The Muslim Brotherhood's Long-Standing War On The West (US Politicians)

1994:

Ptech Founded with Support from Suspected Terrorism Financiers -

PTECH is founded in 1994 by OUSSAMA, ZIADE, HUSSEIN IBRAHIM, and JAMES CERRATO. Ziade came from LEBANON to study at HARVARD University. As the Associated Press will describe it, Ptech’s “idea was to help complicated organizations like the military and large companies create a picture of how their assets—people and technology—work together. Then the software could show how little changes, like combining two departments, might affect the whole.”

They raise $20 million to start the company. A number of Ptech employees and investors will later be suspected of having ties to groups that have been designated by the US as terrorist organizations: [CNN, 12/6/2002; Wall Street Journal, 12/6/2002; Associated Press, 1/3/2003]

YASSIN al-QADI, a Saudi multimillionaire. He will invest $5 million of Ptech’s start-up money. The US will declare him an al-Qaeda financier shortly after 9/11 (see October 12, 2001).

In 1998, al-Qadi will come under investigation by FBI agent Robert Wright (see October 1998) for potential ties to the 1998 US EMBASSY BOMBINGS (see 10:35-10:39 a.m., August 7, 1998).

Al-Qadi is also a major investor in BMI Inc., an investment firm with connections to a remarkable number of suspected terrorist financiers (see 1986-October 1999).

Al-Qadi later will claim that he sold his investment in Ptech in 1999, but there will be evidence he may continue to hold a financial stake after that year, and even after the US will officially declare him a terrorism financier (see 1999-After October 12, 2001). [Wall Street Journal, 12/6/2002; Washington Post, 12/7/2002; Associated Press, 1/3/2003]

GAMEL AHMED, Ptech’s comptroller in the mid-1990s. One al-Qadi loan Wright will investigate also involves Ahmed. [Associated Press, 1/3/2003]

HUSSEIN IBRAHIM, Ptech vice president and chief scientist. He also serves as vice president and then president of BMI from 1989 until 1995. He has no known direct terrorism finance connections, but it has been reported that al-Qadi brought Ibrahim into Ptech as his representative. [Wall Street Journal, 12/6/2002; WBZ 4 (Boston), 12/9/2002; Associated Press, 1/3/2003]

SOLIMAN BIHEIRI. He is the head of BMI and a member of Ptech’s board. US prosecutors will later call him the US BANKER FOR THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, a banned Egyptian militant group. He will later be convicted for lying and immigration fraud (see June 15, 2003). [FrontPage Magazine, 6/17/2005]

ABDURAHMAN ALAMOUDI. He is one of Ptech’s founders, as well as an investor in BMI. In 2004, the US will sentence him to 23 years in prison for illegal dealings with LIBYA (see October 15, 2004). [Washington Post, 10/16/2004; FrontPage Magazine, 6/17/2005]

MUHAMMED MUBAYYID and SUHEIL LAHEIR. Neither have any known direct ties to terrorism financing. However, both are longtime Ptech employees whom formerly worked for CARE INTERNATIONAL, a Boston-based suspect Islamic charity (not to be confused with a large international charity having the same name). [Wall Street Journal, 12/6/2002]

In 2005, Mubayyid will be charged with conspiring to defraud the US and making false statements to the FBI. CARE INTERNATIONAL had previously been the Boston branch of the Al-KIFAH REFUGEE CENTER (see [a0493kifahboston]]) and a recruitment office for MAKTAB Al KHIDMAT (MAK), the precursor organization to al-Qaeda (see 1985-1989). LAHEIR, Ptech’s chief architect, wrote many articles in support of Islamic holy war. HE FREQUENTLY QUOTED ABDULLAH AZZAM, bin LADEN’S MENTOR. [Associated Press, 5/13/2005; FrontPage Magazine, 6/17/2005]

YAQUB MIRZA. He is a Ptech investor and on a Ptech advisory board. He directs SAAR, a multi-million dollar network of companies and charities in HERNDON, VIRGINIA (see July 29, 1983). In March 2002, US investigators will raid the SAAR network for suspected terrorism ties (see March 20, 2002). In late 2002, the Wall Street Journal will report, “US officials privately say Mr. Mirza and his associates also have connections to al-Qaeda and to other entities officially listed by the US as sponsors of terrorism.” [Wall Street Journal, 12/6/2002; WBZ 4 (Boston), 12/9/2002; Associated Press, 1/3/2003]

BMI itself directly invests in Ptech. It also gives Ptech a founding loan, and leases Ptech much of its office and computer equipment. [Wall Street Journal, 12/6/2002; Associated Press, 1/3/2003] Ptech president Ziade and other Ptech employees will claim that all of their ties to suspected terrorist financiers are coincidental.

By 2002, Ptech will have annual revenues of up to $10 million. [Wall Street Journal, 12/6/2002] Ptech’s potential ties to suspected terrorist financiers will be of particular concern BECAUSE OF ITS POTENTIAL ACCESS TO CLASSIFIED GOVERNMENT INFORMATION (see 1996-1997). [Wall Street Journal, 12/6/2002; Boston Globe, 12/7/2002]

Joe Bergantino, a CBS journalist who will be the first to report on Ptech, will say of Ptech in 2002, “The worst-case scenario is that this is a situation where this was planned for a very long time to establish a company in this country and in the computer software business that would target federal agencies and gain access to key government data to essentially help”

And who signed off on this totally Muslim project who had access to our secrets? There are obviously master-planners working and funding in tandem. Millions of our tax-dollars are funding our own demise in more ways than one. The approval is coming from people who aren’t even in our government, let alone being representatives, though I highly suspect some of them are in league. Whose running this country?

February 20, 1994:

US Intelligence Believes Islamic Militants Are Likely to Take Power in Egypt

The Sunday Times reports that a new US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) being drafted warns that Egyptian President HOSNI MUBARAK is likely to be OVERTHROWN by Islamic militants if present trends continue. The NIE is said to roughly match a secret Israeli intelligence estimate from late 1993. The Times notes that in 1991, 96 Islamic militants and police were killed; in 1992 the number was 322; and in 1993 it was 1,116.

The Egyptian government has responded with draconian measures, including mass arrests. US intelligence officials worry that these TECHNIQUES ARE NOT WORKING, and have been URGING EHYPT TO INTRODUCE POLITICAL ECONOMIC REFORM.
Sunday Times (London), 2/20/1994]

While the US sometimes helps Egypt fight Islamist militants, IT ALSO SOMETIMES SUPORTS THE MILITANTS, ESPECIALLY THE OFFICIALLY BANNED MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD.

Both ROBERT PELLETREAU, US ambassador to Egypt from 1991 to 1993, and EDWARD WALKER, US ambassador to Egypt from 1994 to 1997, SECRETLY MAINTAIN CONTACTS WITH THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD.

One National Security Council member in 1995 says that EGYPT’S MILITANTS ARE THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE AND,

“This reality explains the rationale for the CLINTON ADMINISTRATION’S EARLY DECISION TO MAINTAIN A DISCREET DIALOGUE WITH...EGYPTIAN ISLAMISTS.” [Dreyfuss, 2005, pp. 319-325] In fact, the harsh measures will work and the militant threat will greatly decrease in future years.

Now that Hillary Clinton is SOS who benefited from the master-planners, Obama a beneficiary and obedient servant of the same planners (not unlike the Atta scenario except one was Eastern and the other perhaps Western), US Representatives in full agreement...The Muslim Brotherhood with their history of terrorism and hatred of the US are again the “future”.

March 13, 1996:

Clinton Administration Criticized for Meetings with Radical Muslim Activist

President Clinton meeting with ABDULRAHMAN ALAMOUDI in the 1990s.President Counterterrorism expert STEVEN EMERSON, head of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, criticizes the Clinton administration for its ties to Abdulrahman Alamoudi in a Wall Street Journal editorial.

Alamoudi is a prominent Muslim activist and heads an organization called the AMERICAN MUSLIM COUNCIL (AMC). Emerson notes that on November 9, 1995, PRESIDENT CLINTON AND VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE MET WITH ALAMOUDI AS A PART OF A MEETING WITH 23 MUSLIMS AND ARAB LEADERS.

And on December 8, 1995, National Security Adviser ANTHONY LAKE, MET WITH ALAMOUDI AT THE WHITE HOUSE ALONG WITH SEVERAL OTHER AMERICAN ISLAMIC LEADERS.

Emerson notes that Alamoudi openly supports Hamas, even though the US government officially designated it a terrorist financier in early 1995 (see January 1995), and he has been the primary public defender of high ranking Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzouk, who the US declared a terrorism financier and then imprisoned in 1995 (see July 5, 1995-May 1997).

He notes that Alamoudi’s AMC also has close ties to other Islamist groups such as the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, and in 1994 the AMC CO-SPONSORED A TRIP TO THE US for SUDANESE LEADER HASAN al-TURABI, a well-known RADICAL MILITANT who is hosting Osama bin Laden in Sudan at the time.

Emerson concludes, “The president is right to invite Muslim groups to the White House. But by inviting the extremist element of the American Muslim community—represented by the AMC—the administration UNDERCUTS MODERATE MUSLIMS and strengthens the groups committing terrorist attacks.” [Wall Street Journal, 3/13/1996]

It will later be reported that in 1994, US intelligence discovered that the AMC helped pass money from bin Laden to Sheikh Omar Abdul-Rahman, BUT IT IS NOT KNOWN IF CLINTON WAS AWARE OF THIS (see Shortly After March 1994).

But ALMOUDI’S POLITICAL INFLUENCE IN THE US WILL NOT DIMINISH AND HE WILL LATER BE COURTED BY FUTURE PRESIDENT BUSH (see July 2000).

He will eventually be sentenced to a long prison term for illegal dealings with Libya (see October 15, 2004).”

DUH, of course they knew...

1995:

Hijacker Atta Still Connected to Group Linked to MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD -

In a three-month trip to his hometown of Cairo, Egypt, 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta demonstrates that he is still a member of an engineering syndicate linked to the Muslim Brotherhood (see 1990).

He takes the two Germans students he is traveling with, VOLKER HAUTH and RALPH BODENSTEIN, T THE SYNDICATE’s EATING CLUB. According to Hauth, Atta does nothing during the trip he knows about that suggests he is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, but the group’s influence on the club is obvious.
[Washington Post, 9/22/2001; Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 10/15/2001]

A former CIA officer who served undercover in Damascus, Syria, will later say,

“At every stage in Atta’s journey is the Muslim Brotherhood.” [New Yorker, 7/18/2003]

Reminds me of Obama’s Pakistan journey with his Muslim college friends. It fits, all their parents are rich. Yes, Obama came from a privileged private school background. His mother made good money and his grandmother was VP of a bank. Name of the bank? Islamic banking rules? Microfinance?

“A former CIA officer who served undercover in Damascus, Syria, will later say,

“At every stage in Atta’s journey is the Muslim Brotherhood.” [New Yorker, 7/18/2003]””

RALPH BODENSTEIN INTERVIEW Interview -

Beirut, Monday 15 October, 2001

Liz Jackson interviews Ralph Bodenstein who studied urban planning with Mohamed Atta at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harbug. He met him in 1994, when they, along with Volker Hauth, began working on a project in Cairo that was sponsored by the German government.

Did you ever go to the engineer’s syndicate?

Yeah. Sure because we had to meet some people there. I don’t remember the names anymore.

Did you get a sense of the politics that were around?

Well I mean we talked about these politics naturally because the engineering syndicate was one of those that was increasingly being influenced by fundamentalist movements, I mean it was not only the engineer’s one but several different ones as well were one of the political instruments the conservative or fundamentalists Muslims were using in order to increase their influence on state politics or on municipality because it was an organisation that was rather basic democratic, so people could bring people into places and pose where they wanted to be and it was not centrally controlled, but there was as far as I remember lots of critics about these processes going on by that time. There were people that were very critical about this change of politics within the syndicate because there were actually also many other people, engineers within the syndicates who did not like the syndicate to be instrumentalised for such a political direction.

And what did Mohamed think about it?

Oh no Mohamed was in favour of this idea. I mean in favour of this change.

The increasing Islamisation of the syndicate?

Yeah he was in favour of that because he was in favour of having a larger, a better lobby for Islamic social ideas and these things, so for him this was one of the necessary and important means to achieve this goal.

So do you think they were an important influence in terms of his developing ideas…The political ideas that were focused in the syndicate?

Well I’m not sure you know that he was linked up to the syndicate in a closer way because he had studied and then he left Egypt so generally you only get in contact with the syndicate after you have finished studies, and you start working and since he hadn’t worked at least not for a long time there was probably no real possibility for the syndicate influencing his views. He might still have received or read something about them, because it was always in the newspapers because there was this discussion going on, on this process and so there were comments and interviews with people who were in favour of this and who were discussing the ideas actually that were behind it, so he knew what it was about and actually he was, he thinking about this and so there might have been influence, because he read about it and heard about it, but no direct personal influence of certain people within the syndicate I don’t…

Do you remember going, do you remember any conversations or meeting any people who were from that Islamic group when you went? Do you remember what was talked about or anything about going to …?

No there was, there was nothing from this. I mean and all the organisations or planning offices we went to had no link to such an approach so I never observed that kind of conversation.

When you went back to Hamburg after the trip to Cairo did you keep in touch?

Well we kept in touch for a while because we still had to finalise our research results so I mean I stayed longer in Egypt, then I stayed for six months, even more so I came back only in early Spring ‘96 to Germany and we met up in Hamburg then for a weekend in order to discuss what we had already written and to coordinate what still had to be written and afterwards I only had for a certain while indirect contact because Volker Hauth was sometimes telling me about what Mohamed was doing but also Volker Hauth lost contact at that time to Mohamed. So I had contact with Mohamed after Spring of ‘96.

Did Volker Hauth tell you about how he was getting on or whether or not he seemed to be getting more …?

No he remarked one time that he was now working for a company in Hamburg and that he was still studying and working … and these things you know. Volker Hauth didn’t see him much either anymore so … even Volker Hauth couldn’t tell me about him.

Do you think it’s fair to say he had a strong sense of social justice?

Well yeah it was very very strong. It was a very obvious strong sense of justice yeah.

July 6, 1995-June 26, 1996:

Bojinka Suspect Granted Asylum in Australia and Continues to Live There Openly -

A SYRIAN suspected of involvement in the al-Qaeda BOJINKA PLOT is granted asylum in AUSTRALIA even though the Australian GOVERNMENT IS AWARE OF SOME OF HIS APPARENT TERRORISM TIES. AHMAD al-HAMWI, a.k.a. OMAR ABU OMAR, was head of the International Relations and Information Center (IRIC) from 1993 to 1995, a charity front closely tied to the failed Bojinka plot (see January 6, 1995).

In 1995, PHILIPPINE INVESTIGATORS determined that MOST OF THE FUNDING FOR THE PLOT WENT THROUGH A BANK ACCOUNT CONTROLLED BY AL-HAMWI. [Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies, 3/7/2003 pdf file]

At the same time, he was ROOMMATES with MOHAMMED JAMAL KHALIFA, bin LADEN’S BROTHER-IN-LAW, AND MARRIED THE SISTER OF ONE OF KHALIFA’S PHILIPPINE WIVES. He worked closely with Khalifa in the IRIC until Khalifa was forced to leave the country in late 1994 (see December 1, 1994). [Australian, 4/8/2006]

Shortly after the BOJINKA PLOT FOILED BY PHILIPPINE AUTHORITIES in early 1995, the IRIC is shut down and al-HAMWI is brought in for questioning. HOWEVER, HE IS LET GO and TRAVELS TO AUSTRALIA in July 1995 THEN IMMEDIATELY APPLIES FOR ASYLUM.

The Australian asylum review board is aware of the following things:

He was interrogated by Philippines intelligence and questioned about his ties to WTC bomber RAMZI YOUSEF and the BOJINKA PLOT TO KILL THE POPE.

He tells the review board that he was interrogated by a senior officer with direct ties to the Philippine president

He came into Australia using a fake Dutch passport and has two fake Syrian passports (again with the fake passports yet they keep him...).

He has ties to Khalifa, who had been convicted of funding a bombing in Jordan.

He is a longtime member of the militant group the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD.

But incredibly, in June 1996 he is GRANTED HIM ASYLUM on the grounds that he could be persecuted in Syria due to his ties to the Brotherhood. [Refugee Review Tribunal, 6/26/1996; Australian, 4/8/2006]

In 2006, it will be reported that he is STILL LIVING OPENLY IN AUSTRALIA. FURTHER, PHILIPPINES INTELLIGENCE ALLEGES THAT HE CAME TO THE PHILIPPINES HAVING BEEN BANNED FROM TURKEY FOR HIS SUSPECTED INVOLVEMENT IN A in a 1986 BOBMING THERE.

IT IS NOT CLEAR HOW THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT MISSED INFORMATION LIKE THIS, OR IF THEY JUST IGNORED IT. [Australian, 4/8/2006]

In the wake of these 2006 reports, the Australian government will claim to be investigating his status. Yet there have been no reports that he has been arrested or had his residency revoked since then. [Australian, 4/10/2006; Age (Melbourne), 4/10/2006]”

It’s difficult to believe that ALL of our Intelligentsia are such bumbling fools. There are obviously higher powers manipulating who goes where...else how can one account for this craziness...like the attempted bomber NY Times Sq fiasco. Only for our NY Cops he’d have gotten away...I guess the higher powers didn’t get to them on time or they haven’t gained power over them, yet...and a salute to Philippine Intelligence.

September 13, 1995:

Muslim Militant Rendered by CIA in Croatia, Then Killed in Egypt -

TALAAT FOUAD QASSEM, 38, a known leader of the Al-GAMA’S AL-ISLAMIYYA (the Islamic Group), an EGYPTIAN EXTREMIST ORGANIZATION, is arrested and detained in CROATIA as he travels to BOSNIA from DENMARK, where he has been been LIVING AFTER BEING GRANTED POLITICAL ASYLUM. He is suspected of clandestine support of terrorist operations, including the 1993 WORLD TRADE CENTER BOMBING (see February 26, 1993). HE ALSO ALLEGEDLY LED MUJAHEDDIN EFFORTS IN BOSNIA SINCE 1990 (see 1990).

In a joint operation, HE IS ARRESTED BY CROATIAN INTELLIGENCE AGENTS and HANDED OVER TO THE CIA. QASSEM is then INTERROGATED BY US OFFICIALS aboard a US ship off the Croatian coast in the Adriatic Sea and SENT TO EGYPT, which has a rendition agreement with the US (see Summer 1995). An EGYPTIAN MILITARY TRIBUNAL HAS ALREADY SENTENCED HIM TO DEATH IN ABSENTIA, and HE IS EXECUTED SOON AFTER HE ARRIVES. [Associated Press, 10/31/1995; Washington Post, 3/11/2002, pp. A01; Mahle, 2005, pp. 204-205; New Yorker, 2/8/2005]

According to the 1999 book Dollars for Terror, TWO WEEKS BEFORE HIS ABDUCTION, QASSEM WAS IN SWITZERLAND NEGOTIATING AGAINST THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD LEADERS. SOME MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD EXILES WERE NEGOTIATING WITH THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT TO BE ALLOWED TO RETURN TO EGYPT IF THEY AGREED NOT TO USE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD SWISS BANK ACCOUNTS TO FUND EGYPTIAN MILLITANT GROUPS LIKE Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya, BUT Qassem and other radicals OPPOSE this deal. So THE REMOVAL OF QASSEM HELPS THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD IN THEIR CONFLICT WITH MORE MILITANT GROUPS. [Labeviere, 1999, pp. 70-71]”

The Muslim Brotherhood is the favored son - Apollo.

November 13, 1995:

Islamic Jihad Kills Egyptian Official Investigating Al Taqwa Bank -

Egyptian diplomat ALAA AL-DIN NAZMI is shot and killed as he is returning to his house in Geneva, Switzerland. While he is OFFICIALLY NEGOTIATING with the WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION ON ECONOMIC MATTERS, the Independent will later report,

“Political sources suggested that Nazmi was working under diplomatic cover, and that his real job was to track down members of Egyptian Islamist armed groups in Europe who have sworn to overthrow President Hosni Mubarak’s regime. Nazmi’s murderers [say] as much two days later,” when they take credit for the killing, using an alias for Islamic Jihad. [Independent, 12/6/1995]

SWISS AUTHORITIES SEEM UNINTERESTED IN VIGOROUSLY PURSUING POLITICAL CONNECTIONS TO THE MURDER, which is never solved. However, it will later be reported,

“According to various sources close to the investigation, the Egyptian diplomat had been handling several sensitive files relating precisely to the financial resources of the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, of which $200 to $500 was managed by various financial organizations” in Switzerland.

The diplomat had played a major part in an attempt to recover these funds. He was focusing on the Al Taqwa Bank on the Swiss-Italian border, known to be a MAJOR BANK FOR THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD. [Labeviere, 1999, pp. 63-68]

A few months earlier, Nazmi apparently had been in secret discussions with the Egyptian militant Talaat Fouad Qassem, who was then abducted by the CIA and executed in Egypt (see September 13, 1995). So Nazmi’s assassination is seen as revenge for the death of Qassem. [Labeviere, 1999, pp. 70-71]”

Again, they protect their fair-haired brotherhood boys (not saying I’m partial to the other jihadists} but at first glance it all stinks.

1996:

Radical London Imam Bakri Establishes Organization Later Linked to Terror Attacks -

London IMAM SHEIKH OMAR BAKRI MOHAMMED establishes the radical Islamist organization Al-Muhajiroun, which will go on to be linked to several terror attacks (see Early 2003-April 6, 2004 and April 30, 2003).

Bakri, who works as an INFORMER for British intelligence at some point (see Spring 2005-Early 2007), had FLED SYRIA in 1982 after taking part in a FAILED MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD RISING AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT AND HAD BEEN EXPELLED FROM SAUDI ARABIA as an Islamist dissident in 1985.

He had previously headed the British branch of the international movement Hizb ut Tahrir, but had split with its international leaders. Al-Muhajiroun becomes known for touring university campuses and shopping precincts to LOOK FOR RECRUITS and also for holding marches and rallies across Britain. In addition, Bakri establishes Britain’s first Shariah court, which has no legal standing, but which enables him to settle disputes for a fee. [O’Neill and McGrory, 2006, pp. 105-107]

Yet again, another and his band expelled from ME countries and given asylum in the West. Then he’s permitted to go all over the country recruiting and protesting. WHY?

1997-December 1999:

FBI and Swiss Fail to Act Against Suspicious Bank and Its Shareholders

YOUSUF ABDULLAH AL-QARADAWI. In december 1999, the FBI apparently discovers a list of shareholders in the Al Taqwa Bank that reflects holdings in the bank at that time. The LIST IS LATER CONFIRMED AS AUTHENTIC BY BOTH US and Al TAQA OFFICIALS.

It contains over 700 names. Youssef Nada, the president of Al Taqwa, will CLAIM THAT THE FBI KNEW THE ESSENTIAL CONTENTS OF THE LIST IN 1997, THE SAME YEAR THEY LEARNED OF OTHER TIES BETWEEN THE BANK AND OFFICALLY DESIGNATED TERRORIST GROUPS. (see 1997-September 11, 2001). [Salon, 3/15/2002]

Names on the list include:

YOUSUF ABDULLAH Al-QARADAWI, the grand mufti of the United Arab Emirates, and five members of his family. Qaradawi is said to be a HIGH-RANKING MEMBER OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD and has made statements supporting suicide bombings against Israel (see 1986-October 1999).

HUTA and IMAN BIN LADEN, sisters of Osama bin Laden. Salon notes that the presence of their names on the list “UNDERMINES THE BIN LADEN FAMILY’s CLAIM THAT IT SEPARATED ITSELF FROM [Osama’s] TERRORIST PURSUITS AFTER HE WAS EXPELLED FROM SAUDI ARABIA IN 1994.”

Other bin Laden family members. For instance, GHALIB MOHAMMAD BIN LADEN, A BROTHER OF OSAMA, SUES AL TAQWA in 1999 for failing to pay him a claim (THE SUIT IS THROWN OUT OF COURT.) [Newsweek, 11/7/2001]

Unnamed members of HAMAS, which the US declared a terrorist group in 1995.

Members of Kuwait’s royal family.

HASSAN el-BANNA, a LEADER OF THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD. (A man with this name founded the Muslim Brotherhood but died in 1949; this may be one of his descendants.)

Other names on the list are said to be connected to organizations linked to al-Qaeda. SWISS OFFICIALS LATER WILL ADMIT THAT THEY WERE AWARE OF REPORTS CONNECTING AL TAQWA TO TERRORIST GROUPS, but will CLAIM THEY NEVER HAD ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO OBTAIN A SEARCH WARRANT. However, NO EFFECTIVE ACTION IS TAKEN AGAINST THE BANK OR ANYONE ON THE LIST. [Salon, 3/15/2002]

The Al Taqwa Bank is said to have amassed $229 million in capital by 1997. In 1995, one of the bank’s directors said that oil-rich Saudi families “are very active” in using the bank. The bank will be shut down after 9/11, when US officials will charge it with funding al-Qaeda and other US-designated terrorist groups (see November 7, 2001). [Boston Herald, 11/8/2001]

The bank was known to fund terrorists. The people who used it for such purposed get off scott free. The secret society Muslim Brotherhood leaders? What’s the connection to our uppers? The secret society of the Free Masons leaders? Are they one and the same?

July 1997:

Canadian Intelligence Learns of Militant Recruitment Effort in Canada -

In July 1997, Islamic Jihad operative MAHMOUD JABALLAH receives a fax from AHMAD SALAMA MABRUK, a member of Islamic Jihad’s ruling council living in AZERBAIJAN. Canadian intelligence has been closely monitoring Jaballah since he arrived in Canada in 1996 (see May 11, 1996-August 2001) and they learn the contents of this fax while monitoring him.

Mabruk’s fax gives guidance on how to recruit new operatives. Jaballah responds by telling MABRUK and THIRWAT SALAH SHEHATA, another member of Islamic Jihad’s ruling council, that he already has recruited some people affiliated with the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD. Furthermore, THEY HAVE CANADIAN RESIDENCE PAPERS, they have been tested, and they have proven reliable. He says it is time for them to be briefed about their duties.

MABRUK replies that he is pleased and that these new recruits are very much needed. [Canadian Security Intelligence Service, 2/22/2008 pdf file]

Perhaps not coincidentally, it will later be reported that also in 1997, Canadian intelligence begins a large-scale investigation of Islamic militants in Canada that will eventually be formally named Project A/O Canada. [Globe and Mail, 3/17/2007]

January-August 1998:

Saudi Businessman Pays Money to Al-Qaeda Front

SAUDI ARABIAN businessman Yassin al-Qadi pays US$1.25 million from an account in Geneva to a company called MARAM, an ISTANBUL-based terrorism front founded by al-Qaeda chief financial officer Mamdouh Mahmud Salim (see November 1996-September 1998). The transfer is not direct, but is made through an unidentified person the US later says is an al-Qaeda operative.

Writing in 2004, the Wall Street Journal will call this “THE STRONGEST DOCUMENTED LINK TO DATE BETWEEN THE TERROR ORGANIZATION AND SAUDI FINANCIERS.” HOWEVER, lawyers for al-Qadi, who the US will designate a terrorism financier after 9/11 (see October 12, 2001), will say that the money is not used to buy arms, but is spent on low-cost housing at a religious education facility.

The final recipient is said to be the Al Imam University in Sana’a, YEMEN, whose alumni include, for example, “AMERICAN TALIBAN” John Walker Lindh. The university’s rector is Sheikh Abdul Mejid al-Zindani, who fought alongside Osama bin Laden in the anti-Soviet jihad, heads the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD in YEMEN, and, according to a memo obtained by the US Justice Department, discussed with bin Laden the use of charities in Pakistan as a front for terrorist attacks. [Wall Street Journal, 4/2/2004]

The Saudi rich are the untouchables.

Late 1990s:

Bin Laden’s Brother-in-Law Khalifa Still in Contact with Militants -

Now living in Saudi Arabia, bin Laden’s brother-in-law Mohammed Jamal KHALIFA keeps in contact with charity fronts and militant groups he helped to organize.

According to a Philippines police report, he maintains contact with:

Leaders of the Philippine militant groups Abu Sayyaf and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).

ABDUL SALAM ZUBAIR, who was a key employee in the IRIC (International Relations and Information Center), a charity front used in the Bojinka plot (see Spring 1995). By this time, ZUBAIR IS WORKING WITH KHALIFA TRADING INDUSTRIES in MANILA with other Khalifa associates.

The staff of the International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO) in the Philippines. Many of its staffers, including its Philippines coordinator, are also believed to be HAMAS operatives. The US will designate the chapter a terrorist financier in 2006 (see August 3, 2006).

IBRAHIM MATA, the head of Islamic Studies, Call and Guidance (ISCAG), in the Philippines.
- - The Philippine chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood. [Gunaratna, 2003, pp. 194]

The Benevolence International Foundation (BIF). In a post-9/11 trial in the US, US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald will allege that the Illinois office of BIF calls Khalifa in Saudi Arabia as recently as November 19, 1998. [USA v. Benevolence International Foundation and Enaam M. Arnaout, 4/29/2002, pp. 14, 21-22 pdf file]

The US will officially designate BIF a terrorism financier in 2002. Khalifa also still visits the Philippines periodically (see Late 1995-September 11, 2001).

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