Norwegian Daily: Terrorists Working for Western Countries

http://nafeez.blogspot.com/2009/01/norwegian-daily-terrorists-working-for.html

It came to my attention that a senior correspondent, Kristin Aalen,
working for a national Norwegian broadsheet - Stavanger Aftenbladet
(Stavanger Evening News) - just recently printed a detailed article in
the newspaper on Western covert operations sponsoring al-Qaeda after the
Cold War... based almost entirely on my research in The War on Truth:
9/11, Disinformation and the Anatomy of Terrorism.

Entitled "Terrorists Working for Western Countries" (24.11.08), it even
gives a country-by-country summary breakdown complete with a handy
geopolitical world map of the wide arc of these operations. It's a very
useful piece from a mainstream national European paper that very
effectively summarises the thrust of my research into this unpalatable
subject. A shame that the British press is so reticient about such issues.



There are some caveats. Kristin sometimes oversimplifies my geopolitical
explanations, and this can lead to serious misinterpretations, such as
her rendition of my examination of Pentagon sponsorship of al-Qaeda
fighters in the Balkans - she says that the US and NATO helped the
Bosnian Muslims against the Serbs, provoking them, and thus preventing
peace. This is caricature of my argument, which is more fully fleshed
out in The London Bombings: An Independent Inquiry. The Serbs were, in
fact, encouraged to act with impunity, and the US Defense Intelligence
Agency's influx of mujahideen fighters into the Bosnia predictably
aggravated the crisis. Ensuing NATO airstrikes were thoroughly
ineffective, and indeed the US, UN and NATO, having accelerated the
disintegration of Yugoslavia, acted in concert to do nothing when the
Serbs committed genocide against Bosnian Muslims in Srebrencia and beyond.

Anyway. What follows is a basic translation of the piece;

Terrorists working for western countries

We have been told that Western countries would do everything they could
to eradicate Al-Qaeda in the "war on terror". But Western intelligence
has from the 1990s, used terrorists to do dirty work in a number of
countries.

By Kirstin Aalen
24th November 2008

During the Cold War, the United States was concerned to break the Soviet
Union in Afghanistan. The CIA cooperated with Saudi Arabian and
Pakistani intelligence to support Muslim guerrilla soldiers - mujahedin
- in the fight against the communists.

Thousands of Islamic jihadists (holy warriors) were trained in Osama bin
Laden's training camps until the late 1980s. They came from Arab
countries in the Middle East and North Africa and was called Arab
Afghans. In 1988, Al-Qaida was founded.

So what?

The Soviets gave up Afghanistan in 1989. Bin Laden's men fought in a
couple of years of civil war that followed. So against whom should the
jihadists now fight their holy war ? The regimes they came from would
not tolerate fundamentalist guerrilla fighters in their own backyard.

Western intelligence services saw an opportunity. Documentation proves
that British and American players in particular exploited the brutality
of Al-Qaeda. "The goal has been to destabilize regions where
Anglo-American power wanted to secure control over oil and gas
resources," said the British terrorism analyst Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed. He
has written several books on the subject.

Flown on

In 1991 came three US military agents arrived in Azerbaijan. They
arranged to fly in over 2,000 mujahedin soldiers. The job was to create
rebellion and remove Russian influence. Bin Laden established an
Al-Qaida's office in Baku. It was a base for terrorist actions in the
Muslim neighborhood near Russia. After two years of unrest the
democratically elected president was overthrown in June 1993. The
corrupt Alijev took power. Now western and Saudi oil companies could
secure a lucrative contract. Construction of the pipeline oil
Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan could begin - bypassing Russia.

Moved forward

In 1992 the war in Bosnia began. An official Dutch report authored in
2002 by Professor Cees Wiebes from the University of Amsterdam shows
that the Pentagon secretly flew thousands of Al-Qaida soldiers into
Bosnia, ostensibly in support of Bosnian Muslims. But these brutal thugs
provoked the Serbs so that a peaceful solution was impossible. Nato and
the United States supported the Bosnian Muslims with the air strikes.

In 1996, the Kosovo Liberation Army was trained by a high-ranking
Al-Qaeda-operative across the border to Albania. But simultaneously,
British and US military experts helped.

Macedonia

In 2001, jihadists turned up in Macedonia, now in the guise of the
nationalist sister faction, the National Liberation Army (NLA), which
was secretly sponsored by Nato and the United States for years as
revealed in the Dutch and German media.

Yet Macedonian intelligence reported that Al-Qaeda was also training the
NLA in the Kumanovo-Lipkovo region. This information was sent to the CIA
and National Security Council in the United States.

Libya

In 1997, the British MI5 anti-terror agent David Shayler revealed that
British intelligence in 1995-96 gave 100,000 pounds to Al-Qaida's
network in Libya, to plan and complete an assassination of the head of
state Col. Mohammar Gaddafi.

Ahmed points out that the other areas where Western covert operations
have used al-Qaeda terrorists include Algeria, Egypt, Chechnya (see
Graph) and even the Philippines. These case studies show how the
activities of Islamic terrorist groups linked to Al-Qaeda through
training, money, weapons and fighters have been sponsored by the
Anglo-American alliance. "Either by direct or indirect support through
state intermediaries. The overall purpose has been to secure control
over raw materials, especially oil and gas," said Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed.

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translation of text in Graph:

KOSOVO 1996-99:

Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) was financed by the heroin trade from
Afghanistan and from Osama bin Laden. Many soldier-mercenaries were
trained in terrorist camps in Afghanistan. According to Interpol, a KLA
unit led by one of bin Laden's senior men, probably Mohammed
Al-Zawahiri, was a brother of bin Laden's right hand, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

TRAIN: From 1998 the KLA also trained and armed by NATO. British and
U.S. experts helped in the training of Tropoje in Albania.

PURPOSE: The British and the Americans used the KLA to destabilize
Kosovo and the increase ethnic animosity. They would gain control of the
land areas that could open the way for an oil pipeline via Bulgaria,
Macedonia and Albania, except Russia and Iran.

LISTED: This happened despite the fact that the KLA in 1998 was put on
the U.S. list of terrorist organizations.

ALGERIA 1992-99:

GIA: Early in the 90s emerged the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) - strong in
Algeria and with close ties to Osama bin Laden in Sudan. Throughout the
90s committed a series of atrocities in Algeria, which led to 150,000
civilians killed.

REVELATIONS: In 1997 it was revealed that the massacres took place in
cooperation between the GIA and the Algerian etterret-business service
and military. Western regimes denied the connection, but several
whistleblowers claimed that they have known about this connection.

SALE: Sunday Times and Reuter reported in 2000 that Britain sold a large
batch weapons to Algeria. U.S. and Algerian military increased their
cooperation in 1999.

BOSNIA 1992-95:

SHOCK: Brutal mujahedin / Al-Qaida fighters were used to fight for
Bosnian Muslims against Bosnian Serbs. 10,000 participated.

PENTAGON: A Dutch official report revealed in 2002 how the Pentagon
leased Islamic jihadists to fight for Bosnian Muslims.

BOSNIAN PASS: Osama bin Laden had Bosnian passports in 1993. He held
meetings in Zagreb in Croatia for Arab-Afghan leaders who were
Al-Qaida-emissaries in Bosnia.

WEST: the United States and Britain supported the right nationalist
President Alija Izetbegovic to sideline and defeat the multi-ethnic
policies of popular rival Bosnian Muslim leader Fikret Adbic. This gave
the green light to the fragmentation of Yugoslavia. U.S. and NATO
bombers contributed to this.

CHECHNYA 2000:

RUSSIA: Key Chechen cooperation in 1999 with high-ranking Al-Qaida
operatives about attacks in the Caucasus.

USA: By the summer of 2000 American private security firms armed
al-Qaeda-infiltrated Chechens and their Islamist allies to make
rebellion in the region and lead holy war against Russia. The U.S.
intention was to destroy a Russian pipeline.

AZERBAIJAN 1991-93

AGENTS: Three agents from the U.S. military flew in at least 2,000
al-Qaeda fighters from Afghanistan to Baku in Azerbaijan. Bin Laden's
Al-Qaeda established an office in the city, as a base for terrorism in
several areas.

USED TO: Hired fighters made rebellion to reduce Russian influence in
the country. Elected president Albufas Eltsjibej fled in June -93. In
came Heidar Alijev. Several major oil companies supported the coup.

GOALS: Britain's BP led a consortium of Western and Saudi oil companies
that would secure a major contract. In the signed to build an oil
pipeline from Baku through Georgia to Ceyhan in Turkey, free from
Russian control.

LIBYA 1995-97:

In 1997, MI5 anti-terror agent David Shayler revealed that the British
MI6 intelligence agency in 1995-96 paid 100,000 pounds to Al-Qaida's
network in Libya so that the terrorists would assasinate country's head
of state. The operation failed, ended up under the wrong car, killing
six innocent Libyans. The British government denied that it was
involved, but two French intelligence experts documented that MI6 in the
murder plot had hired bin Laden's highly trusted man, Anas al-Libya. He
is on the FBI's "Most Wanted" list for the attack on the U.S. embassies
in Africa in 1998.

MACEDONIA 2001:

GUERRILLAS: KLA soldiers went on to form the NLA in Macedonia. At one
time, the insurgents were surrounded by the Macedonian security forces,
but were rescued by NATO and the United States, though their spokesmen
denied this. The news was leaked in Dutch and German media in June 2002.

REPORT: Macedonians reported to the CIA and National Security Council
that Al-Qaida had trained the NLA in the region. Received only a polite
response from U.S. intelligence.

EGYPT 1997:

In the first half of November 1997 the CIA sent a man called Abu-Umar
Al-Amriki to Osama bin Laden's close allies, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in
Peshawar, Pakistan. There was a deal made between the Egyptian terrorist
leader and the CIA. It was that al-Zawahiri would get 50 million U.S.
dollars to ensure that U.S. forces in Bosnia-Herzegovina were not
attacked by Islamic mujahedin. Egypt would in turn be able to use the
money to "to rule over Egypt." Some weeks later, in December 1997, the
al-Zawahiris organization, Al-Jihad, the terrorist attack in Luxor.

ALI MOHAMMED:

Was a double agent for Al-Qaida and the CIA / FBI. He was sent in 1984
by al-Zawahiri to infiltrate the CIA. He joined the U.S. Army and worked
at the Special Warfare Center in Fort Bragg, where he stole a
manual-fighting techniques. He was among other terrorists who attacked
the World Trade Center in New York in 1993, but was not sentenced
himself. Also under the name of Abu-Umar Al-Amriki (American). Sent by
the CIA in 1997 to broker deal with Al-Zawahiri.

Osama bin Laden:

Lived in Afghanistan in 1984-89 and was one of Al-Qaida's leading
theoreticians.

1989-91: In Saudi Arabia, but his harsh criticism of the authorities
meant he had to go into exile.

1992-96: Ran Al-Qaida from Khartoum in Sudan.

From 1996: Back in Afghanistan. Established a close cooperation with
the ruling Taliban government until the US-led invasion in October 2001.

FINANCING: Bin Laden-financed Al-Qaida in part with money from their own
family wealth, and partly from funds collected. But in 1994 when he lost
his Saudi citizenship and had all their accounts frozen by the bin Laden
family dynasty, he lost the ability to generously support his jihadists.

MUJAHEDIN: Different groups of mujahedin - Muslim guerrilla fighters -
were supported by among others the United States, Saudi Arabia and
Pakistan to fight against the USSR in Afghanistan (1979-89). Saudi
Arabian Osama bin Laden built the Tora Bora plant with support from
Pakistani intelligence (ISI). Here he could - inspired by Palestinian
jihadist theoretician Abdullah Azzam and supported by Egyptian aid Ayman
Al-Zawahiri - recruit and train fighters in the jihad (holy war). They
also ran an al-Kifah Center (aid office) for jihadists in Peshawar in
Pakistan. A number of similar assistance centers were created in the
U.S. and Europe.

Al-Qaida:

In Arabic, short-hand for "database". Was founded 17 May 1988 by Osama
bin Laden and his closest colleagues.

LEARNING: Al-Qaida offered in their first year training to 10,000 to
20,000 volunteers in several camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan. They
were Arab Afghans, given lessons in fighting techniques, weapons
handling and use of explosives in addition to ideological training.

ARTICLES:

"Azerbaijan throws raw recruits Into Battle" by Steve Levine, Washington
Post 21/4-1994; "Fortune hunters Lured U.S. into volatile Region "by Dan
Morgan and David B. Ottaway, Washington Post, 4/10-1998;" U.S. Supported
al-Qaeda cells during Balkan Wars "; Isabel Vincent, National Post,
16/3-2002. "Bin Laden linked to Albanian drug gangs" by Colin Brown,
Independent, 21/10-2001; "America Used Islamist two Arm the Bosnian
Muslims: The Screbenica Report Reveals the Pentagon's Role in a Dirty
War," Richard J. Aldrich, Guardian , 22/4-2002. "The Kosovo Liberation
Army: Does Clinton Policy Support Group with Terror, Drug Ties? From
"Terrorists" two "partners" by Larry E. Craig, United States Senate
Rebublican Policy Committee 31/3-1999. "European Intelligence: The U.S.
betrayed us in Macedonia" by Christopher Deliso, Randolph Bourne
Institute, 22/6-2002. "Do not Shoot the Messenger" by David Shayler, the
Observer 27/8-2000.