The Boston Marathon bombing is emerging as yet
another case of Anglo-Saudi supported terrorist operations, with complicity from
the White House and the FBI. As was the case in the Benghazi killing of the US
Ambassador on 9/11 last year, the rush to judgement by the Administration,
claiming incredibly that the bombers were entirely homegrown, with no
international connections, has been shown to be absurd. Why the attempted
cover-up? This article appears in the current issue of EIR, and a follow up,
with the account of the role of top former US intelligence official Graham
Fuller in controlling the family of the bombers for many years, will appear next
week. Mike Billington
Boston Bombing: Anglo-Saudi Terror Machine Strikes U.S.
by Jeffrey
Steinberg and Stu Rosenblatt
April 29—In
reaction against the Obama Administration's rush-to-judgment declaration that
the April 15 Boston Marathon bombing was the work of two brothers who were
radicalized by reading Internet sites, and who had no ties to global terrorist
networks, some Members of Congress are demanding a thorough probe of the accused
bombers, and the role of the FBI in one of the most deadly terrorist
acts on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001.
Were such an
investigation to take place, in spite of Obama White House and FBI interference,
Americans may be given a long-overdue view into the Anglo-Saudi apparatus that
has been responsible for nearly every act of global terrorism over the past
several decades. This is the apparatus which was behind the Sept. 11, 2001
attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and the Sept. 11, 2012
assault on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, in which U.S. Ambassador
Christopher Stevens and three other U.S. personnel were killed.
Appearing
April 28 on Fox News, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.), Chairman of the House
Homeland Security Committee, declared that, after consulting with security
professionals, he was convinced that the bombs used in the attack on the Boston
Marathon were far too sophisticated to have been constructed based on Internet
diagrams alone. He noted that the bombs were similar to those used frequently by
terrorists in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. Both McCaul and Sen. Joe
Manchin (D-W.Va.), who appeared with him on Fox, demanded answers about the
recruitment and training of the bombers, and about what global networks the two
young Chechens had been tracked into.
In an April
20 letter to the Director of the FBI, the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS),
and the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Reps. McCaul and Peter King
(R-N.Y.), the previous head of the Homeland Security Committee, also demanded an
accounting by the FBI of its failure to act on leads provided by Russian
security services, well over a year before the Boston bombings. Russian
officials alerted the FBI in 2011 that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the elder of the two
brothers, should be investigated for ties to violent jihadist networks operating
in the North Caucasus region of Russia. Similar warnings were provided by
Russian officials to both the DHS and the CIA, and Tsarnaev was actually placed
on a CIA watch list of suspected terrorists whose travels abroad should be
monitored.
In their
letter, McCaul and King cited at least five previous incidents, since the
beginning of the Obama Administration, in which the FBI failed to pursue terror
suspects, and in some cases, actually protected suspects as informants and
agents provocateurs (see article, p. 23).
Two Tracks, Two Threats
In a very
real sense, the Congressional demands for full disclosure from both the FBI and
the Obama Administration define two separate, but critical tracks, of any
serious investigation.
First and
foremost, the Boston bombing, in which three people were killed, and many more
grievously injured, demands an end to the coverup of the Anglo-Saudi guiding
hand behind virtually all global terrorism. A serious probe into the apparatus
behind decades of irregular warfare in the Caucasus region, Central Asia,
Afghanistan-Pakistan, the Near East, and North Africa—an apparatus already
implicated in the Boston bombings—would open up the entire British-Saudi
alliance, and also lay bare the coverup by the George W. Bush and Obama
administrations, a coverup which itself constitutes an impeachable
crime.
At the same
time that the full exposure of the Anglo-Saudi global terror machine is the top
priority, it is also high time that a thorough probe of the criminal misconduct
of the FBI be undertaken. The last time that Congress seriously looked into the
abuses of power by the FBI, was back in the 1970s, when the Pike and Church
committees in Congress, the Rockefeller Commission, and a Joint Congressional
Inquiry into the Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinations, found the
FBI guilty of widespread abuses of power, including illegal spying on American
citizens.
The
long-delayed probe of Anglo-Saudi terrorism will also unravel a longstanding
British penetration of U.S. national security institutions, which has drawn the
United States into British colonial adventures around the globe, particularly in
the Arab and Islamic world, that have transformed the U.S.A. into a hate object
for some of the very people who previously saw the U.S. as the role model for
liberation from the yoke of colonial repression and looting.
A Hundred-Year Marriage
While British
domination over the Persian Gulf region dates back to the 18th Century, when the
ports of the Gulf were the way-stations and security outposts of the British
East India Company's vital trade routes to the Indian Subcontinent, a marriage
between the British and Saudi monarchies was forged. This took place in the
immediate aftermath of World War I, when the Ottoman Empire was dissolved, and
the British and French divided the Middle East under the Sykes-Picot
treaty.
In 1921,
British Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill had the following words of praise
for the House of Saud in remarks delivered before the British House of Commons.
They are, he said,
"austere, intolerant, well-armed, and bloodthirsty, and that they hold it as an article of duty, as well as faith, to kill all who do not share their opinions and to make slaves of their wives and children. Women have been put to death in Wahhabi villages for simply appearing in the streets. It is a penal offence to wear a silk garment. Men have been killed for smoking a cigarette."
Churchill, in
conclusion, praised King Ibn Saud for his unswerving loyalty to
Britain.
From 1917-53,
the year King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud died, British Intelligence's man on the scene
was Harry St. John Philby, the legendary "Arabist" and father of the
triple-agent Kim Philby. According to British historian Mark Curtis, the elder
Philby's assignment was to
"consult with the Foreign Office over ways to consolidate the rule and extend the influence of Ibn Saud."
In 1973, in
the immediate aftermath of the breakup of the Bretton Woods fixed-exchange-rate
system, the British government forged a strategic investment partnership with
the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, that also merged Anglo-Saudi geopolitical
objectives. In a series of high-level diplomatic exchanges between 1973 and
1975, culminating in an October 1975 meeting between then-Crown Prince Fahd and
Queen Elizabeth II, London became the financial center for the Saudi oil empire.
"Former" British SAS commandos were deployed in large numbers into Saudi Arabia
to train the National Guard, and to establish direct control over the security
mechanisms protecting the Saudi Royals.
1975 was also
the year that British Intelligence's Dr. Bernard Lewis was permanently
redeployed to the United States. While teaching at Princeton University, Lewis
became the leading Middle East policy advisor to a host of American national
security policymakers, including Zbigniew Brzezinski and Dick Cheney. Prominent
American neoconservatives of the last 30-plus years, including Michael Ledeen
and Harold Rhode, were parrots for what came to be known as the "Bernard Lewis
Plan." The essence of the plan was for Western powers to support the spread of
Islamic fundamentalism across the southern tier of the Soviet Union, from the
Caucasus, to Central Asia, to the western provinces of China.
The Afghan
mujahideen project, under which Britain, the United States, and Saudi Arabia
poured hundreds of billions of dollars in arms into the hands of Wahhabi and
Salafist "freedom fighters" battling to drive the Soviet Army out of Afghanistan
between 1979 and 1990, directly spawned al-Qaeda, the Afghan Taliban, the Libyan
Islamic Fighting Group, and scores of other radical jihadist terror
fronts.
Al-Yamamah
The
Anglo-Saudi alliance—and joint sponsorship of global terrorism—entered a new
phase in 1985, with the "Al-Yamamah" ("The Dove") oil-for-arms deal between
London and Riyadh. The deal was brokered by Prince Bandar bin-Sultan, the
longtime Saudi Ambassador in Washington, and the son of Saudi Arabia's Defense
Minister Prince Sultan.
As
EIR revealed in an exclusive exposé,[1]
the Al-Yamamah deal established an offshore black operations fund worth hundreds
of billions of dollars, skimmed from the lucrative sales of Saudi oil on the
world spot market. Saudi princes pocketed tens of billions of dollars in
kickbacks from the deal, which continues to this day, despite major corruption
probes in Britain and the United States in the last decade.
In a
revealing authorized biography of Prince Bandar, Anthony Simpson boasted,
"Although Al-Yamamah constitutes a highly unconventional way of doing business, its lucrative spin-offs are the by-products of a wholly political objective: a Saudi political objective and a British political objective."Al-Yamamah is, first and foremost, a political contract. Negotiated at the height of the Cold War, its unique structure has enabled the Saudis to purchase weapons from around the globe to fund the fight against Communism. Al-Yamamah money can be found in the clandestine purchase of Russian ordnance used in the expulsion of Qadaffi's troops from Chad. It can also be traced to arms bought from Egypt and other countries, and sent to the Mujahideen in Afghanistan fighting the Soviet occupying forces."
Al-Yamamah
funds not only armed the Afghan mujahideen and bankrolled several African coups;
payoffs from the British arms cartel BAE Systems to Prince Bandar, laundered
from the Bank of England through Saudi Embassy bank accounts at Riggs National
Bank in Washington, found their way directly into the hands of at least two of
the 9/11 hijackers, Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdar. The two San Diego-based
hijackers were bankrolled and protected by two agents of the Saudi General
Intelligence Directorate (GID), Osama Basnan and Omar al-Bayoumi. The men
received between $50,000 and $72,000 from Prince Bandar during the period that
the 9/11 terrorists were under their sponsorship.
When the
Joint Congressional Inquiry staff probing the security failures leading to 9/11
unearthed the money trail from Bandar to the terrorists, and included it in a
28-page chapter in their final report, President George W. Bush ordered the
entire 28 pages redacted from the report and placed under national security
seal.
Right up to
the present, President Barack Obama has maintained the coverup of the
Anglo-Saudi hand behind the financing of 9/11.
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