Greg Palast: FBI Spiked Chechen Jihadi Investigation

[eridani]

http://www.nationofchange.org/fbi-spiked-chechen-jihadi-investigation-1367676474

According to the secret memo, long before the Boston bombing, even before the September 11 attack, the FBI shut down an investigation of a group that ran a summer camp in Florida for America's Muslim teenagers.

No, we shouldn't be spying on Islamic campers. However, besides the usual swimming and soccer, these youngsters were encouraged to join the Chechen jihad. The kiddies were treated to videos praising Chechen bombers (who seized a school and hospital then killed their hostages). The group also produced an educational film praising, "that compassionate young man, Osama bin Laden".

Hey, it was a family affair. Camp Jihad was run by the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), whose operation just outside Washington DC was directed in the US by a man the FBI called "ABL" – Abdullah Binladden, Osama's brother.

When the Kazakh friends of the Boston bombers were arrested, I went back to that "SECRET" memo. It fell into my hands in November 2001, just two months after that "compassionate young man" Osama killed thousands in my office building (I once worked at the World Trade Center).

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Our government gave ABL a pass (and safe passage back to Saudi Arabia) because Presidents Clinton and Bush were more than happy that our Saudi allies were sending jihadis to Afghanistan, then, via WAMY, helping Muslims to fight in Bosnia then, later, giving the Russians grief in Chechnya.

The problem is that terrorists are like pigeons – they come home to roost.

As Joe Trento of the National Security News Service, who provided crucial help to our investigation, told me, "It would be unseemly if [someone] were arrested by the FBI and word got back that he'd once been on the payroll of the CIA… What we're talking about is blow-back. What we're talking about is embarrassing, career-destroying blow-back for intelligence officials.

[leveymg]

1. Every major terrorist incident of the past decade has been blowback. If you want to stop

international terrorism inside the United States, you have to take foreign terrorist groups off the CIA payroll and stop coordinating terrorist attacks with other state-sponsors of terrorism, starting with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, and Israel.

But, this is a deeply-entrenched bipartisan policy, and the Cold War never really ended, did it?

[malaise]

2. and the Cold War never really ended, did it

And any enemy of Russia is a US friend.

[leveymg]

3. And what would we do if we were Russians?

You have to wonder how much blowback is really just low-level conflict between the two sides in a twilight war that never ended. If we were the Russians, would we be such angels that we could resist the temptation to just return a ticking bomb to sender?

[malaise]

9. To find out that answer

Ask the Iraqis, the Libyans and now the Syrians

[byeya]

4. Palast is right a lot more than he's wrong. I tend to believe this report of his.

[JustAnotherGen]

11. +1

[dotymed]

5. Just interested

Is the Kingdom of Saud still publicly financing American hating Madras's? It was not a coincidence that the WTC terrorists were all Saudi and financed well by their govt.
IMO, they had a lot of bush help. If you believe in glaring multiple coincidences converging simultaneously then carry on, nothing to see here. We were never allowed to look back anyway.. trouble making truthers.

[newfie11]

6. +1. Nt

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7. The trail goes back to the CIA promoting the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s

This was posted at DU2 back in 2004 -- the link in that post no longer works, but the article seems to be available at other locations online.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x69779

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. . . .

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.

[HiPointDem]

8. the muslim brotherhood = rich muslim globalist businessmen

[malaise]

10. Divide and rule for ever

The British taught them well

[Dreamer Tatum]

12. Doesn't Chicken Jihadi sound like it could be a good dish? nt

[Hell Hath No Fury]

13. K&R and shared on FB -