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.