left with a sort of weird factor, where space and time and what you think you know is real, just goes goofily awry and REALLY STRANGE STUFF HAPPENS.

I think this is what the Sonora Aero Club stumbled across back in the 19th century, this is what the NAZI scientists were doing in the 1940s, this is the basis for a lot of so-called UFO technology (whether terrestrial human technology or technology of other races from elsewhere and elsewhen) and it is definitely known to the modern military-industrial-espionage complex. I surmise that the extremely high powered, high velocity linear accelerators so beloved of particle physicists produce a ripple in the Force, as it were. Like maybe at Brookhaven, Long Island, Fermilab, Stanford Linear Accelerator, CERN, or for instance, Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque.

It Was All Taken TOP SECRET

In the very interesting paper that I cite above, Patrick Bailey observes: "...a new investigation of the physics of rotating permanent magnets and rotating EM fields would be very interesting. All reported research in these fields seems to stop in the early 1950's. Why?"

Why because the military-industrial-espionage complex discovered tunnels in the time-space field, or distortions in the warp and woof of consensual reality, or something approximately like that, by playing around with the high energy physics of rapidly rotating, highly electrically charged technology, and took the whole shebang, deep, dark, blackest TOP SECRET.

That's why, Patrick.

I say this, because I had my own "ah-hah!" moment in the early year or two of my big block of secret underground bases research that I began in the last week of 1992. I combed exhaustively through the open source technical, engineering, industrial and scientific literature. I mean I went all the way back to the WW-II era and came forward in time, month by month, document by document, micro-fiche by micro-fiche. It took a lot of time. I did this because of the mysterious telepathic communication I had received the last week of 1992, right out of the clear blue, specifically alerting me to the presence of massive, sophisticated, TOP SECRET, deeply buried underground bases with unbelievable, sci-fi technology. As I went along, in my tedious document search, I certainly found plentiful evidence for a decades-long program of underground base planning and construction (thus definitively corroborating that what the telepathic voice had told me is completely true); and I also found something else that I had not anticipated: research into antigravity and electrogravitics, especially up until about the mid-1950s, or so, and then it all dwindled away to almost nothing. I remember thinking at the time; "They found something, they got results, that's why the open source document trail disappears, and they took all the antigravity and electrogravitics R&D classified, DEEP TOP SECRET." And I mean that literally -- DEEP TOP SECRET, as in deep underground, in secret, underground laboratories and fabrication facilities.

In any event, I almost set off on a multi-year project of intensive study of certain aspects of mechanical engineering, physical chemistry, vector physics and electrical engineering, the better to understand the partial evidence trail I had stumbled across. But real life intruded and I spent the next decade doing other things, instead. (Funny how that works.) But I saw enough to grok the major outlines of the big picture.

Undoubtedly, with the 19th century technical advances in electrical theory and engineering, high tolerance machining of precision mechanical parts, fly wheel technology, steam power, and the like, men with clever minds and access to well-equipped machine shops, stumbled across the same realizations and discoveries as other men would, in later decades, and previously had, in far remote millennia. This must be what happened with the Sonora Aero Club. And so they tinkered, and built, and experimented, and realized they had to keep it all hidden away from ignorant, prying eyes. And along the way, they presumably also encountered the high strangeness factor that technological engineering of the time-space continuuum, of the warp and woof of consensual reality inevitably produces. The parting of the perceptual and experiential veils between dimensions and time streams and all the disconcerting weirdness that eventuates when you step out of the mass mind, and then reenter the flow, after having somehow been away to somewhen else.

The Toy Gyroscope Proof

And by the way, you can very easily demonstrate the truth of part of what I am talking about for yourself, with a basic, toy gyroscope, or a spinning top, of the sort that young boys play with. Set the gyroscope to spinning and you can even position it horizontal to the floor without it falling over. That spinning gyroscope has established a partial, localized, temporary, anti-gravity field. When it stops spinning, it topples over, it falls down. It is no longer generating a partial, localized, temporary, anti-gravity field. The same thing with the spinning top. If you whip it out there fast, often times it will spin on its side, canted at an angle to the vertical. As long as it continues to rapidly spin, it doesn't fall over.

Now imagine what has been done in secret laboratories with technology multiple orders of magnitude more powerful and sophisticated.

This is no recent thing. This type of research has been going on for at least a century, or more. After all, do you think that the mysterious airships of 1896-1897 went unremarked by the turn-of-the-century military-industrial complex? Of, course, they didn't. At least since the mid-19th century, and probably since before that, there have been at least two (and possibly more) tracks of technical development: the open, public track and the hidden, occulted, TOP SECRET track.

T. Townsend Brown

Take T. Townsend Brown, for example, who for decades was investigating antigravity and electrogravitics for various agencies of the USA military, and also in France (explore all the links), for a period of time. What Brown was investigating was essentially the physics behind what most know as UFOs or flying saucers. A great deal of his work explicitly involved literal, highly electrically charged, flying saucers.

Do your own key word searches on T. Townsend Brown, his research and his career, his interaction with the USA military agencies, and his encounter with Admiral Hyman Rickover, who discouraged him from pursuing his research further. The obvious explanation of Rickover's warning is that Brown was getting too close in his research to classified projects of the USA military-industrial complex.

Interestingly, T. Townsend Brown was from the small town of Zanesville, Ohio. As it happens, Zanesville, Ohio popped up in one of the USA military documents that my early, underground bases research uncovered. Zanesville was mentioned as the possible site of a deep military excavation. I suspect that this is not a coincidence, though I do not know if the military ever put anything underground there.

In Conclusion

So if all these great discoveries and inventions have been made, why haven't they been made public? The simple truth is that people have been killed, intimidated, threatened, warned off, their careers and family life destroyed, all for coming forth with revolutionary new technologies and scientific and engineering breakthroughs. Patrick Bailey discusses some of these unfortunate cases in his presentation, "OTHER VOICES: A SUMMARY OF RESEARCH NOT PRESENT," to the Second International Symposium on New Energy (2nd ISNE), 12-15 May 1994, in Denver, Colorado, USA. The examples of T. Townsend Brown and Lester Hendershot (see above) are also illustrative of what goes on.

What it gets down to is that there is a real nasty cabal of industrial, banking and governmental interests on this planet who are doing all within their viciously dark powers to hold back humanity and destroy the Earth. Look at what is happening in Fukushima, Japan, in Chernobyl, Ukraine because of the nuclear industry, in the Gulf of Mexico because of British Petroleum, look at what is happening to the genetic codes of food crops worldwide because of the deep evil of Monsanto, look at the hell that has been unleashed on Libya, Syria and Iraq because of the unfathomable wickedness of the Pentagon, NATO and the global petroleum industry, look at the desperate poverty that afflicts billions of people because of the profound injustice of the global banking cabal, and on and on it goes.

I think it is fair to assume that if you made a genuinely functional, antigravity vehicle (a UFO or flying saucer in ordinary parlance) and went zooming around on test flights that your breakthrough would very quickly come to the attention of those who would rather that humanity not have such technology, and the USA military would dispatch a fighter jet or two, to blast you right out of the sky and hasten you along the way to kingdom come.

It may even be that the capability exists to send out teams through time to put the kibosh on such breakthrough discoveries in other historical periods, in other places and other times, the better to suppress and control the historical timeline, to the benefit of those who would aggressively lord it over humanity, and to the detriment of everyone else.

World Trade Center Computers Transaction Surge on 9/11 // Black Eagle Trust Fund The 9/11 Attacks and the Black Eagle Trust Fund

World Trade Center Computers Transaction Surge on 9/11                                                                                                  

To see this intriguing Reuters article on the Fox News website, click here
For an intriguing follow-up and to find the article on other websites, click here

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German Firm Probes Final World Trade Center Deals

Monday, December 17, 2001http://www.wanttoknow.info/011218reuters
Reuters

German computer experts are working around the clock to unlock the truth behind an unexplained surge in financial transactions made just before two hijacked planes crashed into New York's World Trade Center Sept. 11.

Were criminals responsible for the sharp rise in credit card transactions that moved through some computer systems at the center shortly before the planes hit the twin towers? Or was it coincidence that unusually large sums of money, perhaps more than $100 million, were rushed through the computers as the disaster unfolded?

A world leader in retrieving data, German-based firm Convar is trying to answer those questions and help credit card companies, telecommunications firms and accountants in New York recover records from computer hard drives that have been partially damaged by fire, water or fine dust.

Using a pioneering laser scanning technology to find data on damaged computer hard drives and main frames found in the rubble of the World Trade Center and other nearby collapsed buildings, Convar has recovered information from 32 computers that support assumptions of dirty doomsday dealings.

"The suspicion is that inside information about the attack was used to send financial transaction commands and authorizations in the belief that amid all the chaos the criminals would have, at the very least, a good head start," said Convar director Peter Henschel.

"Of course it is also possible that there were perfectly legitimate reasons for the unusual rise in business volume," he told Reuters in an interview.

PROFITING FROM DISASTER? 

"It could turn out that Americans went on an absolute shopping binge on that Tuesday morning. But at this point there are many transactions that cannot be accounted for,'' Henschel said. 

"Not only the volume but the size of the transactions was far higher than usual for a day like that. There is a suspicion that these were possibly planned to take advantage of the chaos.'' 

Nearly 3,300 people were killed in the attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center. 

Some 30,000 people in the buildings, symbols of America's financial might, were able to escape between the time the planes crashed and about an hour later when they collapsed -- even though many of the unmanned computers continued working. 

The United States blames the al Qaeda group led by Saudi-born Osama bin Laden for the attack and has since waged war on the Taliban regime in Afghanistan that sheltered them. 

There are several data-retrieval companies in the United States and Europe, but Convar said it has won the lion's share of the contracts from the World Trade Center because of its laser scanning technology. 

Convar developed the laser scanner two years ago that made it possible to retrieve data from badly damaged computers. 

With a staff of 30 in its high-security facility in Pirmasens near the French border, the firm has worked with the U.S. armed forces in Germany as well as German federal police for the last 15 years. 

Its offices in Pirmasens, a town of 36,000 still suffering from the departure of some 4,000 American soldiers stationed here during the Cold War, are closely guarded behind high fences and monitored by dozens of security cameras. 

Inside the building, an endless series of code-operated door locks keeps unwelcome visitors away. In the center of the facility is a 1,292 square foot, dust-free "clean room" where the damaged computer drives are coaxed back to life. 

Citing client privacy, Henschel declined to say which companies Convar is working for, or provide details about the data retrieved so far. But he said the raw material, up to 40 gigabytes per computer hard drive, is sent immediately by satellite or courier back to New York. 

MONEY TRAIL 

Richard Wagner, a data retrieval expert at the company, said illegal transfers of more than $100 million might have been made immediately before and during the disaster. 

"There is a suspicion that some people had advance knowledge of the approximate time of the plane crashes in order to move out amounts exceeding $100 million,'' Wagner said. "They thought that the records of their transactions could not be traced after the main frames were destroyed.'' 

The companies are paying between $20,000 and $30,000 for each computer recovered, Henschel said. 

The high recovery costs are one reason why only a limited number of hard drives are being examined. Convar has turned down a request by one British newspaper to try to recover personal last hour e-mails sent by someone trapped in the doomed building. 

Henschel said the companies in the United States were working together with the FBI to piece together what happened Sept 11 and that he was confident the destination of the dubious transactions would one day be tracked down. 

"We have been quite surprised that so many of the hard drives were in good enough shape to retrieve the data,'' he said. 

"The contamination rate is high. The fine dust that was everywhere in the area got pressed under high pressure into the drives. But we've still been able to retrieve 100 percent of the data on most of the drives we've received. 

"We're helping them find out what happened to the computers Sept 11 as quickly as possible. I'm sure that one day they will know what happened to the money.''

Note: A German news video from March 11, 2002 at this link reveals that this work was being paid for and overseen by the U.S. Department of Defense. According to this report, over 400 hard disks had been made readable. But the results were being kept secret. A careful Internet search shows no further information on any of this. Why? Who was behind these massive trades? For a possible answer, see the highly revealing research compiled at this link.

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Black Eagle Trust Fund
The 9/11 Attacks and the Black Eagle Trust Fund

"On that fateful day [9/11], the Securities and Exchange Commission declared a national emergency, and for the first time in U.S. history, invoked its emergency powers under Securities Exchange Act Section 12(k) easing regulatory restrictions for clearing and settling security trades for the next 15 days. These changes would allow an estimated $240 billion in covert government securities to be cleared upon maturity without the standard regulatory controls around identification of ownership."

Dear friends,

Few people are aware of the huge Black Eagle Trust fund, let alone its critical relation to the 9/11 attacks. A brilliant summary of excellent information regarding this covert fund compiled by meticulous researcher E.P. Heidner ties together many previously unexplained threads in the 9/11 mystery in ways that are most compelling.

Heidner presents volumes of solid evidence to support his thesis that one of the main reasons for the attacks was to cover up the laundering of over $200 billion in bonds from this secretive fund that were to come due the day after 9/11.

Serious 9/11 researchers will likely be most grateful for the revealing connections in this careful research made between seemingly unconnected parts of the 9/11 story and the many people and organizations involved. Those less familiar with the 9/11 cover-up will almost certainly appreciate the broad overview given and the hidden history behind it all. If we follow the money, a lot of unexplained things begin to make sense.

Below are key excerpts from this remarkable paper with highlighting provided for those with limited time. If you do have time, the many diagrams, photos, and charts available in the original 58-page essay are most helpful. The full document also includes 232 footnotes for verification filling 17 pages worth of text. In the concise summary below, I've kept the original footnote numbers, so you will find they skip quite a bit. See the full essay to explore these informative footnotes. For the entire original paper with footnotes, click here.

Some readers may feel upset or overwhelmed with this material, yet the fact that you are reading this and that this powerful information is awakening many as it spreads around the Internet shows that we are making a difference. Others may be excited to finally see the bigger picture. See our "what you can do" section at the end of the article for ideas on how you can help spread the word and build a brighter future. Thanks for caring.

With best wishes, Fred Burks for PEERS and WantToKnow.info Former language interpreter for Presidents Bush and Clinton

Note: For what may be the most powerful single piece of evidence corroborating this theory, click here to read the Reuters news service article on the massive volume of electronic financial transactions conducted from inside the WTC just before the towers collapsed. Yet the investigation results are being kept secret.

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Collateral Damage: U.S. Covert Operations and the Terrorist Attacks on 9/11

The September 11th attacks were likely meant as a cover-up for financial crimes being investigated by the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), whose offices in the Pentagon were destroyed on September 11th. [1] The attacks ... were intended to cover-up the clearing of $240 billion dollars in securities covertly created in September 1991 to fund a covert economic war against the Soviet Union, during which 'unknown' western investors bought up much of the Soviet industry, with a focus on oil and gas.

The 9/11 attacks also served to derail multiple Federal investigations of crimes associated with the 1991 covert operation. Hundreds of billions of dollars of government securities had to be destroyed. A critical mass of brokers from the major government security brokerages in the Twin Towers had to be eliminated to create chaos in the government securities market. A situation needed to be created wherein $240 billion dollars of covert securities could be electronically "cleared" without anyone asking questions – which happened when the Federal Reserve declared an emergency and invoked its "emergency powers" that very afternoon. [4]

Where to Find Footnotes: To explore the excellent footnotes for the this article, see the end of full essay available here. As this is a summary, foot notes are not sequential.

There were three major securities brokers in the World Trade Center: Cantor Fitzgerald, Eurobrokers and Garbon Inter Capital. Cantor Fitzgerald was the largest securities dealer in the US [7] and arguably the primary target. [8] 41% of the fatalities in the Twin Towers came from Cantor Fitzgerald and Eurobrokers. [13] 24% of the 125 fatalities in the Pentagon were from the Naval Command Center that housed the Office of Naval Intelligence. 29 of 30 Office of Naval Intelligence employees died. The Naval Command Center had been moved into that newly opened section of the Pentagon only a month earlier. [21] And in the vaults beneath the World Trade Center Towers, any certificates for bonds were destroyed. [14]

On that fateful day, the Securities and Exchange Commission declared a national emergency, and for the first time in U.S. history, invoked its emergency powers under Securities Exchange Act Section 12(k) easing regulatory restrictions for clearing and settling security trades for the next 15 days. These changes would allow an estimated $240 billion in covert government securities to be cleared upon maturity without the standard regulatory controls around identification of ownership. [19]

The Origins of the World Trade Center Attack

Emboldened by the lack of consequences for subverting the U.S. constitution and breaking international law during the Iran-Contra scandal of the 1980s, a Bush administration group known as "the Vulcans" planned a bigger drive to crush Communism once and for all. They waged war against the Soviet Union and Iraq under George H.W. Bush, and against Iraq and Afghanistan under George W. Bush. Belonging to this group were Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Armitage, and Condoleezza Rice. [31]

The Vulcan's drive to bring an end to the Cold War was fueled by a covert war chest invisible to congressional oversight. [32] This war chest would be known by several names: Black Eagle Trust, the Marcos gold, Yamashita's Gold, the Golden Lily Treasure, the Durham Trust or Project Hammer. [33] The program also seems to have lined the pockets of the individuals that executed this policy. This was done to the tune of a staggering $240 billion dollars in covert and allegedly illegal bonds, which appear to have been replaced with Treasury notes backed by U.S. taxpayers in the aftermath of September 11.

The covert securities used to accomplish the national security objective of ending the Cold War ended up in the vaults of the brokers in the World Trade Center, and were destroyed on September 11, 2001. [36] They came due for settlement and clearing on September 12. The federal Agency investigating these bonds – The Office of Naval Intelligence – was in the section of the Pentagon that was destroyed on 9/11. [37]

To this key group of senior National Security officials called the Vulcans, who had participated in the victory of the economic cold war in 1991, the WTC, the Pentagon, the four airliners and their occupants would became 'collateral' damage in the ending of the Cold War. Their deaths were required to hide the existence of the Black Eagle Trust, and the covert activities it had funded for over 50 years. The destruction of these lives and buildings constituted a cover-up of continued lawlessness by a fraternity or brotherhood of businessmen and criminals often referred to as 'the Enterprise' in the 1980s, though it has remained in the shadows since.

Numerous sources have documented that at the end of WWII, the treasury of the Japanese Empire was discovered in the Philippines by a staff member of General Charles Willoughby, [Edward Lansdale], who was General MacArthur's chief of Intelligence. Then known as the Golden Lily Treasure, this mass of wealth had been accumulated by the Japanese through over fifty years of pillaging by its army in Southeast Asia and China. It was deposited in the Philippines due to the U.S. submarine blockade of Japan. Reports vary, but documents in the public domain suggest the recovered treasure was in excess of 280,000 metric tonnes of gold, not including jewels and diamonds. [40] After the War [Lansdale] tortured Major Kojima Kashii – General Yamashita Tomoyuki's driver – until he revealed and created a map of the gold sites. [41]

Lansdale briefed Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy about the findings, and a U.S. Cabinet level decision was made to confiscate the gold and cover-up its discovery. The gold would be added to the Black Eagle Trust fund. It was McCloy, along with Secretary of the Navy Robert B. Anderson and Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson who created the Black Eagle Trust. [42]

John McCloy, who had shared a box at the 1936 Olympics with Adolph Hitler, went on to become President of the World Bank. Robert Anderson would go on to operate the Commercial Exchange Bank in the British West Indies, be convicted of running illegal banking operations and tax evasion, and be sentenced to prison. [43] A fourth member of that group – William 'Wild Bill' Donovan – would go on to found the CIA and distribute the gold to key banks represented by his staffers.

The trust they created takes its name from the Nazi Black Eagle stamped on the gold bars of the Third Reich. Gold bullion confiscated from the Reich and not returned to its rightful owners and their heirs was the original source of funding for this trust. [44] Over the years, the significance of the Nazi gold would pale in comparison to the confiscated Japanese treasure.

The men responsible for initiating and executing the confiscation of Nazi and Japanese treasury gold represented the most senior Intelligence officers in the U.S. and Britain at the end of World War II, and the Cabinet of the President of the United States. The financial institutions represented by these individuals would become the major financial banks in the world, along with the Swiss-German banks they hid their gold in. The Yamashita gold would become the cornerstone of the Black Eagle Fund, from which many covert operations of the U.S. intelligence would be funded. [58]

Lansdale's operation in the Philippines gave birth to most of the common features of modern covert operations for U.S. Intelligence: bribery, theft, torture, and false flag operations. It would be Lansdale who would initiate a bond between the US intelligence organizations and Israeli intelligence. It would be Lansdale that would set precedents for the Intelligence community to retain the services of organized crime on U.S. soil. Lansdale would hire American Mafia family heads Carlos Marcello, Santos Trafficante, Meyer Lansky, and Lucky Luciano in the U.S. war against Fidel Castro in 1961.

It would be Lansdale's team that would propose and justify sacrificing innocent U.S. civilians in order to rally the American citizenry to support an invasion of foreign soil. This was done under a program run by Brigadier General William H. Craig, who reported to Lansdale for the Cuba project. [61] This project was called Operation Northwoods. Documents for this project would be accidentally released from the files of Robert McNamara into the public domain some 40 years later, exposing the degree to which Lansdale's operatives would go to wage war. [62] These declassified documents revealed secret plans of the U.S. military to wage a fabricated "terror" campaign against US citizens as a pretext to justify a second invasion of Cuba.

Barrick Gold would become an investment for nearly every gold bullion bank associated with the Marcos gold recovery. These banks would loan gold to Barrick, which would then sell the borrowed gold as derivatives, with the promise of replacing the borrowed gold with their gold mining operation. The records of many of those transactions disappeared when Enron collapsed and the trading operation and all its records were taken over by UBS, another major recipient of Marcos gold. The FBI was reportedly conducting an investigation into those transactions, and the investigation files were kept on the 23rd floor of the North Tower of the WTC. A review of the personal accounts of September 11 now suggests that office was deliberately targeted with explosives prior to the collapse of the WTC towers. [73]

Taking Control

In November 1980, Ronald Reagan was elected to the White House. Sixty-nine days after the inauguration, John Hinckley attempted to assassinate President Reagan. Eight days prior to that attempt, there were a series of unprecedented policy changes that put George Bush in charge of Foreign Policy and National Security. That conferred new roles and powers on Bush, including "unprecedented powers for a vice president." [85] Vice President George Bush was named the leader of the United States "crisis management'' staff, as a part of the National Security Council system. [86] Then, on March 30, 1981, just eight days after these powers were conferred on Bush, President Reagan was shot.

The father of the assassin that put Bush in power was John (a.k.a. Jack) Hinckley, Sr., the owner of Vanderbilt Oil. Hinckley had been giving maximum donations every year to George H.W. Bush since he started running for Congress. In The Black Hole of Guyana: The Untold Story of the Jonestown Massacre, John Judge painstakingly documents that Jonestown was a CIA operation for converting dispossessed and lonely refugees into assassins. In an operation that was falling under Congressional investigation, the evidence had to be eliminated – and nearly all the inhabitants were murdered to prevent disclosure. [88]

A key player in the Marcos gold would be Banker's Trust, which was taken over by Alex Brown & Sons, after Banker's Trust floundered financially on its Russian loans in the mid 1990s. These Russian loans were facilitated by Enron, starting in August of 1993, and very possibly were part of the Project Hammer takeover of Soviet industry. Alex Brown's involvement would bring to the forefront the names of three names of individuals who would play multiple roles in this mystery: Buzz Krongard, Mayo Shattuck, and J Carter Beese.

Buzz Krongard is reported as the mentor of Beese and Shattuck from their years together at Alex Brown. Additionally, he managed the merger between Bankers Trust and Deutschebank Alex Brown. Bankers Trust, Zurich was a key Marcos gold holder. Krongard would move on to become Chairman of the investment bank A.B. Brown, Vice Chairman of Banker's Trust, and Executive Director of the CIA at the time of September 11.

Mayo Shattuck would be reported to be the personal banker for Adnan Khashoggi and Edgar Bronfmann during their partnership at Barrick Gold. [107] He would move on to become the CEO of Deutschebank who would resign for unexplained reasons the day after September 11, and would not be at the WTC office that day when the tower collapsed. It was his bank that was identified as the source of the illegal stock options that indicated there was insider trading taking advantage of the September 11 tragedy.

What happened to the Marcos gold after it was confiscated by U.S. agents in 1986 has never been reported, but throughout the early 1990s, the world gold market would be befuddled by the mysterious appearance of thousands of tonnes of gold which appeared to suppress the price of gold.

In preparation for their war against Communism, and in the years leading up to the failed – or faux – coup of 1991 which initiated the last days of Gorbachev and the rise of Yeltsin, Bush and a cadre of rogue KGB officials built a complex international network of banks and holding companies that would be used to take over ownership of the Soviet economy. Over 300 of these KGB turncoats who supported this operation would later be re-located to the US in the early 1990s and pensioned. [111] Periodic CIA reports to Congress would review KGB and organized crime complicity in the takeover of Russia by criminal elements, but all mention of the formidable role of the U.S. would be expunged from Congressional oversight and the public record. [112]

In the first phase of the economic attack on the Soviet Union, George Bush authorized Leo Wanta and others to destabilize the ruble and facilitate the theft of the Soviet/Russian treasury. This would result in draining the Russian treasury of between 2,000 to 3,000 tonnes of gold bullion, ($35 billion at the time). [113] The gold was 'stolen' in March of 1991, facilitated by Leo Wanta and signed off by Boris Yeltsin's right hand man. The majority of the leaked reports from the CIA and FBI suggest the theft of the Russian treasury was a KGB and Communist party operation, but what those reports omitted was the extensive involvement of Boris Yeltsin, the U.S. banking industry and the CIA.

In the second phase, Wanta, George Soros and a group of Bush appointees would begin to destabilize the ruble. There were two major operations: the largest was coordinated by Alan Greenspan and Oliver North, and implemented by Leo Wanta.

The 9/11 Cover-up and the Black Eagle Trust

With an understanding of the economic war being waged on the Soviet Union, the focus needs to turn to reports that on September 11, 1991, President George Bush was responsible for issuing $240 billion dollars in secretive bonds as a part of this attack on the Russian ruble. There are six lines of evidence from eight sources that suggest this was indeed the case. Many of these instances are corroborated with documents available on the Internet, presented by those making the claims. [174]

The bonds sat for ten years, like a ticking time bomb. They had to be settled – or cashed in by September 12, 2001. The two firms in the U.S. most likely to be handling them would be Cantor Fitzgerald and Eurobrokers – the two largest government securities firms in the U.S. The federal agency mostly involved in investigating those transactions was the Office of Naval Intelligence. On 9/11, those same three organizations: the two largest government securities brokers and the Office of Naval Intelligence in the US took direct hits.

What happened inside the buildings of the World Trade on September 11 is difficult, but not impossible to discern. The government has put a seal on the testimony gathered by the investigating 911 Commission, and instructed government employees to not speak on the matter or suffer severe penalties, but there are a number of personal testimonies posted on the Internet as to what happened in those buildings that day.

Careful reconstruction from those testimonies indicates the deliberate destruction of evidence not only by a targeted assault on the buildings, but also by targeted fires and explosions. In the event that either the hijacking failed, or the buildings were not brought down, the evidence would be destroyed by fires. In addition to the investigative evidence being destroyed, the Federal Register reported that the physical securities held by the brokers in their vaults had been destroyed.

What would be even more revealing would be the actions of the Federal Reserve Bank and the Securities and Exchange Commission on that day, and in the immediate aftermath. As one of many coincidences on 9/11, the Federal Reserve Bank was operating its information system from its remote back-up site rather than it's downtown headquarters. The SEC and Federal Reserve system remained unfazed by the attack. All of their systems continued to operate. The two major security trading firms had their trade data backed up on remote systems. Nevertheless, the Commission for the first time invoked its emergency powers under Securities Exchange Act Section 12(k) and issued several orders to ease certain regulatory restrictions temporarily.

The Federal Reserve Suspends the Rules

On the first day of the crisis, the SEC lifted "Rule 15c3-3: Customer Protection – Reserves and Custody of Securities." Thus GSCC [Government Securities Clearing Corporation] was thus allowed to substitute other securities for the physical securities destroyed during the attack. "...collateral substitutions can and should be made with regard to immediately maturing collateral." [191] At this point in time, the Federal Reserve and its GSCC had created a settlement environment totally void of controls and reporting – where it could substitute valid, new government securities for the mature, illegal securities, and not have to record where the original bad securities had come from, or where the new securities went – all because the paper for the primary brokers for US securities had been eliminated.

A review of the explanations for the actions of the Federal Reserve after September 11th exposes an amazingly complex web of analysis and speculation. The reports published by the Federal Reserve argue that the Federal Reserve's actions increasing the monetary supply by over $300 billion were justified to overcome operational difficulties in the financial sector. While impressive as the reports are, what is noted by the casual reader is that all of the Federal Reserve analysis is speculative and suggestive, using phraseology such as "may have," "likely," "presumably," or "should have." There are few – if any – definitive statements about root cause and the appropriateness of the Federal Reserve response.

While the Fed was reporting outstanding account balances of over $100 billion per day (while not identifying the banks involved), the Wall Street Journal reported that at one point during the week after 9/11, BoNY was publicly reported to be overdue on $100 billion in payments. [198] The Deutschebank, which sat inside the WTC and was totally decimated, reported no such account balance increase, and JP Morgan, the other of only two clearing banks which uses the same traders and communications hub, reported no such increase in its account balance. No one has publicly asked: why is it that these other two banks were not seriously disrupted, while the Bank of New York – which had no structural damage – seemed unable to operate?

Certain key unknown figures in the Federal Reserve may have 'conspired' with key unknown figures at the Bank of New York to create a situation where $240 billion in off balance sheet securities created in 1991 as part of an official covert operation to overthrow the Soviet Union, could be cleared without publicly acknowledging their existence. These securities, originally managed by Cantor Fitzgerald, were cleared and settled in the aftermath of September 11th through the BoNY. The $100 billion account balance bubble reported by the Wall Street Journal as being experienced in the BoNY was tip of a three day operation, when these securities were moved from off-balance-sheet to the balance sheet.

[As reported on page 12 of a Federal Reserve document] "In the absence of complete information on deliveries into and out of its account at BoNY on September 11, and as a result of its assumption of settlement fails on the starting legs of blind-brokered RPs, GSCC recorded (after the close of business on September 11) $266 billion in transactions that apparently failed to settle.... Continuing connectivity problems prevented GSCC from giving BoNY delivery instructions after the close of business on September 11 and prevented it from acquiring information on activity in its account at BoNY during the day on September 12. Consequently, GSCC recorded $440 billion in settlement fails as of the close of business on September 12." [201]

What appears to be the case is that the Federal Reserve imbalances reported on three consecutive days in the aftermath were largely concentrated at the Bank of New York, which is reported to represent over 90% of the imbalance, suggesting the Bank had been the recipient of massive fund transfers, and unable to send out transfers. Overall transactions for the day of 9/11 were seemingly down even more significantly than volume, but the transactions that came in after closing were extremely large, averaging in size in packages of $35 million or more. This would be consistent with a hypothesis that $240 billion of securities were being pushed surreptitiously into the money supply.

The Federal Reserve, without providing the detail required to substantiate it's claims, would have the public believe that there were widespread liquidity issues, when in fact the issues were very concentrated primarily, if not singularly, in the BoNY, which has been the subject of an ongoing major money-laundering investigation for many years. These account balance issues resulted in the defacto expansion of the monetary supply, details of which are no longer reported by the Federal Reserve.

The reported cause of this market malfunction is seemingly suspect. By comparison, the Deutschebank which sat inside the World Trade Center reported no such account balance increase, and JP Morgan, the other of two clearing banks which uses the same traders and communications hub, reported no such increase in account balance. Additionally, while problems were being documented between the BoNY and GCSS, no other institution had those problems.

There is a contention that at the core of the September 11th attack, someone was planning to cover the 1991 issuance of $240 billion in covert securities used to finance the collapse the Soviet Union. The facts surrounding the financial aftermath of September 11 suggest this is not only possible, but that reports describing the aftermath have deliberately been misleading.

• The US dollar money supply was significantly increased in the aftermath of 9/11;
• The bank at the core of the illegal money laundering by ex-Soviet criminals was the source of the increased money supply (BoNY);
• The generally disseminated rationale for BoNY's operational problems seems to have affected no other bank in a similar manner or magnitude and is inconsistent with reports on the BoNY operations in the aftermath;
• A key witness who might provide insight to these issues is a statistically aberrant death;
• The source of the BoNY's $330 billion increase in assets is cloaked under the privilege of "private banking;"
• The only alleged "severe" disruption to the financial systems was the Federal Reserves account balance and the securities trading fails – both systems required to hide the laundering of $240 billion in covert securities.

This is not a 'proof' that $240 billion was laundered, but it provides probable cause for paying serious attention.

Conclusion

History has many interpretations, and this report has been just one of many – an interpretation pieced together from the bold admissions and revelations of insiders, whose stories have been ignored and suppressed by the major media organizations. It is an interpretation of history that suggests a few determined men strove to change the world in defense of Western capitalism in ways which they felt needed to be hidden from the public. Whatever emotion or logic that was adequate to cause them to hide their actions from the public was not strong enough to prevent them from committing the acts.

Where to Find Footnotes: To explore the excellent footnotes for the above article, see the end of full essay available here.

Author's Note: This is the condensed version of this story. The author cannot vouch for the accuracy of the source materials, although efforts have been made to validate the consistency of the story line with as many references as possible. There is no single fact or reference that this story is dependent on. The author expects some details to be disputed, and possibly disproved, but contends that the story line will hold true regardless.

Note from Fred: Though I doubt this was the only reason for 9/11, it was likely one of the main motivators. For what may be the most powerful single piece of evidence corroborating this theory, click here to read the Reuters news service article on the massive volume of electronic financial transactions conducted from inside the WTC just before the buildings collapsed. Yet the investigation results are being kept secret. For an excellent 44-minute documentary which goes into this and much more, click here.

The War on Terror is a Fraud: How the West has Fostered Radical Islam and Actively Keeps it Alive.

The War on Terror is a Fraud: How the West has Fostered Radical Islam and Actively Keeps it Alive.

"In the mid-'80s, if you remember... Saudi Arabia and the United States were supporting the Mujahideen to liberate Afghanistan from the Soviets. He [Osama bin Laden] came to thank me for my efforts to bring the Americans, our friends, to help us against the atheists, he said the communists. Isn't it ironic?" - Prince Bandar bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia, on Larry King Live¹

http://www.thepeopleshistory.net/2013/06/the-war-on-terror-is-fraud-how-west-has.html

President Reagan meets with members of the Mujahideen in the Oval Office, 1985

In 2009, a series of events occurred that ought to have raised questions in the press. First, the United States began a troop surge in Afghanistan designed to deliver the final blow to the Taliban insurgency.² Then the United States provided a $7.5 billion aid package to Pakistan.³ Around the same time, the Carnegie Foundation published a study which revealed a majority of Pakistan aid goes to the intelligence agency ISI and the military.⁴ The problem with these three events is that earlier in the year, U.S. officials revealed to the New York Times that the ISI was funding the Taliban, and was responsible for providing direct assistance and helping with some of their strategic strikes.⁵

 

The press did cover these stories, but independent of one another. Not one media institution connected the dots that the United States was actively funding the harm that its armed forces were simultaneously fighting. Following the official narrative of the war, it certainly doesn't make any sense that the United States was indirectly prolonging the quagmire. Perhaps such mistakes are the inevitability of a bloated war bureaucracy, or that U.S. officials simply didn't realize the connection. Unfortunately, a collection of evidence points to a more sinister explanation: the United States and its allies have been deliberately proliferating radical Islam for decades, only to later spend trillions fighting the enemy they created.

Just days after the July 7, 2005 London terror attack, and less than a month before his untimely death, the Right Honorable Robin Cook, former UK Foreign Secretary, wrote a scathing and emotional review of the War on Terror in The Guardian.

“Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the '80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Al-Qaida, 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. Inexplicably, and with disastrous consequences, it never appears to have occurred to Washington that once Russia was out of the way, Bin Laden's organization would turn its attention to the west.”⁶

While Cook's remarks were downplayed and ridiculed by the mainstream media and the United Kingdom establishment at the time, available evidence shows his assertions to be largely correct.

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Operation Cyclone

"They [the CIA] told me these people were fanatical, and the more fierce they were the more fiercely they would fight the Soviets... I warned them that we were creating a monster." - Scholar Selig Harrison⁷

The story begins in 1978 shortly after the Saur Revolution, which resulted in the communist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan gaining control of the Afghanistan government. The CIA immediately initiated a program known as Operation Cyclone and began funding militant Islamic groups favored by the Pakistani intelligence agency ISI, to the tune of 7.5 billion.⁸ The money went to producing, training, and arming militant Islamic radicals who be directed towards fighting the secular communist government. At the time, the Mujahideen was composed of many different, loosely organized groups encompassing a broad spectrum of ideologies, with widely varying perspectives on religion, society and state. Seven major Afghan factions began receiving aid, three of them Islamic moderates and four of them Islamic fundamentalists as defined by the military, and in addition to native Afghans they were composed of many foreigners who traveled to fight the invasion, such as Osama bin Laden himself.⁹

 

To understand the scope of the funding, the BBC stated that the CIA provided enough arms to equip a 240,000 man army, and Saudi Arabia matched them dollar for dollar.¹⁰ The weapons given to these fighters were not just AK-47s and other simple arms. Many were high tech, such as Stinger Anti-Aircraft missiles¹¹, provided with the intention of demoralizing Soviet commanders and soldiers.¹²

The majority of the funding was funneled through the ISI, which acted as an arm of CIA interests and began setting up religious schools known as Madrassas in Pakistan cities and frontier areas, churning out tens of thousands of students who would join the Mujahideen.¹³ (Note: Madrassas are not inherently negative institutions, however the ones who received funding from the CIA were particularly radical).

All of this began before the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. A full 6 months, according to Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Carter's National Security Advisor, who recalled his involvement to a French news magazine in 1998:

"We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would... That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Soviets into the Afghan trap. The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border I wrote to President Carter, 'We now have the opportunity of giving the Soviet Union its Vietnam War.'"¹⁴

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Early Years of Osama Bin Laden

When Osama bin Laden arrived in Afghanistan from Saudi Arabia, he created a group called Maktab al-Khidamat, abbreviated as MAK, a precursor to Al-Qaeda. It is frequently claimed that the CIA directly funded this group, though top CIA officers say that this is not the case. It has been confirmed, at least, that the MAK did receive funding from the ISI,¹⁵ the CIA's primary conduit for conducting their covert war against Russia. 


CIA Station Chief in Afghanistan Milt Bearden has stated that he was well aware of Bin Laden in the Mujahideen, and welcomed his efforts in funding, though he never met with him personally.¹⁶ Bin Laden also brought in construction equipment from his fathers company Saudi Binladen Group, considered the largest construction firm in the world, to build training camps, in collaboration with the ISI and CIA.¹⁷

 

In 1986, Osama used his construction assets to build a CIA financed tunnel complex to serve as a training facility. It was also a major arms and medical depot for the Mujahideen in the Peshawar mountains near Pakistan which was later used by Al-Qaeda.¹⁸ 15 years later, the Western Media would describe Al-Qaeda as hiding out in caves, but the truth is a little more complex: there were intricate tunnels connecting hundreds of different caves, a majority of them man-made, equipped with irrigation systems, accommodation for trucks and even tanks, hotels, mosques, arms depots, medical and radio centers, and kitchens.¹⁹ In short, it is more accurate to call them mountain fortresses.

Al-Qaeda was formed sometime between 1987-88, with the radical elements of MAK joining after the group split.

It is apparent that the CIA had no plan to deal with the tunnel complex after the conclusion of Operation Cyclone, though surely that must have been aware that the cadre of radicals they were instrumental in producing would not simply disappear or de-radicalize. Perhaps long term destabilization of the country was their plan all along. 

 

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The Taliban

Evidence suggests that the Taliban is actively involved with Al-Qaeda. For example, one 1998 State Department cable claimed that: "Taliban Leader Mullah Omar lashed out at the U.S., asserting that the Taliban will continue providing a safe haven for Bin Laden."²⁰

There is plenty of evidence that Pakistan's ISI currently actively funds the Taliban and other terrorist cells as well, while barring the U.S. military from operating in the tribal areas. A 2010 BBC article stated that the ISI was giving “funding, training and sanctuary to the Afghan Taliban on a scale much larger than previously thought,” going as far as to say that support for the Taliban was “official ISI policy.” Since 9/11, the United States has given Pakistan over $15 billion, much of which goes to the ISI and military.²¹

Current Vice President Joe Biden said himself in 2003 that the ISI was either turning a blind eye or cooperating with the Taliban. In addition, some members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee "contend that the intelligence service may have provided money, weapons and broadcast equipment to Taliban fighters now in Pakistan to transmit anti-Karzai, anti-American messages into Afghanistan."²² BBC has reported on a secret NATO document which notes: "Pakistan's manipulation of the Taliban senior leadership continues unabated."²³

A report published by the London School of Economics gave 9 in depth interviews with Taliban insurgent commanders. They suggest that the ISI has members on the Taliban leadership council, though they expressed fear of assassination if they went into to much depth on this topic.²⁴

It's not hard to establish that the United States has allied itself with one of the biggest funders of terrorism in the Middle East, a fact which blatantly clashes with the official narrative of Western involvement in the region. It makes much more sense when understood in the context that the goal of the United States in the Middle East is not the prevention of terrorism, but rather for political, military and economic hegemony.

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Osama Runs Wild

“I do not profess a broad expertise in international affairs, but between January 1996 and June 1999 I was in charge of running operations against Al-Qaeda from Washington. When it comes to this small slice of the large U.S. national security pie, I speak with firsthand experience (and for several score of CIA officers) when I state categorically that during this time senior White House officials repeatedly refused to act on sound intelligence that provided multiple chances to eliminate Osama bin Laden -- either by capture or by U.S. military attack. I witnessed and documented, along with dozens of other CIA officers, instances where life-risking intelligence-gathering work of the agency's men and women in the field was wasted.” - Michael Scheuer, 22 year veteran of the CIA²⁵

A 2001 Washington Post article states that in 1996 the government of Sudan offered to keep tabs on Osama, or if that did not suffice, arrest him and hand him over to either the United States or Saudi custody.²⁶

"The Sudanese security services, he said, would happily keep close watch on bin Laden for the United States. But if that would not suffice, the government was prepared to place him in custody and hand him over, though to whom was ambiguous. In one formulation, Erwa said Sudan would consider any legitimate proffer of criminal charges against the accused terrorist." Their negotiations concluded as such: ""We said he will go to Afghanistan, and they [U.S. officials] said, 'Let him.'"

The Clinton administration claimed that they lacked criminal charges to pin on Bin Laden, though this explanation is a farce, as within a year ago previous they had named him as a co-conspirator in the World Trade Center bombing, among other terrorist activities.²⁷ Just a year later, the Clinton administration would commit the egregious war crime of the bombing of the Sudanese Al-Shifa pharmaceutical factory, which provided 50% of the medicine for Sudan.²⁸ The destruction of the factory was estimated to be responsible for the deaths of “several tens of thousands” of people according to the German ambassador to Sudan, on a much flimsier pretext.²⁹ Interestingly, the pretext of the Al-Shifa bombing is that the factory had ties to Bin Laden, in the very country that had proposed to extradite him, by the very people who declined to accept his arrest.

A 2002 article in The Guardian reveals that the first INTERPOL arrest warrant for Bin Laden came from Libya's Muammar Gaddafi in 1998.³⁰ It also uncovered that the MI6 paid large sums of money to an Al-Qaeda cell in Libya in a failed attempt to assassinate Gaddafi. Perhaps this is why U.S. and U.K. intelligence agencies apparently buried the fact that Libya had issued the warrant for Bin Laden's arrest and downplayed the threat he posed. 5 months after the arrest warrant was issued, Al-Qaeda killed over 200 people in bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.³¹ These actions are consistent with the trend of working with Al-Qaeda when they shared the same goals, and fighting them when war in the region was a strategic geopolitical move.

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US Trained Terrorists

It has been widely reported, thanks to revelations by ABC reporter John Cooley, that some Islamic fundamentalists were trained in the United States in the 1980's, by way of Camp Peary, the CIA spy base in Virginia, being flown in from places such as Jordan, Egypt and even Africa.³² It raises the question of how many such camps existed beyond the United States. Regardless, there have been some astonishing revelations of terrorists trained within the US borders.

One specifically alarming case is that of Egyptian Ali Muhammed. He was a part of the fundamentalist military unit that assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981. In 1984, he was hired by the CIA, though they claim that the relationship was short-lived.³³ He would soon join the military and become a member of the Green Berets, and serve as a drill sergeant at Fort Bragg while providing clandestine training to jihadists such as Mahmud Abaouhalima, convicted perpetrator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombings.³⁴

He would take a short leave from his military duties and travel to Afghanistan in 1988 to assist the Mujahideen, returning just months later.³⁵ Such an act is completely unheard of, entirely unprecedented and raises all sorts of red flags. Who was allowing Muhammed to circumvent the law and what type of special privileges and protections was he receiving?
In the early 1990's he would return to Afghanistan and began training jihadists with the skills he had learned at Fort Bragg. According to former FBI special agent Jack Cloonan, in an interview with PBS, his first training session included Osama bin Laden, as well as Ayman al-Zawahiri, the current leader of Al-Qaeda.³⁶

Former Directors of Counter-terrorism at the National Security Council have alleged that Muhammed took maps and training materials from Fort Bragg and used them to write the Al-Qaeda terrorist training manual.³⁷

Muhammed's superior at Fort Bragg, Lt. Col. Robert Anderson, has stated:

“I think you or I would have a better chance of winning the Powerball lottery, than an Egyptian major in the unit that assassinated Sadat would have getting a visa, getting to California, getting into the Army and getting assigned to a Special Forces unit. That just doesn’t happen.”³⁸

Elsewhere he stated: "It was unthinkable that an ordinary American GI would go unpunished after fighting in a foreign war," and that he assumed that Muhammed was sponsored by the CIA.³⁹

In the year 2000, Muhammed plead guilty to involvement in the 1998 embassy bombings that killed 224 people including 12 Americans.⁴⁰ He admitted during the trial that he was a part of a broader plot to attack any Western target in the Middle East, as well as admitting that he helped transfer Osama bin Laden from Pakistan to Sudan.

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United States and Al-Qaeda Have The Same Agenda

In 2011, NATO, led by Barack Obama and the United States, initiated military action against Libya by enforcing a No Fly Zone and carried out numerous air strikes, including one against Libyan state TV which killed 3 journalists.⁴¹ Downplayed in Western media was the fact that the 'rebels' consisted of various factions of radical Islamists, many who had been fighting Gaddafi for decades and had their roots in the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, such as the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, whose goal is to implement an Islamic state.⁴²  CNN has reported on widespread abuses against civilians from these groups after Gaddafi was ousted from power, including the use of landmines and other deadly equipment.⁴³  Many of the rebels have admitted links to Al-Qaeda⁴⁴, whom had declared support for the rebels in Libya.⁴⁵

 
The Washington Post has reported that a former Al-Qaeda member has estimated there to be 1000 'freelance jihadists' that have traveled to Libya to support the rebels, many affiliated with Al-Qaeda, and also that Libya has one of the highest domestic Al-Qaeda populations in the Middle East, quoting a 2007 West Point study on the subject.⁴⁶

In 1999, the United States decided to support the Kosovo Liberation Army, allies of Al-Qaeda. Bill Clinton framed the intervention in humanitarian terms despite the fact that staggering atrocities were being committed on both sides.⁴⁷ French News Agency AFP reported that members of the KLA had been trained by Bin Laden⁴⁸, and the Washington Times reported that the KLA bankrolled their operations with funds from the heroin trade in Afghanistan and had accepted money from Bin Laden himself.⁴⁹

The Mujahideen, many specifically members of Al-Qaeda, were also instrumental in Bosnia during the NATO intervention in 1993. Their presence is still a factor of instability today.⁵⁰ It is of significance that all of these associations occurred after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, when Al-Qaeda first became widespread in the American lexicon.

Barack Obama has been arming rebels in Syria, beginning secretly with CIA arms airlifts in 2012⁵¹, citing many of the same reasons for intervention that Clinton did in 1999, despite domestic and foreign ally opposition.^52 53 Once again, many of the rebels have been associated with Al-Qaeda and labeled terrorist organizations by the US.⁵⁴

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The Source of Radicalism

Earlier I mentioned CIA funded madrassas being a source of Islamic radicalism in the 1980's. They have been an important factor in the radicalization of Islam ever since. As of 2008, there are ~750 madrassas in Pakistan that teach jihad and radicalism, about 10% of all madrassas in the country (and I want to emphasize that this section is referring to specific radical iterations of Madrassas, not simply applying a blanket generalization to the religious style of education).⁵⁵ U.S. diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks revealed that the funding for these radical schools now comes from Saudi Arabia, the United States' biggest ally in the region.⁵⁶ The radical madrassa network exploits impoverished areas by recruiting children for what essentially amounts to indoctrination camps. In exchange, families receive upwards of $6,500 per son for their 'sacrifice to Islam', and during schooling, contact with families is forbidden. After graduation, many are funneled into terrorist training camps in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, the cables stated.

PBS Frontline did a story on a 16 year old who was recruited to a Pakistan Wahhabi Islam madrassa from an impoverished area in East Africa.⁵⁷ A few years later, he was instrumental in a terror plot, blowing up the US Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. The PBS website hosts a letter he wrote to his brother, in which he says he spent two years on a military base learning warfare, including the usage of Israeli arms.⁵⁸

Is the CIA still involved? The House of Saud has given at least $1.474 billion dollars to the Bush family⁵⁹, and the United States sold Saudi Arabia $60 billion worth of arms in 2010, the biggest arms sale in American history.⁶⁰ Before he was president, George H.W. Bush was the Director of the CIA. As recently as June 25th, 2013, Secretary of State John Kerry announced that Saudi Arabia is 'one of our closest partners'.⁶¹ At the very least we can establish complicity.

Regardless, the United States' relationship with Saudi Arabia ought to raise a lot of important questions. On November 4^th, 2013, Secretary of State John Kerry hailed Saudi Arabia as a very important ally to the United States.⁶² How can we reconcile this stance with the 2010 cable leaks revealing that former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton said that donors in the kingdom “constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide,” and that “it has been an ongoing challenge to persuade Saudi officials to treat terrorist financing emanating from Saudi Arabia as a strategic priority”?⁶³ It is clear that the United States views their geopolitical relationship with Saudi Arabia to be much more important than combating terrorism, despite U.S. Involvement in the Middle East being saturated with rhetoric about the War on Terror. The same statement can be applied to the relationship with Pakistan, who is instrumental in the operations of the Taliban.

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Double Agents

The assassination of high-profile Pakistan tribal leader Qari Zainuddin was widely reported in the Western media.⁶⁴ Only days before his assassination he had renounced his support of the Taliban, claiming that their actions were un-Islamic. What the Western media neglected to report but was widely reported in Pakistan and other countries was Zainuddin had previously claimed that Baitullah Mehsud, the man who ended up ordering his assassination, was an American agent.⁶⁵

The claim that American agents operate in the Taliban sounds far-fetched but there have been some eye-opening reports that confirm the possibility. For example, a 2004 article in the UK publication Times Online reported that a high ranking Al-Qaeda member had been revealed to be a double agent working for MI5.

“Abu Qatada boasted to MI5 that he could prevent terrorist attacks and offered to expose dangerous extremists, while all along he was setting up a haven for his terror organisation in Britain."⁶⁶

Abu Qatada has been imprisoned multiple times in Britain but has not been charged with any crimes. During his career he has issued fatwahs justifying the killing of converts from Islam, advocated the killing of Jews, praised attacks on America, and convicted of charges of terrorism in Jordan, all while working in association with MI5.⁶⁷

 
A 2002 article published by French news organization AFP states that Palestine security forces had arrested a group of Palestinians who had confessed to collaborating with Israel and posing as operatives of Al-Qaeda.⁶⁸

“He [Palestinian Authority Official] said the alleged collaborators sought to "discredit the Palestinian people, justify every Israeli crime and provide reasons to carry out a new (military) aggression in the Gaza Strip."

The arrest came just two days after Ariel Sharon claimed that Al-Qaeda militants were operating in Gaza and Lebanon, likely in an attempt to justify future military action. BBC has also reported on this story.⁶⁹

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“The Official Story”

The official story is that Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda found new enemies in the U.S. after the Cold War when the United States began occupying military bases in Saudi Arabia. It sounds plausible, but does not stand up to deeper scrutiny.

In 1993, Scott Armstrong, at the time the top investigative reporter for the Washington Post, gave some tremendously revealing interviews with PBS Frontline. In an episode titled "The Arming of Saudi Arabia", he stated that the United States and Saudi Arabia had jointly conspired to covertly build $200 billion worth of military installations between the years 1979 and 1992.⁷⁰ Steve Coll, eminent Bin Laden biographer, states that the Binladen group received a multitude of these contracts, with the knowing intent to support and house US military personal during wars that may threaten Saudi territory.⁷¹

This occurred during the same time that Osama bin Laden was actively using Binladen Group assets to build extensive infrastructure in Afghanistan. Surely he was aware of the construction of the military bases and who intended to occupy them, yet he did not have a problem then with the prospect then.

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Money

During the peak of World War II, military and defense spending reached a rate of over 40% of the United States Gross Domestic Product.⁷² Even after a massive demobilization, the military-industrial complex had grown to a behemoth, averaging over 7% of GDP throughout the Cold War. According to the Cato Institute, the United States spent a total of $6 trillion on military and intelligence in just 4 decades during the Cold War, a staggering sum. 

 

After the Soviet Union was defeated, the Military Industrial Complex experienced a steady decline, accounting for just 3.7% of GDP in the year 2000. This changed on 9/11, when the MIC found that they could turn their old friends into new enemies to fight, and their percentage of GDP has more than doubled in the last decade.⁷³

 

Congress has officially authorized more than 1.3 trillion dollars to fight the war on terror, and a Brown University study says this is just the tip of the iceberg: Even if the War on Terror were to begin de-escalating now, it would end up costing a total of 3.9 trillion between domestic spending, veterans costs, and interest.⁷⁴ The money comes from the taxpayers of the United States, whether directly or indirectly, and goes to the pockets of defense contractors and banks.

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Al-Qaeda Today

In 2003, Donald Rumsfeld wrote a memo to the Joint Chiefs of Staff where he stated that “We need to stop populating Guantanamo Bay with low-level enemy combatants.”⁷⁵ The memo was uncovered in 2011. Over 750 prisoners have gone through Guantanamo, most being released without charges.⁷⁶ Of the ~160 prisoners in Guantanamo Bay today, half have been cleared for release but are still being detained.⁷⁷ Former CIA Director Leon Panetta said in 2010 that there were less than 100 Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.⁷⁸

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Conclusion

After trillions of dollars spent, hundreds of thousands of deaths, repeated domestic rights infringements, we are left with only a handful of proven Al-Qaeda members, with a majority of prisoners simply being held without charges. The organization purported to be a sprawling monster after the September 11^th attacks has been revealed to be a shell of an operation, financed by wealthy US allies. The result is endless war: Politicians, military and media shine the light just right to make the shadow of the mouse look huge and monstrous to justify endless profits. The media is not even connecting the most basic of dots to reveal the tremendous deception.

The evidence is a repeated policy of the destabilization of Central Asia and the development of Islamic radicals that spans decades. The result is a new global enemy without borders or diplomatic representation that can be fought indefinitely. Unless significant changes are made, we are looking at a future with an endless war on 'terrorism' where more terrorists are created daily by the very policies that are meant to be fighting them, and a foreign policy dictated by the whims of war profiteering. 

 

And what kind of influence are we having in the Middle East? The rhetoric of 'bringing Democracy to the peoples of Iraq and Afghanistan' would be laughable were it not such a grandiose and destructive lie. The impact of American intervention in these two countries has been disastrous.

“The biggest source of corruption in Afghanistan,” one American official said, “was the United States.” - New York Times⁷⁹

The New York Times article describes how the CIA routinely funneled millions of dollars without oversight in unmarked bags to the offices of President Hamid Karzai, while simultaneously denouncing the Iranian policy of doing the exact same thing. U.S. officials are quoted as saying that instead of buying the loyalty of the Afghan President, the payments instead proliferated into a vast web of corruption while Karzai became increasingly defiant of U.S. interests.

In Iraq, the country has devolved into near anarchy with monthly death tolls from terrorism sometimes reaching the 1000's. In 2004, the New York Times reported that there was a massive assassination campaign targeting intellectuals and professionals, with between 500 and 1,000 urban professionals killed in just a 9 month span.⁸⁰ From drive by shootings to stealth murders in the victims home, officials in Iraq agree that there is a massive campaign to silence the capable and educated. 

 

“'They are going after our brains,' said Lt. Col. Jabbar Abu Natiha, head of the organized crime unit of the Baghdad police. 'It is a big operation. Maybe even a movement.' These white-collar killings, American and Iraqi officials say, are separate from -- and in some ways more insidious than -- the settling of scores with former Baath Party officials, or the singling-out of police officers and others thought to be collaborating with the occupation. Hundreds of them have been attacked as well in an effort to sow insecurity and chaos. But by silencing urban professionals, said Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, a spokesman for the occupation forces, the guerrillas are waging war on Iraq's fledgling institutions and progress itself. The dead include doctors, lawyers and judges.”

In other words, Iraq is being left without the very people who could have been future leaders of democracy, and whom could have established a functioning society. Shortly afterwords, a corporate friendly government was established. 

 

Furthermore, it is not empty rhetoric to say that the Iraq invasion was based on lies. In 2012, the Iraqi defector responsible for the 'evidence' of chemical weapon production in Iraq which was presented to the United Nations by Colin Powell, who portrayed it is “facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence”, confessed to BBC that his claims were entirely fabricated.⁸¹ Clearly there is an agenda that does not mesh with the rhetoric!

Will the War on Terror ever end? Who truly has the incentive to scale back the operation? Not clandestine agencies or the military, who are seeing their budgets increase year by year. Certainly not any of the major influences in politics, banks and corporations, who are seeing massive profits from government contracts and resource exploitation. And most certainly not any politician in Washington, who virtually rely on the lobbying of these organizations to keep their jobs. 

  

Journalist Glenn Greenwald put it succinctly:

“But what one can say for certain is that there is zero reason for US officials to want an end to the war on terror, and numerous and significant reasons why they would want it to continue. It's always been the case that the power of political officials is at its greatest, its most unrestrained, in a state of war. Cicero, two thousand years ago, warned that "In times of war, the law falls silent" (Inter arma enim silent leges). John Jay, in Federalist No. 4, warned that as a result of that truth, "nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it . . . for the purposes and objects merely personal, such as thirst for military glory, revenge for personal affronts, ambition, or private compacts to aggrandize or support their particular families or partisans." If you were a US leader, or an official of the National Security State, or a beneficiary of the private military and surveillance industries, why would you possibly want the war on terror to end? That would be the worst thing that could happen. It's that war that generates limitless power, impenetrable secrecy, an unquestioning citizenry, and massive profit.” - Glenn Greenwald, writing for The Guardian⁸²

Greenwald also notes the hopelessness of combating terrorism with further violence. 

 

“Indeed, virtually every person accused of plotting to target the US with terrorist attacks in last several years has expressly cited increasing US violence, aggression and militarism in the Muslim world as the cause. There's no question that this "war" will continue indefinitely. There is no question that US actions are the cause of that, the gasoline that fuels the fire.

But the notion that the US government is even entertaining putting an end to any of this is a pipe dream, and the belief that they even want to is fantasy. They're preparing for more endless war; their actions are fueling that war; and they continue to reap untold benefits from its continuation. Only outside compulsion, from citizens, can make an end to all of this possible.”

Food for Thought:

1. How close of a relationship did the CIA maintain with Osama bin Laden after Operation Cyclone?

2. Why does the United States consider Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, the two largest funders of terrorism, our biggest allies in the region? 
   
   
    
3. How closely does the CIA work with the intelligence agencies of these countries?
   
   
   
   
4. How many agents does the United States have operating in Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, and how many atrocities are they responsible for?
   
   
   
   
5. Why have Al-Qaeda and the United States fought on the same side of multiple wars?
   
   
   
   
6. Why have so few Al-Qaeda been apprehended after over a decade of fighting the War on Terror and millions of dollars spent?

7. Who has a monetary stake in the proliferation of terrorism, and how much influence do they hold in official U.S. Policy? 
   
   

Note: This information is also a part of my free eBook, 'Lifting the Veil: An Investigative History of the United States Pathocracy'. If you enjoy this post, please download the book by clicking this link.

1CNN, “America's New War: Responding to Terrorism,” October 1, 2001

2Wall Street Journal, “Obama Bets Big on Troop Surge”, December 2, 2009. In 2009, Barack Obama ordered a surge of 30,000 troops in Afghanistan to fight the War on Terror.

3Newsweek, “About Those Billions”, October 20, 2009. The $7.5 Billion in aid to Pakistan tripled previous agreements, and locked in the economic alliance for another 5 years.

4Carnegie Foundation,“Who Benefits from aid to Pakistan?”

5New York Times, “Afghan Strikes By Taliban Get Pakistan Help, U.S. Aides Say,” March 25, 2009

6The Guardian, “The Struggle Against Terrorism Cannot Be Won By Military Means,” July 8, 2005. A great article written by Robert Cook, whose life was tragically cut short within a year of its publication from a heart attack worth reading in its entirety.

7Selig's full comments available here.

8Figure taken from Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency, in a briefing to the Pakistan parliament.

9The major factions who received aid are detailed in an article published in the Journal of Slavic Military Studies, written by Retired Army Col. Lester W. Grau.

10BBC, “Pakistans Shadowy Secret Service,” October 9, 2006

11Slate, “Stingers, Stingers, Who's Got The Stingers?” October 3, 2001

12Washington Post, “Osama bin Laden Created By The US,” 1992

13BBC, “Pakistans Shadowy Secret Service,” October 9, 2006

14Bilveer Singh, “The Talibanization of Southeast Asia,” Excerpt available here.

15Information taken from GlobalSecurity.org, a respected institution in the intelligence community.

16David Helms and Norm Dixon, “Behind the US War in Afghanistan.”

17New York Times, “The Most Wanted Face of Terrorism”, May 2, 2011.

18The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “How a Holy War Against the Soviets Turned Against the US,” September 23, 2001. Written by respected investigative journalist and Middle-East insider Ahmed Rashid

19Mir Bahmanyar, “Afghanistan Cave Complexes 1979-2004: Mountain strongholds of the Mujahideen.”

20Diplomatic cable available here.

21BBC, “Pakistani agents 'funding and training Afghan Taliban',” June 13, 2010

22New York Times, “Threats and Responses: Afghanistan,” February 13, 2002

23BBC, “Pakistan Helping Afghan Taliban – NATO,” February 1, 2012

24London School of Economics report available here.

25Los Angeles Times, “Why I Resigned From the CIA,” December 5, 2004

26Washington Post, “U.S. Was Foiled Multiple Times in Efforts To Capture Bin Laden or Have Him Killed”, October 3, 2001

27PBS Frontline, "Timeline- Al Qaeda's Global Context.”

28The Nation, “Reply to Hitchens,” October 1, 2001

29Wikipedia Article on the Al-Shifa Pharmaceutical Company

30The Guardian, “MI6 'Halted Bid to Arrest Bin Laden'”, November 10, 2001

31Al-Jazeera, “US embassy attacks anniversary marked,” August 7, 2013

32The Guardian, “Blowback Chronicles”, September 15, 2001

33New York Times, “The Plot Against America,” August 6, 2006

34Wikipedia Article on Mahmud Abouhalima

35San Francisco Gate, “Al Qaeda terrorist worked with FBI / Ex-Silicon Valley resident plotted embassy attacks,” November 4, 2001

36PBS Frontline Interview with Jack Cloonan, available here.

37Daniel Benjamin and Steve Simon, “Age of Sacred Terror,” no excerpt available.

38Article written by 5 time Emmy Award recipient Peter Lance, hosted at BoilingFrogsPost.com, available here.

39San Francisco Chronicle, “Al Qaeda terrorist worked with FBI / Ex-Silicon Valley resident plotted embassy attacks,” November 4, 2001

40BBC, “Ex US Soldier Admits to Embassy Bombings,” October 20, 2000

41The Guardian, “NATO Bombs Libya TV Transmitters,” July 30, 2011.

42International Business Times, “Does the Transitional Council Really Represent Libyan Democracy and Opposition to Gaddafi?”, July 20, 2001.

43CNN, “Rights group: Libyan rebels looted and beat civilians,” July 15, 2011

44The Telegraph, “Libyan rebel commander admits his fighters have al-Qaeda links,” March 25, 2011

45The Telegraph, “Libya: The West and Al-Qaeda on the Same Side,” March 18, 2011

46Washington Times, “'Freelance Jihadists' Join Libyan Rebels,” March 29, 2011

47Wikipedia Article on the various war crimes committed during the Kosovo War

48AFP, “Members of Kosovo Liberation Trained by Bin Laden,” May 4, 1999.

49Washington Times, “KLA Finances War with Heroin Sales,” May 3, 1999

50Radio Free Europe, “Bosnia-Herzegovina: New Book Investigates Presence Of Al-Qaeda,” June 1, 2007

51New York Times, “Arms Airlift to Syria Rebels Expands, With Aid From C.I.A.,” March 24, 2013

52Fox News, “Lawmakers try to stall arming of Syrian opposition, as CIA presses ahead,” June 27, 2013

53Fox News, “Merkel tells Parliament that risks of arming Syrian rebels 'incalculable',” June 27, 2013

54USA Today, “Syrian rebels pledge loyalty to al-Qaeda”, June 14, 2013

55(PDF Warning) Naval Postgraduate Thesis, by Paul Bell, titled “Pakistan's Madrassas: Weapons of Mass Instruction?” Available here.

56Full Wikileaks Cables available here.

57PBS Frontline recap available here.

58PBS, letter available here.

59Salon, “Did the Saudi's Buy a President?” March 12, 2004

60Wikipedia Article on Saudi-US Relations

61John Kerry transcripts from the US Department of State website, available here.

62The Guardian, “Kerry hails disgruntled Saudi Arabia as 'the senior player' in Middle East,” November 4, 2013

63The Independent, “Saudi Arabia is 'Biggest Funder' of Terrorists,” December 6, 2010

64BBC, “Tribal Leader Killed in Afganistan,” June 23, 2009

65PakTribune, “Why Does Zainuddin Want To Kill Baitullah?”

66Times Online, “Al Qaeda Cleric Exposed as an MI5 Double Agent,” March 25, 2004. Article is behind a pay wall, link is to a re-hosting at Whale.to

67BBC, “Abu Qattadah Timeline,” May 10, 2013

68AFP, “Palestinians Arrest al-Qaeda 'poseurs',” December 8, 2002

69BBC, “Israel 'Faked' Al Qaeda Presence,” December 8, 2002

70PBS Frontline transcript of the episode available here.

71Steven Coll', “The Bin Ladens,” No excerpt available.

72Math and Charts available here at USGovernmentSpending.com

73More Charts.

74Brown.edu “Cost of War Project”, available here.

75Washington Post, “Rumsfeld complained of 'low level' GTMO prisoners, memo reveals,” March 3, 2011

76Wikipedia Article “List of Guantanamo Detainees”

77RussiaToday, “‘Political football’: Gitmo detainees ‘abandoned’ by US government,” May 16, 2013

78ABC (Australia) “Fewer than 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan: CIA chief,” June 28, 2010

79New York Times, “With Bags of Cash, C.I.A. Seeks Influence in Afghanistan,” April 28, 2013. One particularly salient quote from the article is worth sharing: “No one mentions the agency’s money at cabinet meetings. It is handled by a small clique at the National Security Council, including its administrative chief, Mohammed Zia Salehi, Afghan officials said. Mr. Salehi, though, is better known for being arrested in 2010 in connection with a sprawling, American-led investigation that tied together Afghan cash smuggling, Taliban finances and the opium trade. Mr. Karzai had him released within hours, and the C.I.A. then helped persuade the Obama administration to back off its anticorruption push, American officials said.”

80New York Times, “THE STRUGGLE FOR IRAQ: KILLINGS; Assassinations Tear Into Iraq's Educated Class,” February 7, 2004.

81The Independent, “Man whose WMD lies led to 100,000 deaths confesses all,” April 1, 2012

82The Guardian, “The 'war on terror' - by design - can never end,” January 4, 2013

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