Ahmed Huber
Among the conclaves key backers was Ahmed Huber, a Swiss-German convert to Islam who traveled back and forth to Beirut to promote the event. This is the same Huber who is a primary supporter of the NPD, the German neo-Nazi party that sent 4,000 of its members marching through Berlines historic Jewish neighborhood on a recent Sabbath.
It takes money, clout and coordination to get 4,000 people to march anywhere, and clearly, people like Huber have got all three. And his contacts stretch beyond Europe and the Middle East. In a recent televised interview, Huber spoke of his many lectures in the United States and boasted that because of his strong ties to American Islamic groups, he was given advance warning that something big was going to happen here -- well before 9/11.
Against a wall filled with pictures of his heroes -- the Ayatollah Khomeini and Hitler, among others -- Huber denies that his bank has helped al Qaida, even as he gloats about his cohorts in the U.S. assuring him, 'We will bring down the power of the Israel lobby'.
The connection from Islamic funding to IAC/ANSWER
Ahmed Huber
Ahmed Huber—a principal figure in Al Taqwa’s operations and an important personage within the European far right as well—has networked with an African—American Muslim extremist cleric who was principally featured at a January/2003 anti-war rally in Washington, D.C.
International ANSWER—the parent organization behind several significant anti-war demonstrations is an important element of discussion. (This should in no way be misunderstood as impugning the motives of the vast majority of people opposing the war and/or in attendance at these rallies.) One of its most important elements is a Stalinist off-shoot of the Communist Party USA—the WWP. The head of the parent organization of ANSWER—the International Action Center—is former Attorney General Ramsey Clark. Clark’s dubious political past is analyzed at considerable length.
Shifting focus dramatically, the broadcast discusses the disastrous economic policies of the Bush Administration. Coupled with anxiety about war in the Middle East and terrorism in the United States itself, this has led to significant strengthening of the euro against the dollar. Traditionally, the dollar was seen as a “safe haven” in turbulent times. That appears to be changing, at least for the time being. Now, investors see Europe as a more stable investment climate than the U.S. This element of the program must be evaluated against some of the political and economic underpinnings of pan-Germanism and geopolitics. The theoretical postulations of thinkers like Friedrich List, Karl Von Clausewitz and Karl Haushofer are central to an understanding of the analysis presented in For The Record, and for understanding the development of the Bormann organization.