Posted on 09/25/2001 5:59:10 AM PDT by Constitution Day
South African National Intelligence Agency - Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement) Al-Mujii Al Islamiyaj
24 September 2001
From Anonymous
The briefing document below was prepared for the South African President, Thabo Mbeki, during 1998 in response to the Muslim uprising in the Western Cape Province to protest the decline in Law and Order under his administration, principally organized drug dealing, murder, prostitution and rape (South Africa has the highest murder, rape and HIV-infection statistics globally). An amalgamation of devout Muslim groups with some Christians, part of Mbeki's African National Congress (ANC) 'Alliance' with the Communist Party (SACP), formed an organization, People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD). Mbeki was a member of the SACP Politbureau.
The report examines international Muslim militancy and its presence locally. It was drawn up on the relayed order of the Minister of Intelligence, Joe Nhlanhla (since suffered a stroke), by the section of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) that reports directly to the Office of the President.
This section also monitors the democratic opposition in South Africa (communications, foot and vehicular surveillance and records sexual conduct videographically), journalists (their detention, recruitment and expulsion in the case of one foreign accredited writer) and his own Cabinet (Deputy President Jacob Zuma and Public Works Minister Jeff Radebe with whose wife he is close. Radebe was Mbeki's colleague on the Central Committee of the SACP, along with Govan Mbeki, the President's father who is recently deceased).
Mbeki had grown anxious at the loss of mulatto support in Western Cape where they are the electoral majority. The legislative capital is in Cape Town. He was convinced that they were being organized by Hamas and Islamic Jihad. His concerns where triggered on the advice of the Muslim-Communists, Essop Pahad (Deputy Minister in his office and confidant), the brother of Essop, Aziz (Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs), Dullah Omar (Minister of Justice, now Minister of Transport) and Kadar Asmal (Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry, now Education Minister). These Muslim-Communists were alarmed at the eroding support for the ANC-SACP in the Western Cape and escalating use of force by PAGAD against the drug gangs and their leaders and their street propaganda against the ANC-SACP. Coinciding with American aerial bombing of Iraq, PAGAD cells were believed to be behind the bombing of the Plant Hollywood restaurant in Cape Town, a symbol of the United States. PAGAD refutes the allegations claiming NIA and Security Police provocateurs were responsible. PAGAD has been a priority target for the Mbeki apparatus and several of its members have been indicted on serious criminal charges while investigating the bombings in Cape Town. Among these was the arrest by traffic police of an NIA agent who was transporting pipe bombs from Johannesburg (Jhb) to Cape Town. Criminal trials against PAGHAD are in progress in the Western Cape.
PAGAD is not organizationally linked with the International Islamic Militants who prefer to keep South Africa a rear base for military training, convalescence, fund raising, media and proselytizing. They have an understanding with the ruling ANC-SACP. PAGAD arose out of the local, mostly Islamic opposition to criminality and the contradictions within the ANC-SACP.
The NIA briefing was not well received by the President's Office, in part for mentioning the presence of militants (page 34) at the two Islamic Conference held in consecutive years in the Muslim ghetto, Laudium, near Pretoria, the executive capital. Present under protection of the NIA, the South African Secret Service (SASS), the Security Police (SAPS) and the President's Office were Hamas, Al Qaeda, Islamic Jihad, Taliban, Islamic Salvation Front (Algeria), Hezbollah and Chechen rebels at the time engaged against the Russian military in Grozne. The surveillance against Muslim extremists mentioned in the report, with the exception of those in PAGAD was suspended. Embassy surveillance against Islamic states supportive of terrorism remained intermittent or non existent, the preferred focus remaining on the following diplomatic premises and staffers by the NIA Counter Espionage (NIA (CE)) section headed by a mulatto Hilton "Tim" Dennis (in order of priority):
1. USA
2. Israel
3. United Kingdom
4. France
5. Germany
6. Italy
7. Portugal
After Nhlanhla's stroke and the public discovery of an NIA (CE) surveillance camera aimed at the German embassy in Pretoria, Dennis was promoted by Mbeki to head the SASS, the South African equivalent of the CIA. In this role Dennis has strengthened links with Libya's Musa/Moosa Kusa (wanted for conspiracy in the downing of a French airliner over Africa). Kusa heads Mohammar Ghadafi's Jamahirya Security Organization and is a frequent guest of SASS in Pretoria.
Mbeki believes himself adept at handling both the internal contradictions of the ANC-SACP and international politics, particularly between African-based Islamic fundamentalism and the West. South Africa holds both the chair the Non Aligned Movement and the British Commonwealth. Relations with the United States were easier under the Clinton Administration and his Under Secretary of State for Africa, Suzan Rice. Symbolically Mbeki's power to persuade the US embassy to lower its flag to half staff in mourning for the death of the head of the SACP in April 1993 was viewed across the continent as an indicator of his growing influence over Washington, the more so when it was learned that Ambassador, Princeton Lyman, had to lower the flag himself after the US Marine non-commissioned guards refused to do so. The later establishment of a USA-SA bi-national commission was considered a crowning diplomatic achievement by the ANC-SACP until it was ended earlier this year by US Vice President Richard Cheney.
Rice's successor, Walter Kanstiener, who wished to be Ambassador to South Africa wants the bi-national commission resurrected. Previously he had drafted a glowing background brief paper on Mbeki for President-elect Bush before their meeting with at the Bush ranch near Austin, Texas. Communist and ANC leaders who organized the two Islamic Conferences in Pretoria were concerned that that Kantstiener's book "South Africa: Revolution or Reconciliation" (1988) indicated a strong Republican Party perspective. In his work Kanstiener attacked the ANC-SACP as a group of "violent revolutionaries" engaged in an "unjustified" and "Marxist" struggle without a mandate from the people. Further he urged each American to "resist the temptation to become (…) a romantic revolutionary supportive of violent revolutionary tactics". His subsequent shift in perspective and sudden U-turn on dealing with the South African government was attributed by the Hamas, Taliban and Hezbollah supporters in the ANC-SACP government to his benefiting from the privatization deal last year (since stalled on implementation) for American companies to buy out the South African state telecommunications company, Telkom. Kanstiener is to direct the diplomatic effort the United States makes in Africa to defeat Islamic terrorist networks alongside Mbeki's administration.
The NIA briefing report provides insight into the international, clandestine organization of Islamic extremists. Based on composite source documents from the NIA/SASS archive, it outlines the type of structure and organization Washington intends confronting during the second phase of the "New War on Terrorism". Also the networking between Islamic militant organizations is mentioned in some detail. Much of the information was provided by the declared, CIA head of station in Pretoria under the bi-lateral agreement with NIA/SASS and the Israeli intelligence representative at a time the Mossad (Central Institute for Intelligence and Special Duties) was completing its re-organization.
Cover Page
SECRET
National Intelligence Agency
THE GENERAL MANAGER SPECIAL PROJECTS
[no handling instruction: single recipient]
HAMAS (ISLAMIC RESISTANCE MOVEMENT) AL-MUJII AL ISLAMIYAJ
[index redacted] [ideography retained]
Page 1
HAMAS (ISLAMIC RESISTANCE MOVEMENT) / AL- MUJII AL ISLAMIYAJ
HAMAS is a Palestinian based organisation which was formed with the purpose of fighting for the Palestinian people because of the oppression they experienced by the Jewish state and Palestinian government.
BACKGROUND
Prior to the formation of HAMAS, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) felt the need for an internal organization to oppose Israeli occupation. Several cell structures, such as "al?Majd" (intelligence) and "al?Mujahidun" (commando) which was formed in 1983, were formed to fill this void. Israeli forces however managed to infiltrate and crack several of these units soon after their formation. On 1987-12-14 Ahmed YASSIN formed the PALESTINIAN ISLAMIC RESISTANCE MOVEMENT as an offshoot of the MB. HAMAS structures took over the secret MB cell structures which were already in place, including "al-Majd" (intelligence) and "al-Mujahidun" (commando).
HAMAS was formed from two previous groups started by Sheikh YASSIN:
HAMAS was found by Sheik Ahmad YASSIN on 14 December 1987, shortly after the uprising in Palestinian refuge camps in the Gaza strip (a few days after the INTIFADA began).
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HAMAS is supported by the smaller ISLAMIC JIHAD and the POPULAR FRONT...
Due to the more than 20 page length of this article, which I must admit that have not yet fully read, you must click on the link under "Source: Cryptome" above.
I copied your ping list from a thread you posted. Hope you don't mind.
FRegards,
CD
I have been reading with great interest the articles that you post, ever since I was only a lurker.
Another story of Clinton in bed with someone (terrorists). This is just about sex, people. Nothing here, move along . . .
As far as Clinton in bed with someone, you know the saying:
"If you get in bed with the Devil, sooner or later..."
And thanks for the flag.
Cheers!
CD
BTTT
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