I have read various articles concerning the subject, but wasn't going to post until I saw this one from DEBKA. Worthwhile.
The conclusion reached by debkafile’s counterterrorism and intelligence sources is that the brothers were double agents, hired by US and Saudi intelligence to penetrate the Wahhabi jihadist networks which, helped by Saudi financial institutions, had spread across the restive Russian Caucasian.
Instead, the two former Chechens betrayed their mission and went secretly over to the radical Islamist networks.
By this tortuous path, the brothers earned the dubious distinction of being the first terrorist operatives to import al Qaeda terror to the United States through a winding route outside the Middle East – the Caucasus.
This broad region encompasses the autonomous or semi-autonomous Muslim republics of Dagestan, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Chechnya, North Ossetia and Karachyevo-Cherkesiya, most of which the West has never heard of.
Moscow however keeps these republics on a tight military and intelligence leash, constantly putting down violent resistance by the Wahhabist cells, which draw support from certain Saudi sources and funds from the Riyadh government for building Wahhabist mosques and schools to disseminate the state religion of Saudi Arabia.
The Saudis feared that their convoluted involvement in the Caucasus would come embarrassingly to light when a Saudi student was questioned about his involvement in the bombng attacks while in a Boston hospital with badly burned hands.
They were concerned to enough to send Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saudi al-Faisal to Washington Wednesday, April 17, in the middle of the Boston Marathon bombing crisis, for a private conversation with President Barack Obama and his national security adviser Tom Donilon on how to handle the Saudi angle of the bombing attack.
More @ DEBKA
Part 1 of 4096 words. Heh.
ReplyDeleteHeinlein said, "If you don't read, you can't think. If you can't think, you can't write." I believe it.
Had I not read the following books before and after 9/11, I would be dubious of this DEBKA article. Sadly, I now can believe it.
1. Hatred's Kingdom--How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism, by Dore Gold
2. Imperial Hubris--Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror by Michael Scheuer
3. They Must Be Stopped--Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It, by Brigitte Gabriel
4. The West's Last Chance--Will We Win The Clash Of Civilizations? by Tony Blankley
5. Princes of Darkness--The Saudi Assault on the West, by Laurent Murawiec
On September 12, 2001, my young Moroccan neighbor Samir, came on to my front porch and said, "Mr. Horace, 'What is going to happen?'"
I responded, "I don't know, Samir, but be sure of one thing. If you are at work at night when things get chaotic, instruct your lovely wife, Miriam, and your beautiful daughter, Yasmine, to come immediately to my house. They will only be touched after I am dead."
I went on, "We are seeing the results of the Royal House of Saud buying our top politicians with our gas-pump money. It may get very bad and may never get as good as it has been again."
I spoke without thinking and had a twinge of thinking that maybe the Moroccan knew Middle Eastern things better than I. But I was dead right on and subsequent events keep proving it. To paraphrase the bigoted Korean vet I was tutoring in 1952, "I don't hate all Muslims, just Islam in general."
Bless you sir for posting the DEBKA article and allowing a Buncombe County hillbilly to rant.
I shall/will get to Tarboro later. My departure date from Rehab is May 5, 2013. I am tended here night and day by Nubian beauties from Ethiopia. They are entranced by my stories of the hog barbecue coming up and my memories of Haile Selassie and his brave resistance of Italy in WW 2.
I am tended here night and day by Nubian beauties from Ethiopia.
Delete:) Go AWOL 2 days early!:)(May 3rd should do it.)
Part 2
ReplyDeleteI sit here in this beautiful place with an Ethiopian lady straightening up my room as I type on this laptop and read these stirring words of Selassie in preparing his people for the poison gas invasion of the Fascist Mussolini (Gad, I hate Fascists).
Following 5 December 1934 Italian invasion of Ethiopia at Walwal, Ogeden Province, Haile Selassie joined his northern armies (Imagine a leader joining his troops) and set up headquarters at Desse in Wollo province. He issued his mobilization order on 3 October 1935:“ If you withhold from your country Ethiopia the death from cough or head-cold of which you would otherwise die, refusing to resist (in your district, in your patrimony, and in your home) our enemy who is coming from a distant country to attack us, and if you persist in not shedding your blood, you will be rebuked for it by your Creator and will be cursed by your offspring. Hence, without cooling your heart of accustomed valour, there emerges your decision to fight fiercely, mindful of your history that will last far into the future... If on your march you touch any property inside houses or cattle and crops outside, not even grass, straw, and dung excluded, it is like killing your brother who is dying with you... You, countryman, living at the various access routes, set up a market for the army at the places where it is camping and on the day your district-governor will indicate to you, lest the soldiers campaigning for Ethiopia's liberty should experience difficulty. You will not be charged excise duty, until the end of the campaign, for anything you are marketing at the military camps: I have granted you remission... After you have been ordered to go to war, but are then idly missing from the campaign, and when you are seized by the local chief or by an accuser, you will have punishment inflicted upon your inherited land, your property, and your body; to the accuser I shall grant a third of your property...
He was a man like Lee and Jackson, and nothing like the despicable Lincoln and Sherman.
"refusing to resist (in your district, in your patrimony, and in your home) our enemy who is coming from a distant country to attack us,"
Deathless words.
Deathless words.
ReplyDeleteIndeed.