September 22-23, 2015 -- The two Reagans who
helped give birth to Al Qaeda/ISIL
The grandfather of the Afghan jihadist mujaheddin, which
begat Al Qaeda, which begat the Islamic State, gave the
nascent jihadist movement its first breath of life while
serving as Central Intelligence Agency station chief in
Islamabad during the Jimmy Carter administration. It was
station chief John J. Reagan who first met with Afghan
mujaheddin leaders in Pakistan in May 1979 and promised
them weapons and ammunition. However, Carter did not
authorize such transfers of weapons to the jihadists until July
1979, two months after Reagan took it upon himself to forge
an alliance with the Afghan mujaheddin fighting the Soviets
in Afghanistan. The two months of unauthorized CIA help to
the mujaheddin was arranged by Carter's national security
adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, an ardent anti-Soviet Polish
nationalist. Brzezinski was forced on to Carter as national
security adviser by the Rockefeller family-dominated
Trilateral Commission, of which Carter was a member, in
return for Trilateral support for Carter's 1976 election
campaign against Gerald Ford.
The fateful decision by John Reagan to link the CIA up with
the Afghan jihadists would serve as a blueprint for future CIA
endeavors that also lacked initial presidential authorization.
By the time President Ronald Reagan came to power in 1981,
the covert arms supply lines to the mujaheddin had already
been established. Reagan's CIA director William Casey was
able to build upon what the CIA had started in 1979. Casey
appointed a seasoned CIA paramilitary officer who was
involved in training Pakistani special forces, Robert Dunn, to
oversee the CIA's military operations in northwest Pakistan
and Afghanistan. Ronald Reagan considered the muhajeddin
"freedom fighters" in the mod of America's Revolutionary War
heroes and he welcomed them into the Oval Office.
The CIA decided to import radical jihadists from the Middle
East and North Africa into northwest Pakistan as mercenaries
to assist the Afghan mujaheddin in their war against the
Soviets. Much of the funding for this operation was "off-thebooks" because it was provided by Saudi Arabia and certain
wealthy Saudi families, including the Bin Laden construction
company family. One of their numbers, Osama Bin Laden,
eventually arrived in northwest Pakistan to take up arms with
the "Arab Afghans" fighting the Soviets and socialist and
quite secular Afghan government in Kabul. To coordinate the
arrival, training, and arming of the Arab Afghans was veteran
CIA field agent Milton Bearden. In an interview with the BBC,
Bearden said Casey told him, "'I want you to go to
Afghanistan, I want you to go next month and I will give you
what ever you need to win' . . . He gave me the Stinger
missiles and a billion dollars!"
Other CIA officials involved in supplying the mujaheddin -and the most radical elements at that -- with weapons and
other support included Charles Cogan, the director of
clandestine operations for the Near East and South Asia; U.S.
ambassador to Pakistan Ronald Spiers, the former Assistant
Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research under Carter
and, as former ambassador to Turkey, was one of a number
of CIA "spook" diplomats found in U.S. embassies; and John
Reagan's replacement as Islamabad CIA station chief,
Howard Hart.
Ironically, in 1999, Bearden argued against the Taliban
extraditing Osama Bin Laden to the United States to face
terrorism charges. His reasoning was interesting. Bearden
said, the Taliban "have no more obligation to extradite
Osama bin Laden to the United States than, say, the French
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do in the case of Ira Einhorn or the Israelis in the case of
Samuel Scheinbein -- both of whom are fugitives from
American justice in capital murder cases." Einhorn and
Scheinbein are American Jews who fled abroad to evade
justice for committing horrible murders in the United States.
One can only conclude that Bearden was worried about what
secrets Bin Laden might have spilled on the CIA's
involvement with the mujaheddin and the Arab jihadists if he
were to testify before a U.S. court.
Ronald Reagan meeting with Afghan mujaheddin in the Oval
Office in 1985. Reagan said the jihadist extremists, who he
called "gentlemen," were the "moral equivalent of America's
founding fathers." Many of these Afghans would later ally
with the Taliban, which gave sanctuary to Al Qaeda. Through
Pakistan's Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI), Reagan authorized
the mujaheddin to receive 1000 tons of weapons and
ammunition per week.
Eventually, some of the Arab Afghans left Afghanistan and
returned to their native Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Libya,
Algeria, Tunisia, and Yemen and, with the exception of Saudi
Arabia, they took up arms against their own governments.
The Saudis paid off the mujaheddin veterans, including
Osama Bin Laden, not to attack the "kingdom," preferring
them to wage jihad in the name of the Wahhabi Islamic sect
against the United States, Russia, Syria, Egypt, Morocco, and
other countries. The Wahhabist jihadists also strictly avoided
attacking Israel or Israeli interests.
Today, many of the veteran Arab Afghan jihadists are fighting
as senior field commanders for the Islamic State of Iraq and
the Levant (ISIL) and Al Qaeda in Syria, Libya, and Yemen
armed with weapons provided by the CIA, now under the
directorship of the pro-Saudi and pro-Israeli John O.
Brennan.
Brennan got his start in Langley under Brzezinski and Casey
and as a fluent speaker of Arabic, courtesy of a CIA
scholarship at the American University of Cairo, he helped
recruit Arabs for the Afghan battlefields. There is every
indication that Brennan made the Islamic hajj or "pilgrimage"
to Mecca while he served as CIA station chief in Riyadh.
Former FBI agent John Guandalo has stated that Brennan
converted from Roman Catholicism to Islam. When he was
sworn in as CIA director, Brennan opted to swear on a copy
of the U.S. Constitution, consciously avoiding the Bible, an
act that would be anathema to a Muslim. The website Snopes
categorically denies that Brennan made the hajj to Mecca or
converted to Islam. However, a well-placed source told WMR
that Snopes, like Wikipedia, receives ample support from the
CIA to ensure that information embarrassing to the CIA is
relegated to the category of unfounded "conspiracy theory."
From Afghanistan, where ISIL is now gaining ground in the
eastern province of
Nangarhar, to Syria, Libya, Egypt, and Iraq, the jihadists are
on the march. Some 4000 ISIL combat veterans are
estimated to have taken advantage of Europe's loosening of
border controls to either return to Europe from the
battlefields of Syria and Iraq or enter Europe for the first
time. Among the thousands of refugees pouring across the
Austrian border into Bavaria are some ISIL members who
reportedly have plans to exact the punishment of death on
the beer-drinking celebrants of Oktoberfest. Other young
jihadists from the Syrian and Iraqi battlefields have,
according to WMR's sources in Germany, raped young
German women. Some German families living near refugee
tent cities where rapes and muggings of Germans have been
reported are so concerned about their safety they are making
plans to flee to the United States or Canada.
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Angela Merkel sees herself as the next UN Secretary General
[left]. But many Germans see her hanging from a noose
[right] for opening up Germany to ISIL and Al Qaeda.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is responsible for the
massive influx of refugees by opening Germany's borders to
all refugees, including the estimated 4 million refugees from
Syria alone, is confident that her actions have placed her in
the lead to replace Ban Ki-moon as Secretary General of the
United Nations. Many Germans, however, would prefer to see
Frau Merkel swinging from a noose.
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