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 ! 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. ! ! 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. http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20150922