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In a lengthy excerpt posted on Wayne
Madsen’s site, Pierre-Henry Bunel, a former agent for French military
intelligence, explains the origins of the word “al-Qaeda.” As previously
noted by British Foreign Secretary Robin
Cook, “al-Qaeda” has nothing to do with a terrorist organization,
as the neocons and the corporate media tell us over and over, ad infinitum,
but is in fact a database. “In the early 1980s the Islamic Bank for Development,
which is located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, like the Permanent Secretariat of
the Islamic Conference Organization, bought a new computerized system to cope
with its accounting and communication requirements,” Bunel explains. “It
was decided to use a part of the system’s memory to host the Islamic Conference’s
database. It was possible for the countries attending to access the database
by telephone: an Intranet, in modern language. The governments of the member-countries
as well as some of their embassies in the world were connected to that network.”
Files associated to the database were called “Q eidat il-Maaloomaat”
and “Q eidat i-Taaleemaat” in Arabic. “Those two files were
kept in one file called in Arabic ‘Q eidat ilmu’ti’aat’
which is the exact translation of the English word database. But the Arabs commonly
used the short word Al Qaida which is the Arabic word for ‘base.’”
Because of the presence of ‘rogue states,’ it became easy for
terrorist groups to use the email of the database. Hence, the email of Al
Qaida was used, with some interface system, providing secrecy, for the families
of the mujaheddin to keep links with their children undergoing training in
Afghanistan, or in Libya or in the Beqaa valley, Lebanon. Or in action anywhere
in the battlefields where the extremists sponsored by all the ‘rogue
states’ used to fight. And the ‘rogue states’ included Saudi
Arabia. When Osama bin Laden was an American agent in Afghanistan, the Al
Qaida Intranet was a good communication system through coded or covert messages….
Al Qaida was neither a terrorist group nor Osama bin Laden’s personal
property.
In short, “al-Qaeda” was in essence an email designation and had
nothing to do with the “American agent in Afghanistan,” Osama bin
Laden. In fact, “al-Qaeda,” the terrorist organization, is a creation
of the United States government and the corporate media.
Pierre-Henry Bunel concludes:
The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida.
And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda
campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity
representing the ‘devil’ only in order to drive the ‘TV
watcher’ to accept a unified international leadership for a war against
terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US and the lobbyists
for the US war on terrorism are only interested in making money.
Bunel, according to Madsen, was punished for his heresy. In December, 2001,
the former French military intelligence agent was “convicted by a secret
French military court of passing classified documents that identified potential
NATO bombing targets in Serbia to a Serbian agent during the Kosovo war in 1998….
Bunel’s character witnesses and psychologists notwithstanding, the system
‘got him’ for telling the truth about Al Qaeda and who has actually
been behind the terrorist attacks commonly blamed on that group.”
It is noteworthy that that Yugoslav government, the government with whom
Bunel was asserted by the French government to have shared information, claimed
that Albanian and Bosnian guerrillas in the Balkans were being backed by elements
of “Al Qaeda.” We now know that these guerrillas were being backed
by money provided by the Bosnian Defense Fund, an entity established as a
special fund at Bush-influenced Riggs Bank and directed by Richard Perle and
Douglas Feith.
Riggs Bank was used for “the dubious financial machinations of Saudi
diplomats and despots from Africa and South America, including Chile’s
former maximum leader, Gen. Augusto Pinochet,” according to Jack
Shafer, writing for Slate, and citing Glenn R. Simpson of the War Street
Journal. Moreover, the Riggs Bank “enjoyed a ‘relationship’
with the CIA for some time.” As noted by Madsen, Riggs Bank hosted the
Bosnian Defense Fund and this financial assistance was tapped by “al-Qaeda”
in Bosnia. On October 3, Madsen
wrote:
The Muslim operation in the Balkans was largely supported by official (CIA,
DIA, and Special Operations) U.S. assistance but also by unofficial help.
This was mainly carried out by private military contractors like MPRI and
financial support networks like the Bosnia Defense Fund, established in the
mid-1990s at a Riggs Bank account in Washington, DC. The principal movers
behind the Bosnian Defense Fund were Richard Perle and Douglas Feith. In fact,
Feith’s law firm, Feith and Zell (FANZ) set up the Bosnia Defense Fund.
According to a former Riggs legal adviser, when objections were raised about
the hundreds of millions of dollars collected from such countries as Saudi
Arabia, Brunei, Malaysia, the UAE, Iran, Jordan, and Egypt that were being
detected by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FINCEN) being sent from
Washington to Sarajevo, Bosnia, and reports that there was “spillage”
of these funds into the hands of Al Qaeda units in the country, Perle’s
response at one contentious meeting was, “just make it fucking happen.”
Indeed, Perle and the Straussian neocons just made it f-ing happen on September
11, 2001, although the money trail is studiously avoided and swept under the
rug by the corporate media. It is no secret Princess Haifa al-Faisal, wife of
Bander bin Sultan, had accounts at Riggs Bank and money from these accounts
allegedly found its way to two of the nine eleven hijackers. Of course, the
Bush nine eleven whitewash commission denied this ever happened and thus this
suspicious bit of information found its way to the memory hole (see Dr. David
Ray Griffin, The
9/11 Commission Report: A 571-Page Lie). It should be noted here that the
Bushites redacted 28 pages from the Congressional Joint Inquiry Report on 9-11
and those pages are assumed to have contained information on the role of Saudi
Arabia and another unnamed country (more than likely Pakistan) in financing
Osama. Interestingly, however, a reference to a relationship between the supposed
hijackers Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi and the FBI was allowed to remain
in the report (the report states that the putative hijackers “had numerous
contacts with a long time FBI counterterrorism informant in California and that
a third future hijacker, Hani Hanjour, apparently had more limited contact with
the same informant,” see Allan P. Duncan, Bush
Should Cry Uncle and Release Saudi Info).
In summary, “al-Qaeda” never existed in the form now claimed by
the Bushites and the corporate media, “al-Qaeda” was in fact a database
of CIA recruited and trained mujahideen and an email connected to that database,
Osama bin Laden had nothing to do with that database and thus all references
in the corporate media claiming he is the leader of “al-Qaeda” the
fantastical terrorist organization are false (if not deliberately contrived
lies), terrorists falsely attributed to “al-Qaeda” were organized
by the U.S. military and NATO and financed by a CIA front bank in Washington
(connected to two principal Straussian neocon criminals) and unleashed in Bosnia
(assisting the drug-running KLA mafia), and the CIA front bank later shared
a connection with prominent Saudi Arabians who are suspected of financing the
nine eleven hijackers (since the hijackers did not actually exist, this money
was probably used elsewhere in the nine eleven operation). All of this information
was predictably discarded by nine eleven whitewash commission.
Of course, none of this arcane information means squat to the American people,
many whom believe Osama teamed up with Saddam to pull of nine eleven and “al-Qaeda”
is a real terrorist organization run by the elusive “devils” (in
Bush’s Manichean parlance) Bin Laden and his murderous cohort, al-Zarqawi.
In fact, the official story is so embedded in the American psyche, thanks to
the relentless efforts of the corporate media, it may never be possible for
the truth to emerge.
Sooner or later, the neocons and their cardboard cut-out of a half-witted president
will chime their Pavlovian bells—bells associated with the explosion of
a “radiological device” or a series of black op suicide bombings
in the American heartland—and our Emmanuel Goldstein du jour, al-Zarqawi,
will be blamed and the process will start anew, with shock and awe in Syria
or Iran.
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