Anther interesting fact is that the Al Qaeda maintains meticulous account for its expenses.
Keeps meticulous Account.
In more than 100 receipts left in a building occupied by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in Timbuktu earlier this year, the extremists assiduously tracked their cash flow, recording purchases as small as a single light bulb. The often tiny amounts are carefully written out in pencil and colored pen on scraps of paper and Post-it notes: The equivalent of $1.80 for a bar of soap; $8 for a packet of macaroni; $14 for a tube of super glue.
The accounting system on display in the documents found by The Associated Press is a mirror image of what researchers have discovered in other parts of the world where Al Qaeda operates, including Afghanistan, Somalia and Iraq. The terror group’s documents around the world also include corporate workshop schedules, salary spreadsheets, philanthropy budgets, job applications, public relations advice and letters from the equivalent of a human resources division.
Even then there was confusion whether it was a Civil Guard and the doubt still lingers still, ffueling the Conspiracy Theory.
The FBI had these suspects under their radar and Russia sought FBI’s help in 2011.
The following is a part of a statement made by the FBI.
Once the FBI learned the identities of the two brothers today, the FBI reviewed its records and determined that in early 2011, a foreign government asked the FBI for information about Tamerlan Tsarnaev. The request stated that it was based on information that he was a follower of radical Islam and a strong believer, and that he had changed drastically since 2010 as he prepared to leave the United States for travel to the country’s region to join unspecified underground groups.
In response to this 2011 request, the FBI checked U.S. government databases and other information to look for such things as derogatory telephone communications, possible use of online sites associated with the promotion of radical activity, associations with other persons of interest, travel history and plans, and education history. The FBI also interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev and family members. The FBI did not find any terrorism activity, domestic or foreign, and those results were provided to the foreign government in the summer of 2011. The FBI requested but did not receive more specific or additional information from the foreign government.'(heavy.com)
“Amid disclosures that Russia tipped the FBI in 2011 that one of the Boston Marathon bombers had become a Muslim radical, Republican leaders of the House Homeland Security Committee plan to hold hearings to examine what the bureau and U.S. intelligence agencies might have done to thwart last week’s attack.”(Boston Herald).
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, aka the Boston Bomber, aka Suspect Number 2, aka “White Hat,” is in custody
According to one of the officials, an airline misspelled Tsarnaev’s name when it submitted the list of passengers on Tsarnaev’s flight to Russia in January 2012. Airlines are required to provide the U.S. government with a list of passengers on international flights so the U.S. can check their names through government databases, including the terrorist watch list.
Now the US is reaching out to Russia for clues!
It is difficult to find out and trace a Sleeper cell when it comes alive suddenly, one must admit.
It is because of a slender lead which can be described as Providential the Boston Bombers could have escaped undetected.
The fact that they have used very crude Devices and not sophisticated ones, they could have easily caused a Mayhem.
This and the fact they are grassroots level operatives of the AlQaeda was why they did not succeed as they wished to be.
But I have a nagging doubt whether this attack was a ‘Red Herring’ for something else.
I am curious as to why there is no is no coverage of Texas Fertilizer Plant which was very severe and the reasons for the blast are not very clear.
A former council member of al-Qaida says he opposed the 9/11 plot because it involved killing civilians, and the Taliban already had warned that such a horrific action would produce “consequences” that would be intolerable.
The comments come from Abu Hafs al-Mauritani, who identified himself as a former al-Qaida Shura council member in an interview just days ago on the Al-Jazeera TV network.
According to the MEMRI report, al-Mauritani, who also is known as Mahfouz Ould al-Walid, told the interviewer that during the al-Qaida preparations for the 9/11 attacks, the details were not revealed.
“Nobody said anything about hijacking airplanes, about destroying towers, or about attacking the Pentagon with hijacked planes. It was not presented this way, but just as a violent operation that would be carried out against the USA, leading to thousands of casualties,” he said.
He recalled discussing the strategy with others.
“All those present predicted that the U.S. response to such an operation would not be restricted to a missile attack from afar, as was the case following the Nairobi and Dar es Salaam attacks. They thought the natural response would be an invasion into Afghanistan and the toppling of the Islamic Emirate in Afghanistan.”
He continued: “I was the staunchest opponent to such an operation. My opposition was based on religious legal grounds: Jihad is not about pointless killing and destruction.”
He said in the interview: “Jihad is the pinnacle of Islam, one of the finest acts possible, but it does not mean that you can kill and destroy regardless of the consequences. While Islam considers it to be a form of worship, it takes into consideration the consequences of these actions. Anybody who considers the consequences of 9/11 back then realizes that it did more harm than good.”
He said his concern was that civilians would be killed, “and our religion forbids us to kill civilians.”
“In Islam, a civilian is anybody who is not involved in fighting. This includes women, children, the elderly, and ordinary people.”
Al Qaeda Iran Deal?
ISLAMABAD – On March 30, Heshmatollah Attarzadeh, the commercial attache at the Iranian consulate in Peshawar, capital of Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province, was “recovered from outside Iran and returned to Iran” after being abducted by militants on November 13, 2008.
In a terse statement, the Iranian Intelligence Ministry announced that Attarzadeh had been freed after a “complicated intelligence operation” by Iranian intelligence forces, without giving further details, apart from a dig at Pakistan: “Following the failure of the Pakistani government to secure the release of Attarzadeh, my ministry took the initiative and managed to rescue the diplomat,” Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi said.
ranian state-owned Press TV, he said Israel’s Mossad and the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States, under orders from the US, were behind his abduction.
Iran’s First Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi, after a meeting with Attarzadeh, did not comment on these claims, instead taking time for a little back-patting. “The freedom of the diplomat shows the all-out might of the Islamic Republic of Iran and its all-around dominance in the realm of intelligence,” Rahimi was quoted by the semi-official Fars News Agency as saying.
Investigations by Asia Times Online show that while the Iranians did indeed secure Attarzadeh’s release, it came at a price: a deal with al-Qaeda that resulted in the release of high-profile prisoners from Iranian custody. And in the negotiating process, Iran supplied weapons to a top Taliban commander allied with al-Qaeda.
Juste quand je réjouissais de ce que les éléments saner au Pakistanaient prédominé sur les purs et durs dans la forme de jeunes gens montant contre le terrorisme en demandant la compréhension des Pakistanais (un Blogger a commencé cela s’il vous plaît a lu mon blog) et la riposte par une fille de 13 ans contre l’attaque de Taliban au Pakistan, j’ai trouvé par hasard un article écrit par un Officier Retraité de Bureau d’Intelligence, le Gouvernement du Pakistan.
Aamir Mughal Research l’Officier d’Intelligence d’Analyste / l’Ancien Officier d’Intelligence de DIB, le Pakistan..
Dans un article qu’il cite abondamment à partir de sources provenant des ÉTATS-UNIS , y compris nous des espions et nous documents comme le New York Times, le Washington Post et retrace l’histoire des Taliban à l’époque de Reagan et soutient le mollah Omar a effectivement été un combattant contre les Taliban.
Après avoir traversé ce l’un devient confus.
Est-ce vrai?
Y a-t-il une ont plus d’informations à ce sujet?
Histoire :
Couvercle de Jimmy Carter
Steve Coll termine son livre important sur l’Afghanistan – Ghost Wars : l’Histoire secrète de la CIA, l’Afghanistan et bin Laden,
Depuis l’invasion soviétique au 10 septembre 2001-en citant le président afghan, M. Hamid Karzaï : “Quelle malchance un pays.” Les Américains pourraient trouver là un moyen pratique de faire abstraction de ce que leur gouvernement n’en Afghanistan entre 1979 et le présent, mais chance n’a rien à voir avec elle.
BRUTALE, incompétent, opérations secrètes de la Central Intelligence Agency des ÉTATS-UNIS, souvent manipulés par les services de renseignement militaire du Pakistan et de l’Arabie saoudite, qui a causé la dévastation catastrophique de ce pauvre pays.
Sur les éléments de preuve contenus dans Coll’s book Ghost Wars, ni les Américains, ni leurs victimes dans de nombreux musulmans et les pays du tiers monde ne connaîtra jamais la paix jusqu’à ce que l’Agence centrale de renseignement a été aboli.
Il devrait être maintenant généralement accepté que l’invasion soviétique de l’Afghanistan à la veille de Noël 1979, a été délibérément provoquée par les ÉTATS-UNIS . Dans ses mémoires publiés en 1996, l’ancien directeur de la CIA Robert Gates a dit clairement que l’intelligence américaine services a commencé à l’aide la guérilla moudjahidin pas après l’invasion soviétique, mais six mois avant.
Dans une interview deux ans plus tard avec Le Nouvel Observateur, le président Carter le conseiller à la sécurité nationale Zbigniew Brzezinski fièrement Gates a confirmé l’affirmation. ” Selon la version officielle de l’histoire,” a dit M. Brzezinski, “CIA aide aux moudjahidin a commencé au cours de l’année 1980, c’est-à-dire, après que l’armée soviétique a envahi l’Afghanistan.
Mais la réalité, gardé secret jusqu’à maintenant, est complètement différente : le 3 juillet 1979 le président Carter a signé la première directive secrète pour aide aux opposants de la pro-régime soviétique à Kaboul. Et le même jour, j’ai écrit une note au président dans laquelle j’ai expliqué qu’à mon avis, cette aide pourrait conduire à une intervention militaire soviétique.”
On lui a demandé s’il en aucune façon a déploré ces actions, Brzezinski a répondu : regrette quoi? L’opération secrète a été une excellente idée. Il a appelé les Russes dans le piège Afghan et vous voulez que je le regrette ?
Le jour où les Soviétiques ont officiellement franchi la frontière, j’ai écrit au président Carter, en disant, en substance: “Nous avons maintenant l’occasion de donner à l’URSS sa guerre du Vietnam.”
Le Nouvel Observateur : “Et vous n’en avez regrette d’avoir appuyé le fondamentalisme islamique, qui a donné des armes et des conseils aux futurs terroristes? “.
Les motifs de la Maison Blanche et la CIA ont été façonnées par la guerre froide : la volonté de tuer autant de soldats soviétiques que possible et le désir de restaurer une certaine aura de machisme robuste ainsi que sa crédibilité que dirigeants américains craignaient qu’ils avaient perdu quand le Shah d’Iran a été renversé. La CIA n’avait aucune stratégie complexe de la guerre qu’il a déclenchée en Afghanistan.
Howard Hart, l’agence représentant dans la capitale pakistanaise, Coll a dit qu’il comprenait ses ordres comme: “Vous êtes un jeune homme; voici votre sac d’argent, allez soulever l’enfer. Ne pas fuck-up, juste y aller et tuer soviétiques.” Ces ordres venaient des des plus étranges américain.
William Casey, la CIA director à partir de janvier 1981 à janvier 1987, était un catholique Chevalier de Malte éduqué par les Jésuites.
Quand les voisins sont venus le mollah Mohammed Omar, dans le printemps de l’année 1994, ils avaient une histoire qui était même choquant par la sombre normes d’Afghanistan’ s 18-année de guerre civile. Deux adolescentes du mollah du village de Singesar avaient été enlevés par l’un des gangs de moudjahidin, ou “guerriers sacrés,” qui contrôlait la plupart des campagnes afghanes.
Les filles chefs avait été rasée, ils avaient été pris à un point de contrôle à l’extérieur du village et ils avaient été violées à plusieurs reprises.
À l’époque, le mollah Omar a été un obscur figure, un ancien commandant de la guérilla contre occupation forces soviétiques qui étaient rentrés en dégoût à la terreur groupes moudjahidin ont infligées sur l’Afghanistan .
Il était vivant en tant qu’étudiant ou talib, dans une boue de parois école religieuse que centrée sur l’apprentissage par coeur du Coran.
Mais les filles sort déplacé lui d’agir. Rassemblement 30 anciens guérilleros, qui passa entre eux 16 fusils Kalachnikov, il a dirigé une attaque sur le checkpoint, libéré les filles et liée commandant du poste de contrôle par un noeud coulant sur le fourreau d’un vieux char soviétique.
Comme ceux qui l’entourent et lui a crié “Dieu est grand!” Le mollah Omar a ordonné le réservoir baril soulevées et à gauche l’homme mort qui pend comme un sinistre avertissement.
L’épisode Singesar est maintenant partie du folklore Afghan. À peine 30 mois après sa prise de carabine, le mollah Omar est le souverain suprême de la plus grande partie de l’Afghanistan.
Le mollah, un heavyset âgé de 38 ans qui a perdu son oeil droit dans la guerre contre les Russes, est connue pour ses disciples comme Prince de tous les croyants. Il dirige un état islamique mouvement religieux, les Taliban, qui a conquis 20 d’Afghanistan’ s 32 provinces……………………………………………………………………….Suite..
This is the second and Final part of the series of ‘Al Qaeda, Taliban invented by The US’
Even if half of this is true,Pakistan is to be pitied.
Musharraf Cartoon in US.2007/11/26/luckovich1121_2.jpg.
“Mullah Omar’s call to arms in Singesar is only part of the story of the rise of the Taliban that emerged from weeks of traveling across Afghanistan and from scores of interviews with Afghans, diplomats and others who followed the movement from its earliest days in 1994. It is a story that is still unfolding, with the Taliban struggling to consolidate their hold on Kabul, the capital. The city fell three months ago to a Taliban force of a few thousand fighters, who entered the city with barely a shot fired. But the Taliban, despite their protestations of independence, did not score their successes alone. Pakistani leaders saw domestic political gains in supporting the movement, which draws most of support from the ethnic Pashtun who predominate along the Pakistan-Afghanista n border. Perhaps more important, Pakistan’s leaders, in funneling supplies of ammunition, fuel and food to the Taliban, hoped to advance an old Pakistani dream of linking their country, through Afghanistan, to an economic and political alliance with the Muslim states of Central Asia. At crucial moments during the two years of the Taliban’s rise to power, the United States stood aside. It did little to discourage support for the Afghan mullahs both from Pakistan and from another American ally, Saudi Arabia, which found its own reasons for supporting the Taliban in their conservative brand of Islam. American officials emphatically deny the assertion, widely believed among the Taliban’s opponents in Afghanistan, that the United States offered the movement covert support. American diplomats’ frequent visits to Kandahar, headquarters of the Taliban’s governing body, the officials insist, were mainly exploratory. In fact, American policy on the Taliban has seesawed back and forth. The Taliban have found favor with some American officials, who see in their implacable hostility toward Iran an important counterweight in the region. But other officials remain uncomfortable about the Taliban’s policies on women, which they say have created the most backward-looking and intolerant society anywhere in Islam. And they say that the Taliban, despite promises to the contrary, have done nothing to root out the narcotics traffickers and terrorists who have found a haven in Afghanistan under the mujahedeen.
Documentary 2006 – Declassified: The Taliban (Part 1/5)
In the Video one finds that USSR is using th Taliban!?
“In its most recent policy statement on Afghanistan, the State Department called on other nations to ”engage” with the Taliban in hopes of moderating their policies. But the statement came as the Taliban were tightening still further their Islamic social code, particularly the taboos that have banned women from working, closed girls’ schools, and required all women beyond puberty to cloak themselves head to toe in garments called burqas that are the traditional garb of Afghan village women…..
The News in Pakistan, put it simply: ”The story of the Taliban is not one of outsiders imposing a solution, but of the Afghans themselves seeking deliverance from mujahedeen groups that had become cruel and inhuman.
The Taliban invented
But first stability had to be restored to Afghanistan. During the civil war fighting in 1995 the first substantial numbers of Taliban appeared, “invented” by the Pakistani ISI and perhaps funded by the CIA and Saudi Arabia. Unocal and its Saudi partner Delta Oil may have even played a major role in buying off local commanders. Security in Afghanistan was apparently their sole purpose. On 26 September 1996 the Taliban took Kabul. Michael Bearden, a CIA representative in Afghanistan during the war against the USSR and currently the CIA’s unofficial spokesman, recalls how US viewed the situation at the time: the Taliban were not considered the worst: they were young and hot-headed, but that was better than civil war. They controlled all the territory between Pakistan and Turkmenistan’s gas fields, which might be good as it would be possible to build a pipeline across Afghanistan and supply gas and energy to the new market. Everyone was happy (5). Unocal’s vice-president, Chris Taggart, barely bothered to pretend Unocal was not backing the Taliban; he described their advance as a positive development. Claiming that Taliban seizure of power was likely to help the gas pipeline project, he even envisaged US recognition of the Taliban (6). He was wrong, but no matter: this was the honeymoon between the US and the “theology students”. Anything goes where oil and gas are involved. In fact, in November 1997 Unocal invited a Taliban delegation to the US and, in early December, the company opened a training centre at the University of Omaha, Nebraska, to instruct 137 Afghans in pipeline construction technology. The political and military situation showed no improvement, leading some in Washington to consider support for the Taliban and the oil pipeline a political mistake. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott warned in 1997 that the region could become a centre for terrorists, a source of political and religious extremism and a theatre of war (7).
In interviews, however, American intelligence officials and high-ranking military officers said that Pakistanis were indeed flown to safety, in a series of nighttime airlifts that were approved by the Bush Administration. The Americans also said that what was supposed to be a limited evacuation apparently slipped out of control, and, as an unintended consequence, an unknown number of Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters managed to join in the exodus. “Dirt got through the screen,” a senior intelligence official told me. Last week, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld did not respond to a request for comment. Musharraf won American support for the airlift by warning that the humiliation of losing hundreds—and perhaps thousands—of Pakistani Army men and intelligence operatives would jeopardize his political survival. “Clearly, there is a great willingness to help Musharraf,” an American intelligence official told me. A C.I.A. analyst said that it was his understanding that the decision to permit the airlift was made by the White House and was indeed driven by a desire to protect the Pakistani leader. The airlift “made sense at the time,” the C.I.A. analyst said. “Many of the people they spirited away were the Taliban leadership”—who Pakistan hoped could play a role in a postwar Afghan government. According to this person, “Musharraf wanted to have these people to put another card on the table” in future political negotiations. “We were supposed to have access to them,” he said, but “it didn’t happen,” and the rescued Taliban remain unavailable to American intelligence. According to a former high-level American defense official, the airlift was approved because of representations by the Pakistanis that “there were guys— intelligence agents and underground guys—who needed to get out.” REFERENCE: The Getaway Questions surround a secret Pakistani airlift. by Seymour M. Hersh January 28, 2002
From Left: United States Air Force; Robert Young Pelton; Mike Wintroath/Associated Press; Adam Berry/Bloomberg News – From left: Michael D. Furlong, the official who was said to have hired private contractors to track militants in Afghanistan and Pakistan; Robert Young Pelton, a contractor; Duane Clarridge, a former C.I.A. official; and Eason Jordan, a former television news executive. Contractors Tied to Effort to Track and Kill Militants – KABUL, Afghanistan — Under the cover of a benign government information-gathering program, a Defense Department official set up a network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to help track and kill suspected militants, according to military officials and businessmen in Afghanistan and the United States. The official, Michael D. Furlong, hired contractors from private security companies that employed formerC.I.A. and Special Forces operatives. The contractors, in turn, gathered intelligence on the whereabouts of suspected militants and the location of insurgent camps, and the information was then sent to military units and intelligence officials for possible lethal action in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the officials said. While it has been widely reported that the C.I.A. and the military are attacking operatives of Al Qaeda and others through unmanned, remote-controlled drone strikes, some American officials say they became troubled that Mr. Furlong seemed to be running an off-the-books spy operation. The officials say they are not sure who condoned and supervised his work. REFERENCE: Contractors Tied to Effort to Track and Kill Militants By DEXTER FILKINS and MARK MAZZETTI Published: March 14, 2010 A version of this article appeared in print on March 15, 2010, on page A1 of the New York edition.
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