BLACK TERROR WHITE SOLDIER PART 40

The clash of civilizations Part 2

According to reports, Khalid bin Mahfouz, who had maintained close business relationships with the Bush family, transferred millions of dollars through NCB to charities operating as fronts for al-Qaeda. Mahfouz personally owned a 20% stake in BCCI, and in 1993, he was indicted by a New York state grand jury for fraud but denied any culpability. The fraud charges were settled for $225 million in        lieu of            fines. Mahfouz also helped set  up a charity organization called the Muwafaq Foundation, which in 2001 the U.S. Treasury Department named a front organization. In 2002, a raid by Bosnian authorities on  the  Sarajevo  offices  of the Benevolence International  Foundation,  a multimillion-dollar charity, led to the discovery of a document called the “Golden Chain,” a list of Al Qaeda sponsors. According to Craig Unger, “The donors of the Golden Chain were not just wealthy Saudis—they were the crème de la crème of the great Saudi industrial and mercantile elite.” ³⁰ In addition to bin Mahfouz, they included three billionaire bankers, a former government minister, and leading Saudi merchants and industrialists, as well as the bin Laden brothers who ran the Bin Laden Group. By that time, bin Mahfouz had taken over NCB, and become the banker of the Saudi royal family, and the most powerful banker in Saudi Arabia.

  Daniel Hopsicker, in Welcome to Terrorland: Mohamed Atta & the 9-11 Coverup in Florida, reveals that least eight of the terrorist pilots received their initial  training  in Venice,          Florida,  at        either  of  the  flight  schools owned  by  Arne Kruithof and Rudi  Dekkers, who were part of a hornets’ nest of  CIA activity. Yeslam bin Laden also provided several students for training at Huffman, though he still claims to be estranged from his step-brother. Less than three months            before the two terrorists began  flight training, a Lear jet owned by Wally  Hilliard,  Dekkers’ financier, carrying 43       pounds of heroin, was seized     by the  DEA.  Hilliard was then loaned a plane—a Beechcraft King Air 200, worth over $2 million—by  Truman Arnold for only one dollar. Arnold, the chief fund-raiser for the Democratic Party in 1995, also played golf with  Clinton. The plane was conveyed from Arnold to a  Hilliard company, Oryx, founded by Sheik Kamal  Adham—former director of Saudi intelligence, and  BCCI frontman—and Adnan  Khashoggi. Wally  Hilliard also did business with Myron Du Bain, who had worked alongside late ex- CIA director John  McCone, on the boards of several banks.

Britannia Aviation, which operated from a hangar at Huffman Aviation at the Venice Airport, had a “green light” from the Justice Department’s Drugs Enforcement Administration ( DEA), and the Venice Police Department “had been warned to leave them alone.” It was also found that Britannia had been providing maintenance services for Caribe Air, a Caribbean company, and notorious  CIA proprietary carrier. Britannia was contracted to operate a large maintenance facility at the Lynchburg, Virginia, Regional Airport. Britannia’s move from Venice to Lynchburg, VA, was eased because  Hilliard had loaned Jerry  Falwell  a  million  dollars.   Many  flight trainers who trained  the     Arab terrorists also moonlighted by flying “Christian missionary” flights to Central and South America, out of the Venice and Sarasota Airports, for Falwell crony, Pat Robertson’s Operation Blessing. ³¹

Hilliard was also involved in the mysterious evacuation of a number of leading Saudis in the days immediately following 9/11, at a time when every other private plane in the nation was grounded due to safety concerns. The Tampa Tribune called it “The Phantom Flight from Florida,” because the federal government denied it ever took place. It carried a Saudi Arabian prince, the son of that nation’s defense minister, as         well as the son of   a Saudi army commander, and it flew from Tampa to Lexington,  Kentucky. They flew on Wally   Hilliard’s charter aircraft to private  fields of         military contractor Raytheon, and departed            on a 747.

Boarding a plane from Lexington was Prince Ahmed   bin Salman, a nephew of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia. Ahmed’s father, Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz, was the governor of Riyadh and member of the Sudairi clan, who had worked closely with Osama bin Laden during the  Afghanistan war. Ahmed was better known as the owner of many top racehorses, like Point Given, the 2001 Horse of the Year, which won two legs of the Triple Crown. When Abu Zubayda, the chief of operations for  al Qaeda, was captured in Pakistan. The  CIA attempted to intimidate him into confessing by sending a team of Arab Americans posing as Saudi security agents, because of their reputation for brutality. The opposite was the effect. Instead, Zubaydah was relieved, and provided the agents the contact information for Prince Ahmed bin Salman, explaining, “he will tell you what to do.” He said that, several years earlier, the royal family had settled a deal with al Qaeda, by which the Saudis would help the Taliban, if al Qaeda would refrain from attacking Saudi Arabia. Therefore,   Zubayda added, he dealt with Prince Ahmed.³²

The Machiavellian purpose of the tragedy of  9/11 was also described by Philip  Zelikow, the executive director of the  9/11 Commission. While at Harvard,  Zelikow had worked on the use of history in policymaking. He and his fellow researchers observed, as  Zelikow noted in his own words, that “contemporary” history   is “defined functionally by those critical people and events that go into forming the public’s presumptions about its immediate past.” ³³ In writing about the importance of beliefs about history,  Zelikow has called attention to what he has referred to as “searing” or “molding”  events taking on “transcendent” importance and, therefore, retaining their power even as the experiencing generation passes from the scene. ³⁴ In the November-December 1998 issue of Foreign Affairs, he co-authored an article  entitled “Catastrophic Terrorism,” in which he speculated that if the 1993  bombing of the  World Trade Center had succeeded:

…the resulting horror and chaos would have exceeded our ability to describe it. Such an act of catastrophic  terrorism would be a watershed event in American history. It could involve loss of life and property unprecedented in peacetime and undermine America’s fundamental sense of security, as did the Soviet atomic bomb test in 1949. Like   Pearl Harbor, the event would divide our past and future into a before and after. The United States might respond with draconian measures scaling back civil liberties, allowing wider surveillance of citizens, detention of suspects and use of deadly force. More violence could follow, either future terrorist attacks or US counterattacks. Belatedly, Americans would judge their leaders negligent for not addressing  terrorism more urgently. ³⁵

Then, the neoconservatives, taking advantage of the myth, made use of arguments first formulated by         Carl Schmitt of the need to create a “state of emergency,” whereby “legitimate” authority then becomes entitled to

seize power and act unilaterally. According to Allan Janik in his review of A  Dangerous Mind:   Carl Schmitt in Post-War European Thought:

…George Bush’s politics of determined retaliation in the wake of September 11, 2001, follows a scenario entailing the United States identifying a mortal enemy against which it can clearly define itself that could well have been written by Schmitt. Bush, Donald  Rumsfeld, and company (with perhaps even a few “New Europeans” thrown in)—like Schmitt—believe that powerful states have a mandate to assert themselves come what may, i.e., that international law is for the weak, not the strong as the United States demonstrated in  Afghanistan and Iraq…36

The obvious pretext of the 9/11 attacks are revealed by General Wesley Clark, who would later joined the 2004 race for the Democratic Party presidential nomination. In an interview with Democracy Nowin 2007, Clark related that only nine days after the attack, on September 20, 2001, he visited the offices in the Pentagon of the Joint Staff      who used to work  for him, and wa told confidentially  by one of the generals,     “We’re going to war with            Iraq!” When Clark asked why, the general said, “I don’t know… I guess they don’t know what else to do.” When he went back to see him a few weeks later, by which time the Americans were already bombing  Afghanistan, Clark recounts:

I said, “Are we still going to war with Iraq?” And he said, “Oh, it’s worse than that.” He reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper. And he said, “I just got this down from upstairs”—meaning the Secretary            of Defense’s office—“today.” And he said,   “This   is a memo that describes how we’re going    to take out seven   countries in  five years, starting with Iraq, and then   Syria,  Lebanon,  Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off,  Iran. ³⁷

Again, during his tenure on a highly knowledgeable and well-connected body known as the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB), which reports directly to the president,  Philip Zelikow revealed the true aims behind the US’ invasion of Iraq, which had supposedly been in retaliation for 9/11.  Zelikow told a crowd at the University of Virginia on September 10,  2002, speaking on a panel of foreign policy experts:

Why would Iraq attack America or use nuclear weapons against us? I’ll tell you what I think the real threat [is] and actually has been since 1990—it’s the threat against   Israel…

   And this is the threat that dare not speak its name, because the  Europeans don’t care deeply about that threat, I will tell you frankly.  And the American government doesn’t want to lean too hard on it rhetorically, because it is not a popular sell. ³⁸

Finally, just prior to America’s invasion of Iraq, Brian Whitaker reported in The Guardian in 2002 that “With several of the   Clean Breakpaper’s authors now holding key positions in Washington, the plan for  Israel to transcend its foes by reshaping the  Middle East looks a good deal more achievable today than it did in 1996. Americans may even be persuaded to give up their lives to achieve it.” ³⁹ Among the leading  neoconservatives in this cabal was the  Strategy of Tension’s Michael  Ledeen, who became a holder of the Freedom Chair at  AEI, and was a founding member of  JINSA. Despite his dubious credentials,  Ledeen’s ideas were quoted daily by such            figures as Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz. In 2003, the Washington Postdiscovered that  Ledeen was the only full-time international affairs analyst consulted by  Karl Rove,  George W. Bush’s closest advisor. ⁴⁰

In an article for Salon, Glenn Greenwald took Ledeen to task, calling him  “one of the most dishonest and ludicrous jokes on the political scene.” ⁴¹ While  Ledeen had been busy fabricating the fear of a Soviet threat, when the time  came, he would then shift the locus of the international terrorist conspiracy to the  Middle East.  Ledeen was calling for the US to wage war against  Iran,  Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, and  Libya because, he alleges, they are all “masters of terror.” Leading up to the invasion of Iraq,  Ledeen was again involved in the fabrication of evidence, this time in the case of the forged documents “uncovered” by Italian intelligence, contacts from his days with   Gladio. These documents supposedly depicted an attempt by Iraq’s  Saddam Hussein regime to purchase yellowcake uranium from Niger, which formed the basis of President Bush’s support for the invasion of Iraq, and which subsequently unraveled into the “ Plamegate” scandal. ⁴²

Already in 2002, Michael  Ledeen was pronouncing that the  Middle East, as currently constituted, must be utterly destroyed in a regional war.  Ledeen predicted that an invasion of Iraq would follow, and that it would be a good thing,     because, it will give “us”  a chance to  “ensure the      fulfillment of the democratic revolution.” Summing up his Machiavellian motives,  Ledeen clarified,  “Paradoxically, we  advanced  the cause            of freedom  by violently undemocratic means.” Reflecting this     fascist  thinking,  Ledeen explained:

Creative destruction is our middle name, both within our society and abroad. We tear down the old order every day, from business to science, literature, art, architecture and cinema to politics and the law. Our enemies have always hated this whirlwind of energy and creativity, which menaces their traditions (whatever they may be) and shames them for their inability to keep pace… We must destroy them to advance our historic mission. ⁴³

A key agent for reviving the specter of  al Qaeda in Iraq, to justify America’s continued occupation of the country, was another prominent Jihadi

Salafi  Abu Musab al Zarqawi, whose spiritual mentor was  al Maqdisi, and who had ties to Abu   Qatada. The initial leader of   al Qaeda in Iraq,   Zarqawi achieved notoriety for decapitating hostages. However, an ideological split emerged between  al Maqdisi and   Zarqawi in 2004, due to  Zarqawi’s Takfiri pronouncements against the  Shia of Iraq, who had subsequently become the focus  of his  violence instead of the Americans.Al   Maqdisi was briefly released from prison and criticized  Zarqawi’s car-bombing campaign against the   Shia. Those pronouncements led some to accuse him of becoming a tool for the Jordanian or American authorities, an accusation that has been renewed in recent years. ⁴⁴  The writings of  al Maqdisi still have a wide following. A study carried out by the Combating Terrorism Center of the United States Military Academy (USMA) concluded that  al  Maqdisi “is   the most influential living Jihadi Theorist” and that “by all measures, Maqdisi is the key contemporary ideologue in the Jihadi intellectual universe.”

When Abu  Qatada disappeared in the wake of  9/11,  French  officials accused  MI5 of abetting him, claiming “British intelligence is saying they have no idea where he is, but we know where he is and, if we know, I’m quite  sure they do.” ⁴⁵ Almost a year later Abu  Qatada was found hiding in a flat  not far from Scotland Yard. But, on February 7, 2012, The Daily Telegraphreported that a senior manager at the BBC had instructed its journalists not to call Qatada an extremist.⁴⁶

Further demonstrating that “Islamic”  terrorism is a fabricated scare, as revealed in a Mother Jonesarticle of October 2011, the  FBI has been using a strategy known as “preemption,” “prevention,” or “disruption,” to not only bring out terrorists, but to frame Muslims who had no prior intention of becoming terrorists. In a typical case, an  FBI informant, posing as a Muslim, would befriend another Muslim or group of Muslims, and encourage them to carry out acts of terror or at least plan on doing so. Mother Jonesdiscovered that the  FBI’s actions were a kind of entrapment, where in case after case, the government would provide the plot, the means, and the opportunity. With the assistance of the Investigative Reporting Program at the University of California-Berkeley, they examined prosecutions of 508 defendants in terrorism-related cases, as defined by the Department        of Justice. Their investigation found that nearly half of the prosecutions involved the use of informants, many of them enticed by money or the need to work off criminal or immigration violations. Sting operations resulted in prosecutions against 158 defendants, of which 49 participated in plots led by an agent of the  FBI.  With three exceptions, all of the high-profile domestic terror plots of    the last decade were actually  FBI stings.

Pan-Turkism & the Neo-Caliphate

Although the  Americans managed to defeat the Soviet Union, conflict with the two remaining powers of Russia and China for control of Central Asia is not yet over, and the New Great Game continues. And just as the legend of Shambhala was employed by the competing sides in the earlier episodes of the Great Game, now that the American’s have secured their hold in much of the region, so the same legend continues to be featured in the US’s actions, but now more precisely in the region said to be the location of the legendary city, Xingxiang, China.          To this purpose,           the same pan-Turkism that first gave rise to the popularization of the story of Shambhala is being used by the Americans, in a covert strategy that is deceptively using the notion of uniting Turkic peoples of Central Asia and under a neo-Caliphate to be ruled from Turkey, to rally the naïve Muslims of the region to do battle against China.

The majority of the information pertaining to these covert activities has been revealed by FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, who has claimed on Iranian state-owned Press TVthat the US was on intimate terms with the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, using them to further certain goals in Central Asia, right up until 9/11. ¹ Edmonds gained public attention following           her firing from her position as a language specialist at the FBI’s Washington Field Office in March, 2002, after she accused a colleague of covering up illicit activity involving foreign nationals, alleging serious acts of security breaches, cover-ups, and intentional blocking of intelligence which, she contended, presented a danger to the United States’ security. Her later claims have gained her awards and fame as a whistleblower.

The Muslim Brotherhood’s strategy of dissimulation explains the participation in this strategy of Turkey’s Gülen organization, which is part of the wider plans of the Americans in Central Asia. While also leading the movement behind Turkey’s current Islamic “renaissance,” Fethullah Gülen is one of the key operatives who have been fronting for the CIA in the radicalization of Central            Asia,   involving drug trafficking, money laundering, the nuclear black market, and            false-flag terrorism. A number of sources reveal that the Gülen organization has been used as a tool for the Special Operations Department of the Turkish police force, which evolved from the Counter-Guerrilla, the Turkish Gladio.² Counter-Guerrilla  has exerted great      influence  over  the country’s Cold War history, and was responsible for numerous unsolved acts of violence, most notably incepting the military coups of 1971 and 1980. The Counter-Guerrilla were responsible for the development of the  Ergenekon, the name given to an alleged clandestine, Kemalist ultra-nationalist organization in Turkey, with ties to members of the country’s military and security forces. Ergenekon, which is accused of  terrorism in Turkey, has frequently been shown to be part of a “deep state.” ³ Alleged members have been indicted on charges of plotting to foment unrest, among other things by assassinating intellectuals, politicians, judges, military staff, and religious leaders, with the ultimate goal of toppling the incumbent government.

“ Ergenekon” is a name deriving from a supposed Turkish legend describing it as a mythical place located in Eurasia, in the inaccessible valleys of the  Altai Mountains. However, according to several Turkish scholars, the legend is a hoax with no basis in  Ottoman or prior history.⁴  According to a Turkish government investigation into its activities, the  Ergenekon myth employed as a model for itself the  synarchist idea of the mythical underground realm of Agartha, which so fascinated the  Theosophists,  Guénon,  Evola and the  Nazis.⁵

The  Ergenekon connection to  Agartha is related to the  Pan-Turkism movement of the powerful   Dönmeh community of Turkey. As reported by Wayne Madsen’s article, “The  Dönmeh: The  Middle East’s Most Whispered Secret,” for the Strategic Culture Foundation,the description of the   Ergenekon organization “matches up completely with the  Dönmeh presence in Turkey’s diplomatic, military, judicial, religious, political, academic, business, and journalist hierarchy.” ⁶ An article in The Forward of May 8, 2007, revealed that Dönmeh dominated Turkish leadership “from the president down, as well as key diplomats… and a great part of Turkey’s military, cultural, academic, economic, and professional elites.” ⁷ As explains Madsen, “hidden in the   Ergenekon coup plot is that the  Dönmeh and  Ergenekon are connected through their history of being Kemalists, ardent secularists, pro-Israeli, and pro- Zionist.”⁸  Madsen  offers  a final and penetrating observation, when he explains that he discussed the sensitive subject of the  Ergenekon “deep state” with leading Turkish officials, but that however:     

…it was also whispered by one high-ranking Turkish foreign policy official        that  there  were  other  “deep   states”  in  surrounding nations and Egypt ,  Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and  Syria were mentioned by name. Considering the links between  Ergenekon and the   Dönmeh in Turkey and the close intelligence and military links between the  Dönmehdescendent Sauds and Wahhabis in Arabia, the reports of close links between ousted Egyptian President Hosni  Mubarak and his intelligence chief Omar Suleiman and the Binyamin  Netanyahu government in Israel may be seen in an entirely new light… ⁹

After  World War II, the US sought to exploit the violent  Pan-Turkism movement      in their continuing    fight   against communism. Due            to its geographic location, Turkey was of high strategic value. Turkey is an essential component of the true “axis of evil,” which includes the US, Britain,  Israel,  Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Turkey had been an important conduit in the international drug trade controlled by the world’s intelligence agencies. Heroin was smuggled from Turkey to  France and then to the United States, in what is known as the notorious French Connection. The operation reached its peak in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and was responsible for providing the vast majority of the illicit heroin used in the United States. Most of its starting capital came from assets that Auguste Ricord had stolen during  World War II when he worked for Henri Lafont, one of the heads of the Carlingue, French auxiliaries of the   Gestapo, during the  Nazi occupation of   France. The French Connection was headed by the Corsican Gang, which was closely allied after World War II with the  CIA and the SDECE,  France’s external intelligence agency, with the purpose of preventing French communists from bringing the Old Port of Marseille under their control.¹⁰

Throughout the  Cold War, Turkey represented   NATO’s most eastern outpost, and hence was equipped with high-tech gear and used as a listening post. Armed by the US, Turkey set up the largest armed forces in Europe, and the second largest in  NATO after the Americans. In 1961, the US stationed nuclear missiles in Turkey targeting the  Soviet Union, and when Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev reciprocated by stationing nuclear missiles in Cuba, the Cuban Missile Crisis erupted. President  Kennedy resolved the crisis by promising to remove the missiles from Turkey in return for Khrushchev’s promise to do the same in Cuba.

A military accord between the  CIA and the Turkish government in 1959 had stressed          that in  addition  to  fighting communism, the secret army           were to become operational “also in the case of an internal rebellion against the regime.” ¹¹ The Paris-based Intelligence Newsletterreported in 1990 that they had obtained          declassified  strategy documents with            specific reference   to how the Pan-Turkism movement could be exploited strategically by the United States. Turkey, according to the Pentagon document, is an “extremely favorable territory for the establishment of both guerrilla units and Secret Army Reserves. Politically the Turks are strongly nationalistic and anti-Communistic, and the presence of the Red Army in Turks will cause national feeling to run high.”¹²

US support of  Pan-Turkism in bolstering Turkey’s role in  NATO came in the person of a right-wing extremist named Colonel  Alparsan Turks, who during  World War II had been the contact person of the  Nazis in Turkey. Convinced of the theories of Turkish racial superiority, Colonel Turks in many of his speeches during his career quoted from  Hitler’s book Mein Kampf.  After the war, he made contacts with the  CIA in 1948 and set up a secret antiCommunist  stay-behind army in Turkey. When Turkey joined  NATO in 1952, Turks had already set up a Turkish secret army. Turks’ unit was eventually renamed the Special Forces Command, which operated   Counter-Guerrilla. ¹³ Colonel Turks also ran a right-wing terrorist group known as the   Grey Wolves. After the discovery of  NATO’s involvement in  Gladio in 1990, it was revealed in Turkey that Colonel Turks had recruited heavily among the  Grey Wolves to staff the  Counter-Guerrilla. Based explicitly on the  Pan-Turkism movement, the  Grey           Wolves derived their name and flag from the mythological legendof the grey wolves that led the Turk peoples out of Asia to their homeland in Anatolia. The  Grey Wolves’ dream is to create the “ Turan,” the “Great Turkish Empire,” to include all Turkic peoples of the Central Asian countries of the former  Soviet Union, as well as the Caucasus and the  Uighurs’ homeland of East Turkestan in the  Xinjiang,  China.

According to Turkish authorities, the  Grey Wolves carried out 694 murders between 1974 and 1980. ¹⁴ As related by investigative reporter Lucy Komisar, the 1981 attempt on John Paul II’s life by  Grey Wolves member Mehmet Ali Agca may have been related to  Gladio.¹⁵ However, Michael  Ledeen had been trying to serve ulterior political motives in fanning  Cold War hysteria by casting the attempt as a communist conspiracy, making the implausible suggestion that right-wing Agca had supposedly been taking orders from the  Soviet Union’s KGB and Bulgaria’s secret service. Known as the “ Bulgarian Connection,” Ledeen’s theory of  KGB involvement in the assassination attempt on the pope has since been attacked recently by a number of journalists. These include Washington Postreporter Michael Dobbs who initially believed the story. And according to Craig Unger, “With Ronald  Reagan newly installed in the White House, the so-called  Bulgarian Connection made perfect  Cold War propaganda. Michael  Ledeen was one of its most vocal proponents, promoting it on TV and in newspapers all over the world.” ¹⁶

A suspected leader of the  Ergenekon is the current leading devotee of Julius Evola, the controversial Russian Alexandr Dugin.17 But  Dugin is not a Turk. He is a Russian, and the most popular ideologist of Russian expansionism, nationalism, and  fascism. He was born in Moscow into a family of a high ranking Soviet military intelligence officer, and continues to have close ties to the Kremlin and Russian military. There were many reports that  Dugin’s Eurasia Movement was                                               heavily funded by associations of retired offi cers    of the SVR and the FSB, the foreign intelligence and domestic security services into which the Soveit  KBG had been divided in 1991.¹⁸

Dugin likes to see himself as the inheritor of the “ancient Eurasian order,” elements of which were already present in the  Sicherheitsdienst(SD), the secret service of the  SS. ¹⁹ He is also a follower of Sir Halford  Mackinder, seeing  Central Asia as a key aspect of geopolitics, but taking the reverse view, where he sees  Russia as needing to create a Eurasian block to impede American imperialism.  Dugin’s platform is the basis of the Eurasia Party which he founded in 2001. Eurasianism was originally a political movement in the Russian émigré community in the 1920s. After the fall of the  Soviet Union,  Dugin posited that Russian civilization does not belong in the “European” category, and that the October Revolution of the  Bolsheviks was a necessary reaction to the modernization of Russian society. It suggested that the Soviet regime was capable of evolving into a new national, non-European Orthodox Christian government, shedding off the initial mask of proletarian internationalism and militant atheism.

Sometimes called Greater  Russia, the movement is closely aligned to  PanTurkism, and is described as a political aspiration of pan-Russian nationalists to retake some or all of the territories of the other republics of the formerSoviet Union, and territory of the former Russian Empire, and amalgamate them into a single Russian state. Founded on the ideals of  Traditionalism, the Eurasia Party therefore claims support by leaders of the Orthodox Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, and Jewish faiths in  Russia, as well as some military circles. The party hopes to play a key role in attempts to resolve the Chechen problem, with the objective of setting the stage for  Dugin’s dream of a Russian strategic alliance with European and Middle Eastern states, primarily  Iran. As defined in his 1997 book, Foundations of Geopolitics,  Dugin sees the need for an alliance between Turkey,  Russia,  Iran and the Central Asian republics against the Western hemisphere:

The new Eurasian empire will be constructed on the fundamental principle of the common enemy: the rejection of Atlanticism, strategic control of the USA, and the refusal to allow liberal values to dominate us. This common civilisational impulse will be the basis of a political and strategic union. ²⁰

Dugin’s call for an alliance with  Islam is reflected in his associate Gaydar Jamal,  a  Muscovite  of Azerbaijani  origin,       who exemplified the         relationship between  Traditionalism and Islamic extremism. Once a member of  Naqshbandi Sufism, Jamal was the     founder of    the Party of                                           the Islamic     Renaissance (PIR) in 1990. In 1992, Jamal led a splinter group towards alliances with Islamist extremists in the  Middle East and with the domestic opposition to  Yeltsin, in the form of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF). Jamal’s relations with the   Middle East included Hasan al  Turabi, leader of the Sudanese Islamic Front. In 1991, after he left Saudi Arabia for his opposition to Ibn Baz’s Gulf  War  Fatwa,  bin  Laden  first went                to Pakistan and back to  Afghanistan, before finally settling         in Sudan. General                                Omar  Hassan al-Bashir had takenpower in a military coup in 1989. Just a few months later, at a  Muslim Brotherhood meeting in London, it was decided that Sudan would be a new base for the Islamist movement, and a   Muslim Brotherhood leadership council of nineteen members was subsequently established in Khartoum under  Turabi, who would emerge as the real power in the Sudanese regime. ²¹ According to  bin Laden biographer Roland Jacquard,  Turabi visited London in 1992 and was a guest at the  Round Table’s Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA). ²² In addition, Turabi seems to have  Masonic connections. When their relationship had broken down, and after  Turabi had foiled an attempted coup by him and his party, Bashir denounced  Turabi as being sponsored by “Zionists and freemasons.” ²³

Jamal’s PIR was replaced by the Islamic Committee of  Russia (ICR), which became part of a network of radical Islamic movements under  Turabi’s leadership, which included  Hamas in  Palestine and  Hezbollah in  Lebanon. ²⁴ According to Jamal’s own admission, in 1999 the ICR formed a united front with the Movement in Support of the Army, Defence Industry and Military Science, an independent opposition group aligned with the CPRF and run by the chairman of the Duma State Security Committee.

Another example of the meeting of  Traditionalism and radical  Islam isClaudio Mutti, whose works have been promoted by  Dugin. Mutti was also apparently a friend of Luc Jouret, the founder of the notorious Solar Temple cult with links to Gladio.25 Mutti, a one-time follower of  Franco Freda, converted to Islam through the         influence of  Guénon, which he discovered through his study of  Evola. Mutti had taught Romanian and Hungarian at the University of Bologna, before losing that job when he had to serve a prison term for his terrorist activities. Mutti founded the publishing house Edizioni all’Insegna del Veltro, which published the works of  Evola, Johann  von Leers,  Savitri Devi and Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson. When he converted to  Islam, Mutti took the name of Omar Amin, in honor of Johann  von Leers, who had taken the same name before him on his own conversion. ²⁶

Cluadio Mutti was also appointed Emir in the notorious  Murabitun Movement, founded by a Scottish convert to   Islam named  Ian Dallas, a.k.a. Sheikh Abdalqadir al-Murabit. Dallas is also a member of the Darqawi branch of the  Shadhili Sufi order, also descended from Ahmad Al-Alawi,                                               Guénon’s friend who initiated   Schuon into the order. Dallas celebrates  Hitler as a “great genius and great vision,” praises  Wagner as the “most spiritual of men among men in a age of darkness,” and regards the black stone of the Kabbah in Mecca as the  Holy  Grail. In 1990, he held a symposium in honor of the occultist Ernst Junger, one of the fathers of Nazi ideology, and which ended with a  Masonic ceremonial.Also in attendance was  Albert Hofmann, the scientist who discovered   LSD. ²⁷ Hofmann had told   Leary about his informal “wisdom school” centered around psychedelic sessions with leading European intellectuals, including Ernst Junger. ²⁸

Dugin’s ideas, particularly those on “a Turkic-Slavic alliance in the Eurasian sphere” have recently become popular among certain nationalistic circles in Turkey, most notably among alleged members of  Ergenekon. The most    prominent figure  is Dogu Perinçek, the leader of the Workers                               Party, and an associate of  Dugin, who in 2008 was arrested on suspicion of being a member of  Ergenekon. Perinçek combines Kemalism with   Marxism but is also a neo-Eurasianist, meaning that he strives towards an alliance between Turkey, Russia,  Iran and the Central Asian republics against the Western hemisphere. ²⁹

Neo-Eurasianism  is the latest phase of the long-standing  British           plan, first proposed by Wilfred Scawen  Blunt and later T. E.  Lawrence, to create a Neo- Caliphate. Despite its claims of presenting an obstacle to American imperialism, Neo-Eurasianism is aligned with recent American designs in Central Asia, through the assistance of the  Gülen network and his links to Counter-Guerrilla.  Gülen presents himself and his movement as a modern, tolerant version of Anatolian  Sufism , with reference to the literature of famous Sufi thinkers such as         Jalal ad-Din  Rumi, from whom descended the  Mevlevi Whirling Dervishes, and Haji Bektash Veli, the eponym of the  Bektashi Sufi order.³⁰ Gülen was a student and follower of the popular Turkish mystic Bediuzzaman Said  Nursi (1878            –1960), who was  influenced by al Ghazali, Rumi,  al  Jilani and the  Naqshbandi Sufi  order.³¹ Nursi was put on trial in 1909 for his apparent involvement in the Committee of Union and Progress’ activities of the same year, but he was acquitted, and later famously rejected an offer from Kemal   Ataturk to the position of Minister of Religious Affairs for the eastern provinces of Turkey. Nusri then lived in exile and was arrested many times between 1930 and 1949. After the introduction of the multi-party system in Turkey, he advised his followers to vote for the  Democratic Party, whose pro-Western orientation he supported because he considered communism the greatest danger of that time, leading to his support of  NATO, CENTO (Central Eastern Treaty Organisation, also known as the Baghdad Pact of 1955) and Turkey’s participation in the Korean war.

Evidence of  Gülen’s collusion with the  CIA was found among the documents that the attorneys for the State Department presented in favor of rejecting  Gülen’s application for a permanent visa. There, are claims about the Gülen movement’s financial structure,  it  being  emphasized that its           economic power reached $25 billion. The lawyers state: “Because of the large amount of money that  Gülen’s  movement  uses   to finance his projects,    there are claims that he has secret agreements with  Saudi Arabia,  Iran, and Turkic governments. There are suspicions that the  CIA is a co-payer in financing these projects.” ³² Most incriminating is the list of references that  Gülen provided in an apparent effort to bolster his application, namely  those of George Fidas,  Graham Fuller, and  Morton Abramowitz.   Graham Fuller happens to be listed as one of the American Deep State rogues as noted by whistleblower  Sibel Edmonds. Edmonds conceived of a clever legal way to sidestep the gag order placed on her by the Bush Administration, where she didn’t name the people she held incriminating information against, but instead provided unnamed photos of them on her website, in a list she referred to as “State Secrets Privilege Gallery.” ³³

Graham Fuller is an American author and political analyst, specializing in “Islamic extremism.” Formerly vice-chair of the National Intelligence Council, he also served as Station Chief in Kabul for the  CIA. A “think piece” that he wrote for the  CIA was identified as instrumental  in leading to the Iran-contra affair. ³⁴ George Fidas worked thirty-one years for the  CIA, while Morton Abramowitz was also deeply involved with Afghan   Mujahideen and Kosovo rebels. As ambassador in Turkey, Abramowitz was succeeded by Marc Grossman, another neoconservative with dual citizenship with  Israel, after working under him in Ankara for a number of years. During that period, the US opened an espionage investigation into activities at the embassy involving Major Douglas Dickerson, a weapons procurement specialist for  Central Asia. Dickerson and his wife, an  FBI translator, later became famous when they tried to recruit  Sibel Edmonds to spy for this criminal network. Grossman is currently receiving $1.2 million per annum from Ihlas Holding, a  Gülen-linked Turkish conglomerate. ³⁵

The  Pan-Turkism ideals espoused by  Gülen, as an ostensible project of creating a pan-Islamic  Caliphate to be ruled from Turkey, is merely part of America’s post  Cold War strategy to control   Central Asia with the aim of containing  Russia and  China. The invasion of  Afghanistan is an important part of this strategy and an extension of the plans already outlined by  Brzezinski. Coordination with the  Gülen movement is tied to recent plans to confront China through the support of an independence movement of the  Uighurs, a Turkic and predominantly Muslim minority of  Xinjiang, in northwestern China. The  CIA plotting came to a head in July 2009, with a series of violent clashes that erupted between  Uighurs and the Chinese state police and Han Chinese residents in   Xinjiang. As was also stated in 2004 with regards to the separatist moves over  Xinjiang, according to TurkPulse: “One of the main tools Washington is using in this affair in order to get Turkey involved in the Xinjiang affair is some Turkish Americans, primarily the Fetullah  Gülen.”³⁶