Russia Helped Al-Qaeda, Arming Iran

New evidence connects Saddam Hussein to support for al-Qaeda before the Sept. 11 attacks, and even more disturbing links between the terrorist network and Russian intelligence, reports Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.

According to the report in the premium, online intelligence weekly published by the founder of WorldNetDaily, Moscow is playing a dangerous and duplicitous chess game aimed at shortening the U.S. military occupation of Iraq.

In addition to the covert intelligence support provided to al-Qaeda, sources say Russian intelligence personnel met in early January with their Iranian and Indian counterparts to discuss frankly and candidly ways to get the U.S. out of the region as quickly as possible.

According to intelligence sources, some of the talks included the acquisition by Iran of more powerful and modern weaponry to use in attacks on U.S. and U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq. But Russia’s undermining of U.S. interests in the area goes even deeper, say these sources.

Iraqi Interior Minister Falah al-Naqib has reportedly discovered a memo archived by the Saddam Hussein regime that shows Baghdad was supporting Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al-Qaeda terrorist thought to be leading the insurgency in Iraq today. Other support of al-Qaeda is also discussed in the memo. Some suggest this memo could prove to be the smoking gun to prove Hussein’s support for Osama bin Laden’s network leading up to 9-11 and thereafter.

But, not only Hussein was supporting al-Qaida, according to the memo, so was Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi. Many of the Sunni clerics in Iraq and throughout the Mideast were, too. And Russian intelligence was also lending its support.

This discovery also explains why Zarqawi has pledged to kill al-Naqib. Two weeks ago, two car bombs exploded near the Interior Ministry, killing at least five policemen in what al-Qaeda’s local wing said was a twin suicide attack meant to assassinate the minister.

The group, led by Zarqawi, vowed to pursue al-Naqib, part of its campaign of violence to bring down the U.S.-backed interim government and stall efforts to form a new Cabinet. But, in this case, he is not just another high-ranking Iraqi official. He’s a man who has got information on Zarqawi and some of his most important sponsors — including Russian intelligence, say G2 Bulletin’s sources.

In another meeting in late January or early February, intelligence officials from Russia, North Korea and Iran discussed ways to reduce U.S. influence in the Middle East.

Russia’s main motivation is not anti-Americanism, say G2 Bulletin sources. It is economic. Moscow sees big potential in the arms market in both Iran and Iraq — but only if the U.S. is out of the picture.

In a separate report, the G2 Bulletin says reports of Zarqawi’s demise are greatly exaggerated.

Despite reports, including one in the Saudi newspaper Al Watan, that al-Qaeda’s top operative in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, has been arrested, G2B sources say he is still on the loose.

Last week, Al Watan reported the terrorist had been arrested and that an announcement had been delayed until a new Iraqi government was in place. The purported arrest supposedly took place on the Iraqi-Syrian border, according to the newspaper.

The Saudi paper said that the arrest of Zarqawi was completed ahead of the recent visit of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in Iraq — a visit that took place in early February.

However, according to U.S. military sources on the ground, Zarqawi is suspected of being the mastermind of deadly car bomb terrorist attacks earlier this month.

AQK sold N-tech to India???HUHHHH!!!!!!!!!Where did you get that from.Dude,India had Asia's first N-reactor, it's N-bomb programme started in the mid 1960s & it's first A-bomb was tested in 1974,while AQK was a nobody.I really don't see what AQK could contribute with pirated Dutch & Chinese technology to such a nation-besides,there are scores of Indian nuclear scientists working overseas.You seem to believe that Pakistan's N-programme is mainly indegnious-well no,it isn't-it's primarily centred around help from the PRC.& supposing AQK did help India,do you honestly think he would have lived for one minute??You should study the culture of Pakistan before coming to such conclusions.The people of Pakistan would have lynched him in the front of the world,irrespective of how the govt protects him.The real reason why AQK is still breathing is because he is a scapegoat for the army's misdemeanours.Anyone familiar with Pakistan's N-programme will tell you that their programme is entirely driven by the military-AQ merely had the position of chief scientist.He never stepped out of line.

Because India is allied to Russia and Russians are the most evil, subhuman animals to crawl out of the swamps and eat the poor enlightened Anglo and Pole babies, the Orthodox use Catholic blood in their pasha bread, don't you know? So these evil incarnate savages that the loving Christians like some of these EU Poles and company despise should be all put to death since all they ever brought anyone is misery, start with the babies, run them over or tear them up or just name squares after Chechins who do this. After all the war on terror for some people is just the war on some terror and anyone who kills the loathsome scum piss dogs Russians is always a hero. Kill some more schools, those kids don't deserve to live. As long as one Russian is alive no Balt will ever sleep well.

Oh and since Indians were Russian allies you are all just as evil and Pakistan is full of Western Christian loving angles.

For those of you to dense to get this, this is

SARCASM

The level of pure hatred that so many so called Christian display here against other Christians even on Easter holy week is truly telling of their faith. The Devil truly walks in the souls of so many.

Farah got busted dealing with Moon and has tried to distance himself somewhat decrying Moon's coronation as Christ - but still does business with the Moonies and UPI and teh Washington Times. He has too - its these types of looney toones that keep Farah in business. The Art Bell crowd.

WorldNetDaily Hypocrisy on Rev. Moon

Joseph Farah, owner of the WorldNetDaily, has a commentary today about the Reverend Moon that is filled with hypocritical statements. He begins by telling of his experience over a decade ago, being invited to a Moon event in South Korea and sitting on the stage behind Moon as he declared himself the Messiah. Farah writes:

"Imagine my shock, as I read along in the translation to learn that Moon was saying that night that indeed he was the messiah. I was embarrassed to find myself sitting behind this man, perhaps, even, in some small way, lending credibility to his preposterous claims."

It was a lesson to me at the time on just how easy it is to be compromised."

And just how well did he learn that lesson? Not very well, it turns out. His actions since that event of a decade ago certainly don't support the claim that he was in any way concerned about lending credibility to Moon's activities "even in some small way". Farah's column appears in the Washington Times Weekly Edition, owned by Moon, every week, and the WND sells subscriptions to it (they may have just stopped doing so, the link is down but says nothing about it). The link on "shopnetdaily" that sold subscriptions included this glowing plug from Farah: "If you want the perfect weekly print complement to WorldNetDaily, I strongly recommend the Washington Times Weekly, edited by my friend Robert Morton." Boy Joe, it sure sounds like you were looking out for anything that might "lend credibility to Moon's activities" in some small way. What better way to show such concern than to pimp his publications on your website and give them a feverish plug as something your readers should subscribe to, insuring that he makes more money?

But it doesn't stop there. Last year, WorldNetDaily began sharing content with Insight, another Moon-owned publication, and they also began selling subscriptions to that magazine through Shopnetdaily (and again, the link has suddenly disappeared for it). Farah himself even wrote an e-mail to all WND subscribers urging them to subscribe to Insight, calling Moon's Insight editor "an independent thinker who digs deep and hard for the facts and draws conclusions based on what he finds rather than on some ideological assumption." And in a striking instance of "you scratch my back, I scratch yours", Moon returned the favor by featuring an interview with Farah in Insight to promote his new book. That interview also calls attention to the fact that Farah was awarded "The Washington Times Foundation National Service Award" in 1996 - also well after the event that Farah alleges made him "embarrassed" to be part of anything that might be "even, in some small way, lending credibility to his preposterous claims."

So basically, we're left with a case of actions vs words. Which is more plausible, that Farah was genuinely embarrassed and mindful of doing anything that might lend credibility to Moon's actions over a decade ago, yet continued to do all the things I listed above, or....that he has spent the last decade profiting from his business dealings with these businesses he knew were owned by Moon (he refers to the Washington Times as "Moon's heavily subsidized daily newspaper") and is trying to strike an implausible pose as the noble opposer of Moon's madness now that the shit has hit the fan? The answer seems obvious to me.

And yes, Farah is posing as the man who finally broke the story about Moon's coronation. He says:

"I was reminded of this experience recently when my daily, nationally syndicated talk-radio show broke the news of Moon's "crowning" achievement at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in March. Stories followed in Salon, the Washington Post and elsewhere."

Uh, no. You did not "break the news". John Gorenfeld broke the news and dozens and dozens of bloggers followed suit to bring the issue to the attention of the media. Farah wasn't even the first radio host to break the story, which appeared on Garafalo and Seder's show on Air America radio on May 21st, over 3 weeks before Gorenfeld appeared on Farah's show.

The bottom line is this: Farah is portraying himself as the noble savior, bravely battling the evil Reverend Moon since he found out over a decade ago that Moon falsely claimed to be the messiah and decided that it was important not to do anything that might lend credibility to Moon's insanity. The truth is that Farah is not the one who broke the story, and that in the decade since he claims he was "embarrassed" and "learned his lesson" about dealing with Moon, he has been profiting from association with Moon's publications and even accepted an award from one of them that he knew was owned by Moon. If that isn't rank hypocrisy, I don't know what would be.

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