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Abu Sayyaf & the CIA'S Terror Incubator in the Philippines

It ís generally agreed that the same arm of Al Quaeda responsible for the 1993 WTC bombing returned on 9/11/01 to finish the job. Itís a reasonable assumption that the first attempt to level the towers, and the subsequent paths of blind cleric Rahman's fellow conspirators, should provide some answers to questions left in the wake of 911 concerning its obscure history and sponsorship.

Media histories of al-Queda trace its roots to Saudi Arabia. Founder Osama Bin Laden pushed early funding through the International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO), as arranged in meetings between al Qaeda's inner-circle and the charity's directors. (The Saudi government funded terrorist attacks on Israel in utter secrecy throughout most of the 1990's via charities in Virginia and Florida.

1) Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Ladenís lieutenant, was employed by the IIRO in Albania. The Philippine branch office was run by Osamaís brother-in-law (1986-94), who made a hand-off of cash to the Abu Sayyaf, an al Quaeda offshoot.

2) The DoD, CIA and other opaque branches of government, drawn by the lure of Japanese and German gold (gold??), maintained a particularly busy presence in the Philippines as the Marcos kleptocracy declined and fell. Khashoggi's Iran-contra ally, Oliver North, oversaw back door shipments of the recovered gold, much of it to Arab governments, some of it to Middle Eastern terrorists trading on the black market. North met with Osama Bin Ladenís money men often to negotiate exchange of the gold.

The Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG), like Al Quaeda, owed its existence to the intelligence establishment. The ASG was co-founded by Edwin Angeles, an undercover agent for the Defense Intelligence Group at the Department of National Defense, Republic of the Philippines. His Muslim handle was ìIbrahim Yakubî and as the organizationís operations officer and chief recruiter, he was largely responsible for the spread - and criminalization - of the Abu Sayyaf.

Filipino television news reporter Arlyn de la Cruz, in her history of the ASG, writes that Angeles/Yokub "holds the key to the deep intricacies of how some government agencies manipulated the rawness of the Abu Sayyaf during its early years." This observation still applies, and can be said of al Quaeda, the CIA-bred Taliban mutation, as well.

It was Angeles who actually introduced the idea of kidnapping as part of the fund-raising activities of the Abu Sayyaf," she recalls - this would be the abduction of a wealthy woman in Davao. "Edwin planned the abduction and even initiated the plan himself." The victim was held not far from the Brigade Headquarters of the Philippine Marines in Tabuk. She was released after her family paid the million-pesos ransom to Abu Sayyaf.

The next abductee was Luis "Ton-Ton" Biel, a five year-old child, and his grandfather ... then Claretian priest Bernardo Blanco. Soon, the media were requesting interviews, and ìYokubî stepped before the cameras to act the role of lethal but well-spoken religious lunatic. Angeles, according to Cruz, was a "good speaker, a good actor. He spoke like a Leftist leader espousing Fundamentalist principles."

The May 16 2004, an accidental blast at the Evergreen Hotel in Davao was a clear statement that the Al Quaeda offshoot still functions as an intelligence front, a proxy army of the National Security Council that exists to justify intervention in the Philippines.

The explosion - publicized in the States as the work of the dread ASG - was set off by a store of dynamite belonging to one Michael Meiring, an African-born, naturalized, proverbially Ugly American citizen. Meiring claimed that Abu Sayyafís mad dogs had lobbed a grenade into his hotel room, an alibi proven to be false upon examination of the scene by local police. Meiring was so badly injured that both of his legs had to be amputated at the knees.

The dynamite, the Manila Times reported, also tore off his mantle of obscurity, exposing the accident-prone Ugly American ìand his numerous American and Filipino partners, to the public limelight.î6 From the rubble at the Evergreen Hotel emerged the story of ìa complex man, whose trail leads back to South Africa and boxes supposedly containing US Federal Reserve notes and bonds obtained from the Abu Sayyaf. The Times reported that employees of the hotel ìclaimed that while they were cleaning Meiring's room before the explosion, he warned them not to touch two metal boxes, which he said contained important documents. Police investigators said they recovered blasting caps and ammonium nitrate from the room, where Meiring had stayed since Dec. 14, 2001.

Meiring refused to talk to Philipine police. Bloodied and burned by the explosion, he was whisked out of the country on a chartered plane, according Col. Lino Calingasan, a local immigratiion official, by agents of the FBI and NSC. ìAmerican David Hawthorn, a close friend of Meiring, claimed the blast victim had confessed passing to Mandelaís government the proceeds of a box of old US federal notes. That box was one in a set of twelve, containing an estimated $500-million in counterfeit American notes.

Hawthorn had been shown a letter from the South African government and a US Treasury permit to support his story. Hawthorn also saw a ëpacking listí that had ìa cover sheet printed with the words US ARMY, the Army seal, some numbers and a group of upper case letters. Meiring, he said, claimed the list represented the serial numbers of the missing notes, dating back to 1937. Similar ëboxesí were recovered by United States Secret Service and the Philippine Central Bank late last year. Other counterfeit bonds and currency were also recovered from a hotel in Davao a few months ago. It has been reported that these were to be ... shipped to Las Vegas, Nevada.

Philippine police discovered that Meiring, the NSC amputee, had run with neo-nazis and Islamic radicals alike, including the Abu Sayyaf and other radical fronts. His key contact in Nevada was financier James Rowe of Nevada, an executive producer for Wild Rose Productions, an independent documentary production company in New Green Valley, near Las Vegas. Rowe, in turn, ran with white supremacists and tax rebels in Nevada, also neo-nazis in the United States and Germany. Another of Meiringís contacts back home was Chuck Ager, an ultracon mining engineer in Colorado. Another was Nina North (possibly an alias), a CIA operative who took over ìback doorî financial transactions in black market gold formerly conducted by Oliver North. Another was Filipino-American Bob Gould, a tax protester from Hayward, California in league with Fred Obado, leader of the Kodar Kiram terrorist cell, son of Sultan Jumalul Kiram.

Meiring operated a shell company called PAROUSIA - a term used by right-wing Christian evangelicals, a reference to the second coming of Christ.

But Meiers wasnít the only home-grown terrorist running loose in the Philippines: Three Vietnamese terrorists arrested last year for plotting to blow up the Vietnamese Embassy here were assets of the US intelligence community, the Times reported.

KAHANA

Robert J. Freidman, a journalist for the Village Voice, wrote one of the most signally important articles of the previous decade, ìThe CIA and the Sheikh.î5 The feature was an inventory of critical leads, eroded over time, sadly, by opportunities lost.

If the killers of Rabbi Meir Kahana, the vitriolic leader of the Jewish Defense League, had been captured and sentenced, Freidman contends, the 1993 World Trade Center bombing - and by extension, 911 - would have never have occurred.

On November 5, 1990, Freidman wrote, El Sayyid Nosair, a pudgy, bearded 34-year-old Egyptian American and a core member of the El Salaam Mosque, calmly walked up to the podium of a conference room in the Halloran House, a midtown Manhattan hotel, after Kahane had finished a one-hour speech. Moments later, Kahane was shot once in the throat at point-blank range with a .357 magnum, and Nosair bolted outside. During a running gun battle down Lexington Avenue, Nosair was wounded by an off-duty postal inspector and finally captured by New York City police.

An FBI informant told Freidman that Nosair frequented the El Salaam Mosque in Jersey City. Nosair was close with Sheikh Abdel Rahman. I told them that, four days before, I saw with my own eyes the Sheikh meeting with Nosair at a Lebanese restaurant on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn. It was 7 p.m. There was Nosair, the Sheikh, a person escorting the Sheikh, and another person I don't know. They were deep in conversation."

After the arrest of Kahaneís assailant, police found evidence that Kahane's murder was just the first in a planned spree. Scrawled on a bank calendar in Nosair's home was a hit list that included the names of a U.S. representative, two federal judges, and a former assistant U.S. Attorney.

The secretive clutch of Muslims from the Mosque often met with Nosair to discuss means of destroying symbols of the Israeli-loving Babylon they despised, "the Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty. The World Trade Center.

Many are wondering why there wasn't a comprehensive, wide-ranging investigation of Meir Kahane's murder, Friedman reported. What investigators would have found if they had done their job thoroughly is that Sheikh Abdel Rahman and El Sayyid Nosair were at the heart of a far-flung terrorist conspiracy.

1) John Loftus, What Congress does not know about Enron and 9/11, May 31, 2002, http://www.john-loftus.com/enron3.asp#congress

2) Dore Gold, The Suicide Bombing Attacks in Saudi Arabia: A Preliminary Assessment, Jerusalem Issue Brief, Institute for Contemporary Affairs, Vol. 2, No. 28, May 13, 2003, http://www.jcpa.org/brief/brief2-28.htm

3) Edith Regalado, CIA whisks away Brit-Am blast victim; now in US, Philippine Star, July 9, 2002.

4) Anon., ìEdwin Angeles: The spy who came in from the cold, INQ7.net, http://www.inq7.net/specials/inside_abusayyaf/2001/features/spy_turns_bandit .htm

5) Robert J. Freidman, The CIA and the Sheikh, Village Voice, March 30, 1993.

6) See, http://www.voxfux.com/archives/00000105.htm for a summary of the Manila Times series written by Dorian Zumel-Sicat and Jeannette Andrade, May 29, 2002 through May 31, 2002. Also see, Manila Timesí news reports to June 19, 2002.

7) Ibid.

Saudi Entrepeneur Adnan Khashoggi Linked to 911 Terrorists

PART 7 ADDENDUM: IRAN-CONTRA TIES TO THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING

"[McVeigh's attorneys] said they believe the FBI still has information that others helped McVeigh.... They have even suggested that some government authorities might have known about the bombing plot in advance..." - Los Angeles Times, 6-7-01

OpEd prophets and televised martinets dismiss out-of-hand the possibility that the government had anything to do with the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995. But David Hoffman, a reporter in San Francisco, begged to differ. He put together a dense book, The Oklahoma Bombing and the Politics of Terror (Feral House), noting numerous connections of Iran-contra's "Secret Team" to the bombing. Unfortunately, the FBI's Oliver "Buck" Revell filed suit against Feral House when he discovered a single unsubstantiated fact. The book was recalled. It is no longer available (although Amazon.Com still has a limited number of copies and scalps them for $100 a copy). Hoffman's investigation led him to conclude that elements of the "Octopus" (linked in a "small world" way with Buck Revell) were deeply involved in the bombing.

My own Virtual Government: CIA Mind Control Operations in America (Feral House, 1997) has a chapter on the devastation in Oklahoma City. That book is still on the shelves but no major publication has ever reviewed it and its contents on the bombing have been completely ignored by the revisionist press at large. I also came to conclude that the Iran-contra crowd was responsible for the bombing and subsequent cover-up.

The Team's ties to known terrorists are already thoroughly documented. The Iran-contra affair itself involved arms deals with terrorists. After the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland, Bob Woodward reported in the Washington Post (12-4-88) that sensitive documents aboard the plane would have linked Oliver North to Abu Nidal, the most dangerous terrorist operating at the time. Nidal had access to a quantity of Semtex H plastic explosive and air-pressure-sensitive detonation bombs sold to Libya by the CIAís Edwin Wilson (see: Los Angeles Times, 12-28-88). In 1989, Americans for Middle East Understanding reported in The Link, a newsletter, that Donald Gregg, an advisor to George Bush, Sr., was the administrationís contact to the Mike Harari network. Harrari, an Isreali Mossad agent, led an assassination squad in the 1970s that targeted Palestinians. One of the Harrari groupís most notorious acts was the murder of a Moroccan waiter in Norway mistakenly identified as an agent of the Ali Salamehís Black Septembers.

There was a concerted attempt by Vincent Cannistraro, an Iran-contra player, federal "experts" and CIA spin doctors to pin ultimate responsibility for the Alfred P. Murrah FB bombing on Osama Bin Laden's mystery terorists. Cannistraro ONCE blamed the murders In Oklahoma City on "ENVIRONMENTALISTS out to DESTROY all human life on earth." He NOW claims (see the June 11, 2001 issue of The New American, published by the fascist John Birch Society) that he had intelligence information BEFORE the blast concerning Middle Eastern terrorists. The contradiction is glaring: If his claim has any weight, if he indeed KNEW that Muslim extremists had designs on a major American target, WHY did he tell reporters immediately after the blast that ENVIRONMENTALISTS were responsible?

In The Boston Globe, on May 16, 1995, another CIA Iran-contra figure, anti-terrorism "expert" Neil Livingstone, also claimed that Middle Eastern terrorists engineered the Oklahoma blast. A veteran of Air America, the notorious CIA opium courier in Southeast Asia, Livingstone once publicly defended the Agencyís assassination manual. He was recruited to Air America by James Cunningham, its founder - later a central participant in CIA "renegade" Edwin Wilsonís arms sales to Ghaddafi. Livingstone has long-standing ties to Israeli intelligence and the fascist Popular Alliance Party of Spain. He was also an executive at Robert Keith Grayís public relations firm Gray & Co. in the District of Columbia. He was brought into the firm by Charles Crawford, who ran the International Division that served as a branch office of Oliver Northís civilian supply network.

Openly tying a Middle Eastern terrorists to the bombing diverts attention from possible CIA involvement: "There is a remarkable similarity between the methods used by Islamic terrorists in the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, the attack on the World Trade Center, and the bombing in Oklahoma. The truckload of explosives is almost a signature or calling card and it is the weapon of choice among these groups." Livingstone noted: "Very typically, these terrorists have found homegrown radicals to use as dupes in the actual bombings. They have supplied the money and the technical expertise and highly skilled operatives to guide a project and then get out of town before they can be apprehended." This is also the modus operandi of a certain American intelligence agency.

For the record, there WAS indeed a Middle Eastern connection - but like McVeigh and Nichols, the Muslim terrorists involved were linked to the Iran-contra players and other ranking Pentagonians who remained in the background of the 1987-88 congressional investigation of Irangate (it focused on Oliver North's civilain network almost exclusively and bent over backwards to avoid discussion of the core military and intelligence ties).