11 years on; the direction our future 9/11 research should take

[worcesteradam]

One of the most shocking aspects of al Qaeda is its global jihadi presence.

Its sheer scale makes mapping and understanding its power network a seemingly impossible task.

This evidence then suggests that Al Qaeda is not in fact a unified network at all but instead a network of similarly aligned ideological cells who cooperate together instinctively in some way, perhaps under the banner of defending Islam from the heathen crusaders.

If there is a coordinating arm to global jihad, it is more than likely on the scale of the worldwide NATO intelligence apparatus than of one exiled Saudi in a cave in afghanistan.

We now know a good deal more about how these rebel groups and terrorist networks that span the world came into being though.

CIA weapons for drugs deals conducted under the rubric of 'The Cold War' to fight Communism, a simple reinvention of "the Great Game' rubric for British Imperialism, created a worldwide network of jihadi type extremists in nations all over the planet.

Certain spooks from the US oversaw the creation of a governing command centre for all "anti communist" aligned rebel groups.
A case study here is 'The Jamboree in Jamba.'
From what little is know about it we can identify a few of the individuals overseeing things. Three which stand out are;
1) Mysterious financier Lewis Lehrman;
2) Superspy Jack Abramoff;
3) And secretive cold warrior Michael Johns, who would go on to be a personal advisor to a co-chair of the 911 Commission.

We now know that after WW2 supposedly ended a new world of 'cold war' dominated by secrets, spys and subterfuge took its place.

Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, the NATO coordinating agency, oversaw the running of "stay-behind networks," groups of, as it turned out, terrorists cells of 'ex' soldiers who had access to weaponry stored in secret locations usually underground.

These secret networks could be called upon at any moment to further SHAPEs ambitions to defeat Communism and win the cold war, in the mean time they would often finance themselves via the criminal underworld amongst which their favourite tactics included bank robbery and smuggling.

I contend that in order to further our understanding of what al Qaeda actually is and how it came about we ought to focus our research on the cold war and the men who fought it, identifying the key players and the important battlegrounds and events, then study how those people transitioned themselves into the post cold war world.

Al Qaeda has connection from South American drug lords to African diamond mines. From Basque separatist groups to Chechen warlords. Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, al Qaeda's main financier and protected US asset, owned mines in Madagascar. What does all of this mean?

Only by investigating the cold war will we truly find out as none of this emerged by accident overnight. Its all a legacy of the old world

[worcesteradam]

This might be a good start

To oppose the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, the USA formed an extraordinary anti-communist alliance with militant Islamic forces in South Asia. In this controversial book, John Cooley provides a behind-the-scenes account of this alliance and of how the CIA planned and ran the "holy war" in Afghanistan. In this edition Cooley brings the subject up to date with a description of the Bin Laden-linked terrorist conspiracy network uncovered in the US and Canada since December 1999. He also covers the important events in Pakistan since the military coup of October 1999 and the impact of this on Indo-Pakistani relations, and focuses on recent events in Algeria, which have been linked to the extremist GIA - the group whose members are alleged to be involved in the new US-Canada conspiracies.

[worcesteradam]

Mark Curtis member of RIIA has also done deep research on this.


The updated edition of Secret Affairs covers the momentous events of the past year in the Middle East. It reveals the unreported attempts by Britain to cultivate relations with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt after the fall of Mubarak, the military intervention on the side of Libyan rebel forces which include pro-al-Qaeda elements, and the ongoing reliance on the region's ultimate fundamentalist state, Saudi Arabia, to safeguard its interest in the Middle East. In this ground-breaking book, Mark Curtis reveals the covert history of British collusion with radical Islamic and terrorist groups. Secret Affairs shows how governments since the 1940s have connived with militant forces to control oil resources and overthrow governments. The story of how Britain has helped nurture the rise of global terrorism has never been told.

[fradus]

I dont see why research into AQ is even needed when those pricks let it happen.
Thats where we should be spending our efforts, uncovering what went down as orchestrated by the US Government.

We seem to have been stonewalled... and not even the Truth movement can get a foothold to shine a spotlight on W and his cronies.