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[Carl Brennan]

When did OBL go off the CIA's payroll?



I'm Osama Bin Laden and I approve this message:
Osama Bin Ladin:
Marketing Terrorism

Yael Shahar, ICT
Aug 22 1998

If he were using the same methods to run a huge software empire, we would laud Osama bin Ladin as a clever capitalist; we would envy him his marketing savvy, or jealously deride him for his riches. However, Osama bin Ladin is not in the software business; his business is international terrorism. Bin Ladin is the prototype of a new breed of terrorist, the private entrepreneur who puts modern enterprise at the service of a world-wide network of terrorists. He makes effective use of all the tried and true methods of marketing, management, privatization and advertising.

Osama bin Ladin is one of 53 children of Saudi construction magnate Muhammad Awad bin Ladin. His mother was reportedly a Palestinian, and the least favored of his father’s ten wives. The elder bin Ladin moved to Saudi Arabia from Yemen and amassed a fortune. Most of this money came from a number of successful construction and contracting companies. Today, the bin Ladin family fortune is estimated at $5 billion, of which Osama has access to an estimated $300 million. He tends to see himself as the model businessman, a graduate of Riyadh University’s management and economics department. The only difference is, his product is war.

The education of a Mujahedin

Bin Ladin entered on his current path of holy warrior in 1979. That was the year Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan. Osama moved his business to Afghanistan--several hundred loyal workmen, some heavy construction tools--and set out to liberate the land from the infidel invader. Recognizing at once that the Afghans were lacking both infrastructure and manpower to fight a protracted conflict, he set about solving both problems at once. The first step was to set up an organized program of conscription. He advertised all over the Arab world for young Muslims to come to fight in Afghanistan. He paid for their transportation to Afghanistan, and set up facilities to train them. The Afghan government donated land and resources, while bin Ladin brought in experts from all over the world on guerilla warfare, sabotage, and covert operations. Within a little over a year he had thousands of volunteers in training in his private bootcamps.

Superpower vs. superpower

But the war in Afghanistan was not a tribal hill feud; it was the stage for one of the last major stand-offs between the two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. The Americans at that time had the same goals as bin Ladin’s mujahedin--the ousting of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. In what was hailed at the time as one of its most successful covert operations, America’s Central Intelligence Agency launched a $500 million-per-year campaign to arm and train the impoverished and outgunned mujahedin guerrillas to fight the Soviet Union. The most promising guerilla leaders were sought out and “sponsored” by the CIA. U.S. official sources are understandably vague on the question of whether Osama bin Ladin was one of the CIA’s “chosen” at that time. Bin Ladin’s group was one of seven main mujahedin factions. It is estimated that a significant quantity of high tech American weapons, including “stinger” anti-aircraft missiles, made their way into his arsenal. The majority of them are reported to be still there.

What is certain is that the CIA plan was wildly successful. The mujahedin vanquished the Soviet Union in ten years of savage fighting. What had begun as a fragmented army of tribal warriors ended up a well-organized and equipped modern army--one capable of beating a super power. The departing Soviet troops left behind an Afghanistan with a huge arsenal of sophisticated weapons and thousands of seasoned Islamic warriors from a variety of countries.

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[RawMaterials]

1. Did he go off payroll or is he still on?

Notice in the last video tape, he said he wanted to bankrupt The US.
This gives an easy out to the B**h office, when there policies(cutting taxes, deficit spending) really do bankrupt the country.

They can just say there terr est got us, we tried but now we need every to band together let us use marital law, stop buy anything not American made and let us raise taxes. (all in the name of paitratism)

Thus Turing everyone into a lower class working slave. were the top .5% have all the money and power, and everyone else suffers the pain of having the world hate us.

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2. The most promising guerilla leaders were sought out and “sponsored”

Reverend Franklin Graham, the pugnacious preacher who delivered the prayer at President George W. Bush's 2001 inauguration, might have a bone to pick with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). When Franklin branded Islam "a very evil and wicked religion" after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, he had no idea that American spies were once eager to promote a Muslim leader in the Middle East modeled after his own father, the famous evangelist Billy Graham.

The CIA often works in mysterious ways - and so it was with this little-known cloak-and-dagger caper that set the stage for extensive collaboration between US intelligence and Islamic extremists. The genesis of this ill-starred alliance dates back to Egypt in the mid-1950s, when the CIA made discrete overtures to the Muslim Brotherhood, the influential Sunni fundamentalist movement that fostered Islamic militancy throughout the Middle East. What started as a quiet American flirtation with political Islam became a Cold War love affair on the sly - an affair that would turn out disastrously for the United States. Nearly all of today's radical Islamic groups, including al-Qaeda, trace their lineage to the Brotherhood.

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To understand what happened on that fateful day when terrorist strikes leveled the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon, one must revisit the turbulent changes that took place a half century earlier in the land of the sphinx. After seizing power in a 1952 military coup Egyptian Col. Gamal Abdul Nasser quickly threw prominent Communists in jail. This raised eyebrows among US cloak-and-dagger operatives who were eager to oblige when Nasser requested help in upgrading Egypt's ineffectual secret service. But the US government "found it highly impolitic to help him directly," the late CIA agent Miles Copeland acknowledged in his memoirs, The Game of Nations , so the CIA subcontracted more than a hundred German Third Reich vets, who specialized in Nazi security and interrogation techniques, to do the job.

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Copeland was off and running. He visited several Egyptian mosques in search of an Islamic preacher who could sway the Arab masses in a manner most congenial to US interests. Although Copeland never found the CIA's messiah, his furtive machinations were not without impact. While on the prowl for a Muslim Billy Graham, Copeland reached out to leaders of the religious revival movement known as the Ikhwan, or Muslim Brotherhood, which sought to build an Islamic society from the bottom up. The seeds of a clandestine relationship between the CIA and the Ikhwan were planted by Copeland, who surmised that the Muslim Brothers, by virtue of their strong antipathy to Arab nationalism as well as Communism, might be a viable counterweight to Nasser in the years ahead, US intelligence would become a defacto partner of the Brotherhood as it evolved from a mass-based social reform organization into the wellspring of Islamic terrorism.

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3. a little more

The Muslim Brothers are at the root of a lot of our troubles," says Col. W. Patrick Lang, one of several US intelligence veterans iterviewed for this article. Formerly a high-ranking Middle East expert at the Defence Intelligence Agency, Lang considers al-Qaeda to be "a descenent of the Brotherhood."

For many years, the American espionge establishment had operated on the assumption that Islam was inherently anti-communist and therefore could be harnessed to facilitate US objectives. American officals viewed the Muslim Brotherhood as "a secret weapon" in the shadow war against the Soviet Union and its Arab allies, according to Robert Baer, a retired CIA case officer who was right in the thick of things in the Middle East and Central Asia during his 21 year career as a spy. In Sleeping with the Devil, a book he wrote after quitting the CIA, Baer explains how the United States "made common cause witht the Brothers" and used them "to do our dirty work in Yemen, Afghanistan and plenty of other places." This covert relationship unraveled when the Cold War ended, whereupon, an Islamic Frankenstein named Osama bin Laden lurched into existence.

Described by ex-CIA analyst Graham Fuller as “the preeminent international Islamist organization,” the Muslim Brotherhood currently has a huge following, with autonomous branches, all in close contact, spread across the Arab world. But it is banned in several countries, including Egypt, its birthplace, for being an alleged front for terrorists – a claim its supporters adamantly deny even though bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders had close personal ties to the Brotherhood prior to September 11.

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Before long, however US officials grew wary of Nasser, who seemed like a loose cannon on the deck of Middle Eastern politics. A fervent pan-Arab nationalist, he rebuffed American appeals to join an anti-Soviet military pact and instead championed a neutralist coalition of Third World nations that favored an independent stance during the Cold War. Non-alignment in the East-West conflict was an abomination to CIA director Allen Dulles and he bristled at Nasser’s growing stature as a charismatic leader who could galvanize Arabs and Muslims far beyond Egypt. “If that colonel of yours pushes us too far, we will break him in half,” Dulles admonished Copeland, the CIA’s man-on-the-spot in Cairo

[Carl Brennan]

4. Nasser, ARafat, and Sadat , as well as the Fedayeen

were taught by WWII Nazi, and later linked to CIA, war hero Otto Skorzeny.

Thats in Martin Lee's "The Beast Reawakens".