Peter Bergen And Nelly Lahoud Of Soros-Funded New America Featured In National Geographic Bin Laden Special Confirming Al-Qaeda Encrypted Messages In Videos
By Mary Fanning and Alan Jones | September 11, 2020
Dennis Montgomery, the former CIA contractor framed ten years ago by journalists of dubious repute for supposedly selling “hoax” technology to the CIA that could detect encrypted al-Qaeda messages embedded in videos broadcast over the Al-Jazeera TV network, was proven correct last night during National Geographic’s new television special “Bin Laden’s Hard Drive.”
The National Geographic special, presented by CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen, premiered on the eve of the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
According to the National Geographic program, Navy SEALs who raided Bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan on May 2, 2011 and killed the al-Qaeda leader also captured a large stash of Bin Laden’s collection of pornographic images and videos that the terrorist had stored on digital media.
The National Geographic special stated that Bin Laden was able to encrypt secret messages into pornographic videos and distribute those video files to other al-Qaeda terrorists under his command. The program explained that the purpose of the encrypted pornographic videos was to exchange messages while avoiding detection by U.S. intelligence agencies that were attempting to intercept al-Qaeda communications and to locate Bin Laden.
This new confirmation that Bin Laden and al-Qaeda encrypted messages into video files is vindication for Dennis Montgomery.
Montgomery is the software designer, and subsequently CIA contractor-turned-whistleblower, who developed technology that could detect and decrypt secret messages hidden in al-Qaeda videos broadcast over the Al-Jazeera network.
From late 2009 to 2011, Montgomery was mocked as a “fraud” and a “con artist” in a media campaign of hit pieces carried by The New York Times, NPR, Playboy Magazine, and other outlets.
President Obama, John Brennan, and James Clapper had illegally commandeered the “foreign” surveillance supercomputer system known as THE HAMMER that Montgomery designed and built in 2003 to keep America safe after 9/11. According to multiple military sources, “THE HAMMER worked” and was successful in keeping America safe after 9/11 and also helped to protect U.S. troops on the battlefield.
Even as those hit pieces were rolled out by journalists James Risen, Eric Lichtblau, and Aaron Rostom, among others, Montgomery had already been hired back by John Brennan and James Clapper.
In 2017, Lichtblau resigned in disgrace from his “investigative unit” editing job at CNN, which he only held for ten weeks, over a fake news story that attempted to connect President-elect Donald Trump to Russia. CNN retracted the story after it spectacularly fell apart.
According to Montgomery, Lichtblau, like Aaron Rostom, continues to contact Montgomery, seeking information.
Montgomery, however, could not speak to the truth because in 2007 Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte had invoked the State Secrets Privilege and a government protective order against him. Montgomery could not violate those government muzzles without risking life imprisonment.
Those various hit pieces cited sources within the intelligence community that claimed Montgomery’s technology to detect encrypted messages in videos aired on Al-Jazeera was a hoax used to bamboozle the CIA and the U.S. Air Force in order to win lucrative defense contracts.
The New York Times wrote in 2011:
Mr. Montgomery and his associates received more than $20 million in government contracts by claiming that software he had developed could help stop Al Qaeda’s next attack on the United States. But the technology appears to have been a hoax.
That New York Times article features a Bin Laden photo.
“The Department of Justice issued a lifetime gag order on me in the form US Protective Order and State Secrets Privilege preventing me from disclosing the method and hardware Osama Bin Laden was using to accomplish this task,” Montgomery stated.
The National Geographic program is an important development because in 2015 Montgomery provided the DOJ and the FBI with 47 hard drives of evidence that he says proves that President Obama, John Brennan, and James Clapper used THE HAMMER to spy on Donald Trump, General Michael Flynn, and 38 million innocent Americans. The CIA holds no charter to spy inside the United States on Americans.
FBI Director Robert Mueller provided the computers for THE HAMMER, according to Montgomery.
Soros-Funded New America’s Peter Bergen Of CNN And Nelly Lahoud Featured In National Geographic Special
Two principles of National Geographic’s “Bin Laden’s Hard Drive” special are Peter Bergen and Nelly Lahoud of New America [previously the New America Foundation], a far-left think tank funded by George Soros family foundations.
CNN’s Bergen, Peter Arnett, and photographer Peter Jouvenal, jointlyinterviewed Bin Laden in 1997, becoming the first Western television journalists to do so.
Bergen and a panel of experts analyzed “nearly 470,000 digital files. 250 gigabytes of data. Over 100 USB drives, DVDs and CDs. Five computers. And multiple cell phones” according to a National Geographic press release announcing “Bin Laden’s Hard Drive.”
The CEO of New America is Anne-Marie Slaughter, former State Department Director of Policy Planning under Secretary Hillary Clinton.
Peter Bergen is New America’s Vice President of Global Studies and Fellows.
As of November 2019, Atlantic Media owner David G. Bradley was acting chairman of New America’s board of directors. Bradley’s magazine The Atlantic just published the anonymously sourced hit piece that accused President Trump of calling U.S. troops who died in war “suckers” and losers.” Those assertions were denied by all in attendance with President Trump, including PNAC (Project for the New American Century) globalist John Bolton.
Jonathan Soros, son of billionaire George Soros, was New America’s co-chair and a member of its board of directors, according to Wired.
“Eric Schmidt, Google’s executive chairman, chaired the New America Foundation think tank until 2016,” according to the New York Times.
“New America received over $2 million in donations from the Jennifer and Jonathan Allan Soros Foundation, according to Influence Watch.
New America also received millions of dollars from George Soros’ Foundation to Promote Open Society, Influence Watch says.
Gulftainer, the Middle-Eastern ports company managing two strategic U.S. seaports — Florida’s Port Canaveral and Delaware’s Port of Wilmington — is not only connected to Iraq’s WMD programs and Russia’s Trojan Horse Club-K Container Missile Launching System, but also, disturbingly, to Iraq’s Unit 999.
Oklahoma City television reporter Jayna Davis identified ‘John Doe No. 2,’ as Iraqi Republican Guard soldier Hussain al-Hussaini‘ in her book The Third Terrorist.’
Following the April 19, 1995 Oklahoma City terror strike on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building that killed 168 Americans and wounded 680 others, Davis identified Timothy Mcveigh, Terry Nichols, and Iraqi Unit 999 soldier Hussain al-Hussaini as the principal terrorists responsible for that attack.
Former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) official Colonel Patrick Lang, working with Davis, concluded that Iraqi Unit 999 recruited Al-Husseini from Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi Republcan Guard.
U.S. intelligence and Pentagon officials concurred with Davis and Colonel Lang’s conclusion that Hussain al-Hussaini, a.k.a. ‘John Doe No. 2,’ was one of Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi Directorate of Military Intelligence (DGMI) Special Operations Group Unit 999 clandestine overseas operatives.
Gulftainer owner Hamid Dhia Jafar’s brother and business partner Dr. Jafar Dhia Jafar, Saddam Hussein’s nuclear weapons mastermind, collaborated with DGMI, the Iraqi spy agency that ran Unit 999.
Dr. Jafar and DGMI collaborated on covert operations to conceal Saddam’s and Dr. Jafar’s nuclear, chemical, and biological WMDs.
Russian intelligence services oversaw these WMD deception operations in order to ensure that Saddam’s and Dr. Jafar’s massive WMD military industrial complex was fully concealed and undetectable by U.S. defense and intelligence satellites and UN weapons inspectors .
Both Dr. Jafar Dhia Jafar and the Iraqi intelligence service that ran Unit 999 reported directly to Saddam Hussein’s Presidential Secretary Lt. Gen. Abid Hamid Mahmud al-Tikriti, a.k.a. ‘Saddam’s shadow,’ one of the most powerful regime figures within Saddam’s inner circle and another one of Dr. Jafar’s principal Iraqi WMD collaborators.
Dr. Jafar’s connections to DGMI, the Iraqi spy agency that ran Unit 999, are particularly concerning because they establish a connection between the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and Gulftainer, the Iraqi ports company that built their Port Canaveral container terminal adjacent to U.S. Navy Trident submarines, Canaveral Space Force Station, and NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
‘John Doe No. 2’: Iraq’s Hussain Al-Hussaini And Unit 999 — Inside The Wire
Jayna Davis, a former television reporter for NBC’s Oklahoma City affiliate KFOR, which doubled as CNN’s local affiliate, was one of the first reporters on the scene of the bombing and told Lou Dobbs during a September 9, 2002 CNN interview:
Several witnesses, 22 in all, have signed sworn witness affidavits and positively identified eight Middle Eastern men acting in collusion with McVeigh and Nichols at various stages of the bombing plot. Those Middle Eastern men, the majority of whom are Iraqi soldiers. One soldier in particular, Lou, is Hussain Al-Hussaini, and he was identified by seven witnesses, tying him to Timothy McVeigh, the Ryder truck, downtown Oklahoma City and the getaway vehicle aggressively pursued by the FBI the morning of the bombing …
Immediately following the Oklahoma City bombing, the FBI issued an All Points Bulletin advising citizens and law enforcement to ‘be on the lookout” for a Middle Eastern-looking suspect. The FBI distributed a sketch of ‘John Doe No. 2.”
In the hours and days following the brutal Oklahoma City attack, military and intelligence analysts arrived at a near-unanimous conclusion — that the Oklahoma City bombing had the fingerprints of a sophisticated Middle Eastern terrorist operation.
Then, the story from the FBI changed.
“The [Oklahoma City] FBI bulletin was quickly and mysteriously withdrawn,” the Wall Street Journal reported. “The original warrant for John Doe No. 2 described a man with “a tattoo on his left arm.”
Davis, working with U.S. Army Colonel Patrick Lang (Ret.), identified Hussain Al-Hussaini as a member of Iraqi Unit 999.
Colonel Lang is the former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Director of Human Intelligence and Director of Middle East Analysis.
Davis and Colonel Lang initially connected Al-Hussaini to Saddam’s Republican Guard by studying a tattoo on Al-Hussaini’s left arm that depicts a snake wrapped around an anchor.
The FBI refused to accept Jayna Davis’ 22 sworn affidavits from witnesses who identified Al-Hussaini. The FBI never questioned any of the 22 witnesses nor interviewed Al-Hussaini, yet, the FBI never officially cleared Al-Hussaini.
Al-Hussaini, a former Iraqi soldier detained after the Gulf War in a desert POW camp in Saudi Arabia, entered the United States in 1994 as a self-proclaimed ‘refugee’ seeking asylum from Saddam’s regime.
“In the years following the Gulf War, the U.S. allowed 12,500 Iraqis to enter the U.S., including up to 6,000 ex–prisoners of war,” LA Weekly reported. Rob Frazier, a former U.S. State Department official in Saudi Arabia who dealt with refugees at the camp, including Republican Guard troops, “received many reports … alleging that the camp harbored ‘sleeper agents’ for Saddam Hussein.” “‘Remember, we really couldn’t background a lot of these guys,’” former U.S. Army intelligence officer Frazier said.
Unit 999’s elite espionage and terrorism recruits, carefully selected by the Iraqi intelligence services from Iraq’s Republican Guard and from Middle Eastern countries across the Islamic Bloc, received advanced training to prepare them for overseas bombings, airliner hijackings, and suicide missions.
Saddam’s intelligence services also provided Unit 999 soldiers with advanced training in weapons of mass destruction procurement and concealment operations and in the tactical use of conventional and unconventional weapons, including Dr. Jafar Dhia Jafar’s nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons of mass destruction.
The ‘United States Battalion’ of Iraqi Directorate of General of Military Intelligence Unit 999 sent dozens of undercover Iraqi special forces troops and intelligence agents into the United States and Canada, according to intelligence sources. By 2002, Unit 999’s United States Battalion had expanded to over 500 troops.
Unit 999 operative Al-Hussaini’s Oklahoma City co-conspirator Terry Nichols is connected to al-Qaeda terrorist Ramzi Yousef, a.k.a. Rashid, the Iraqi,’ who was convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Terry Nichols travelled repeatedly between the United States and Cebu City, Philippines where Ramzi Yousef was planning and directing terrorist operations. Intelligence revealed that Nichols, a.k.a. ‘The Farmer,’ did not have the technical capability to create the bomb(s) that detonated at the Murrah Building or the funds to repeatedly travel to and from the Philippines.
In his book Others Unknown, Timothy McVeigh’s defense attorney Stephen Jones writes that Nichols met with Ramzi Yousef and that Yousef was “an Iraqi intelligence operative.” Bin Laden was in the Philippines at approximately the same time as Nichols and Yousef, according to Stephen Jones.
Al-Qaeda terrorist Ramzi Yousef, responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, is the maternal nephew of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM). KSM was apprehended and convicted as the mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center twin towers and the Pentagon.
Gulftainer And Dr. Jafar Dhia Jafar’s Connections To Unit 999
Rogue Iraqi nuclear physicist Dr. Jafar Dhia Jafar spearheaded Saddam Hussein’s secret nuclear weapons and uranium enrichment programs from the early 1970s until 2003.
Dr. Jafar Dhia Jafar also oversaw technology transfer and procurement operations for Saddam’s chemical and biological warfare programs, CIA documents show.
Dr. Jafar Dhia Jafar and Iraqi Directorate of General Military Intelligence (DGMI), a.k.a. al-Istikhbarat, the Iraqi spy agency that commands Unit 999 operatives, with assistance from Russian intelligence services, concealed Sadaam’s and Dr. Jafar’s nuclear, chemical, and biological warfare facilities, programs, and WMD stockpiles across Iraq’s 168,000 square miles of territory, and often outside of Iraq.
Dr. Jafar Dhia Jafar set up and directed Iraq’s Tuwaitha nuclear complex, which Israel bombed in 1981. Undeterred, Dr. Jafar rebuilt Tuwaitha, prompting the U.S. Air Force to attack Dr. Jafar’s Tuwaitha nuclear site during its 1991 Package Q Airstrike, an Operation Desert Storm mission involving 78 U.S. military aircraft, two of which were shot down.
“After the 1981 Israeli raid on Iraq’s Osiraq [Osirak] nuclear research facility [a nuclear WMD facility at Tawaitha that was directed by Dr. Jafar Dhia Jafar], [DGMI a.k.a.] al-Istikhbarat [the Iraqi spy agency that commands Unit 999] turned to the Soviet KGB for assistance. From 1982 to 1985, the KGB aided [DGMI a.k.a.] al-Istikhbarat in concealment and protection techniques of its military program and facilities, as well as strategic reconnaissance deception methods,” according to the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.
Al-Amn al-Khas [the Iraqi Special Security Organization — S.S.O.] watched over the activities of [DGMI a.k.a.] al-Istikhbarat [the Iraqi spy agency that commands Unit 999] and the KGB during the Iran-Iraq War. The KGB advised these agencies in techniques of concealing covert weapons production facilities. It served as the central coordinating body between the Military-Industrial Commission [MIC] al-Istikhbarat [DGMI] and al-Mukhabarat, and the military in the covert procurement of the necessary components for Iraq’s WMD. During the 1991 Gulf War, it was put in charge of concealing SCUD missiles and afterwards, of moving and hiding documents from UNSCOM inspections relating to Iraq’s weapons programs. Based on these past activities, it would presumably continue these functions in the future.
Dr. Jafar Dhia Jafar received decades of technical assistance from Soviet KGB officers and Russian Federation SVR and GRU intelligence officers, in coordination with Russian Ambassador to Iraq Yevgeny Primakov, a KGB/SVR superspy known as “The Bear in the Desert.”
According to John A. Shaw, former Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for International Technology Security, and Bill Tierney, the former head of the U.N weapons inspection team in Iraq, there were WMD in Iraq.
“I am absolutely sure that Russian Spetsnatz units moved WMD out of Iraq before the war,” stated John Shaw, Newsmax reported.
Former U.N. weapons inspector Bill Tierney explained during a CBN interview about the Saddam Tapes, audio recording of Saddam’s cabinet that Tierney translated for the FBI:
We showed that the Iraqis had no intention of ever complying with the U.N. Security Council Resolutions…
… It [The Saddam Tapes] ended up in my lap. And because I was a UN [weapons] inspector …one of these tapes, it was one briefing after the other, both for unconventional weapons of mass destruction and conventional
…They were still at war with us. It was a real eye opener … they had it [WMD]! …
… I was at CENTCOM for five years and during that time frame there was evidence that the Russians helped the Iraqis on a technical level. Now probably, earlier, they taught them how to conceal.
“The director of DGMI, Staff Lt. Gen. Zuhayr Talib ‘Abd-al-Sattar [Seven of Hearts in the Operation Iraqi Freedom Most Wanted Playing Card Deck], reported directly to the Presidential Secretary” Abid Hamid Mahmud al-Tikriti, according to CIA documents.
Like DGMI’s director who commanded Unit 999, Dr. Jafar Dhia Jafar also reported directly to Saddam’s Presidential Secretary Abid Hamid Mahmud al-Tikriti, separate CIA documents confirm.
“Beyond President Saddam’s family circle, the key figures can be counted on one hand … By far the most important is the one with the most menial title – President Saddam’s secretary,” The Guardian reported. “[Presidential Secretary] Mahmoud … is the third or fourth most powerful person in Iraq, according to exiled dissidents.”
Further cementing Dr. Jafar’s ties to Unit 999 is intelligence out of Iraq that revealed that Dr. Jafar operated a massive biological warfare research lab and production line at Salman Pak, the secret Iraqi military base near Baghdad where Iraqi intelligence services trained Unit 999 spies and terrorists.
Iraqi bioweapons scientist Rihab Tata, known as ‘Dr. Germ,’ “rose to run a 150-person bio-weapon operation at the infamous Salman Pak facility, which inspectors once dubbed germ-warfare central,” according to a newswire story posted by UCLA’s Department of Epidemiology.
‘Dr. Germ’ is married to former Deputy Minister of the Military Industrial Commission Dr. Jafar Dhia Jafar’s colleague, Amer Mohammad Rashid al-Ubaidi, the second of Saddam’s three former deputy ministers of the Iraqi Military Industrialization Commission.
Dr. Jafar Dhia Jafar, Osama bin Laden, Iraqi Unit 999, And Iraqi Chemical WMDs
Intelligence out of the Middle East separately reported that Iraqi Special Operation Group Unit 999 trained al-Qaeda in chemical warfare tactics and that Saddam sold chemical weapons manufactured by Dr. Jafar and Iraqi Lt. Gen. Dr. Amir al-Saadi to Osama bin Laden.
Al-Saadi, like Dr. Jafar, was one of Saddam’s three deputy ministers of military industrialization who served as Saddam’s WMD scientific advisers.
Al-Saadi, Saddam’s ‘chemical weapons expert and ‘Superweapons Czar,’ schemed with Dr. Jafar and Dr. Jafar’s brother, Gulftainer owner Hamid Dhia Jafar, in a plot known as ‘Oil-For-Superweapons’ to finance Saddam’s and Dr. Jafar Dhia Jafar’s nuclear, chemical, and biological warfare programs.
The Oil-For-Superweapons scheme led to multiple U.S. government investigations, including three Congressional committee investigations and a U.S. Treasury Department investigation.
In interviews with senior officials, the following picture emerged: American intelligence believes that Al Qaeda and Saddam reached a non-aggression agreement in 1993, and that the relationship deepened further in the mid-nineteen-nineties, when an Al Qaeda operative—a native-born Iraqi who goes by the name Abu Abdullah al-Iraqi—was dispatched by bin Laden to ask the Iraqis for help in poison-gas training. Al-Iraqi’s mission was successful, and an unknown number of trainers from an Iraqi secret-police organization called Unit 999 were dispatched to camps in Afghanistan to instruct Al Qaeda terrorists…
…According to several intelligence officials I spoke to, the relationship between bin Laden and Saddam’s regime was brokered in the early nineteen-nineties by the then de-facto leader of Sudan.
U.S. officials accused Iraqi WMD scientist Emad Husayn Abdullah al-Ani “of being involved with a Sudanese chemical [weapons] plant linked to Osama bin Laden,” according to the Sydney Morning Herald. Sample tests from that plant indicated a “smoking gun” for VX nerve gas, CNN reported.
Al-Ani, Hamid Dhia Jafar’s ‘Oil-For-Superweapons’ co-conspirator Lt. Gen. Dr. Amir al-Saadi, and Barack Obama’s Iraqi billionaire patron Nadhmi Auchi, were named as co-conspirators in MM Law’s 2018 human rights lawsuit filed in an Iraqi court on behalf of survivors of the 1988 Halabja chemical weapons genocide during which Saddam “gassed his own people.
The Obama administration, in a secret operation code-named ‘Project Pelican,’ brought Gulftainer inside the wire in 2014 when it awarded Gulftainer with a 35-year lease to the cargo container terminal at Florida’s Port Canaveral, stealthily bypassing the required National Security Threat Analysis and CFIUS review. Gulftainer went on to take over Delaware’s entire Port of Wilmington in a 50-year deal — without a CFIUS National Security Threat Analysis.
Gulftainer executive Badr Jafar, the son of Hamid Dhia Jafar and nephew of Dr. Jafar Dhia Jafar, visited the Obama White House on March 27, 2014, less than three months before Gulftainer and Port Canaveral simultaneously announced and signed the secretly-negotiated ‘Project Pelican” deal.
President Obama’s Pakistani college roommate Wahid Hamid was one of Hamid Dhia Jafar’s business partners at the now-collapsed private equity group called The Abraaj Group.
Lethal Threat: Iraq’s WMD, Gulftainer, Russia, And Club-K
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbUU_9bOcnM
A paradigmatic example of the application of Sun Tzu’s principle of deception in warfare is the Russian-designed WMD delivery system the Club-K (Klub-K). The Club-K appears to be a standard intermodal cargo container, though it delivers devastating weapons of mass destruction far beyond anything seen at Pearl Harbor or on 9/11.
Gulftainer entered into a joint-venture with ROSTEC / ROSOBORONEXPORT, the Russian state-owned weapons enterprise that exports the Club-K Container Missile System.
The network of Gulftainer’s connections to Russia’s Club-K, Iraq’s elite Unit 999 espionage and terrorism squads — exacerbated by Unit 999’s disturbing connections to the Oklahoma City bombing and al-Qaeda’s war planners Osama bin Laden, Ramzi Yousef, and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, should register as even more alarming than the pre-9/11 chatter and blinking red lights.
Russia’s Trojan Horse Club-K Container Missile System can launch cruise missiles capable of travelling at supersonic speeds and evading U.S. missile defense systems.
U.S. missile defense systems look outward toward the Polar region and East, and West Coasts, but are not designed to detect cruise missiles launched from the interior of the United States.
A Club-K surprise attack could launch conventional, nuclear, EMP, chemical, and biological weapons from cargo containers positioned inside the United States and strike U.S. cities and U.S. military bases within minutes, or seconds, with no advance warning.
The effects of an EMP attack launched against the United States from Club-K ‘containers’ would be devastating. Destruction of the national power grid would severely degrade military readiness and rapidly lead to civil unrest and mass starvation.
“An EMP weapon is a civilization killer,” Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, a former CIA officer and Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, told The American Report.
Saddam and the inner circle of his cabinet of which Dr. Jafar was a senior member, could be heard on the ‘Saddam Tapes,’ musing about a ‘terrorist,’ that could not be traced back to Baghdad, placing and detonating a chemical, biological, or nuclear weapon in Washington D.C.
That is exactly the type of mission for which the Iraqi DGMI Special Operations Group Unit 999 trained.
It remains unclear if current U.S. national security officials are aware of the connection between Gulftainer and Unit 999, the Iraqi special operation group that former senior intelligence and Pentagon officials suspected of being at the operational center of the Oklahoma City bombing plot — or if stay-behind Unit 999 sleeper cells remain inside the United States.
Coalition Provisional Authority Administrator Paul Bremmer ordered the Iraqi Directorate General of Military Intelligence (DGMI) be dissolved in 2003.
However, former Iraqi Directorate of Military Intelligence (DGMI) Lt. Col. Abu Muslim al Turkmani went on to become second-in-command to Islamic State Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and oversaw the caliphate’s Iraqi territory before he was killed in a U.S. drone strike, raising questions about how much of the DGMI’s secretive command structure remains intact .
Gulftainer and its affiliates exhibit many hallmarks of an Iraqi dual-use enterprise similar to Iraqi front companies that operated throughout Iraq’s WMD-industrial complex — companies capable of, on a dime, transitioning from legitimate commercial activity, to covert prohibited WMD activity, and back again to commercial activity.
Gulftainer may have already gone operational.
Gulftainer blockaded Wawa fuel tanker trucks transiting through the Port of Wilmington in April 2020, effectively cutting off fuel supplies to five northeastern states amid the Chinese Coronavirus pandemic.
In the next 9/11, hijacked aircraft could be replaced with dozens, hundreds, or thousands of Russian Club-K Container Missile Launching Systems.
What has happened to the United States under Barack Hussein Obama?
The Muslim Brotherhood is an international political, financial, terrorist and movement whose goal is to establish a global Islamic State (Caliphate).
They have and continue to exert tremendous influence of the American government’s foreign and domestic policies under President Barack Hussein Obama.
The violence in the Middle East and across North Africa is a direct consequence of the Muslim Brotherhood’s effective control over American foreign policy in the region.
They operate through various “civic” front groups, as well as through American institutions who take their money as operational funding (Georgetown University, Brookings Institution).
Barack Hussein Obama together with Hillary Clinton decided to aid and abet al-Qaeda terrorists and Libyan Muslim Brotherhood jihadists to overthrow U.S. ally Muammar Ghaddafi and replace all the secular leaders in the Middle East with sharia-compliant Muslim Brotherhood governments.
Former CIA Operations and Intelligence Analyist, Officer, Clare Lozez, says that “America has switched sides in the war on terror under Barack Obama.” She said the global war on terror had been an effort to “stay free of Sharia,” or repressive Islamic law, until the Obama administration began siding with such jihadist groups as the Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliates.
Why the switch? Lopez explained, when the so-called Arab Spring appeared in late 2010, “It was time to bring down the secular Muslim rulers who did not enforce Islamic law. And America helped.”
With the Muslim Brotherhood thoroughly infiltrated through the Obama regimeand other branches of the federal government, Lopez has come to the conclusion Obama had essentially the same goals in the Mideast as the late Osama bin Laden: “to remove American power and influence, including military forces, from Islamic lands.”
Al Qaeda = Hamas = Muslim Brotherhood = Hezbollah = Qatar = Iran.
Get it?
Former Israeli Ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren: Obama may reach out to Islam because 2 Muslim father figures abandoned him.
Do you get it now?
For a comprehensive, detailed, and sourced report on the Obama administration and the Muslim Brotherhood see The Betrayal Papers.
Declassified documents again show what everyone knows deep-down – Obama is on the side of the enemy
The crooked, deceitful, and traitorous Obama regime was again revealed on Monday to be lying about what happened in Benghazi, Libya. Documents obtained by Judicial Watch and examined by Fox News prove for all time that the administration was shipping Libyan weapons to Syrian rebels.
Note: Those are the same groups of rebels (al Qaeda, ISIS, “moderate rebels,” etc.) who are committing genocide against Christians and destroying humanity’s cultural heritage in ancient Mesopotamia.
This is also the reason why Ambassador Christopher Stevens was in Benghazi to begin with. He was working out of a CIA annex in Benghazi, overseeing a sophisticated weapons distribution supply chain to a variety of revolutionary terrorist groups in North Africa and the Middle East.
An Endless number of Investigations – Why?
For those counting, the current Benghazi investigation is the eighth investigation on the topic.
At the core of the myriad (and stymied) investigations of Benghazi is a simple fact: the Obama administration switched sides in the war on terror, and allied the United States with the Muslim Brotherhood. Congress, showing remarkably bad judgment, rubberstamped what Obama and Hillary demanded: arm Islamic terrorists in order to overthrow secular governments in the Middle East and North Africa.
Obama and Hillary were going to build a caliphate. Libya was their arms grab, and now it’s also an ISIS stronghold and basing ground for the Islamic invasion of Europe.
Think about why there have been so many inconclusive investigations, and apply your common sense. The truth about Benghazi implicates Obama, Hillary, and the Congressional leadership in treason.That is why there is never any resolution with respect to the ongoing Benghazi investigations. Remember that the “investigator” sent by Obama worked for George Soros at the International Crisis Group, and was an Iran sympathizer. Remember that the FBI’s investigation of the scene was delayed by three full weeks.
The government waited three weeks to investigate a terror scene in an American-run compound where a U.S. Ambassador and three others had just been tortured and killed by terrorists!
The Republican leadership in Congress are complicit in the chaos and genocide that define the Middle East today, including Benghazi arms running. What can you say to Obama when you’re his partner in crime?
Check out this video of a Libyan “sea of arms” that were handed to the rebels in that country.
GOP Purged of Muslim Brotherhood Critics
Of all the members of Congress, two stood out as voices against the Muslim Brotherhood: Michele Bachmann and Col. Allen West. For example, they openly questioned Hillary’s “aide” Huma Abedin. In contrast, John McCain and Lindsay Graham, among others, defended Abedin, despite numerous documented family connections to the Muslim Brotherhood including her parents.
Bachmann and Col. West are no longer in Congress. McCain and Graham are. Any questions?
It is plain to see that the Republican establishment (thanks especially to Thomas Donohue’s Chamber of Commerce) is on board with Obama’s agenda. This is likely why Romney couldn’t make an issue of Benghazi in 2012. It was a Republican liability, too.
Confirming the Redundant
Monday, as Fox debuted the new documents, there was a certain triumphalism on the conservative right. But I don’t understand why. The New York Timesreported in 2013 that Libyan weapons were making their way into Syria. CNN reported Benghazi’s extensive CIA operation less than a year after the attack.
Monday’s new documents also prove that as far back as 2012, military intelligence was concerned with the rise of ISIS. But even this fact was basically redundant. Remember when Obama ignored all signs of a growing Al Qaeda, dismissively referring to them as the “JV Team”? We already knew Obama didn’t care to hear about the rise of jihadi armies. He helped to build them.
The entire Obama-backed Arab Spring was itself exercise of jihad. The primary beneficiary of the Arab Spring was, and continues to be, the Muslim Brotherhood. Indeed, the administration is now actively trying to hand a nuclear bomb to bloodthirsty Iran. Obama’s, Hillary’s, and now Kerry’s actions have alienated Israel, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia – America’s three closest allies in the Middle East for generations.
At some point, the facts need to be aligned with plausible a strategy. The strategy in this case is Islamic conquest.
When the Investigators are also the Perps
Ambassador Pickering is not the only suspect character who investigated Benghazi. Republican Mike Rogers was the head of the U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He, with the Committee, spent months producing the House Intel Committee “report” on Benghazi.
Rogers’ wife, Kristi Rogers, was CEO of Aegis Defense Services LLC, the company contracted by the State Department to provide security for the Benghazi compound. Not only was Mike Rogers’ chairing of the House Intel Committee’s investigation a clear conflict of interest; when the investigation was completed, Rogers and Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger, without the other Committee members, authored a bogus “Committee Report” on what allegedly happened Benghazi. It was a total whitewash, replete with lies and misinformation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obM8KqBZ54Q
In effect, Republican Mike Rogers issued an official-sounding government cover-up. Nothing more, nothing less.
The Betrayal of the American People
Recently, the Coalition of Concerned Citizens released a six-part review of the Obama administration’s relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood. The series tells the story of how this Nazi-rooted Islamic party has taken the leading role in the American government, dictating policies that affect Americans and U.S. foreign policy, to the benefit of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Did you know?
The founder of the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine played a significant role in the Holocaust.
American intelligence began to establish a relationship with the Muslim Brothers during the early Cold War.
Many prominent Obama appointees are directly tied to the Muslim Brotherhood, including Hillary Clinton, and her aide Huma Abedin.
The Muslim Brotherhood State of Qatar exerts tremendous influence in Washington, hosts a campus of the Georgetown School of Foreign Service, and funds the preeminent D.C. think tank, the Brookings Institution.
Scandals as wide ranging as the IRS targeting of conservatives, law enforcement’s scrubbing of all mention of Islam, DHS militarization of the police, and out-of-control immigration all serve to empower the Muslim Brotherhood.
One of Obama’s most critical early political backers was Nadhmi Auchi, an agent of Saddam Hussein who hates Israel.
Obama’s mother was a member of an Islamic cult in Indonesia called Subud, and his political mentor was an FBI-identified enemy of the state.
The American public should ask themselves a very simple question: Is it by more than coincidence that the facts all point in one definite direction… at the Muslim Brotherhood?
On Monday, we learned what we already knew. Obama gave Libyan arms to psychopaths (and in this case that word is descriptive, not hyperbole) in Syria. So, what are we going to do about it?
The evidence of what drives this administration is contained in The Betrayal Papers.
Nothing else should require redundant re-confirmation, like was reported on Monday, for people to wake up. The time to demand an immediate resignation of Obama and his entire cabinet is now!
Is it Inquisition time in Hollywood, or is it something else?
In the midst of the Hamas siege of Israel, while the IDF was courageously protecting Israeli citizens from rockets hurled by the barbarians in Gaza, some Spanish personalities in supposedly Jewish-run Hollywood caused quite a raucous. In an open letter, the Latin trio of Penelope Cruz, husband Javier Bardem, and director Pedro Almodovar condemned Israel for daring to cripple the terrorist organization. (Note: for the record, the letter was signed by many other Spaniards in Hollywood.)
The signatories of the letter, “condemn the bombing by land, sea and air against the Palestinian civilian population in the Gaza Strip… Gaza is living through horror these days, besieged and attacked by land, sea and air. Palestinians’ homes are being destroyed, they are being denied water, electricity [and] free movement to their hospitals, schools and fields while the international community does nothing.”
Moreover, the letter had the audacity to call the IDF operation “genocide.”
These words, which infer that Israel is culpable of a Holocaust of their own making, has, expectedly, led to a backlash by some producers and stars. Cruz and Bardem have come under fire by Ryan Kavanaugh, CEO of Relativity Media, who stated to The Hollywood Reporter, “As the grandson of Holocaust survivors, I know that anyone calling what’s going on in Israel ‘genocide’ vs. self-defense is either ignorant and shouldn’t be commenting or is truly anti-Semitic.” In his own open letter, the outspoken and conservative Jon Voight admonished Cruz and Bardem to “hang their heads in shame.”
Yet the wrath of Hollywood seems to have conspicuously missed the other Spaniard, director Pedro Almodovar. Who is Almodovar, and what makes him the most curious of the three?
Casting Call: Wanted. A Film Director, Master Jihadis, and a Mujer Progresista.
A Gay Progressive. But Who Cares About That?
Almodovar has made a career directing films with progressive themes, most with additional LGBT themes. An Academy Award-winning director, he is celebrated within the organized LGBT movement. As the website LGBT History Month puts it, “His movies are known for their progressive themes including transgenderism, homosexuality and feminism and also for their racy sexuality, irony and wit.”
In the United States, moviegoers are more familiar with the stars he helped discover; among them are Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas, who have become household names of modern American cinema.
However, being an activist for LGBT equality does not explain Almodovar’s venom towards Israel. Although they are not performed in Israel, the Jewish state recognizes same-sex unions granted from other countries. Homosexual acts have been legal in Israel since 1988. This month, Israeli Interior Minister Gidon Sa’ar extended the right of return citizenship rights to (Jewish and non-Jewish) same-sex spouses. As Middle Eastern countries go, none is more progressive than Israel.
What to make of Jon Voight’s criticism? Voight is undisputed Hollywood royalty. A legendary actor, he is the father of Angelina Jolie and likely soon-to-be father-in-law of Brad Pitt, two actors known to be more progressive in their politics. Though Voight and Almodovar are on opposite sides of the political spectrum, the traditional right-left, conservative-liberal divide does not explain the director’s politics.
For it is not his support for LGBT issues, nor his progressive bent that define his worldview, but his proximity with al Qaeda, their sponsors and enablers, and to the world’s foremost strategic jihadi.
The Master of Jihad
When most Americans think jihad and Islamic terrorism, some names immediately come to mind. Among them, Osama bin Laden, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (9/11 mastermind), and Ramzi Yousef (1993 WTC bombing) may be the most common. More dedicated students of jihad may also know the names Ayman al-Zawahiri (current head of al Qaeda), Mullah Omar (head of Taliban) and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (leader of the Islamic State, formerly ISIS). These exotic names have been repeated ad nauseam by media and government personalities, and thus they have lodged their way into the American psyche.
Precisely because it is mentioned so infrequently, precious few Americans know the name Abu Musab al-Suri. A red head with green eyes, this guru of modern jihad does not necessarily look the part of stereotypical Islamist. Looks, however, deceive. He has been termed “the most articulate exponent of the modern jihad and its most sophisticated strategies.” A 2008 book on him, published by Columbia University Press, is entitledArchitect of Global Jihad: The Life of Al Qaeda Strategist Abu Mus’ab Al-Suri. A prolific writer, his 1600-page treatise on jihadi warfare, The Global Islamic Resistance Call includes doctrinal, political, educational, and behavioral methods for terror, and is considered by U.S. Joint Forces Command as a terrorist “masterwork.”
A darling of bin Laden, it’s fair to say that if Al Qaeda were a typical American corporation, Abu Musab al-Suri would be the Chief Strategy Officer.[1]
Born in Aleppo in 1958, his given name is Mustafa bin Abd al-Qadir Setmarian Naser. After falling under the sway of the Muslim Brotherhood in Syria, he took the name “al-Suri,” which means “the Syrian.” Well before the Syrian civil war commenced in 2011, al-Suri was arguably the most detailed exponent of specific military measures that would be effective in undermining the Assad regime; one book he authored is actually called Jihad in Syria. A foe of Hafez al-Assad, who conducted a violent crackdown on the Syrian Brotherhood, al-Suri had to flee Syria for Europe in 1980. In more recent times, Abu Musab al-Suri was the namesake of one of most infamous terrorists throughout the American occupation of Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (killed, 2006).
While living in Spain in the 1980s, al-Suri married a Spanish woman by the name of Elena Morena. This gave him a Spanish passport, and makes him a citizen of the European Union. As a leading member of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, al-Suri did in Spain what the Muslim Brothers do everywhere – begin recruiting. Indeed, one of al-Suri’s unique contributions to modern jihad was to encourage individual Muslims to independently recruit soldiers (i.e., terrorists) for Islamic war against the kafir. His partner in the new Al Qaeda Spain enterprise was another Syrian from Aleppo, Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, aka Abu Dahbah.
Al-Suri and Abu Dahbah, described by a Spanish judge as “the leader of al Qaeda in Spain,” have plenty of terrorist bona fides, including connections to 9/11 and other attacks. Al-Suri was Osama bin Laden’s top aide, and the second most wanted man by U.S. intelligence behind only his boss. Abu Dahbah was the Spanish contact of the al Qaeda Hamburg cell, which planned 9/11. He also recruited for his own cell in Spain, the Soldiers of Allah.
Abu Musab al-Suri
In 2004, ten bombs ripped through four passenger trains departing from Alcalá de Henares station in Madrid. The attacks left 191 dead and injured thousands more. Abu Dahbah and al-Suri were both subsequently implicated by Spanish authorities. One of Abu Dahbah’s Soldiers of Allah Jamal Zougam, physically detonated the bombs using a remote cell phone detonator. Al Suri was described by the mastermind of, or inspiration for, the attacks, which were of the same character that he explicated in his writings. (He specifically urged that that transportation infrastructure be targeted because it involved a high “economic cost.”)
Like al-Suri, Abu Dahbah took a Spanish wife. An actress, her name was MarisaMartínAyuso. A Christian before converting to Islam, in her youth Ayuso had been a “progressive woman.” In 1986, Ayuso married Abu Dahbah, the future Spanish contact for the 9/11 attacks.
“Una Mujer Progresista”
Now that the characters in this real-life Hollywood mystery have been cast, the plot will resume.
Ayuso, the Spanish actress, was in the films of Pedro Almodovar. This fact is confirmed by her husband, and reported in multiple articles in the Spanish-language press. (See: here, here, and here.) She was even known as a “Chica Almodovar” (Almodovar girl). Curiously, a comprehensive internet search by this author did not yield any credits with her name.
To be explicit for the sake of clarity, Almodovar directed the woman who married the head of al Qaeda in Spain, Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, aka Abu Dahbah. Almodovar may have directed her after she married Abu Dahbah and converted to Islam; the inability to find any film credits which mention her name leaves this an open question.
Maria Ayuso, former “Chica Almodovar” and wife of Abu Dahbah
Now, this all may seem surreally serendipitous: that an anti-Israel Spanish film director happened to work with the wife of the head of al Qaeda in Spain… the “Almodovar girl,” whose husband was partners in jihad with Osama bin Laden’s “top aide,” Abu Musab al-Suri. After all, at some point in her life, she was, by all accounts “a progressive woman.” Progressives in America aren’t exactly known for their love of Israel, either.
Let us now revisit the 2004 Madrid bombing and the political fallout of al Qaeda’s careful operation to sway the Spanish election.
Director of a new Cordoba Project?
The attacks of March 11, 2004 on the Madrid trains not only rocked Spain, but also Spanish politics. The Spanish elections, three days later on March 14, saw the defeat of the conservative People’s Party (PP) and the ascension of the leftist Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE). Prior to the attacks, the PP was ahead in the polls and the favorite to win the elections – afterward, the PSOE gained the upper hand. Both parties and their respective press organs allege conspiracies. A chief conspirator in the attack, the man who supplied the explosives, claimed “I am the victim of a coup they have tried to hide behind a bunch of Muslims.” The coup he was referring to was the PSOE’s victory in the Spanish elections.
As in America, Spain has its own cinema celebs who can’t keep away from the nation’s politics. The PSOE, much like the Democrat Party in the United States, has the backing of the progressives in Spanish film, including the director Pedro Almodovar and the actor he helped discover, Antonio Banderes. Both Almodovar and Banderes are long-time supporters of the PSOE. See, for example, this 1996 PSEO election commercial staring Banderes; or this article from 2000, in which Banderes is quoted: “I remain a leftists… I will vote for the PSOE.”
Almodovar “applauded” the PSOE victory in 2004, on the heels of the Madrid attacks. A year later, in 2005, demonstrations in Spain were held to protest Spanish involvement in the invasion of Iraq. One article explains of the protests, “The three main speakers at the end of the march were Pedro Almodóvar, his leading actress in Hable con ella, Leonor Watling, and veteran director and actor Fernando Fernán Gómez.” He further went on to support the PSOE in 2008.
Once elected to lead Spain, what policies did the PSOE follow, under the direction of Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero, with respect to Islam? If you were charitable, you might say he cozied up to the Islamists. Zapatero…
Withdrew Spanish troops from Iraq.
Proposed the “Alliance of Civilizations,” an initiative aimed at reconciling the Western and Islamic worlds. Zapatero’s co-sponsor was the Hitlerian Islamist of Turkey, Recep Erdogan, who, like Almodovar, recently accused Israel Third Reich-like behavior.
Heavily restricted tobacco consumption in public, under the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Tobacco is haram (forbidden) in Islam, and Turkey under Erdogan has also severely restricted tobacco consumption under the same WHO protocols. IMPORTANT: Turkey additionally operated under the Bloomberg Global Tobacco Control Initiative. (Bloomberg LLP holds an annual business conference in Doha, Qatar. Keep this in mind.)
Urged that Turkey and Morocco, two Islamic-dominated countries, join the European Union.
In February 2014, Zapatero’s successor to Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, reaffirmed the PSOE’s support for Turkey’s admission into the EU. This, despite the ongoing Islamification of formerly secular Turkey, and the violent crackdown by Erdogan of anti-AKP protesters.
Almodovar, Miramax, and the Al Thanis of Qatar
Transatlantic progressive politics, moviemaking, and Islamic terror have a way of hanging together it seems. One of the early distributors of Almodovar’s films in the United States was Miramax Films. Founded by the Weinstein brothers, Harvey and Bob, in 1979, Miramax was eventually purchased by The Walt Disney Company in 1993. Before the sale to Disney, however, they distributed two of Almodovar’s movies in the early 1990s, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, and High Heels.
A few more data points on the Weinsteins, Miramax, and Almodovar that suggest more than a passing association with the cast of characters above:
In 1982, Almodovar directed the comedyLabyrinth of Passions. The plot centered around a nymphomaniac and a “gay Islamic terrorist.”
In 1998, Bob and Harvey Weinstein won the GLAAD Excellence in Media Award. The award is “presented to public figures in media and entertainment who, through their work, have increased the visibility and understanding of the LGBT community.” GLAAD – the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation – awarded Pedro Almodovar’s Bad Education “Outstanding Film” in 2005.
In 2010, Disney sold Miramax to Filmyard Holdings, a joint investment group which included the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), private equity company Colony Capital, and construction company Tutor-Saliba Corporation. Based out of Doha, Qatar, the Qatar Investment Authority is the sovereign wealth fund run by the Gulf state of Qatar. QIA was the largest shareholder.
Also in 2010, Harvey Weinstein, through the Weinstein Company, produced Miral, a movie about a Palestinian orphan. The film was criticized by many as pro-Palestinian/anti-Israel, and the journalist Daniel Greenfield called it a “terrorist propaganda flick.”
In January 2013, Ron Tutor of Tutor-Saliba sold his stake in Miramax to the Qatar Investment Authority, leaving Miramax in the hands of Colony and Qatar exclusively.
In December 2013, Miramax announced a 20 year deal with The Weinstein Company for “a multi-year co-production and co-distribution deal covering movies, TV and stage for titles in the Miramax library.” This reunites the Weinsteins with their company, and unites them in one corporate entity with Qatar.
Although not directly tied to Miramax anymore, this August Disney held a special “Disney on Ice” event at the first summer festival in Doha, Qatar.
Qatar is a plainly despicable country, profiting from the worst imaginable types of human suffering and misery. Ruled by the Al Thani family, a hereditary monarchy, this author has documented again and again that Qatar is a modern day slave state with extensive ties to al Qaeda and the genocidal Islamic State. Note that the Qatari Ministry of Electricity and Water had Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the 9/11 mastermind, on payroll before the attacks; and further, it was Qatar who handed over KSM to the CIA, inexplicably knowing his exact location…
Though not commonly known, Islamist terrorist groups are eager participants in the narcotics traffic, especially heroin from Afghanistan and cocaine from South America. Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and Boko Haram, two North African based Islamist groups, are drug smugglers. The state of Qatar provided the seed money for Boko Haram, and recently documents prove that they are actively working with the Qataris. Boko Haram and the Islamic State, two clients of Qatari financing and military support, kidnap and sell men, women, and children into slavery, whether it be forced prostitution or labor ganging.
Finally, Boko Haram and al Qaeda have been conclusively linked to the Indian crime boss, Dawood Ibrahim, currently residing in Pakistan under the protection of the Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI). Interestingly, Dawood is known to be active in Bollywood (Indian Hollywood), producing movies and personally recruiting the actors he prefers.
A Point on the Alleged “Homophobia” of Jihad
If there’s one thing the right and left in the United States can agree on when it comes to LGBT culture, it’s that the fanatical Islamists hate homosexuals. This is drummed into the heads of Americans every time Iran hangs gay men (or, as they call them, “sodomites”), which they do, brutally, with some frequency.
A few examples will show that such generalizations are incorrect, and that the jihad is not, let’s say, the Russian state.
In July, an Egyptian cleric authored a fatwa (legal declaration) that permitted “anal jihad.” This is just what it sounds like, because the men fighting to kill the infidel are far away from their wives. (I’m no Imam, so don’t ask me about the reasoning.)
In France, an Algerian born Salafist (i.e., radical) Imam is openly gay, and even marries gay couples.
The cultures of the Middle East do not conform to western norms of sexuality. This is nothing new. Going back to the early 20th century, T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), the British intelligence officer who united the Arabs in jihad against the Turks, is widely considered to have been gay.
Christopher Stevens, the ambassador who was murdered in Benghazi by jihadis while running Libyan arms to Syrian rebels (who are now in Iraq and known as the Islamic State), was also gay.
The reason for citing and explaining the above is not to insinuate that there is a huge conspiracy of gay Muslim terrorists. There isn’t. Instead, it is to prove that “gay” and “Islamist” are not mutually exclusive, as so many seem to want to believe. This is not merely the author’s opinion, but an accurate reading of recent and historical statements, actions, and events within the Salafist and jihadi movements. Being uncomfortable with the peculiar proclivities within jihadi ranks is not an excuse for ignorance.
THE END
It is impossible to say whether Pedro Almodovar feels any sympathy al Qaeda and the worldwide movement to establish a caliphate. His implicit support for Hamas, however, and his denigration of Israel, do make him an apologist for terrorism; Hamas is designated by the U.S. Department of State as a terrorist organization.
Working with the wife of an al Qaeda terrorist does not make someone guilty of a crime. Yet, it is hard to dismiss the PSOE’s pro-Islamist stance, whether be an initiative between Erdogan and Zapatero, welcoming Turkey into the E.U., or withdrawing Spanish troops from Iraq – a move that now seems calculated to benefit the likes of the Islamic State. It was precisely Maria Ayuso’s husband who recruited the terrorists whose deadly attacks put the PSOE in power, to the surprise of Spanish citizens. At around the same time he was directing this “Chica Almodovar,” he happened to make a comedy about a gay Islamic terrorist.
Entering into a business partnership with the Qatar Investment Authority is also not illegal (although it should be), and the Weinsteins should be afforded the benefit of the doubt. But it is hard to ignore that Qatar is the primary sponsor of al Qaeda, the Taliban, Boko Haram, and the Islamic State, and operates a slave empire with links to underworld mafia boss, Dawood Ibrahim. It may be purely coincidental that Miramax distributes some of Almodovar’s best known films, and that Harvey Weinstein produced a pro-Palestinian propaganda movie. None of these are necessarily smoking guns.
And it may again be only coincidence that GLAAD, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance for Anti-Defamation, has given Almodovar and the Weinstein brothers awards for their work making LGBT-themed movies. In Hollywood, allegedly dominated by Jewish (i.e. pro-Israel) interests, it is perplexing that the Weinsteins and Almodovar remain celebrated, despite hostility toward Israel.
Yet on the balance, when the evidence is weighed and considered, it is difficult to believe that Almodovar and the Weinsteins are totally unaware of who they are working with. This would require the sensory ability of Helen Keller.
Means? Check. Motive? Check. Opportunity? Check.
Is Hollywood, like the crazies like to say, run by a Jewish cabal? Or has it become anti-Semitic.
Post Script
Pedro Almodovar no longer supports the Spanish Socialist Party, the PSOE. He now believes that Spain’s only hope is the M15 movement, or the Indignados. They are a kind of Spanish Occupy Wall Street, chaotic and largely youthful protestors who cannot find work and see little hope for a better future.
Abu Musab al-Suri was captured in Quetta, Pakistan in 2005. The Pakistani authorities turned him over to Syria, where he is currently imprisoned.
[1] Abu Musab al-Suri is known to have personally met Osama bin Laden and bin Laden’s mentor, Abdullah Azzam, who originated the idea that martyrdom is a personal responsibility of all Muslims. His relationship with al Qaeda was so intimate that he named one of his sons Osama.
