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Originally posted by Shoals Lover:
{edit title & add facts} The United States Army and other U.S. intelligence services failed to detect the presence of an al Qaeda operative within their ranks named Ali Mohamed.
For years, A.M. was a member of the U.S. Army's elite Special Forces and trained at Ft. Bragg and other locations throughout the United States and overseas.
During his stint in the Army, he travelled overseas and actively participated in the training of al Qaeda terrorists with training manuals stolen from U.S. Army facilities, some of which were classified as "Secret."
After his enlistment in the Army was completed, he then became an FBI informant, and later worked for the CIA.
All the while, he was never suspected of, nor investigated for involvement with al Qaeda or terrorist networks.
Who should be indicted and tried, and heads proverbially placed upon a platter for abysmally failing their mission and the American people?
Responsibility rests at the top.
Ali Mohamed, while a sergeant in the U.S. Army's Special Forces,
- stole training manuals,
and trained
- bin Laden's body guards,
- al Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan and the Sudan,
then
- worked for the CIA 15 years as an informant,
- later for the FBI,
all the while concealing his al Qaeda involvement.
He also
- helped import bin Laden's chief deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, to the San Francisco Bay Area on a covert fund-raising mission; and
- planned the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi,
where more than 200 people were killed.
http://usinfo.state.gov/is/Archive_Index/Ali_Mohamed.htmlhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22ali+mohamed&btnG=Google+Search
Yes, I had heard about him. I have been following this, somewhat, since the first WTC bombing and even before when an al Qaeda guy from Pakistan shot up the parking lot of the CIA around 1989 or somewhere around there. Also the right wing Israeli racist, Mier Khane's murder in New York, also in late 80's or early 90's.
Some claim he is proof that the CIA created and control al Qaeda, but I don't think so. Why go through all the trouble? Making camps and the Taliban and all.
The article does state the reason they are attacking us is to drive us, and the West, from the region. They also want to overthrow our puppets in the region, like Mubarek in Egypt and Hussein in Jordan, and Kuwait and others but they also want to overthrow all the governments and create Fundamentalist Islamic States. They are also at War with Assad in Syria and Iran.
The right wing claim they are attacking us because they "hate freedom" and want us all to convert. Al Qaeda are not coming here to conquer us and the majority of the Arab and Muslim people want no part of them anyway.
I have never really heard of a connection between al Qaeda and Sheik Rahman in Egypt. He is the blind cleric they framed for the first WTC bombing, although he did have a member of al Qaeda close to him. in his inner circle. it's pretty confusing sometimes.
The idea, plans and bombs for the first WTC bombing were supplied by a former Egyptian intellignece officer named Salem. It was a set up. He was also reporting the plans and developments of the plot to the FBI.
Here's were it gets really confusing. Just before the bombing the FBI dropped him claiming he was a con man. Who knows what that means?
Radham lead the Egyptian fundamentalist movement but as far as I know they were only interested in overthrowing Mubarek, establishing an Islamic State and creating a fairer and more just society between Egypt's rich and poor. There is tremendous pverty and corruption in Egypt. Radman did have Islamic charities that helped the poor but he led attacks on westerners in Egypt also. The civil rights attorney Lynn Steward was defending Radman and was accused of passing secrets to his followers. Actually she violated an agreement with the jail that she would not contact the group in any way but she openly held a press conference and read Radman's statement to his followers that he questioned the government of Egypt's sincerity in it's peace talks. I am sure you have heard of her. The media labeled her a terrorist too.
Also I never heard of a connection between al Qaeda and the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad either. Hamas as well as the Palestinian Authority, Fatah and all reject al Qaeda. Israeli spin is always trying to connect them in some way. The Palestinians are only interested in freeing Palestine from Israeli occupation and some, like Hamas, do not recognioze the UN or Europe's right to give their land away to Europen Jews to create Israel. They believe in a one state, with equal rights for all. But Hamas also believes in an Islamic State but has said, so far anyway, that they would never try to force it upon the people but the people must chose it.
I don't know if Islmic Jihad ever had or has connections to al Qaeda. I doubt it but do not know for sure. But I doubt it.
I don't think the CIA control bin Laden or al Qaeda, but I do know that we have agents inside it spying on them as do Saudi Arabia and Pakistan and probably Israel as well. They almost got bin Laden right after 9/11 but the helicopter crashed in an ice storm.
Al Qaeda do have cells and connections in Indonesia and other countries though.