THE WORLD-WAR PROVOCATEUR PHENOMENON The Parallel Career Chronology of Napoleon, Hitler and Bin Laden A Historical Analysis CONTENTS Introduction Notes on Presentation Overview: Year 1 – Year 10: The Opening Revolution Year 11 – Year 19: Triumph and Consolidation Year 20 – Year 23: Precipitating the World War Year 24 – Year 27: World War Year 1 The start of THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, THE BROWN REVOLUTION AND THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION Year 2 The creation of THE JACOBIN PARTY, THE NAZI PARTY, THE AFGHAN MUJAHEDIN Year 5 ROBESPIERRE'S FRENCH REIGN OF TERROR COUP, HITLER'S BEER HALL PUTSCH AND THE BOMBING OF THE US MARINE BARRACKS IN LEBANON Year 8 The creation of NAPOLEON'S ARMY, HITLER'S SS AND AL QAEDA'S MILITARY WING Year 11 The start of THE NAPOLEONIC REVOLUTION, THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION Year 15 THE BURNING OF THE REICHSTAG AND THE FIRST WORLD TRADE CENTER BOMBING The declaration of THE CODE NAPOLEON AND HITLER'S ENABLING ACT Year 16 THE IMPERIAL CORONATION OF NAPOLEON, HITLER AND BIN LADEN Year 18 The declaration of NAPOLEON'S CONTINENTAL SYSTEM COALITION, HITLER'S AXIS POWERS ALLIANCE AND BIN LADEN'S RADICAL ISLAMIC WAR AGAINST AMERICA Year 20 NAPOLEON'S ERFURT CONFERENCE AND HITLER'S MUNICH CONFERENCE Year 21 THE ABROGATION OF POPE PIUS VII'S CONCORDAT WITH NAPOLEON AND POPE PIUS XII'S CONCORDAT WITH HITLER THE ASCENDANCY TO THE ALLIED LEADERSHIP OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON AND WINSTON CHURCHILL HITLER'S POLISH CAMPAIGN AND THE 9/99 MOSCOW APARTMENT BOMBINGS Years 22-24 THE BOMBING OF THE AMERICAN DESTROYERS USS KEARNEY AND USS COLE THE JUNE 22 INVASION OF RUSSIA BY NAPOLEON AND HITLER The start of THE GLOBAL ANTI-SEMITIC WAR OF HITLER (THE HOLOCAUST) AND BIN LADEN PEARL HARBOR AND 9/11 The start of THE WORLD WAR OF 1812, WORLD WAR II AND THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR THE BURNING OF MOSCOW, THE BATTLE OF STALINGRAD AND THE MOSCOW THEATRE SIEGE Year 25 THE FALL OF BENITO MUSSOLINI AND SADDAM HUSSEIN The start of THE ALLIED LIBERATION OF EUROPE FROM THE EMPIRE OF NAPOLEON AND HITLER Including . . . THE ALLIED INVASION OF NAPOLEONIC FRANCE AND NAZI FRANCE (D-DAY) Year 26 NAPOLEON'S FIRST ABDICATION AND THE BOMB PLOT TO KILL HITLER Year 27 THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO AND THE BATTLE OF BERLIN THE FALL OF NAPOLEON, HITLER AND BIN LADEN? The creation of THE CONCERT OF EUROPE AND UNITED NATIONS The start of THE "NEW WORLD ORDER" COUNTERREVOLUTION TO THE 3-YEAR-OLD WORLD WAR OF NAPOLEON, HITLER AND BIN LADEN Conclusion References Introduction In all of recorded history only three men have willfully provoked the planetary emergency known as a world war. At each of these pivotal moments humanity stood shocked as an upstart warlord struck out to conquer the world. Employing the modernage capacity for globally projected political power, he launched a revolutionary military campaign across three continents. Scoring devastating attacks against the world’s most powerful nations, this suicidal emperor provoked a global war that plunged civilization into a crisis of unprecedented gravity. During the pre-nuclear age, the rare distinction of world-war provocateur belonged solely to the two modern conquerors of continental Europe. During the postnuclear age, this abominable designation befits only one man, the leader of the invisible empire that has waged a successful 15-year terrorist campaign against the 21st century's lone superpower. This conspicuous parallelism between Napoleon Bonaparte, Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden underscores a far greater collective coincidence: the career timelines of history's three world-war provocateurs share in common a highly unique sequence of earthshaking milestones, constituting a parallel career that spans twenty-seven years. (The chart below displays the abbreviated parallel career chronology followed by the corresponding historical dates in the individual careers of Napoleon, Hitler and Bin Laden. The names of all twenty-one of the major events included in this abridged historical comparison are indexed following the chart.) Year 1 His career begins with the eruption of a great political Revolution 1789a 1919b 1979c Year 5 He helps lead a military Coup 1793d 1923e 1983f Year 11 His adopted nation falls into economic Depression 1799g 1929h 1989i Year 16 He founds an empire and crowns himself Emperor 1804j 1934k 1994l Year 23 Year 24 America is provoked into his war when U.K. and Russia ally v. him, starting a US Attacked 1811m 1941n 2001o World War 1812p 1942q 2002r Year 27 The war brings his career to an End 1815s 1945t 2005u Index: a. b. c. d. e. f. g. h. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION GERMANY’S BROWN REVOLUTION THE GLOBAL ISLAMIC REVOLUTION THE FRENCH REIGN OF TERROR HITLER’S BEER HALL PUTSCH THE BOMBING OF THE US MARINE BARRACKS IN LEBANON* THE FRENCH DEPRESSION OF 1799 THE GREAT DEPRESSION i. THE SOVIET-AFGHAN DEPRESSION OF 1989 j. NAPOLEON'S IMPERIAL CORONATION k. HITLER’S FUHRER CORONATION l. BIN LADEN’S CALIPH CORONATION m. THE BRITISH NAVAL SIEGE OF THE U.S. MERCHANT MARINE n. THE PEARL HARBOR ATTACK o. THE 9/11 ATTACK p. THE WORLD WAR OF 1812 q. r. s. t. u. WORLD WAR II “THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR” NAPOLEON’S PERMANENT EXILE ON ST. HELENA HITLER’S DEATH IN BERLIN BIN LADEN’S PERMANENT EXILE IN ABBOTTABAD WHEN HIS COMMAND OF AL QAEDA WAS USURPED BY HIS TOP DEPUTY, AYMAN Al-ZAWAHIRI OF MAHDI (EGYPT) From the World War of 1812 to Pearl Harbor and WWII to the 9/11 War, the parallel career chronology of Napoleon Bonaparte, Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden demonstrates the double recurrence of a very specific path to world war. Although they were born into different cultures at different periods during the modern age, each of the three world-war provocateurs pursued this same fundamental career. In a highly distinctive pattern, each man created the planet’s most feared revolutionary army, forged his own militaristic empire, invaded the world's largest empire and besieged its capital city. During the climactic 24th year of his 27-year career, his military adventurism finally instigated a world war involving the era's leading powers, including Great Britain, the United States and Russia. Year 1 – Year 10: The Opening Revolution Year 11 – Year 19: Triumph and Consolidation Year 20 – Year 23: Precipitating the World War Year 24 – Year 27: World War Collectively, this twice-repeated quest for global domination through world war constitutes a highly improbable and momentous coincidence. The concise set of examples above represents only a fraction of the famous geopolitical events from the past two centuries included in the parallel career chronology. This is, in fact, an astronomically improbable coincidence. The consequential importance of the overarching coincidence is perhaps most lucidly demonstrated by one particular epochal grouping of these historical cross-comparisons, a highly specific, recurrent sequence of four distinctly unique types of geopolitical revolutions. Year 1 Year 11 Year 24 Year 27 The Revolution of Twin Republics 1789a 1919b 1979c The Revolution from Economic Collapse 1799d 1929e 1989f The World War Revolution The CounterRevolution to the World War 1815j 1945k 2005l 1812g 1942h 2002i Index: a. b. c. d. e. f. g. h. i. j. k. l. THE ANTI-MONARCHIAL REVOLUTION FOR A DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC (THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA) THE ANTI-VERSAILLES-DICTAT REVOLUTION IN GERMANY AND ITALY THE ANTI-SUPERPOWER ISLAMIC REVOLUTION IN IRAN AND AFGHANISTAN NAPOLEON'S BRUMAIRE REVOLUTION THE GREAT DEPRESSION REVOLUTION THE POST-COLD WAR REVOLUTION THE WORLD WAR OF 1812 WORLD WAR II “THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR” THE POST-NAPOLEONIC REVOLUTION OF THE CONCERT OF EUROPE THE POST-WWII REVOLUTION OF THE ATOMIC AGE (THE UNITED NATIONS AND THE COLD WAR) THE ANTI-AMERICAN REVOLUTION FOR A RADICAL ISLAMIC REPUBLIC IN THE MIDDLE EAST Constructed on the pillars of these twelve earth-shaking geopolitical revolutions, this seemingly miraculous coincidence involves three of the most pivotal eras in modern history. As if to emphasize each man's dominance over the eventual course of human history during his respective age, the parallel revolutionary-era chronology precisely spans the timeframes of the parallel career chronology of Napoleon, Hitler and Bin Laden, from Year 1 to Year 27. Although none of these men initiated the 27-year age of revolution in which he lived, his nation served as its perennial epicenter and he would come to superimpose his 27-year career over it and eventually emerge as both its most famous revolutionary and its most notorious warmonger. On the battlefield of his nation, Napoleon, Hitler and Bin Laden each entered the centuries-old competition for world domination between the traditional European seat of global hegemony, Great Britain, and (the 19th century political philosopher Alexis de) Tocqueville's rising superpowers, America and Russia. Set within this central geopolitical conflict during an era of global revolution, Napoleon, Hitler and Bin Laden each led humanity into the unprecedented catastrophe of his world war by following the extraordinarily detailed course of the parallel career chronology. What is the nature of this anomalous connection between history's world-war provocateurs? How can understanding Bin Laden's ominous connection with Adolf Hitler's messianic megalomania help to end the war he started? Notes on Presentation The central purpose of this historical comparison is to illustrate the highly precise repetition of an extraordinarily unique warpath that unleashed each of the three intentionally provoked world wars. This thrice-occurred warpath is recounted through a narrative chronology of twenty-five major parallel milestones. On Structure Each of the book’s twenty-five chapters illuminates one of the major parallelisms through the succession of four very similar color-coded narratives that describe the relevant details from: 1) the parallel career, 2) Napoleon's career, 3) Hitler's career, and 4) Bin Laden's career. To facilitate lucid cross-comparison of the three historical examples, each narrative is divided into a bulleted list of constituent sub-parallels (a),b),c), …), detailed sub-plots that include specific countries, political scenarios and military tactics. Descriptions of historical events that require elaboration on certain details are supplemented with indented explanatory notes (1., 2., 3., ...) following the subparallel. These indented notes are intended only to clarify the adjoining comparisons and do not constitute additional parallels. Readers who accept a given historical parallel without contention need not read accompanying explanatory notes to understand adequately the comparison. On Reading Unlike traditional historical accounts that only offer one continuously flowing narrative for the reader to pursue from start to finish, the seamlessly interwoven format of these four narratives allows readers to choose from a variety of avenues. 1. To read in a manner that will accentuate the parallelisms, one can simply read this comparative history in the traditional way, “from cover to cover”. This involves proceeding from one parallel event to the next, essentially reading all four narratives at once. 2. To read in a manner that will most emphasize the parallelisms, one can proceed by reading the first single sub-parallel from the bulleted description of the parallel career, and then (before reading the rest of the chapter’s parallel event) reading the corresponding sub-parallel from Napoleon's career, then Hitler's career and finally Bin Laden's career. One can then return to the parallel career narrative and proceed to read the next sub-parallel, and so on. 3. To read in a manner that emphasizes the individual histories (at the expense of the comparative history), one can read an entire single narrative at a time, reading continuously the parallel career, and then reading Napoleon's career, then Hitler's career and finally Bin Laden's career. 4. To read in a manner that includes only the parallel narrative (the historical anomaly) and not the individual histories (the proof), one can completely read the parallel career and only refer to the individual careers for elaboration on people or events of interest (itemized in the table of contents). 5. To skim: Although the purpose of this analysis is to depict the collective parallelism of the three careers, some readers might prefer to overlook many of these details in order to read select chapters that encompass historical events of interest. On Terminology In recognition that the parallel story applies to all three men, the name "Napoleon / Hitler / Bin Laden" is used to refer to the protagonist in the parallel career. In recognition that each of these three men provoked a world war against the same international coalition of the world's most powerful empires, including the leading Western empire and Russia, the parallel career description refers to this war coalition as the "Allies". In each case, the leading Western empire commanded a precursor coalition of "Allies" that waged war against Napoleon's / Hitler's / Bin Laden's revolutionary nation prior to the advent of the world war. Although the coalition's membership was significantly smaller before its recasting in world war, the parallel career narrative consistently refers to this alliance by the same name, the “Allies”. The year (yr) is the primary timeframe within which the parallel career chronology compares individual events. However, in some instances the parallel events occur over shorter timeframes, occurring on the same month or even day. When the parallel occurs within the same half of the year, the terms "early" and "late" designate the "first" and "second" halves of the year in question, respectively. On Unlisted Parallels The following comparative historical analysis includes the majority, but not all, of the individual events in the parallel career chronology. In a few instances of highly detailed parallelism, like the Pearl Harbor - 9/11 comparison, only two of the three parallel historical events are described. Nevertheless, a noteworthy third parallel event has been identified in all but three of the twenty-five crosscomparisons. The chapter titles only display the names of the famous historical events included in the parallel, even though other less well-known historical events may also be involved in the comparison. Year 1 The start of: THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, THE BROWN REVOLUTION AND THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION a) Geopolitical Revolution: In Year 1, one of the great geopolitical revolutions of the modern age began, with fronts in America, Europe and the Middle East. This global revolution was initiated by the birth and coalescence of "fraternal twin" revolutionary epicenters in Year 1. b) The revolution was triggered in one of these epicenters by a meeting in Versailles, France, as a violent reaction to both the economic injustice of a leading world power and the excesses of the French government. c) The revolutionary mass political movement in this epicenter nation employed mob warfare in the capital city to topple the preexisting monarchy in Year 1 and soon after found a new democratic republic. d) This movement quickly coalesced into an armed resistance against a belligerent foreign empire that was invading the post-monarchial revolutionary country in order to establish a dictatorship. e) At the onset of the geopolitical revolution in Year 1, Napoleon / Hitler / Bin Laden began his bellicose political-military career by fomenting the revolution as both an army propaganda officer and a leader of his revolutionary political party. Beginning as a minor force in the revolution, Napoleon's / Hitler's / Bin Laden's revolutionary career climaxed in Year 24 with his provocation of a world war involving America, Russia and Great Britain. a) In 1789, one of the great geopolitical revolutions of the modern age began. The global anti-monarchial revolution for a democratic republic was initiated in 1789 by the birth and coalescence of Western "fraternal twin" revolutionary epicenters, the French Revolution and the creation of the United States of America. 1. In the Middle East in 1789, the dominant Ottoman Empire initiated the Westernization of the region when the new Ottoman emperor Selim III, the first modern reformer among the sultans, rose to power and implemented a reformist movement heavily influenced by the contemporary French Revolution. b) The French Revolution was triggered in 1789 by the first meeting of the French Estates General in Versailles, France. This monarchial concession for democractic reform set in motion the mass civil unrest that climaxed when Parisian insurgents seized the Bastille later in the year and formed a new government. Through this conduit of events, the French Revolution formed as a violent reaction to the excessive greed of the French monarchy of Louis XVI in the face of countrywide poverty. 1. Across the Atlantic Ocean in 1789, after thirteen years of gestation the American Revolution gave birth to its experiment in democratic government. In a foreshadowing of the French Revolution, the 1776 American Revolution was catalyzed in the year of its inception by a meeting in Versailles, France, when Benjamin Franklin, the American revolutionary ambassador to France, forged a war pact with the French King Louis XV guaranteeing vital French military assistance for the American war effort against the British Empire1. This dramatic change in America's prospects for victory in the war encouraged increased American popular support for the revolutionary war that helped to catapult the mass movement from its 1776 platform to the 1789 government of the United States. Additionally, the American Revolution formed as a violent reaction to the economic inequity of British colonial rule and the warmongering excesses of France, which supported the American Revolution against their common British enemy and risked the creation of a powerful nation that would gain control of France's North America colonies and eventually rival France as a leading world power. c) The French revolutionary mass political movement employed Parisian mob warfare to topple the preexisting monarchy of King Louis XVI in 1789 and soon after found the First French Republic. d) The French revolutionary movement quickly coalesced into an armed resistance against the British Empire that was invading France with support for foreignbacked royalists who actively sought to reestablish the monarchy. e) At the outset of the French Revolution in 1789, Napoleon began his bellicose career as a militant revolutionary leader by fomenting the revolutionary propaganda in Corsica as both a radicalized army officer and a local leader of 1 Interestingly, just as Benjamin Franklin's Versailles meeting catalyzed the American mass movement that culminated in the 1789 American political revolution, in this same meeting Benjamin Franklin also catalyzed the French ideological mass movement of enlightened democratic government that culminated in the 1789 French political revolution. the Jacobin political party. Beginning as a minor force in 1789, Napoleon's career climaxed with his provocation of the 19th century's world war, the World War of 1812, involving America, Russia and Great Britain. a) In 1919, one of the great geopolitical revolutions of the modern age began. The post-WWI global revolution was initiated in 1919 by the birth and coalescence of Western "fraternal twin" revolutionary epicenters, including the American Interim Isolationism Revolution and multiple European revolutions. The most immediately influential of these constituent revolutions, the European foundation of the League of Nations, established a new world order that reorganized the international community into a parliamentary hierarchy led by the Western colonial powers. The promulgation of this New World Order in Europe in the form of the Versailles Dictat immediately triggered revolution in the other principle European epicenter. The German Revolution was in itself a multifaceted national revolution consisting of the Brown Revolution (complemented by its Italian counterpart, Mussolini's Fascist Revolution), the democratic Weimar Revolution and the nascent Communist International Revolution. Other notable fronts of the post-WWI revolution included: 1. Across the world in 1919, the post-WWI revolution spread to China when the Chinese "Com-Intern" (communist international) revolution began. Emerging as an anti-Western movement, the revolution coalesced after the victorious WWI Allies, an international coalition that included China, decreed that Japan be permitted to annex certain Chinese territory. 2. In the Middle East in 1919, the fall of the last great Muslim power, the Ottoman Empire, led to a League of Nations mandate that initiated the colonial reorganization of the region by the WWI victors. This reorganization precipitated three major political revolutions in the Middle East in 1919, 1) the Westernization revolution led by the establishment of Ataturk's first provisional government in the newly secular nation of Turkey, 2) the modern Zionist movement marked by the beginning of the post-Balfour wave of Jewish immigration to Palestine (the third Jewish Aliya) that was precipitated by the WWIvictors' recent Balfour Declaration that created a territorial partition for a Jewish state, and 3) the anti-colonial, anti-Zionist Islamic revolution led by widespread civil unrest against British colonial rule in Egypt by the nascent Muslim Brotherhood and against the Jewish immigration in Palestine by the first Palestinian National Conference and the future Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. The 1919 Zionist/antiZionist revolution marked the beginning of the modern JewishPalestinian conflict. b) The German Revolution was triggered by the country's loss in WWI that climaxed in the 1919 proclamation of the Treaty of Versailles, a harshly punitive dictat that crippled Germany with military impotence and economic enslavement. The multi-faceted German Revolution formed as a violent reaction to the economic inequity of the WWI victors (a maligned group associated with the scapegoat "Jewish Financiers" in Germany's virulently anti-Semitic press) and the excessive wrath of the French government that was enshrined in the Versailles Treaty. c) The German revolutionary mass political movement employed mob warfare in Berlin to topple permanently the preexisting monarchy of Kaiser Wilhelm II and found the new German Weimar Republic in 1919. This foundation was marked by the election of the new government and the promulgation of its commitment to Germany's WWI-surrender obligations embodied in the Versailles dictat. d) The German anti-Versailles revolution quickly coalesced into an armed resistance against a perceived invasion by Russian communists, French spies and the agents of Jewish financiers, all of which were widely viewed by the German public as aspiring to establish dictatorships. e) At the outset of the German Brown revolution in 1919, Hitler began his career as a militant revolutionary leader by fomenting the revolution in Munich as an army propaganda officer and then as a member of an obscure political party. Beginning as a minor force in 1919, Hitler's career climaxed in 1942 with his provocation of WWII, involving America, the Soviet Union and Great Britain. a) In 1979, one of the great geopolitical revolutions of the modern age began. The anti-superpower, global Islamic revolution was initiated in 1979 within the stateless nation of Radical Islam2 by the birth and coalescence of Islamic "fraternal twin" revolutionary epicenters, the Iranian Shiite Revolution and the Afghan Mujahedin Revolution. 2 Instead of the geographical contiguity of a traditional nation, Radical Islam is a globally dispersed, ideological nation that relies not on physical infrastructure but on the virtual infrastructure of information provided by the modern communications revolution. In this context, the events of the unfolding Year 1 Revolution for Bin Laden are not confined primarily to one country, but rather scattered across the world. 1. These two uproarious events respectively featured the first modern Islamist takeover of a major country and the first post-WWII invasion and occupation of a Muslim nation by a non-Muslim power. Arising from these two respective wars against the American and Russian superpowers, the global Islamic Revolution was founded as a resistance to these two empires that were notorious for establishing dictatorships to administer Muslim nations. The two principle financiers of the revolution, the fundamentalist governments of Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shiite Iran, would quickly export this revolution globally by using oil wealth to fund radical Islamic movements worldwide. Other notable fronts of this overarching Islamic revolution in 1979 included: 1. In Egypt and Saudi Arabia, America's two principle Muslim allies, anti-American, Islamic fundamentalist revolutions erupted in response to the creation of the U.S.-backed Egyptian peace treaty with Israel. Militants emerging from these two Arab camps would unite to form Al Qaeda over the next decade.i In Egypt, this movement would soon culminate in the assassination of President Anwar Sadat and the spawning of a new era of Egyptian-based terrorism targeting the repressive U.S.-backed government. In Saudi Arabia, the U.S.-backed government faced the biggest crisis in Saudi history when a radical Islamist coup launched a violent rebellion at Islam's holiest site. Challenging the government's crucial status as a reliable guardian of Islam's homeland, the militants seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca and triggered the murder of hundreds of civilians. In a bid to appease the fundamentalist grievances that had provoked this rebellion, the Saudi government attempted to "win over" the radical Islamic revolution by becoming its foremost champion, empowering the Saudi religious police (a predecessor of the Taliban religious police) and initiating the expansion of funding for the global dissemination of the radical Islamic ideology of Wahhabismii. 2. In Europe, widespread Muslim immigrant communities quickly transplanted this religious-political revolution throughout the continent. There it has sprouted into peaceful movements to pacify European foreign policy in the Muslim world, more radical movements to replace European government with Islamic holy law, as well as violent terrorist campaigns. 3. In America, the Islamic revolution took hold as the United States became entrenched as both a combatant against the Iranian Revolution and a supporter of the neighboring Afghan Revolution. The American superpower's sponsorship of revolutionary Islamic fundamentalist “jihad” against the Soviet superpower in Central Asia throughout the next decade would, along with the sponsorship of America's top Middle Eastern ally Saudi Arabia, foment the global Islamic revolution both inside America and worldwide. b) The Iranian Revolution was triggered by Ayatollah Khomeni's coup plot orchestrated from his sanctuary in Versailles, France. On Khomeni's fundamentalist Islamic platform, the Iranian Revolution formed as a violent reaction to the exorbitant greed of the U.S.-backed Iranian Shah in the face of countrywide poverty. Additionally, Khomeni's coup represented an opportunistic reaction to the excessively liberal French government, responsible for the asylum of Khomeni and other foreign militants. c) The Iranian revolutionary mass political movement employed mob warfare in Tehran to topple the preexisting monarchy of the Iranian Shah and found the new Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979. d) The Iranian revolutionary movement quickly coalesced into an armed resistance against the covert American efforts, including Saddam Hussein's invasion, to reestablish the monarchial dictatorship of the Shah (or else subordinate Iran to the new U.S.-backed Iraqi dictatorship). Similarly, the Afghan revolutionary movement quickly coalesced into a concerted armed resistance against the Soviet efforts to subordinate Afghanistan to the Soviet dictatorship. e) At the onset of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, Bin Laden began his career as a guerrilla revolutionary leader by fomenting the militant Islamic revolution that was repelling the Soviet invaders in Afghanistan. At first, his influence on the revolution was confined to his services as a fund-raiser, propaganda officer and liason for the Saudi-backed mujahedin. Beginning as a relatively minor force in 1979, Bin Laden's revolutionary career climaxed in 2002 when he provoked the current “World War on Terror”, involving America, Russia and Great Britain Year 2 The creation of: THE JACOBIN PARTY, THE NAZI PARTY AND THE AFGHAN MUJAHEDIN a) In January of Year 2, the terrorist political party that Napoleon / Hitler / Bin Laden would take over was created, quickly evolving from a small club into a totalitarian mass movement. b) His party's masterful propaganda machine rallied popular support by championing both socialist redistribution of wealth and adamant opposition to foreign encroachment in the revolutionary nation. c) His party later became infamous for supporting a terrorist militia from which he would be forced to distance himself publicly in order to salvage his reputation. d) Over the next decade he used his party to arrogate leadership of the revolution in order to forge a belligerent, corrupt police state that would actually subvert the party's goals of egalitarianism and security from foreign invaders. a) In January of 1790, the French Jacobin political party that Napoleon would come to dominate was created, quickly evolving from a small club into a totalitarian mass movement. b) The Jacobin's masterful propaganda machine emphasized two popularly supported pillars of the party platform, socialist redistribution of wealth and adamant opposition to the invading armies and agents of the European alliance against Revolutionary France. c) The Jacobin party later became infamous for its support of a terrorist militia, responsible for many of the excesses of the 1793 Reign of Terror and subsequent political terrorism, from which Napoleon would be forced to distance himself publicly in order to salvage his reputation. 1. Following the Reign of Terror Napoleon helped to purge certain Jacobin leaders in a bid to publicly separate himself from the party’s terrorist excesses. However, the party was instrumental in aiding his rise to power, offering him his first major military promotions and later fomenting the political chaos that would sweep Napoleon into the highest office. As head of state, Napoleon demonstrated his party loyalty by enacting controversial legal and educational reforms advocated by the Jacobins. d) Over the next decade, Napoleon used the Jacobin party to arrogate leadership of the French Revolution in order to forge a belligerent, corrupt police state that would actually subvert the party's goals of egalitarianism and security from foreign invaders. a) In January of 1920, the German Nazi party (christened in name a few months later) that Hitler would take over was created when Hitler was appointed the propaganda officer of the original Munich political club and proceeded to recreate the ragtag, beer-hall clique into a radically new, vibrant political machine. Hitler quickly organized the party's first mass meeting and collaborated on the creation of the political platform, giving birth to the Nazi's totalitarian mass movement. b) The Nazi's masterful propaganda machine emphasized two popularly supported pillars of the party platform, national economic socialism along with adamant opposition to both the French military occupation of Germany and the Allied enforcement of the exorbitantly punitive Treaty of Versailles. c) The Nazi party later became infamous for its support of the SA terrorist militia from which Hitler would be forced to distance himself publicly in order to salvage his reputation. 1. Nazi propaganda increasingly portrayed the terrorist mob tactics of the SA as the excesses of overly zealous party members whom Hitler could not control. Hitler solidified this image after seizing national power by executing the SA’s leader, his former political mentor, and dissolving the terrorist militia. In reality, however, the SA consistently served as a critical tool in creating the political chaos necessary for Hitler’s rise to power. As Germany’s head of state, Hitler would eventually display his favoritism of terrorist tactics and the most extreme proposals of the Nazi party’s platform. d) Over the next decade, Hitler used the Nazi party to arrogate leadership of the German Revolution in order to forge a belligerent, corrupt police state that would actually subvert the party's goals of egalitarianism and security from foreign invaders. a) In January of 1980, the Azzam party of Arab Afghan mujahedin that Bin Laden would take over was created by his mentor, Abdullah Azzam, in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan days earlier. Bin Laden's campaigning for foreign funds and recruits quickly helped to transform his mujahedin party from a small, disorganized group into a leader of the Arab Afghan movement, the progenitor of Al Qaeda's "Islamo-fascist" mass movement. b) The Azzam party's masterful propaganda machine emphasized two popularly supported pillars of the party platform, adamant opposition to the Soviet invasion and the importance of charity for the poor in the war-ravaged country (a resonate message that was couched in a call for the eventual establishment of a theocratic government in Afghanistan to care for social welfare). c) The Azzam party, from which Al Qaeda would spawn, later became infamous for its support of the terrorist militia of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the most notoriously brutal of the Afghan warlords. Additionally, the party became reputed for training foreign radical Islamists in asymmetric, insurgent warfare tactics used against fellow Muslims inside Afghanistan and abroad. Bin Laden would be forced to distance himself publicly from his association with Hekmatyar and other terrorist groups in order to salvage his reputation. 1. Following Hekmatyar’s infamous slaughter of civilians in the Afghan capital during the early 1990s, Bin Laden ceased funding his militia and eventually turned to fund its enemy, the Taliban. After excesses in Egypt by his top lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahiri, Bin Laden also sharply curtailed funding for his Egyptian-based organizationiii. Nevertheless, during the two decades following the establishment of Arab Afghan training camps that Bin Laden continuously funded, tens of thousands of militants would filter through and then disperse globally to engage in “jihad” terrorist campaigns against both Muslims and non-Muslims. As he consolidated his rule of the Afghan Arab movement in the mid-1990’s, Bin Laden would increasingly display his predilection for terrorist attacks against fellow Muslims inside Afghanistan and abroad. d) Over the next decade Bin Laden used the Azzam party, along with his own personal fundraising capabilities, to arrogate leadership of the Arab Afghan Mujahedin Revolution in order to forge the virtual police state of Al Qaeda and the future police state of the Taliban. Both of these belligerent, corrupt states actually subverted the party's goals of egalitarianism and security from foreign invaders (mainly by intentionally provoking a world war that has gravely imperiled the two objectives). Year 5 ROBESPIERRE'S REIGN OF TERROR COUP, HITLER'S BEER HALL PUTSCH AND THE BOMBING OF THE US MARINE BARRACKS IN LEBANON a) In the fall of Year 5, Napoleon / Hitler / Bin Laden debuted on the international scene by helping lead a terrorist military coup d' etat to unseat his nation's revolutionary regime. b) The public casus belli for the coup was the regime's complicity in a widely despised foreign military occupation of part of the revolutionary nation. This foreign occupation by a member-nation of the Allies had begun in the previous year, Year 4, under the auspices of the leading Western empire. c) Napoleon / Hitler / Bin Laden shared credit for the coup with a senior partner who was one of the most famous leaders in the nation.While failing to establish a lasting regime, the coup forced the Allied military occupation to withdraw from the nation in the following year. d) Marking his first victory over the world's most powerful nation, the coup served as: (1) a major catalyst for his political career, (2) the germination of a cult following of the messianic tyrant, and (3) a foreshadowing of both the innovative military tactics and terrorist machinations that he would employ to seize control of the revolutionary nation and provoke a world war. e) In early Year 6, Napoleon / Hitler / Bin Laden was promoted as a preeminent rising star in the most powerful branch of the revolutionary nation's military because of his success through the previous year's coup at evicting the foreign military occupation. Just as he owed his early stardom to the revolutionary military, this belligerent national institution would years later lend the crucial political support that assisted him to absolute power. This sponsorship included promulgation in Year 16 of a binding military oath of allegiance to him as the new emperor. f) In Year 6, Napoleon / Hitler / Bin Laden? was imprisoned by the revolutionary government in a security crackdown on his party for its treasonous coup. His own value to the revolutionary army earned him a lenient sentence and a premature release within the year. His party, however, would have to endure a two-year ban from participation in the government before reemerging as a public political force. a) In the fall of 1793, Napoleon debuted on the international scene by helping lead the Jacobin "Reign of Terror" coup, a terrorist military coup d' etat to unseat the French Revolutionary government. 1. As a Jacobin leader widely seen as successor to the infamous partyleader Maximillian Robespierre, Napoleon provided crucial support to the nascent Jacobin dictatorship with his military victory in the Siege of Toulon where he defeated the 18th century superpower Great Britain. Besides the momentous victory at Toulon, Napoleon further secured his political mentor's successful coup with his military victory at Marseilles, and again with a victory at Avignon three days before Robespierre joined the ruling Committee for Public Safety. In recognition of this instrumental support, upon seizing dictatorial powers Robespierre rewarded his protégé with a rapid series of military promotions, from Captain to Major to Brigadier General to Commander of the Interior Artillery, including the command of operations planning for the French army in Italy. b) The public casus belli for the "Reign of Terror" coup was the French Revolutionary regime's complicity in the widely despised Allied military occupation of part of the French Revolutionary nation. This foreign occupation had begun in the previous year, 1792, under the coordination of the leading Western empire, the British Empire. c) Napoleon shared partial credit for the coup with his senior partner, Maximillian Robespierre, whose orchestration of the "Terror" regime established himself as the French head of state until his trial and execution in the following year. While failing to establish a lasting political regime, Napoleon's military victory under Robespierre's auspices gave the French army the momentum and strategic positioning to force the Allied occupation to withdraw from France in the following year. d) Marking his first victory over the world's most powerful nation, (1) Napoleon's "salvation" of the revolutionary nation from the British invasion in the context of the Jacobin coup catalyzed his political career from obscurity to national acclaim. (2) During the coup, the Jacobins enacted the "Cult of the Fatherland", outlawing religion in favor of the new patriotism that Napoleon would combine with his spectacular military legacy as France's savior to create his own nationalist cult movement. (3) Napoleon's critical support for his mentor's French Reign of Terror foreshadowed both the innovative military tactics, such as concentrated artillery fire, and the Jacobin terrorist machinations that he would eventually use to seize control of the French government and provoke the World War of 1812. e) On February 25-26 of 1794, Napoleon was promoted as a preeminent rising star in the most powerful branch of France's military, the French revolutionary army, because of his invaluable leadership during Robespierre's budding coup in the repulsion of the British invasion at Toulon, along with other related military victories. Just as Napoleon owed his early stardom to the French revolutionary army, this belligerent national institution would years later lend the crucial political support to its then-supreme commander Napoleon to assist him to absolute power. This sponsorship included both aid for his rise to head of state in the 1799 Brumaire Coup and promulgation in 1804 of a binding military oath of allegiance to Napoleon as the new French emperor. 1. The ensuing rapid series of Napoleon's military promotions climaxed two years later with his appointment as Commander of the Artillery for the French Army in Italy, the beginning of his Caesar-like imperial military crusade that would sweep him into the office of French head of state. f) In 1794, Napoleon was imprisoned by the revolutionary government in a security crackdown on his Jacobin party for its treasonous Robespierre "Reign of Terror" Coup. Napoleon's value to the embattled French revolutionary army as a top artillery commander earned him a lenient sentence and a premature release within the year. The Jacobin party, however, would have to endure a two-year banishment from the government before reemerging as a public political force. a) In the fall of 1923, Hitler debuted on the international scene by helping to lead the Nazi Beer Hall Putsch, a terrorist military coup to unseat the German revolutionary government. b) The public casus belli for the Beer Hall Putsch coup was the German Weimar regime's complicity in the widely despised French military occupation of Germany's industrial region. This foreign occupation had begun in the previous year, 1922, with the French military mobilization under the concerned auspices of the leading Western empire, the British Empire. c) Hitler shared credit for the coup with a senior partner, national-celebrity German Field Marshall Ludendorf, the second highest-ranking officer in the German military. While failing to establish a lasting political regime, the national turmoil caused by the Beer Hall Putsch and Hitler's trial forced the Allied military occupation to withdraw from Germany in the following year. 1. Hitler's ability to ensnare the willing participation of this famed war leader proved instrumental in Hitler's publicity bid to make international headlines with his small, unknown party of political extremists. 2. This tumultuous coup so alarmed the Allies about the imminent collapse of the German government that they proposed the Dawes Plan, a relaxing of the harsh conditions of the Versailles Treaty. By the conditions of the Dawes Plan, in the year following Hitler's Putsch France withdrew its military occupation from Germany. d) Marking his first victory over the world's most powerful nation, (1) Hitler's successful opposition to the encroachment of Great Britain and the Allies inside Germany catalyzed his political career. (2) Based on this image as "Savior of the Fatherland", Hitler's masterful propaganda machine generated a nationalist cult following of the messianic leader. (3) Hitler's leadership of this conspicuously treacherous attempt to force the Bavarian government's capitulation at gunpoint foreshadowed the methods he would eventually use to seize control of the German government and provoke WWII. In particular, Hitler displayed his characteristic proclivity for terrorism and innovative military tactics, including the use of modern communications to direct moboriented political violence. e) On February 25-26 of 1924, Hitler was unofficially promoted as a preeminent rising star in the most powerful branch of the enfeebled military of Weimar Germany, the political propaganda division, during the nationally publicized trial for his Beer Hall Putsch to evict the French occupation. Just as Hitler owed his early stardom to the German military, this belligerent national institution would years later lend the crucial political support that assisted him to absolute power. This sponsorship included both aid for his rise to head of state in the 1933 Nazi coup and promulgation in 1934 of a binding military oath of allegiance to Hitler as the new German emperor. 1. Amidst mass resurgence in conservative sentiment, Hitler's trial was performed before an openly sympathetic, military-backed court. In this context, Hitler was free to deliver his widely praised, nationalistic, grandstanding oratory that highlighted his personal role in the previous year's coup at pressuring the imminent eviction of the French military occupation from Germany's industrial region. Hitler's propaganda victory was solidified through the absolution of his coup by the sympathetic right-wing German government in the form of an extremely lenient jail sentence. When the French occupation did end later in 1924, Hitler was released to continue unofficially in his fifth year as a German military political propagandist on the foundation of his momentous victory for Germany over the Allied Treaty of Versailles. Based on Hitler's success in this office, the Nazis established a vital means for procuring the military's financial and political support. f) In 1924, Hitler was imprisoned by the German Weimar government in a security crackdown on his Nazi party for its treasonous "Beer Hall Putsch" coup. Hitler's own value to the politically enfeebled German army as a leading political propagandist earned him a lenient sentence and a premature release within the year. The Nazi party, however, would have to endure a two-year banishment from the government before reemerging as a public political force. a) In the fall of 1983, Bin Laden debuted on the international scene by helping to orchestrate the bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon. This terrorist military coup aimed to unseat both the U.S.-backed Lebanese government as well as the leadership inside Radical Islam that appeared to be faltering in the war against the American superpower. 1. This massive terrorist bombing was designed to expel the AmericanIsraeli occupation of Muslim Lebanon and deprive its Lebanese collaborators of support from the superpower expeditionary force. The attack killed over two hundred U.S. Marines, America's first modern experience with suicide bombing and Radical Islam's most lauded terrorist attack until 9/11. 2. Although the operation was effectively executed so as to leave no definitive evidence about the identities of its perpetrators, Bin Laden personally claimed responsibility for this one attack along with a series of confirmed Al Qaeda attacks in his 1996 "Declaration of Jihad". He reiterated this claim more directly in his last will and testament publicized in 2002iv. On the eve of President Bush's reelection in 2004, Bin Laden again insinuated this claim in his video message to America in which he recounts the 9/11 War's origin, the origin of his personal commitment to bomb American buildings, as well as the 1983 attack's casus belli: the 1982 destruction of Muslim buildings in Beirut by American warships. 3. In the context of Radical Islam's global revolution against the American-Israeli military occupation of Muslim lands, the Saudi Bin Laden's involvement in this terrorist bombing (foreshadowing the 9/11 attack) also constituted a coup against the revolution's leading nation, the super-rich, radical Islamic government of Saudi Arabia. Responding to the Saudi regime's acquiescence to the aggression in Lebanon by its superpower ally, Bin Laden's treasonous Lebanese coup threatened to disrupt (in the event of the public revelation of the Saudi role (most likely fundraising) in this terrorist plot) the vital U.S. support for the Saudi regime that sustained its tenuous rule throughout the previous four decades. b) The public casus belli for the coup was the complicity of the pro-U.S. regime in the widely despised American-Israeli military occupation of parts of Lebanon. This foreign occupation had begun under America's principal Middle Eastern ally, Israel, in the previous year, 1982. c) Bin Laden has shared credit for his unspecified involvement in the Beirut bombing with the joint Sunni/Shiite operation's alleged mastermind, the former head of Iranian Hezbollah's security service, Imad Mugniyah. While failing to install a radical Islamic government in Lebanon, the 1983 Beirut bombing coup forced the American-Israeli military occupation to withdraw from Lebanon in the following year. 1. Bin Laden later had a well-documented direct relationship with Mugniyahv. d) Marking his first victory over the American superpower and Israel, (1) the Beirut bombing that ousted the American peacekeeping force from Muslim Lebanon served as a major catalyst for Bin Laden's political career among those of Radical Islam who knew of his covert involvement. Bin Laden’s promotion to the top leadership of the Arab Afghan mujahedin in the following months demonstrated his rising reputation among his fellow revolutionaries. (2) While there is no published record of how Bin Laden's success in ending the AmericanIsraeli occupation of Lebanon engendered a cult following of the man, it can be inferred that this unprecedented victory for Radical Islam's revolutionary war against America and Israel served to germinate a cult following of the messianic tyrant. (3) Foreshadowing Bin Laden's machinations to seize control of Radical Islam's war and provoke the U.S.-led "Global War on Terror", the 1983 Beirut bombing demonstrated an earthshaking innovation in terrorist military tactics, the use of a stateless shadow empire to launch long-distance, mammoth terrorist bombings targeting the American superpower's premier buildings. e) In early 1984, Bin Laden was promoted as a preeminent rising star in the most powerful branch of Radical Islam's Saudi-dominated military, the financing and recruitment division. This promotion may have been due to his involvement in the terrorist bombing coup months earlier that was pressuring the imminent eviction of the American-Israeli occupation of Lebanon. Just as Bin Laden owed his early stardom to Radical Islam's Afghan army, this belligerent stateless institution (a loosely-knit group including the future Taliban, traditional Afghan warlords, foreign Afghan mujahedin, militant Islamic clerics around the world, and wealthy Saudi financiers) would years later lend the crucial political support that assisted him to absolute power. This sponsorship from key leaders within Radical Islam included the acquiescence to the 1994 promulgation of Al Qaeda's binding military oath of allegiance to Bin Laden as the new emperor of the Al Qaeda terrorist empire commanding Radical Islam’s war against America. 1. Most visibly, Bin Laden's 1984 promotion to the politico-military leadership of Radical Islam's Afghan war front included his appointment to the triumvirate leadership of the MAK (the Afghan Services Bureau), an affiliate of the Pakistani intelligence agency (ISI) dedicated to organizing, recruiting and financing the foreign Afghan mujahedin. As the latest incarnation of the Azzam party, the MAK represented the anti-Soviet campaign of the most famous Arab Afghan, the Islamic scholar Abdullah Azzam, and his star Saudi protégé. Bin Laden’s MAK posting served the war effort primarily as a propaganda and recuitment tool against the Soviets, publicizing a model leader of the international Islamic resistance, a pious Saudi “prince” who sacrificed his wealth to fulfill his religious obligation to defend Muslims besieged by a godless superpower. 2. Although the battlefield contribution of the foreign mujahedin soldiers to the anti-Soviet guerrilla resistance was negligible and often counterproductive, Arab financiers played a pivotal role in strengthening the resistance. In the capacity of a fundraiser for military, infrastructural and humanitarian development Bin Laden excelled as one of the war’s single greatest financiers. The richly connected Saudi was able to successfully filter Persian Gulf oil wealth from his family’s own multi-billion-dollar fortune, other wealthy private donors, Saudi charitable organizations, and Prince Turki alFaisal’s Saudi Intelligence (GID) Afghan fund (which itself matched dollar-for-dollar the U.S. government’s multi-billion-dollar funding for the “official” anti-Soviet resistance coordinated by Pakistani Intelligence (ISI)). 3. In addition to his offices as a recruiter and fundraiser, Bin Laden acted influentially as Prince Turki’s semi-official liason to the Afghan resistance. On the foundation of these three offices, Bin Laden was able to impose himself into the fourth job of organizing the war effort (particularly deciding the uses of funding and rallying Afghan warlords in the anti-Soviet resistance). Bin Laden even solidified his war record in the coming years with token battlefield experience commanding his own guerrilla army of Arab Afghans. Additionally, Bin Laden personally participated in the war as an engineer on a few of the projects that he was funding, famously operating his family’s bulldozers to build some of the key roads and bases that served as the vital pipeline for weapons and personnel into Afghanistan from Pakistan’s “jihad” sanctuary. In these multiple capacities, Bin Laden excelled from 1984 onward as one of the most prominent leaders of the Afghan mujahedinvi. f) (Due in part to the scarcity of public information on Bin Laden's involvement in the 1983 U.S. Marine barracks bombing, some elements of this sub-parallel cannot be confirmed for Bin Laden's career. The information that does exist describes a less refined, though still highly significant and improbable, parallelism in Year 6.) ??? In the wake of the Saudi government's scandalous discovery that this overly zealous top Saudi prince-ambassador had participated in the infamous 1983 U.S. Marine barracks bombing in Beirut, was Bin Laden's promotion months later to the MAK leadership an attempt by the Saudi government to monitor Bin Laden's activities and covertly confine him to his successful work in his official commission in Peshawar, Pakistan supporting the Afghan resistance to the Soviet invasion? Was this new office a prince's prison? Were his restrictions soon lifted because of his proven value to the Saudi-backed “jihad” effort in Afghanistan? Did the Saudi government secretly crackdown on the other Saudi conspirators involved in this radical Islamic attack on Saudi Arabia's superpower ally? Year 8 The creation of: NAPOLEON'S ARMY, HITLER'S SS AND AL QAEDA'S MILITARY WING a) In April of Year 8, Napoleon / Hitler / Bin Laden created a private army loyal to him above all other military or political allegiances. b) From a meager, ragtag force, he had built this army into the world's most feared military by the time he provoked a world war in Year 24. a) In April of 1796, Napoleon assumed command of the dilapidated and demoralized French army in Italy. After quickly rebuilding the army as an effective fighting force, the charismatic general soon earned the unmatched devotion of his soldiers with a series of stunning military victories. b) From a meager, ragtag force, Napoleon quickly created a professional army that would dominate Europe for the next two decades. Having conquered continental Europe by 1812, he launched an invasion of Russia with the world’s most feared military force, his Grand Army of nearly half a million soldiers under the leadership of his own unparalleled military genius. Napoleon’s fearsome Russian campaign triggered the world war in conjunction with America's imminent entry into Napoleon's war against Great Britain. a) In April of 1926, Hitler created the SS, a private army explicitly loyal to Hitler that was especially formulated to be independent of the Nazi party. b) From meager beginnings, the SS would rise to become the world's most feared paramilitary force. Hitler greatly augmented his army by later establishing among the German military a compulsory military oath of allegiance to Hitler as the supreme commander, laying the foundation on which he built the Nazi war machine. Touting the world’s most feared military Hitler would conquer continental Europe, invade the Soviet Union and provoke a world war in 1942 by inciting Great Britain, Russia and America to enter direct military combat in his war. a) In April of 1986, Bin Laden opened his own mujahedin base camps, created his own private army from Arab Afghan mujahedin and started his own battlefield fronts against the Soviet invasion forces. He called his army Al Masadah (The Lion's Den), a guerrilla militia that would become Al Qaeda's military wing. Framing himself as an epic warrior-prophet in the tradition of the Prophet Mohammed, Bin Laden inspired the zealous devotion of his band of Islamic radicals. b) From a meager, ragtag band of militant Islamists, Bin Laden built his army of guerrilla fighters into the world's largest and most resilient terrorist empire, one capable of waging a successful war against the lone superpower for over fifteen years. Although Al Qaeda's global campaign of terrorist attacks has distinguished the group as the world's most feared military, Al Qaeda’s most powerful military capability has emerged largely unnoticed. After the fall of Al Qaeda’s only official state sponsorship in December 2001, the group was bestowed with a strategic nuclear advantage over America as a stateless (and target-less) army. With this nuclear-proof terrorist empire, in 2002 Bin Laden succeeded in provoking America, Russia and Great Britain to enter into a world war against Al Qaeda, a success that also included America's covert initiation of the Iraq War. Year 11 The start of: THE NAPOLEONIC REVOLUTION, THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION a) Geopolitical Revolution: In the fall of Year 11, the onset of an economic depression and massive civil unrest triggered one of the great geopolitical revolutions of the modern age, with fronts in America, Europe and the Middle East. b) As occurred in the Year 1 geopolitical revolution, Napoleon's / Hitler's / Bin Laden's nation was a major epicenter of the new revolution in Year 11. In the tumultuous fatherland of his future empire, the new wave of political revolution was manifested as a belligerent movement against the weak government of the democratic republic, which was widely blamed for the country's chaotic condition. In reality, ten years of the nation's political and social revolutionary upheaval had stagnated economic growth and fomented civil chaos. Additionally, this nation's involvement in an epochal war with the world's leading powers had incurred punishing military and financial penalties that coalesced as the economic depression in Year 11. The failure of the revolutionary government to stabilize the explosive economic crisis and stem the tide of civil strife clearly highlighted the fatal weaknesses of the politically factious republic. c) During the ensuing national crisis, Napoleon's / Hitler's / Bin Laden's party capitalized on the opportunity for partisan advancement through political chaos by luring the country to the brink of civil war with mounting threats of a military coup. The party's effort to foment political instability included both direct terrorist intimidation and the introduction of provocative political initiatives. Within this precarious environment, widespread desperation increased the population's blind yearning for a unifying savior like the strong national government promised by his party’s platform. After a decade of fighting his way to the top of the revolutionary leadership, the national crisis in Year 11 swelled his popularity to precipitate this triumph on which he would base his quest for empire. d) In the midst of this national emergency, Napoleon / Hitler / Bin Laden would eventually launch a sham political coup that subverted the legislative branch and successfully manipulated two executives into transferring control of the national government to a triumvirate front-administration. He quickly transformed the new government into a dictatorship that reestablished civil order through a brutal police state. Having ascended to lead his revolutionary nation, Napoleon / Hitler / Bin Laden proceeded to launch his own geopolitical revolution. a) In the fall of 1799, the onset of a French economic depression and massive civil unrest triggered the political instability within the French government that culminated in Napoleon's seizure of power and initiation of the Napoleonic Revolution. 1. Throughout Renaissance Europe, Napoleon's political revolution of enlightened nationalistic government (along with his military and cultural revolution) reverberated to mark a major milestone for Western civilization's entry into the modern world. 2. Even in the Middle East in 1799, Napoleon personally spread the Napoleonic Revolution when he initiated the Zionist movement by promulgating his formal declaration of the modern state of Israel and attempting to found this state by conquering the land of ancient Israel. Beyond the movement for Jewish national identity, Napoleon spread his broader "Enlightenment revolution" into the center of the Islamic world as a result of his simultaneous effort to conquer vital British trade routes. In particular, Egypt's liberation from Napoleon's military occupation in 1799 initiated a Westernization revolution in this heartland of the Islamic world. 3. In America in 1799, the onset of the Napoleonic Age marked the beginning of an era defined by Napoleon's attempts to foment America's "Second War for Independence" from France's archenemy Britain3. b) As occurred in the 1789 French Revolution, France was the center of the Napoleonic Revolution in 1799. In the tumultuous fatherland of Napoleon's future empire, the new wave of political revolution was manifested as a militant movement against the weak government of the democratic republic, which was 3 America's gradual entrapment in Napoleon's war against Britain was marked by Napoleon's diplomatic manipulation of the young nation’s relationship with its former imperial ruler. This gambit was largely initiated by Napoleon’s formal cessation of the Franco-American naval conflict soon after rising to power. In a few years, Napoleon's sale of the Louisiana Territory to America doubled the domain of the United States and fed the incipient American imperialism that facilitated America's entry into Napoleon's war against Britain as a U.S. bid to conquer British-controlled Canadian territories. On the eve of the world war of 1812, Napoleon culminated France’s campaign to provoke America's entry into his war with Great Britain through deceptive diplomacy in the trade conflict engulfing the three countries. widely blamed for the country's chaotic condition. In reality, ten years of France's political and social revolutionary upheaval had stagnated economic growth and fomented civil chaos. Additionally, revolutionary France's war against the British-led European coalition had incurred punishing military and economic penalties that coalesced as the economic depression in 1799. The failure of the French revolutionary government to stabilize the explosive economic crisis and stem the tide of civil strife clearly highlighted the fatal weaknesses of the politically factious republic. 1. The 1799 formation of the Second Coalition against France bankrupted the French treasury as it mobilized forces in a desperate bid to repel the coalition’s march to Paris. Having seized upon the failure of Napoleon's Egyptian campaign as a sign of French vulnerability, the enemies of Revolutionary France coalesced for a second time as the Second Coalition (including Britain, Russia, Austria, and the Ottoman Empire) to roll back Napoleon's previous conquests, particularly in Germany and Italy. Launching their first military campaigns in 1799, they forced France to engage this mighty alliance of the world's leading powers on three major fronts. The 1799 military developments marked a major escalation in the war, which had been virtually bereft of European battles since Napoleon's victorious campaign two years earlier. After a decade of military and economic warfare against the leading Western powers, the renewal of large military campaigns threatened Revolutionary France with either military or economic collapse. Also in 1799, Napoleon’s Egyptian failure in itself marked another debilitating loss to the French military and economy. 2. Internally, the French government only compounded the crisis with ledaership that was hopelessly corrupt, divided and incompetent. Chronic financial weakness threatened funding for the armies keeping the Coalition at bay. Civil chaos mounted as deserters inflated the hoards of bandits who roamed the country. The situation became so desperate that a parliamentary resolution to reestablish the Reign of Terror's Committee of Public Safety was only narrowly voted down. When Napoleon seized power on a mandate of strong central government, his first and most fundamental reform was to remedy the paralyzing economic crisis with the formation of the country’s first national bank, the Bank of France, and more effective taxation. While saving the economy from collapse, Napoleon was unable to create economic prosperity during his reign because he failed to address the underlying problem: France’s constant warfare against the world’s leading powersvii. * “Internally, the government of the Directory had shown itself to be incurably incompetent, irresolute and divided . . . There is no doubt that the personal incompetence and corruption of the Directors have been exaggerated, and that the difficulties of their situation have not been sufficiently appreciated. They had inherited from the Convention a fearful legacy of debt and inflation, and they had made repeated efforts to restore the currency, balance the budget and ensure a regular revenue by taxation. But all these efforts broke down through the weakness of the central government and the division of power between the Directory and the Councils. Chronic weakness of finance threatened the payment and supply of the armies, and deserters swelled the bands of brigands which infested whole areas of France.” (italics added) - Napoleon and the Awakening of Europe by Felix Markham, 1975, p.42-3 c) During the French crisis of 1799, Napoleon's Jacobin party capitalized on the opportunity for partisan advancement through political chaos by luring the country to the brink of civil war with mounting threats of a military coup. This Jacobin effort to foment political instability included both direct terrorist intimidation by Jacobin thugs and the inflammation of counterrevolutionary forces through the introduction of provocative political initiatives. Within this precarious environment, widespread desperation increased the French people's blind yearning for a unifying savior like the strong national government promised by Napoleon. After a decade of fighting his way to the top leadership of Revolutionary France, the French national crisis in 1799 swelled Napoleon’s popularity to precipitate his successful coup d’ etat, establishing the dictatorship on which he would base his quest for empire. 1. Jacobins inflamed the 1799 French political crisis with a series of controversial political resolutions, including military mobilization based on new conscriptions and a forced loan from the rich, the restoration of Robespierre’s dreaded Committee of Public Safety, as well as a “Law of Hostages” requiring the arrest of relatives of suspected royalists who had fled Revolutionary France. d) In the midst of this national emergency, Napoleon launched a successful sham political coup designed to subvert the ruling revolutionary government's legislative bodies (the Council of Ancients and the Council of 500) and manipulate two of the leaders of the executive branch (Directors Sieyes and Ducos) to assist Napoleon in establishing a triumvirate front-administration (the Consulate). Napoleon quickly transformed the new government into a dictatorship that reestablished civil order through the brutal Fouche police state. Having ascended to lead the revolutionary French nation, Napoleon proceeded to launch his own geopolitical revolution. a) In the fall of 1929, the onset of an economic depression in America and Germany, which soon precipitated a global economic depression, and the accompanying massive civil unrest triggered the political and economic instability within governments across the world that culminated in the Great Depression Revolution. 1. Independently in countries across the world, this "Big Government" revolution emerged as a necessary intervention of the national government in the economy in order to remedy the absence of federal oversight of the free market that largely caused the Great Depression. This revolution represented a global shift towards economic socialism, as soon exemplified in the Great Depression's epicenter by President Roosevelt's New Deal economy. 2. In Europe, the Great Depression revolution included the Totalitarian Revolution, a broader movement that greatly expanded the national government's control of society beyond simple economic management to include all facets of life. In the context of the faltering democracies of Europe, this rise of warmongering dictators in the Soviet Union, Italy and Germany involved the manipulation of impotent democratic governments to serve as legitimizing propaganda tools for a singleparty dictatorship dedicated to nationalism and imperial warfare. 3. In the Middle East in 1929, the revolution began with a new wave of Jewish immigration to the land of ancient Israel (the fifth Aliya, which doubled the Jewish population of the region) triggered by the rising European anti-Semitism of the Great Depression. This Jewish influx prompted the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, a future Nazi collaborator and founding father of fascism in the Middle East, to lead the Arab Palestinian inhabitants of the region in countrywide riots targeting Jews that climaxed in the infamous Hebron Massacre. This antiSemitic attack was an unprecedented Jewish pogrom in the modern Jewish-Islamic conflict in Palestine, beginning the Jewish war that would culminate in the creation of the modern state of Israel. b) As occurred in the 1919 post-WWI Revolution, Germany was a major epicenter of the Great Depression Revolution in 1929. In the tumultuous fatherland of Hitler's future empire, the new wave of political revolution was manifested as a militant movement against the weak government of the democratic republic, which was widely blamed for the country's chaotic condition. In reality, ten years of political and social revolutionary upheaval had stagnated economic growth and fomented civil chaos. Additionally, Germany’s involvement in WWI had incurred punishing military and financial penalties that coalesced as the economic depression in 1929. The failure of the revolutionary government to stabilize the explosive economic crisis and stem the tide of civil strife clearly highlighted the fatal weaknesses of the politically factious German Weimar Republic. 1. The 1929 American Stock Market crash forced both the cessation of American loans, which had artificially sustained Germany’s battered post-WWI economy, and the recall of German debts from the past years of these loans. This foreign loan disaster combined with the post-crash decline in world trade to devastate the German economy. A few months after the Great Depression began, the economic and political paralysis forced the German head of state to suspend constitutional governance and rule by emergency decree, a convention that facilitated the rise of Hitler's dictatorship. c) During the German crisis of 1929-1933, Hitler's Nazi party capitalized on the opportunity for partisan advancement through political chaos by luring the country to the brink of civil war through mounting threats of a military coup. This Nazi effort to foment political instability included both direct terrorist intimidation by the Nazi SA mobs and the introduction of provocative political initiatives. Within this precarious environment, widespread desperation increased the German people's blind yearning for a unifying savior like the strong national government promised by the Nazis. After a decade of fighting his way to the top of Germany’s revolutionary leadership, the German national crisis in 1929 swelled Hitler’s popularity to precipitate his fringe party’s election to the Weimar government’s leading offices. On this foundation of popular support generated by the Great Depression, the Nazis gradually seized control of the fragile Weimar democracy on which Hitler would base his quest for empire. 1. One of the most inflammatory Nazi political maneuvers at this time involved the appointment of the Nazi boss Herman Goering as President of the Germany’s Reichstag parliament (prior to Hitler's 1933 seizure of power), a development that parlayzed the Reichstag and led to the collapse of the government of German Chancellor Franz von Papen. d) In the midst of this national emergency, Hitler would eventually launch a sham political coup that subverted Germany’s Reichstag legislature and successfully manipulated President Hindenburg and Chancellor Schleicher into transferring control of the national government to a triumvirate front-administration. Hitler quickly transformed the new government into a dictatorship that reestablished civil order through the brutal Himmler police state. Having ascended to lead the revolutionary German nation, Hitler proceeded to launch his own geopolitical revolution. a) In the fall of 1989, the onset of a Soviet economic depression and massive civil unrest throughout the Soviet empire triggered the political instability within the U.S.S.R. that led to the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the cessation of the Cold War and the inception of the post-Cold War geopolitical revolution. 1. The end of the Cold War in 1989 was most powerfully symbolized by the dismemberment of the opening front of the Cold War in Berlin. The fall of the Berlin Wall marked a termination of Cold War hostilities that was officially enshrined with the "Armistice" Malta conference between American President George H.W. Bush and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev. Instead of by military conflict, the Cold War was decided by a competition to build the most expensive military that pitted the stifled Soviet economy against the American capitalist enterprise. Rather than nuclear armageddon, the loser submitted to economic bankrupcy. The onset of the Soviet collapse, the end of the sixty-year-old clash of superpowers and the rise of America as the unquestioned superpower reverberated in nations across the world. 2. In the Middle East in 1989, freed from Soviet interference the United States expanded the Carter Doctrine (which advocated the use of U.S. military power to secure the world's treasure trove of cheaply extractable oil in the Middle East) by initiating a permanent, massive U.S. military presence in the region. Prior to the onset of the Soviet collapse, such a power grab would have represented an unacceptable provocation of America’s Cold War nemesis. However, once this collapse became manifest at the end of 1989, within a year the American administration had seized the highly auspicious opportunity provided by the Iraqi-Kuwaiti conflict to control the most coveted strategic prize of the Cold War. On the pretext of providing an American "policing" force to defend the region against the Iraqi dictator that America had spent the past decade sponsoring, President George H.W. Bush claimed this prize that the United States has yet to relinquish nearly two decades later. In the neighboring Palestinian territories, the post-Cold War global Islamic “jihad” against Israel began with the onset of the First Intifada (uprising) in 1989. Months later, America would join its ally Israel as a target of this “jihad” because of the massive U.S. military influx into Islam’s holiest land, Saudi Arabia, to prepare for the conflict with Israel’s archenemy Saddam Hussein. 3. In the most recently vacated Cold War battleground of Afghanistan, the Al Qaeda revolution began within the 1989 power vacuum when Bin Laden proceeded from the successful mujahedin war against the Soviet Union to embark on his personal war against the remaining superpowerviii. Bin Laden’s initiation of the post-Cold War global Islamic “jihad” against America culminated in Al Qaeda's first major covert terrorist attacks on the United States three years later. b) As occurred in the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Afghanistan was a major epicenter of the post-Cold War revolution in 1989. In the tumultuous fatherland of Bin Laden's future empire, the new wave of political revolution was manifested as a militant movement against the hopelessly unpopular communist-controlled government of the democratic republic, which was widely blamed for the country's chaotic condition. In reality, after ten years of Afghanistan's political and social revolutionary upheaval from the Soviet invasion, the Cold War proxy conflict and the mujahedin movement had devastated the Afghan infrastructure, economy and civil order. Additionally, Afghanistan’s involvement in the Cold War had incurred punishing military and financial penalties that coalesced as an economic depression upon the Soviet withdrawal in 1989. The failure of the Afghan revolutionary government (including the communist-controlled republic and the unofficial mujahedin political bloc) to stabilize the explosive economic crisis and stem the tide of civil strife clearly highlighted the fatal weaknesses of the politically factious republic. 1. Following the withdrawal of Soviet occupation forces and the cessation of the calamitous Afghan-Soviet War in 1989, the Afghan economic depression was triggered in part by the reduction (and eventual termination) of the vital foreign aid from both Cold War superpowers that had sustained the crippled third-world economyix. Now preoccupied with the collapse of the Soviet Union, America and Russia paid less attention to the recently departed Cold War battlefield. Additionally, the 1989 collapse of the Cold War oil boom produced a major economic recession in Saudi Arabia, a principle source of foreign aid for both Afghanistan and the incipient Al Qaeda organization. To further compound Afghanistan's economic problems in 1989, the Soviet government sealed off access to Afghanistan's most valuable legitimate natural resource (accounting for over half of the country’s legitimate export revenue), a wealth of natural gas reserves augmented by sophisticated extraction and storage facilitiesx. 2. On top of the devastation wrought by a decade of Soviet occupation and Soviet-mujahedin battles, in 1989 Afghanistan was immediately burdened by: (1) a political and financial power vacuum within the incipient Afghan Interim Republic that was brewing a civil war, and (2) the continuation of the Afghan mujahedin war against the Afghan communists who still controlled every major city. In another example of the collateral damage from the Cold War proxy conflict, these and future Afghan wars were fomented by murderous, megalomaniacal warlords like Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and Osama bin Laden who had been empowered by the CIA, Pakistani and Saudi intelligence and then unleashed by the Soviet withdrawal in 1989. The reduction in U.S. aid to moderating parties at this time corresponded with a refocusing of Saudi funding to radical warlords like Hekmatyar, further stoking the civil warxi. The conflict became so intense that the disastrous Afghan refugee crisis escalated dramatically and most countries withdrew their remaining diplomatic missions in the capital city of Kabul, severing a vital link between the remaining Afghan people and the international community. Additionally, the power vacuum arising from the Soviet withdrawal led to the rise of Afghanistan as a dangerously anarchic narco-state based on bourgeoning cultivation of opium and heroinxii. In this hobbled condition, the Afghan economy followed the Soviet economy into depression. c) During the Afghan crisis of 1989-1996, Bin Laden's incipient Al Qaeda organization capitalized on the opportunity for partisan advancement through political chaos by luring the country into civil war with mounting threats of a military coup by proxy. Al Qaeda's effort to foment political instability included both direct terrorist intimidation and provocative political initiatives. Within the precarious environment, widespread desperation increased the Afghan people’s blind yearning for a unifying savior like the strong national government promised by Al Qaeda’s Islamo-fascist platform. After a decade of fighting his way to the top leadership of the Radical Islamic Revolution, the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan established the popular Arab myth of Bin Laden as a superpower slayer and vanguard of the revolution. Bin Laden would pursue his quest for a global terrorist empire based on his new celebrity status, a bid aided by the auspicious creation of a terrorist haven via the post-Soviet Afghan civil war. 1. Al Qaeda’s divisive presence among the Afghan mujahedin included a campaign advocating that Afghanistan be transformed into a strict fundamentalist Islamic state to serve as a base for waging war against America and its Middle Eastern allies. Opponents of this effort were subject to terrorist intimidation or assassination. While pursuing this objective, Bin Laden helped to foment civil war among the warring Afghan factions by alternatively funding one warlord against another. After financing the notorious Hekmatyar faction, which made repeated attempts at a military coup against the Afghan Interim Republic, Bin Laden switched allegiances to support the rival Taliban faction. In neighboring Pakistan, the base of the Afghan “jihad”, Bin Laden further destabilized the region by funding anti-American radical Islamist parties in military coup plots aiming to ouster the pro-American Prime Minister Benazzir Bhuttoxiii. As a consequence of years of unending, cataclysmic civil war, the Afghan people were willing to accept even the most extremist government so long as it could stabilize the country. d1) (A Coup within the Arab Afghans, the vanguard of the anti-superpower war waged by the stateless nation of Radical Islam4:) Following the Soviet withdrawal in 1989, along with the Afghan nation the Arab Afghan movement descended into chaos over disputes about the next target of the “jihad”. In the midst of this emergency that threatened the stateless nation of Radical Islam, Bin Laden and his top deputy Ayman Zawahiri launched a victorious political coup that subverted the Arab Afghans' ruling clerical bodies by manipulating two executives into transferring control of the Arab Afghan leadership to a triumvirate front administration. Bin Laden quickly transformed Al Qaeda into a totalitarian organization that established order in the Arab Afghan movement by irrevocably choosing the next target of the “jihad”, America, and enforcing this policy through a stateless gestapo organization and proxy warlords. Having ascended to lead the nation of Radical Islam in its defining initiative, Bin Laden 4 In the cases of Napolen and Hitler, their careers were respectively guided by a single revolution within one nation-state. In a world of globalization, however, Bin Laden’s career was guided by two revolutions, the greater global revolution of Radical Islam and its vanguard sub-set, the Afghan revolution. Bin Laden’s historical parallels with the other two world-war provocateurs can be understood within the context of either the former or the latter revolution. In discussing the nation of Radical Islam, emphasis is placed on its identity as an Islamic Republic. The nation of Radical Islam exists as a stateless ideological network bound by adherence to overarching fundamentalist Islamic tenets and to pursuit of war against the Cold War superpowers and Israel. The loosely organized government of the stateless nation exhibits the properties of a theocratic republic. Evincing a selective incorporation of the Enlightenment political philosophy enshrined in the republic of Revolutionary France, Radical Islam theoretically divides national power among one or more executives, a councils of religious scholars and, less directly, its constituents. Nevertheless, the theocratic government emphasizes popular submission to the rule of Islamic doctrine, greatly limiting the opportunity for public dissent. Although modern ideological platforms like the Internet have enhanced the cohesion and influence of Radical Islam, the stateless nation’s foundation is marked by the 1979 global Islamic Revolution. At this time preexisting international networks of radical Islamists like the Muslim Brotherhood converged into a global entity, collectively pursuing shared objectives through a stateless government modeled after Islamic republics like Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. As sub-sections of the nation of Radical Islam, stateless networks like Hamas and Al Qaeda were explicitly chartered in the form a stateless republic espousing a limited application of the Enlightenment principles that governed the Revolutionary French Republic. proceeded to launch his own geopolitical revolution that would culminate in the 9/11 War. 1. Bin Laden’s machinations to seize control of the nation of Radical Islam began with slandering from power and assassinating covertly the senior member of the nation’s vanguard, Bin Laden's mentor Abdullah Azzam. Bin Laden then slandered from power another Arab Afghan executive, Azzam’s son, the third member of the Azzam party’s triumvirate leadership enshrined in the MAK organization for Arab Afghan recruitment. Left alone in the triumvirate leadership of Azzam’s MAK, Bin Laden next merged his nascent Al Qaeda with the group and recast the MAK’s triumvirate leadership as a frontadministration to all Arab Afghansxiv. 2. Having elevated Al Qaeda to the leadership of the Arab Afghans, Bin Laden enacted his contentious plan to establish radical Islamist governments in Afghanistan and Pakistan to serve as a base for launching attacks against the American homeland. With his political opponent Azzam eliminated from power, Bin Laden quickly established his hierarchical control of Al Qaeda as its supreme leader and quelled internal factionalism by enforcing strict standards for obedience and secrecy within his stateless terrorist organization. d2) (A Coup within the Afghan Republic:) In the midst of the Afghan national crisis of 1989-1996, Bin Laden would eventually launch a relatively bloodless political coup by bribing disaffected Afghan warlords to desert the infamous Hekmatyar- Rabbani -Massoud regime and support the national rule of the wildly popular (yet mysterious) Taliban party (1.). This sham political coup subverted the Afghan Islamic Republic's ruling clerical body and successfully manipulated the war-ravaged Republic’s two leading executives, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and Rabbani, into submitting their influential parties and government apparatus to Taliban control (2.). The Taliban coup established a triumvirate frontadministration led by the Taliban leader Mullah Omar, the party's Council of Islamic Scholars and Bin Laden (whose high-command exercised extensive influence over Taliban policy). The Taliban quickly transformed the government into a theocratic dictatorship that reestablished civil order through a brutal police state. Having ascended to lead the Afghan revolutionary nation, Bin Laden proceeded to launch his own geopolitical revolution from the modern world’s first “pure” fundamentalist Sunni Islamic state. Year 15 THE BURNING OF THE REICHSTAG AND THE FIRST WORLD TRADE CENTER BOMBING a) In late February of Year 15, Hitler / Bin Laden covertly attacked the world famous building that served as the symbolic power base of his enemies, and then denied responsibility for the attack. b) This symbolic attack served to facilitate his seizure of absolute power of the nation in the following year. a) In late February of 1933, the Nazis covertly torched the world famous Reichstag building, the center of German Parliament and power base for the remaining domestic political opposition to the Nazi regime. Hitler denied responsibility for the suspicious Reichstag Fire, though Nazi documents captured after WWII proved his guilt. b) This attack served to subvert the power of the Nazis' political enemies by prompting a national emergency decree, facilitating Hitler's seizure of absolute power in the following year. a) In late February of 1993, Bin Laden covertly launched his first World Trade Center bombing, attacking the symbolic power base of the American economy. Although he has denied responsibility for the attack, evidence gradually uncovered has verified Bin Laden's complicity. b) Representing Radical Islam’s most successful attack on the American homeland to date, this milestone bombing served to facilitate Bin Laden's seizure of absolute sovereignty over the stateless nation’s terrorist war against the superpower in the following year. The declaration of: THE CODE NAPOLEON AND HITLER'S ENABLING ACT In March of Year 15, Napoleon / Hitler / Bin Laden rewrote his nation's legal code. In March of 1803, Napoleon exercised his rising powers as France’s head of state by promulgating the new French legal code he named the Code Napoleon. In March of 1933, Hitler coerced the Reichstag to pass the Enabling Act, the legal basis for Hitler's dictatorship in a democracy. On this constitutional basis, Hitler quickly circumvented Reichstag oversight to rewrite Germany’s legal code in order to reflect the Nazi political platform. In March of 1993, the principle legal code (war policy) guiding the nation of Radical Islam was rewritten by Bin Laden and his cast of scripturally backed Islamic clerics when U.S. investigators announced to the world that a shadowy Sunni group of Arab Afghans (covertly orchestrated by Bin Laden) had launched Radical Islam's first major terrorist attack on the American homeland. This precedent redefined Radical Islam as a new Sunni-dominated global terrorist campaign targeting America. Year 16 THE IMPERIAL CORONATION OF: NAPOLEON, HITLER AND BIN LADEN a) In Year 16, after rising to lead the revolutionary Republic's government as the head of its triumvirate executive branch, . . . b) Napoleon / Hitler / Bin Laden sidelined this sham regime and openly usurped absolute power of the nation's government, military and religious institutions by delcaring himself emperor. c) He accomplished this feat through manipulating the existing political system, notably the legislative branch and system of plebiscites. d) This neo-Caesarian ascendancy epic marked the beginning of his 11-year imperial reign. a) In 1804, after rising to lead the French Revolutionary Republic's government as head of the Napoleon-Ducos-Sieyès triumvirate executive branch, . . . b) Napoleon, already supreme commander of the French army, sidelined his sham regime and openly usurped absolute power of the nation's government and religious institutions by crowning himself Emperor of France. c) He accomplished this feat through coercing the French Revolutionary Republic's enfeebled Senate and Tribunate, and then holding sham plebiscites to legitimize publicly his seizure of absolute power. d) This neo-Caesarian ascendancy epic marked the beginning of his 11-year imperial reign that ended with the destruction of his French Empire in 1815. a) In 1934, after rising to lead the government of the German revolutionary Weimar Republic's government as a member of the Hitler-Hindenburg-Papen triumvirate executive branch, . . . b) Hitler sidelined his sham regime and openly usurped absolute power of the nation's government, military and religious institutions by declaring himself Germany's Fuhrer ("emperor"), a power grab that included the establishment of a binding military oath of absolute allegiance to Hitler as supreme commander of the German armed forces. c) He accomplished this feat by manipulating the Weimar Republic's Reichstag (the German Congress) and holding sham plebiscites to legitimize publicly his seizure of absolute power. d) This neo-Caesarian ascendancy epic marked the beginning of his 11-year imperial reign that ended with the destruction of his German Third Reich in 1945. a) In 1994, Bin Laden had already covertly launched the first major attack on the American homeland (the first World Trade Center bombing) by the global Radical Islamic Nation (a global theocratic Republic modeled politically after that of the Iranian epicenter of the Islamic Revolution), seizing control of the nation's central policy. Bin Laden had ascended to lead the nation's new government, Al Qaeda's high command (itself a stateless Republic modeled after the French Revolutionary Republic) as a member of the Bin Laden-ZawahiriAzzam triumvirate executive branch. b) In 1994, Bin Laden sidelined Al Qaeda's sham leadership council and declared his absolute rule of the government, military and religious institutions of both Al Qaeda and the Radical Islamic Nation by founding his global guerrilla terrorist network as a shadow empire to the American superpower and covertly claiming the title of Mahdi (the highest authority in Islam, the Saudi-born Muslim Messiah of the Apocalypse foretold to rule the world's most powerful empire). This foundation of Bin Laden's shadow empire included: Bin Laden's commencement of Al Qaeda's international terrorist campaign, including the initiation of planning for Al Qaeda's first overt terrorist attack (the 1998 African embassy bombings), the creation of the 9/11 plot (called Operation Bojinka: Phase II) by top conspirators in the first World Trade Center bombing (Ramzi Yousef, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Ali Mohammed), Al Qaeda's first terrorist attack on an airplane (by Ramzi Yousef) and the first documented Al Qaeda plot to assassinate the American president, a highly ambitious assumption of the leadership Radical Islam's war against America that was recently predicated on Bin Laden's covert success against America in the first World Trade Center bombing and the Black Hawk Down attack on American soldiers in Somaliaxv, The initiation of funding for the Taliban in his future base of Afghanistan, The commencement of a media war against countries beyond Saudi Arabia (marked by the creation of the London-based Al Qaeda media headquarters The Organization for Advice and Rectification), A menacing expansion of his Saudi-based insurrection that caused the Saudi government to revoke his citizenship in this year. c) Bin Laden accomplished this imperial ascent by manipulating Muslim popular opinion as well as key religious councils in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, the theocratic Senate of both Al Qaeda and the Radical Islamic Nation, to legitimize publicly his covert seizure of absolute power by praising the first World Trade Center bombing and advocating the perpetrators to expand the war. d) This neo-Caesarian, Islamic ascendancy epic marked the beginning of his 11year imperial reign that may have ended with the termination of his control of Al Qaeda in 2005, the first year since 1994 that Bin Laden did not make a public statement (see below). Year 18 The declaration of: NAPOLEON'S CONTINENTAL SYSTEM COALITION, HITLER'S AXIS POWERS ALLIANCE AND BIN LADEN'S RADICAL ISLAMIC WAR AGAINST AMERICA a) In late Year 18, Napoleon / Hitler / Bin Laden first announced his international war coalition . . . b) That constituted a declaration of war against Russia and the world's most powerful nation, the leading Western empire. a) In late 1806, Napoleon first announced his Continental System, a warmongering alliance of European nations . . . b) Committed to a nation-busting economic embargo of Great Britain, the world's most dominant nation. This new belligerent coalition accordingly demanded that Russia cease its vital trade with Britain, collectively constituting an international trade dispute that would bring Great Britain, the United States and Russia into Napoleon's war in 1812. a) In late 1936, Hitler first announced his Axis Powers alliance on the cornerstone of the Anti-Communist International Pact, a war coalition among Germany, Japan and Italy (who would officially join in the following year) that would soon after be formalized as the Tripartite Pact. Hitler's declaration of the Anti-Comintern Pact occurred under the auspices of Benito Mussolini's own declaration of an Axis Powers alliance between Germany and Italy a month earlier. b) The creation of the Axis Powers alliance marked the failure of the FrancoBritish Stresa Front alliance, an attempt to ally with Italy and Austria to restrain Hitler's military adventurism, signaling a monumental reversal in the balance of power in Europe that allowed German imperial expansion to march inevitably to war three years later against the world's leading empires, Great Britain and France. The cornerstone of the Axis Powers alliance, the anti-Soviet economic blockade and war coalition, also constituted a declaration of war on the Soviet Union. a) In late 1996, Bin Laden first announced his global Radical Islamic war coalition in his first fatwa (religious declaration) of world war against America, announcing his alliance with a host of Islamic insurgencies around the world. Eighteen months later, he published a second, more precise fatwa announcing the names of the Islamic militant groups that officially joined this binding religious war pact as a coalition named "The World Islamic Front for Jihad Against the Jews and the Crusaders". b) Although nominally founded as a united Muslim military front against the Western presence in Saudi Arabia, the expansive first fatwa ordered the establishment of an umbrella guerrilla terrorist organization to wage war in a united global military front inside Muslim lands under "Crusader occupation", including in Islam's holiest land Saudi Arabia, Palestine and Chechnya, directed primarily against the superpower America, Israel and Russia, respectively. Bin Laden described this new coalition as a continuation of his own global terrorist war against America, for the first time claiming publicly personal responsibility (through his characteristic method of innuendo) for attacks on Americans in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Somalia, Beirut and the first World Trade Center bombing in New York (a claim he made indirectly though convincingly through his praise for Al Qaeda's spiritual leader, the Blind Sheik Omar Rahman, an imprisoned collaborator in the bombing). Year 20 NAPOLEON'S ERFURT CONFERENCE AND HITLER'S MUNICH CONFERENCE a) On September 27 of Year 20, Napoleon / Hitler convened an international conference in Germany . . . b) Where by the pen he acquired territory in Eastern Europe and set the stage for his invasion of the Russian empire. a) On September 27 of 1808, Napoleon convened the Conference of Erfurt in Germany with Czar Alexander I to clarify the Franco-Russian alliance. b) While Napoleon did succeed in his diplomatic effort to acquire territory in Austria, he failed in his primary objective of cementing Russia's loyalty to his Continental System and so paved the way for his punitive invasion of the Russian empire. a) On September 27, 1938, Hitler began the Munich Conference when Britain's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain intervened in the Czecho-German crisis to accede generously to Hitler's territorial demands in Czechoslovakia, a diplomatic preamble that was formalized when the conference was formally convened two days later. b) This imperial territorial expansion eastward greatly strengthened Nazi Germany and, according to the war plan Hitler publicly outlined a decade earlier in his book Mein Kampf, paved the warpath for Hitler's imperial invasion of the Soviet Union. a) Following Bin Laden's sudden international notoriety from Al Qaeda's twin bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa, did Bin Laden convene a conference of terrorist leaders in August-September of 1998? b) Did the agenda of this conference include the establishment of an expanded Al Qaeda presence in Muslim Bosnia to battle in the ongoing U.S.-led military conflict, as well as coordination with the Chechen branch of Al Qaeda to plan the group's first major terrorist campaign inside Russia, the devastating Moscow apartment bombing campaign that would occur one year later? Year 21 THE ABROGATION OF: POPE PIUS VII'S CONCORDAT WITH NAPOLEON AND POPE PIUS XII'S CONCORDAT WITH HITLER a) The nominally Catholic Napoleon / Hitler had an epic relationship dominating an anti-Semitic Catholic Pope named Pius. This relationship revolved around the signing and abrogation of a papal Concordat. b) Within the first year of rule as head of state, Napoleon / Hitler began an epic relationship with a Pope Pius when they met amicably to sign an infamous Concordat formalizing relations between the revolutionary regime and the Vatican. c) In Year 21, Napoleon / Hitler abrogated belligerently yet unofficially his papal Concordat, publicly revealing his colossal deception of the Roman Catholic leadership by crippling the power of this Pope Pius for the next five years until the Allied liberation of Italy. a) The well-documented anti-Semitism of Pius VII was most glaringly revealed when he reintroduced brutal anti-Semitic policies in Italy after Napoleon's fall, including the state-sanctioned thievery of Jewish wealth and the establishment of Jewish ghettos. b) Over a decade earlier during the first year of Napoleon's rule, Napoleon began an epic relationship with Pope Pius VII when he met the pope in an amicable conference during which they signed an infamous Concordat formalizing relations between the French revolutionary regime and the Vatican. This Concordat diminished the European international alliance against Napoleon, allowing his empire to swell with his military victories over the discordant Allies and pave the way for a war of unprecedented destruction. c) In 1809, Napoleon abrogated belligerently yet unofficially his papal Concordat by physically capturing and imprisoning Pope Pius VII, controlling him as a puppet leader until the Allied liberation of Italy and Napoleon's first abdication in 1814. a) Despite the Nazi's consistent, unprecedented public persecution of the Jews and the indisputable evidence of the massive Nazi Holocaust project, Pope Pius XII publicly consented to these genocidal anti-Semitic policies by signing a Concordat with the Nazi state and refusing to actively oppose the Nazi war effort. This consent strongly suggests he sympathized with this hateful ideology, an assertion supported by Pius XII's own writings (see Hitler's Pope by John Cornwall). b) Over a decade earlier during the first year of Hitler's rule, Hitler began an epic relationship with Pope Pius XII when he met the future pope in an amicable conference during which they signed an infamous Concordat formalizing relations between the German Nazi regime and the Vatican. By helping to ban Catholic dissent of Nazi political acts, this Vatican ambassador destroyed Germany's last bastion for democratic political opposition to the Nazis and facilitated Hitler's Holocaust. c) In 1939, Hitler abrogated belligerently yet unofficially his papal Concordat by launching the most criminal war to ever occur in the Christian world, his European war of genocide that would lead to the deaths of 6 million Jewish and 5 million Christian civilians, including thousands of Catholic priests who were singled out for extermination. Maintaining his own adherence to the 1933 Concordat with Hitler out of fear of the Nazi regime, Pope Pius XII upheld the Vatican's treaty with Nazi Germany and refused to use his supreme authority to oppose publicly Hitler until 1944 following the Allied liberation of Italy. By making the Catholic pope an official ally in his genocidal war, Hitler crippled the power of this Pope Pius from 1939-1944. THE ASCENDANCY TO THE ALLIED LEADERSHIP OF: THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON AND WINSTON CHURCHILL a) In Year 21, the command of the British-led war effort against Napoleon / Hitler was transferred to Britain's champion warlord politician, a famed general of the British armed forces, British Lord and Member of British Parliament . . . b) Whose effective entry into the war in this year would quickly establish him as Napoleon's / Hitler's epic archrival. c) This British champion's rise up the military hierarchy included his involvement in both an earlier British imperial campaign in India and a proxy war against Napoleon / Hitler as part of a Spanish civil war in Year 20. d) In Year 22, during Britain's most perilous period of the war, this British war chieftain led the last major bastion of resistance to Napoleon's / Hitler's total conquest of Western Europe as the upstart emperor focused the bulk of his military colossus on besieging the British homeland in a final effort to force Britain's capitulation and unseat the traditional leader of Western civilization. e) This climactic campaign of Napoleon's / Hitler's war to conquer Britain began in Year 22 when he expanded his control of continental Europe's shoreline border region with the British Isle by annexing Holland into his empire. f) The devastating siege to come was the pinnacle of his two-pronged effort to cripple the British economy, a multi-year effort that also involved a two-year military campaign against Britain's trade-based empire in North Africa and the Middle East. g) Within a year of starting his great siege of Britain, Napoleon / Hitler acknowledged failure by redirecting his military resources to an invasion of Russia. h) The navy-dominant British Isle had weathered its greatest assault from the army-dominant military colossus of its archrival Napoleon / Hitler. Bolstered by an alliance that Britain forged with its former rival Russia in Year 23, over the next four years the British champion warlord would lead the resistance to Napoleon's / Hitler's empire that finally defeated the emperor in Year 27. a) In 1809, the command of the British-led war effort against Napoleon was transferred to the famed army general, British Lord and Member of British Parliament the Duke of Wellington when he was appointed commander of the British army fighting Napoleon in Spain. b) As the leader of the anti-Napoleon coalition, Wellington quickly began a campaign that pushed the warfront back to Paris and ended in Napoleon's abdication. Napoleon's dethronement was cemented by the emperor's epic loss to his archrival Wellington at Waterloo. c) Wellington's rise up the British military hierarchy included his involvement in both an earlier British imperial campaign in India and a proxy war against Napoleon's occupation of Spain as part of the Spanish civil war in 1808. d) In 1810, during Britain's most perilous period of the war, Wellington led the last major bastion of resistance to Napoleon's total conquest of Western Europe as the upstart emperor focused the bulk of his military colossus on enforcing his economic besiegement of the British homeland. This devastating reestablishment of the Continental System blockade was Napoleon's final effort to force Britain's capitulation and unseat the traditional leader of Western civilization. e) This climactic campaign of Napoleon's war to conquer Britain began in 1810 when he expanded his control of continental Europe's shoreline border region with the British Isle by annexing Holland into his French Empire. f) The devastating siege to come was the pinnacle of Napoleon's two-pronged effort to cripple the British economy, a multi-year effort that also involved a two-year military campaign that he led against Britain's trade-based empire in North Africa and the Middle East. g) Within a year of starting his great siege of Britain, Napoleon acknowledged the failure of his blockade due to noncommittal allies and redirected his military resources to the mammoth French Imperial invasion of Russia. h) The navy-dominant British Isle had weathered its greatest assault from the army-dominant military colossus of its archrival Napoleon. Bolstered by a trade accord that Britain forged with its former rival Russia in 1811 (which would precipitate Russia's entry into the war against Napoleon), over the next four years Wellington would lead the resistance to Napoleon's empire that finally defeated him in 1815. a) In 1939, the command of the British-led war effort against Hitler was transferred to the famed First Lord of the Admiralty (commander of the British Navy), British Lord, political champion of British war mobilization and Member of British Parliament Winston Churchill when he was reappointed to this supreme military command of Britain's sea-based empire. As a perennial leader of Britain's armed forces in the uppermost military and political offices, Churchill oversaw the modernization of the British military in both WWI and WII through the critical introduction of the tank, a military innovation that would overcome the trench warfare stalemate of WWI to become the dominant weapon of war in WWII along with airplanes. Also in 1939, Churchill's previously impotent policy for war with Germany came to power in the British government after the Nazi invasion of Poland triggered both the collapse of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's foreign policy of appeasement and the British declaration of war on Nazi Germany. This shift in the command of the British war effort would soon culminate in Churchill's official assumption of the office of head of state. b) As the leader of the anti-Hitler coalition, Churchill quickly rose to become the political and symbolic heart of the Allied effort who organized Britain's war mobilization and marshaled both Europe's anti-Nazi forces and America's industrial capacity to defeat Hitler. c) Churchill's rise up the British military hierarchy included his military involvement in an earlier British imperial campaign in India and his political leadership in Britain's proxy war against Hitler's massive escalation of Nazi support for the Spanish general and imminent dictator Franco as part of the Spanish civil war in 1938. d) In 1940, during Britain's most perilous period of the war, Churchill led the last major bastion of resistance to Hitler's total conquest of Western Europe in the Battle of Britain when the upstart emperor focused the bulk of his military colossus on bombarding the British homeland and enforcing his economic blockade with Nazi submarine warfare. The Battle of Britain was Hitler's final effort to force Britain's capitulation and unseat the traditional leader of Western civilization. e) This climactic campaign of Hitler's war to conquer Britain began in 1940 when he expanded his control of continental Europe's shoreline border region with the British Isle by annexing Holland into his Nazi Empire. f) The devastating siege to come was the pinnacle of Hitler's two-pronged effort to cripple the British economy, a multi-year effort that also involved a two-year Nazi military campaign against Britain's trade-based empire in North Africa and the Middle East. g) Within a year of starting the Battle of Britain, Hitler acknowledged the failure of the Nazi bombardment and blockade of the Isle and redirected his military resources to his primary war objective, the mammoth Nazi invasion of Russia. h) The navy-dominant British Isle had weathered its greatest assault from the army-dominant military colossus of its archrival Hitler. Bolstered by an alliance that Britain forged with its former rival Russia in 1941 following the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, over the next four years Churchill would lead the resistance to Hitler's empire that finally defeated him in 1945. HITLER'S POLISH CAMPAIGN AND THE 9/99 MOSCOW APARTMENT BOMBINGS a) From August 31 - September 17 of Year 21, Hitler / Bin Laden waged a conspicuously villainous, imperial military campaign in Eastern Europe, . . . b) Achieving a stunning victory that served as the first demonstration to the global populace of the terrifying power of his unrestrained revolutionary war machine. a) From August 31 - September 17 of 1939, Hitler waged an imperial invasion of Poland, beginning with the initial invasion by Special Operations divisions and effectively ending with the Third Reich's encirclement of the Polish armies. This military campaign appeared conspicuously villainous in the context of Hitler's flagrant warmongering in Eastern Europe before the invasion and the public revelation of the Nazi mass murder of civilian populations in Poland during and after the invasion. b) This debut of Hitler's revolutionary mechanized Wehrmacht stunned the global populace with the terrifying premier demonstration of Hitler's Blitzkrieg (lightning warfare), which effectively conquered Poland in two and a half weeks. In an effort to accomplish a quick victory, Hitler unleashed the destructive potential of his war machine in the Poland invasion, an unrestrained military campaign that included the dedication of the bulk of his army and the promulgation of orders to commit war crimes, including the mass murder of Poland's intellectual class. a) From August 31 - September 17 of 1999, Bin Laden waged covertly an imperial guerrilla invasion of Russia's capital, the 9/99 Moscow apartment bombings, marking the inception of Bin Laden's war to conquer Russia by nuclear terrorism and rule the world as leader of a new Islamic caliphate empire. This major terrorist bombing campaign appeared conspicuously villainous for its flagrant targeting of civilian apartment buildings and its shockingly high death count (300). b) This debut of Bin Laden's revolutionary guerrilla terrorist war machine stunned the global populace with the premier of catastrophic terrorism in a Western nation, as well as with the success of the perpetrators' obvious bid to provoke a Russian military crusade in the Muslim country of Chechnya, an imminent invasion that the Russian government committed itself to launch the day after the final apartment bombing of Bin Laden's Moscow campaign on September 16th. In an effort to accomplish quickly this objective, Bin Laden unleashed the destructive potential of Al Qaeda's Chechen branch in Moscow, an unrestrained military campaign that constituted his largest terrorist bombing attack to date. Years 22-24 THE BOMBING OF THE AMERICAN DESTROYER: USS KEARNEY AND USS COLE a) In the October preceding the attack on America in Year 23 (see below, "Pearl Harbor and 9/11") that would precipitate the world war, (1) Hitler / Bin Laden launched his first naval attack on America, a crippling bombing of a USS Destroyer that humiliated the U.S. Navy on the eve of America's entry into his war. b) The devastating torpedo attack on this U.S. warship targeted the forward engine room and nearly sank the vessel. c) The USS Destroyer was part of a joint British-American naval operation to secure marine trade routes. a) In the October before the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941 that would precipitate WWII, (1) a Nazi submarine following Hitler's orders to expand his naval bombing campaign launched Hitler's first naval attack on America, the crippling bombing of the American Destroyer USS Kearny. This deadly demonstration of the vulnerability of America's premier warships humiliated the American Navy on the eve of America's entry into his war. b) The devastating torpedo attack on this U.S. warship targeted the forward engine room and nearly sank the vessel. c) The USS Kearny was part of the joint British-American lend-lease naval convoy program, an operation to secure sea-based trade routes from Nazi submarine attacks. a) In the October before the 9/11 attack in 2001 that would precipitate "The Global War on Terror", (1) Bin Laden launched his first naval attack on America, the crippling bombing of the American Destroyer USS Cole. This deadly demonstration of the vulnerability of America's premier warships humiliated the American Navy on the eve of America's entry into his war. b) The devastating kamikaze-torpedo attack on this U.S. warship targeted the forward engine room and nearly sank the vessel. c) The USS Cole was part of the joint British-American naval embargo of Iraq, an operation to secure sea-based trade routes from smugglers seeking to evade the United Nations' embargo. THE JUNE 22 INVASION OF RUSSIA BY: NAPOLEON AND HITLER a) On the June 22 preceding the start of his world war in Year 24, Napoleon / Hitler launched an unprecedented surprise land invasion of Russia, the world's largest land-based empire, using the biggest invading army ever assembled. This eastward expansion of his European empire marked his most ambitious military campaign and most stunning provocation of a world war. b) Breaking the treaty he had signed with the Russian dictator, this openly treacherous invasion initiated Napoleon's / Hitler's infamous "total war" policy, a war strategy that dedicated the bulk of his empire's resources to a campaign of unrestrained aggression against Russia's military and civilian targets. As the world's most feared army traversed the main Eastern European roads from Warsaw to Moscow, the Russians confronted the greatest foreign threat to have ever faced their country, a menace that would reap the worst destruction of any calamity to date. c) In mid-August, two months into the invasion march Napoleon / Hitler was confronted with the decision of whether to concentrate the two-month old invasion in the head (St. Petersburg / Leningrad), the heart (Moscow) or the feet (Kiev / Stalingrad) of Russia. The weeklong delay he took deciding and the resulting misdirection of troops was time lost that turned out to be a decisive factor when, in the coming weeks during his Moscow campaign, Russia's notoriously brutal weather auspiciously intervened to aid the Russian resistance and defeat his invading army. d) At the height of his empire, Napoleon / Hitler failed in a colossal invasion of Russia and was forced into a devastating retreat from the Russian Steppes that ensured the inevitable collapse of his European empire under the Allied counterinvasion and the end to his world war in Year 27. a) On the June 22 preceding the start of his world war in 1812, Napoleon launched an unprecedented surprise land invasion of Russia, the world's largest land-based empire, using the biggest invading army ever assembled, the French Imperial Grand Army of half a million soldiers. This eastward expansion of Napoleon's European empire marked his most ambitious military campaign and most stunning provocation of a world war. b) Breaking the Treaty of Tilsit that Napoleon had signed with the Russian Czar Alexander I, this openly treacherous invasion initiated Napoleon's infamous "total war" policy, a war strategy that dedicated the bulk of his French empire's resources to a campaign of unrestrained aggression against Russian military and civilian targets. As the world's most feared army traversed the main Eastern European roads from Warsaw to Moscow, the Russians confronted the greatest foreign threat to have ever faced their country, a menace that would reap the worst destruction of any calamity to date. c) In Mid-August, two months into the invasion march Napoleon was confronted with the decision of whether to concentrate the two-month old invasion in the head (St. Petersburg / Leningrad), the heart (Moscow) or the feet (Kiev / Stalingrad) of Russia. The weeklong delay Napoleon took deciding and the resulting misdirection of troops was time lost that turned out to be a decisive factor in his failed bid to occupy Moscow in the coming weeks, which was successfully booby-trapped for Napoleon's unsuspecting occupying army by Russian soldiers to erupt in a firestorm, which in turn was assisted an auspicious wind storm. The destruction of the Moscow shelter from the Russian winter forced Napoleon's invading army to retreat and disintegrate. d) At the height of his empire, Napoleon failed in his colossal invasion of Russia and was forced into a devastating retreat from the Russian Steppes that ensured the inevitable collapse of his European empire in 1815 under the Allied counterinvasion. Napoleon's world war ended in 1815 with the conclusion of both this European front and the American front of the British-American war that Napoleon had slyly opened in 1812 through years of marine trade war. a) On the June 22 preceding the start of his world war in 1942, Hitler launched an unprecedented surprise land invasion of the Russian-dominated Soviet Union, the world's largest land-based empire, using the biggest invading army ever assembled. This eastward expansion of the Nazi European empire marked his most ambitious military campaign and most stunning provocation of a world war. b) Breaking the Non-Aggression Pact he had signed with the Soviet dictator Stalin, this openly treacherous invasion initiated Hitler's infamous "total war" policy, a war strategy that dedicated the bulk of his Nazi Empire's resources to a campaign of unrestrained aggression against Russian military and civilian targets. As the world's most feared army traversed the main Eastern European roads from Warsaw to Moscow, the Russians confronted the greatest foreign threat to have ever faced their country, a menace that would reap the worst destruction of any calamity to date. c) In Mid-August, two months into the invasion march Hitler was confronted with the decision of whether to concentrate the two-month old invasion in the head (St. Petersburg / Leningrad), the heart (Moscow) or the feet (Kiev / Stalingrad) of Russia. The weeklong delay Hitler took deciding and the resulting misdirection of troops was time lost that turned out to be a decisive factor in his failed bid to occupy Moscow in the coming weeks, as Russian fortifications and reinforcements coupled with the early onset of the brutal Russian winter to defeat the Nazis in the Battle for Moscow. The defeat of the Nazis at Moscow marked the turning point of the invasion, the first major Russian victory of the counter-invasion that would begin to repel the Nazi army in the following year. d) At the height of his empire, Hitler failed in his colossal invasion of Russia and was forced into a devastating retreat from the Russian Steppes that ensured the inevitable collapse of his European empire in 1945 under the Allied counterinvasion. WWII ended in 1945 with the conclusion of both this European front and the Pacific front of the Japanese-American war. THE START OF THE GLOBAL ANTI-SEMITIC WAR OF HITLER (THE HOLOCAUST) AND BIN LADEN Chapter under development. PEARL HARBOR AND 9/ 11 a) 5 Beginning in the ninth hour and ending in the tenth hour of the day in Year 23, America's foremost foreign adversary launched an unprecedented surprise aerial bombing attack inside the United States that killed approximately 2500 American citizens and provoked America's entry into the incipient world war's combat in Year 24. b) This attack was caused by recent U.S. naval developments, including the bombing of a USS Destroyer and the establishment of an American economic embargo of both this primary foreign adversary and a secondary fascist rival to the United States. c) America's culpability for its own entry into the world war revealed the U.S. administration's predisposition to declare a state of war in order to attack this secondary rival, an adversarial fascist warmonger against whom the United States was already engaged in a low-level military conflict. Accordingly, the 5 A more general parallel description encompasses the attack on the United States in 1811: In Year 23, America's foremost foreign adversary launched military attacks from off-land on thousands of U.S. citizens and provoked America's entry into combat in the incipient world war in Year 24. These attacks were caused by recent U.S. naval developments, including an attack on a USS warship and the establishment of a U.S. economic embargo of this foreign adversary. America's culpability for its own entry into the world war revealed the U.S. administration's predisposition to declare a state of war in order to attack a nation other than the perpetrator of the attack. Napoleon, Hitler and Bin Laden each played a critical role in instigating the United States to enter the world war. In 1811, America's foremost foreign adversary Great Britain launched a campaign of military attacks in the Atlantic Ocean on thousands of U.S. citizens manning the American merchant marine, forcefully impressing sailors into service in the British Navy and confiscating vessels and cargo. These maritime attacks were the principle provocation that led to America's entry into combat in the incipient world war in Year 24. These attacks were caused by recent U.S. naval developments, including an attack on a USS frigate that had escalated the U.S. naval war with Britain, as well as the establishment of a U.S. economic embargo of Britain in early 1811. America's culpability for its own entry into the world war revealed the Madison Administration's predisposition to declare a state of war in order to invade and conquer areas of Canada. Napoleon played a critical role in instigating the United States to enter the world war by carefully fomenting the U.S.-British trade conflict. primary target of the American retaliation was not the attacker, but rather this fascist regime that had no foreknowledge of the attack on America. d) Although this virulently anti-American regime had not committed a blatant act of war against America, the U.S. Administration focused its war effort against this fascist country largely because of exaggerated claims about the regime's nuclear weapons program stemming from a watershed development in the program in Year 20. a) Beginning in the ninth hour and ending in the tenth hour of the day in 1941, America's foremost foreign adversary launched the Pearl Harbor attack, an unprecedented surprise aerial bombing inside the United States by the Imperial Japanese air force that killed approximately 2500 American citizens and provoked America's entry into the incipient world war's combat in 1942. b) This attack was caused by recent U.S. naval developments, including the establishment of an American economic embargo of both the most imminent military opponent to the United States, Imperial Japan, and Hitler's fascist empire, along with beginning of crucial lend-lease shipments of U.S. war supplies to the leader of the Allied war against Hitler, Britain. In this context of Hitler's grievance against America's proxy economic aggression, two months before the Pearl Harbor attack, the public humiliation of the American Navy by Nazi Germany's bombing of the American Destroyer USS Kearny served to stoke the Japanese leadership's hopes of manipulating Hitler into a joint German-Japanese war against America. c) America's culpability for its own entry into WWII revealed the Roosevelt Administration's predisposition to declare a state of war in order to attack the Nazi Empire, a fascist warmonger who represented a secondary rival to America and who was already engaged in a low-level military conflict against the United States over U.S. economic support for the British war effort. Accordingly, the primary target of the American retaliation was not the attacker, but rather Hitler's fascist regime that had no foreknowledge of the Pearl Harbor attack, and Imperial Japan was designated as the secondary U.S. war objective. d) Although Hitler's virulently anti-American regime had not committed a blatant act of war against America, the U.S. administration focused its war effort against this fascist country largely because of exaggerated estimates by Albert Einstein, other leading nuclear physicists and war hawks in the Roosevelt Administration about the Nazi nuclear weapons program stemming from its watershed discovery of nuclear fission in 1938. a) Beginning in the ninth hour and ending in the tenth hour of the day in 2001, America's foremost foreign adversary launched the 9/11 attack, an unprecedented surprise aerial Kamikaze-bombing inside the United States by an Al Qaeda super-cell that killed approximately 2500 American citizens (along with hundreds of foreign nationals) and provoked America's entry into the incipient world war's combat in 2002. b) This attack was caused by recent U.S. naval developments, including the establishment of an American economic embargo of both the most imminent military opponent to the United States, Afghanistan-based Al Qaeda, and Saddam Hussein's fascist regime (that was meticulously modeled after Hitler's Nazi regime), a widely decried, punishing act of economic aggression on two Muslim nations that Al Qaeda and their Afghan-hosts the Taliban opportunistically seized upon as a public casus belli to escalate Al Qaeda's unprecedented international terrorist campaign against America with the 9/11 attack. America's indecisive, non-military retaliation for Al Qaeda's previous attacks allowed Al Qaeda to continue to unveil its war plan to provoke America into a globally decried military crusade in Muslim lands. This tactical error in America's war effort was compounded when the American administration refused to investigate vigorously or retaliate for the public humiliation of the American Navy by Al Qaeda's bombing of the American Destroyer USS Cole while on its way to enforce the Iraq embargo, a misstep that both botched a great opportunity to uncover the 9/11 plot and forced Bin Laden to embrace more catastrophic terrorism in order to provoke the American crusade he hoped secretly would swell his public support. c) America's culpability for its own entry into the 9/11 War (stemming from its aggressive foreign policy in the Middle East and the suspiciously incompetent U.S. intelligence failures that allowed the 9/11 plot to unfold unfettered) revealed the Bush Administration's predisposition to declare a state of war in order to attack Saddam Hussein, a fascist warmonger who represented a secondary rival to America and who was already engaged in a low-level military conflict against the United States over American enforcement of the economic sanctions and the No-Fly Zone inside Iraq. Accordingly, the primary target of the American retaliation was not the attacker, but rather Saddam Hussein's fascist regime that had no foreknowledge of the 9/11 attack, and Al Qaeda was designated as the secondary U.S. war objective to which the Bush Administration dedicated a small fraction of America's war machine compared to that dedicated to the Iraq War and thus has allowed Al Qaeda's high command to continue to direct its global terrorist empire six year after the 9/11 attack. d) Although Saddam Hussein's virulently anti-American regime had not committed a blatant act of war against America, the U.S. Administration focused its war effort against this fascist country largely because of exaggerated estimates by Iraqi dissidents, Al Qaeda agents and neo-conservative war hawks in the Bush Administration about Iraq's nuclear weapons program, claims fueled by the expulsion of the United Nations weapons inspectors from Iraq in 1998. The start of: THE WORLD WAR OF 1812, WORLD WAR II AND THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR a) In Year 24, one of history's three intentional world wars began because of the invasion Napoleon / Hitler / Bin Laden had launched against the world's largest empire on the previous June 22. b) This invasion was the culmination of his campaign to provoke the most powerful nations of the world to enter into direct military combat in the multi-continental war of his belligerent empire. These nations included the "Big Three" empires of modern Western civilization, the United States, Russia, and Great Britain, along with the rest of Europe. c) To confront the major powers aligned against him in Year 24, Napoleon / Hitler / Bin Laden fielded the world's strongest army, a seemingly indestructible military machine on the march for global domination. This reputation as the world's most feared army was a testament to his outstanding capabilities as a military innovator, having created this army in Year 8 from a meager, ragtag band of militants. d) In response to his blatant provocations, in Year 23 Great Britain, Russia and other nations formed a war coalition dedicated to the destruction of Napoleon's / Hitler's / Bin Laden's empire, an alliance that was officially promulgated in Year 24 at the onset of the world war. e) The world war would result three years later in the end of his 27-year career. a) In 1812, a world war began because of the invasion Napoleon had launched against the world's largest territorial empire on the previous June 22. b) This invasion of Russia was the culmination of Napoleon's campaign to provoke the most powerful nations of the world to enter into direct military combat in the multi-continental war of his belligerent French empire. These nations included the "Big Three" empires of modern Western civilization, the United States (entry in 1812 following Napoleon's fomentation of a U.S. - British naval conflict), Russia (entry in 1812 following Napoleon's invasion) and Great Britain (entry in 1803 following Napoleon's provocative treaty violations), along with the rest of Europe (nearly all the nations of which had entered by 1812). c) To confront the major powers aligned against him in 1812, Napoleon fielded the world's strongest army, the French Imperial Grand army. Consisting of nearly half a million soldiers and personally commanded by the world's foremost general, Napoleon's army was a seemingly indestructible military machine on the march for global domination. This reputation as the world's most feared army was a testament to his legendary capabilities as a military innovator, having created this army in 1796 from the meager, ragtag band of militants that constituted Revolutionary France's occupation army in Italy. d) In response to Napoleon's blatant provocations, in 1811 Great Britain, Russia and other nations formed a war coalition, initially predicated on Russia's reinitiating of trade with Britain in violation of Napoleon's Continental System, dedicated to the destruction of Napoleon's empire, an alliance that was officially promulgated under the title "The Sixth Coalition" in 1812 at the onset of the world war. e) The world war would result three years later in the end of Napoleon's 27-year career with the collapse of his empire and his permanent imprisonment. a) In 1942, a world war began because of the invasion Hitler had launched against the world's largest territorial empire on the previous June 22. b) This invasion of Russia was the culmination of Hitler's campaign to provoke the most powerful nations of the world to enter into direct military combat in the multi-continental war of his belligerent German empire. These nations included the "Big Three" empires of modern Western civilization, the United States (entry in 1942 following Hitler's declaration of war on America and the postPearl Harbor U.S. war mobilization), Russia (entry in 1941 following Hitler's invasion) and Great Britain (entry in 1939 following Hitler's invasion of ally Poland), along with the rest of Europe (nearly all the nations of which had officially entered by 1942). c) To confront the major powers aligned against him in 1942, Hitler fielded the world's strongest army, the Nazi war machine. Consisting of nearly one million soldiers armed with the world's most advanced weapons of war, Hitler's army was a seemingly indestructible military machine on the march for global domination. This reputation as the world's most feared army was a testament to his outstanding capabilities as a military innovator, having created this army in 1926 from the meager, ragtag band of militants that constituted the early SS paramilitary force. d) In response to Hitler's blatant provocations, in 1941 Great Britain, Russia and other nations formed a war coalition dedicated to the destruction of Hitler's empire, an alliance that was officially promulgated under the title "The Grand Alliance" in 1942 at the onset of the world war. e) The world war would result three years later in the end of Hitler's 27-year career with the collapse of his empire and his suicide. a) In 2002, a world war began because of the invasion Bin Laden had launched against the world's largest empire on the previous June 22. On this date, June 22, 2001, Bin Laden issued the global publication of his last public message before the 9/11 attack urging his people to "penetrate America and Israel and hit them where it hurts most". In response, U.S. intelligence agencies issued a high security alert and publicly warned of the threat of multiple spectacular Al Qaeda attacks. The 9/11 Commission later uncovered that this message was Bin Laden's final approval that initiated Al Qaeda's operational plot to invade secretly the United States and launch the largest terrorist attack in modern history, the 9/11 attack, two months laterxvi. b) This invasion of America was the culmination of Bin Laden's bid to provoke the most powerful nations of the world to enter into direct military combat in the multi-continental war of his belligerent stateless empire. These nations included the "Big Three" empires of modern Western civilization, the United States (entry in 2001 following the 9/11 attack), Russia (entry in 2002 marked by its formal alliance with NATO in the global war on Al Qaeda, which had initiated through its Chechen branch major terrorist attacks on Russia beginning in 1999), and Great Britain (entry in 2001 following the 9/11 attack on its ally America), along with the rest of Europe (nearly all the nations of which had joined the U.S. global war on Al Qaeda and had executed a counterterrorism campaign against a local Al Qaeda presence by the end of 2002). Importantly, the 2002 advent of the world war also marked Bin Laden's successful provocation of an American invasion of Iraq, which began unofficially in late 2002 with the Bush Administration's illegal escalation of the No-Fly Zone military conflict and the beginning of U.S. pre-invasion covert military operations inside Iraq. Inextricably intertwined with the 9/11 war against Al Qaeda, this new Iraqi conflict signaled the initiation of the Bush Administration's global war for the Project for the New American Century (www.newamericancentury.org) war for American global military domination (a neo-conservative group in control of Bush's foreign policy that advocates overlooking the immediate threat of Al Qaeda's high command in favor of militarily pursuing a decades-old plan penned by former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz that advocates American world domination through an aggressive military campaign beginning in oil-rich Iraq and Iran.) c) To confront the major powers aligned against him in 2002, Bin Laden fielded the world's strongest army, the global guerrilla empire of Al Qaeda, unleashing an unprecedented international terrorist campaign against its enemies. Consisting of thousands of covert terrorist operatives and a strategic nuclear advantage over America as a stateless terrorist empire, Bin Laden's army was a seemingly indestructible military machine on the march for global domination. This reputation as the world's most feared army was a testament to his outstanding capabilities as a military innovator, having created this army in 1986 from the meager, ragtag band of militants that constituted the Al Masadah Afghan mujahedin group. Although the current climate of war has obscured from public view Al Qaeda's success, this apocalyptic terrorist empire that was responsible for the cataclysmic 9/11 attack and a subsequent global reign of terror has demonstrated its resiliency by waging a successful war against the world's lone superpower for nearly fifteen years. Today unofficially shielded from American incursions by Pakistan's nuclear umbrella, Al Qaeda's high command is directing an empire that is surging with reach and influence. (For more on Al Qaeda's identity as the world's strongest army, see Bin Laden's Plan: The Project for the New Al Qaeda Century by David Malone, available at www.binladensplan.com) d) In response to Bin Laden's blatant provocations, most notably the 9/11 attack, in 2001 Great Britain, Russia and other nations formed a war coalition dedicated to the destruction of Bin Laden's empire, an alliance that was officially promulgated in 2002 at the onset of the world war when Russia formally allied with NATO in the war against Al Qaeda. e) Three years later the world war would end Bin Laden's 27-year career when his top deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri usurped his command of Al Qaeda. THE BURNING OF MOSCOW, THE BATTLE OF STALINGRAD AND THE MOSCOW THEATRE SIEGE a) In September-October of Year 24, Napoleon / Hitler / Bin Laden began the largest battle of his Russia invasion with an invasion of a major Russian city. b) Despite sustaining unprecedented casualties, Russia won the battle by destroying his entire army inside the city. a) In September-October of 1812, Napoleon began the largest battle of his French imperial invasion of Russia with the invasion of Moscow, beginning with the Battle of Borodino on the outskirts of Moscow and continuing with Napoleon's entry and occupation of the Russian capital. b) Russia sustained unprecedented casualties defending Moscow, including the destruction of the Russian capital and the dead and wounded from the Battle of Borodino. Nevertheless, czarist Russia won the battle for Moscow by burning the capital city while Napoleon's army was within it, destroying much of his army and forcing the remainder into a highly perilous total retreat at the onset of an early Russian winter. The repulsion of Napoleon's invasion allowed Russia to rebuild its capital and expand its empire westward. a) In September-October of 1942, Hitler began the largest battle of his Nazi invasion of Russia with the invasion of Stalingrad, the namesake of Russia's dictator. b) Despite sustaining the most casualties of any battle of WWII, Stalin's Russia won the battle by using Russia's wealth of manpower and Russia's U.S.-backed industrial might to produce the world's largest army and focus this military colossus on killing or capturing every Nazi soldier in Stalingrad. a) In September-October of 2002, Bin Laden began the largest battle of his covert terrorist invasion of Russia with his targeted terrorist invasion of Moscow, a siege of a major Muscovite theatre. In the largest single Islamic terrorist attack on Russia, Al Qaeda's Chechen branch seized nearly nine hundred civilians hostage and rigged the theatre with multiple high explosives. As this was the most fully and dramatically recorded terrorist battle in history, the Moscow theatre siege fulfilled the primary objective of the attack by having the greatest media impact of any of Al Qaeda's Chechen attacks on Russia. b) Despite sustaining an unprecedented death count for a modern terrorist attack in its capital city, Russian security forces killed the entire army of terrorists, disarmed the bombs and saved most of the hostages. Year 25 THE FALL OF: BENITO MUSSOLINI AND SADDAM HUSSEIN a) Hitler / Bin Laden had an epic relationship dominating a foreign dictator who was a rival-turned-ally, "Mussolini / Hussein". Ironically, Mussolini / Hussein rose to power and world fame over a decade before Hitler / Bin Laden. Publicly overflowing with a globally ridiculed ambition for world domination, Mussolini / Hussein was also a fascist warmonger guilty of some of the most notorious war crimes of the 20th century before even entering the influence of Hitler / Bin Laden. Most infamously, during his first military campaign as head of state Mussolini / Hussein ordered one of the few post-WWI military campaigns that employed the large-scale use of chemical weapons, targeting both military personnel and civilians. When the two future partners of fated mass destruction first met on the world stage as regional rivals, one an established world leader and the other an upstart dictator, their hostility towards each other was quickly superceded by a mutual belligerency against the leading Western empire. By the time of the start of the world war, Hitler / Bin Laden would tower above the WMD-using Mussolini / Hussein as his era's god of war, empowered with a seemingly invincible army and threatening unprecedented mass destruction with his shadowy nuclear weapons program that was complemented with an unstoppable bomb delivery vehicle. Bolstered with the forces of his new junior partner in military world domination, Hitler / Bin Laden was poised to defeat the leading Western empire and succeed in this Alexandrian quest. b) In Year 21, Hitler / Bin Laden entered a war pact that would propel Mussolini / Hussein into a world war in Year 24. c) In Year 25, this war quickly led to an overwhelming Anglo-American invasion that toppled Mussolini's / Hussein's brutal regime, captured and imprisoned the hated fascist tyrant, and in July of Year 25 established a new U.S.-backed provisional government to rule his nation. d) The leadership of the military opposition to this occupying Anglo-American army was quickly usurped from Mussolini's / Hussein's faltering army by Hitler's / Bin Laden's fearsome army. In a public reflection of this fateful end to their sea-saw relationship, during his imprisonment Mussolini / Hussein served as a puppet leader for Hitler's / Bin Laden's propaganda war against the AngloAmerican military occupation of Mussolini's / Hussein's country that Hitler / Bin Laden had provoked. e) The eventual grisly execution of Mussolini / Hussein by a vengeful group of partisan victims of his criminal regime was a tribute to the brutal fascist reign immortalized in the image of his corpse hanging from an iron scaffold. f) Mussolini / Hussein began his ill-fated reign as head of state by seizing power in a coup d' etat during the early years of the incipient regional political revolution. Bolstered by a war pact he had forged with the leading Western power, Mussolini / Hussein rose within the reactionary wing of the revolution by espousing the political doctrine of fascism on the foundation of combating infiltration by foreign enemies of the state, particularly communist revolutionaries, through uncompromising national security measures. Ironically, Mussolini / Hussein made common use of terrorist tactics to facilitate his political rise to become his nation's prime minister. g) Following Mussolini's / Hussein's infamous use of chemical weapons in his first military invasion of a foreign country as head of state, the acting world government was unable to penalize the fascist aggressor for this gross violation of international law largely because of opposition by the leader of the West. h) Riding unchecked by international law, this savage warmonger marched onward in his quest for world domination to launch another war and quickly stumble into a series of humiliating military losses in both conflicts. Mussolini's / Hussein's consecutive defeats in his invasions of two far weaker nations vividly portrayed a laughable bid at world domination by a bumbling Caesar-pretender seemingly destined for a cataclysmic fall from power within the gathering storm of the imminent world war. a) Hitler had an epic relationship dominating a foreign dictator who was a rival-turned-ally, Benito Mussolini. Ironically, Mussolini rose to power and world fame over a decade before Hitler. Publicly overflowing with a globally ridiculed ambition to conquer the world and recreate the Roman Empire, Mussolini was also a fascist warmonger guilty of some of the most notorious war crimes of the 20th century before even entering the influence of Hitler. Most infamously, during his first military campaign as Italy's head of state Mussolini ordered one of the few post-WWI military campaigns that employed the large- scale use of chemical weapons, targeting both military personnel and civilians in Ethiopia. When the two future partners of fated mass destruction first met on the world stage as regional rivals, Mussolini an established world leader and Hitler an upstart dictator, their hostility towards each other's territorial expansion plans and claims as the rightful heir to the Roman Empire was quickly superceded by a mutual belligerency against the leading Western empire, Great Britain. By the time of the start of WWII, Hitler would tower above the WMD-using Mussolini as his era's god of war, empowered with the seemingly invincible Nazi war machine and threatening unprecedented mass destruction with the shadowy Nazi nuclear weapons program that was complemented with an unstoppable bomb delivery vehicle, the Nazi V-2 rocket, the world's first intercontinental ballistic missile. Bolstered with the forces of his now-junior partner in military world domination, Hitler was poised to defeat Great Britain and succeed in this Alexandrian quest. b) In 1939, Hitler and Mussolini entered the war pact "The Pact of Steel" that would propel Mussolini into a regional war months later when Hitler invaded Poland in late 1939. This war pact would soon draw Mussolini into a world war in 1942 when his ally Hitler initiated a single war against Britain, Russia and America. c) In 1943, this war quickly led to an overwhelming Anglo-American invasion that toppled Mussolini's brutal Italian regime, helped to capture and imprison the hated fascist tyrant, and in July of 1943 established a new provisional government to rule Italy that quickly acquired the backing of the United States. d) The leadership of the military opposition to this occupying Anglo-American army was quickly usurped from Mussolini's faltering Italian army by Hitler's fearsome Nazi army. In a public reflection of this fateful end to their sea-saw relationship, during his imprisonment Mussolini served as a puppet leader for Hitler's propaganda war against the Anglo-American military occupation of Mussolini's country that Hitler had provoked. e) The eventual grisly execution of Mussolini by a vengeful group of partisan victims of his criminal regime was a tribute to the brutal fascist reign immortalized in the infamously vindictive scene of his corpse hanging from an iron scaffold. f) Mussolini began his ill-fated reign as Italy's head of state by seizing power in a coup d' etat during the early years of the incipient anti-Versailles political revolution (a broadly based revolution that included the Italian Fascist Revolution). As a WWI military hero in Italy's victorious alliance with the leading Western power, Great Britain, Mussolini's political career was bolstered by his public image as a leading proponent for Italy's war reparations. Mussolini rose within the reactionary wing of the Italian fascist revolution by espousing the political doctrine of fascism on the foundation of combating infiltration by foreign enemies of the state, particularly communist revolutionaries, through uncompromising national security measures. Ironically, Mussolini made common use of terrorist tactics to facilitate his political rise to become Italy's prime minister. g) Following Mussolini's infamous use of chemical weapons in his first military invasion of a foreign country as Italy's head of state, the League of Nations was unable to penalize the fascist aggressor for this gross violation of international law largely because of Great Britain's obstruction of the penal measure (in a bid to facilitate the creation of a British-Italian alliance against Nazi Germany based on Hitler's encroachment on Austria and Czechoslovakia). h) Riding unchecked by international law, the savage warmonger Mussolini marched onward in his quest for world domination to launch another war and quickly stumble into a series of humiliating military losses in his two wars in Ethiopia and Albania/Greece. Mussolini's consecutive defeats in his invasions of these two far weaker nations vividly portrayed a laughable bid at world domination by a bumbling Caesar-pretender seemingly destined for a cataclysmic fall from power within the gathering storm of the imminent world war. a) Bin Laden had an epic relationship dominating a foreign dictator who was a rival-turned-ally, Saddam Hussein. Ironically, Hussein rose to power and world fame over a decade before Bin Laden. Publicly overflowing with a globally ridiculed ambition to dominate the world by conquering the energy-rich Middle East, Hussein was also a fascist warmonger guilty of some of the most notorious war crimes of the 20th century before even entering the influence of Bin Laden and his apocalyptic war. Most infamously, during his first military campaign as head of state Hussein ordered one of the few post-WWI military campaigns that employed the large-scale use of chemical weapons, targeting both military personnel and civilians in the Iraq-Iran War. When the two future partners of fated mass destruction first met on the world stage as regional rivals, Hussein an established world leader and Bin Laden an upstart dictator of a stateless empire, their hostility towards each other's claims as the undisputed leader of the Arab resistance to American aggression was quickly superceded by a mutual belligerency against the leading Western empire, the United States. By the time of the start of the American-led Global War on Terror, Bin Laden would tower above the WMD-using Hussein as his era's god of war, empowered with a seemingly invincible army that was invisible, immune to nuclear weapons and able to quickly regenerate and launch cataclysmic terrorist attacks globally. In particular, Bin Laden threatened unprecedented mass destruction with Al Qaeda's shadowy nuclear weapons acquisition program that was complemented with an unstoppable bomb delivery vehicle, a covert global guerrilla terrorist network. Bolstered with the forces of his new junior partner in military world domination following the American invasion of Iraq, Bin Laden was poised to defeat America and succeed in this Alexandrian quest through nuclear terrorism. b) In 1999, Bin Laden entered a war pact with his state sponsor Mullah Omar of the Afghan Taliban that initiated Al Qaeda's 9/11 plot6. The main objective of the 9/11 plot was to provoke covertly an American invasion of the primary 6 Many authoritative investigative sources, including the 9/11 Commission, have formally concluded that the 9/11 plot was initiated in 1999. Although there is less direct evidence of a war pact between Bin Laden and Omar in 1999, it is unlikely that Bin Laden could reasonably hope to conceal the 9/11 plot from his state sponsor throughout the two years that it took to execute the plot. Any appearance of such a colossal deception of his Taliban hosts could have fatally ruptured a vital alliance that appears to have only strengthened over time. Bin Laden's only recourse in this situation would have been to inform Omar of the plot upon its inception, as he apparently did judging by the seemingly unbreakable alliance that the Taliban and Al Qaeda share today. target in the main theatre of contemporary U.S. military aggression, Hussein's regime in the No-Fly Zone conflict. Bin Laden expeditiously initiated this plot in the wake of Operation Desert Fox, the largest American military campaign against Iraq since the 1991 Gulf War. Bin Laden's 1999 war pact that climaxed in the 9/11 attack in turn propelled Hussein into the American-led Global War on Terror in 2002 when the Bush Administration secretly initiated war against Iraq by beginning covert special military operations inside Iraq and illegally escalating the Anglo-American No-Fly Zone bombing campaign against Iraq in prelude to the official inception of the invasion. Bin Laden's efforts were rewarded with the fulfillment of his widely publicized 1998 prediction (albeit made with inside information) about an imminent U.S. invasion of Iraq that would be "the best proof" of his casus belli against America. (For more on how Bin Laden intentionally provoked the Iraq invasion in order to facilitate his public relations war against America, see Bin Laden's Plan: The Project for the New American Century by: David Malone, available at www.BinLadensPlan.com) c) In 2003, this war quickly led to an overwhelming Anglo-American invasion that toppled Hussein's brutal Iraqi regime, captured and imprisoned the hated fascist tyrant, and in July of 2003 established a new U.S.-backed provisional government to rule Iraq. d) The leadership of the military opposition to this occupying Anglo-American army was quickly usurped from Hussein's faltering Iraqi army by Bin Laden's fearsome Al Qaeda army. This transition during the spring and summer of 2003 was marked by the disintegration of Saddam's conventional forces and the beginning of Al Qaeda's leadership of the Sunni Iraqi insurgency through the war's most catastrophic terrorist bombing attacks against both the AngloAmerican occupation and the Shiite Iraqi support for the U.S.-backed Iraqi government, marked in August 2003 by the Baghdad United Nations building bombing that assassinated the chief U.N. envoy and the Najaf mosque bombing that assassinated a top Iraqi Shiite Ayatollah. In a public reflection of this fateful end to their sea-saw relationship, during his imprisonment (by an American military scandalized by concurrent, widespread incidents of prisoner abuse in Iraq) and trial (by a Shiite-dominated court) Hussein's predictably fiery rhetoric and public "martyrdom" helped him to serve as a puppet Sunni leader for Bin Laden's central propaganda war against the Anglo-American military occupation of Hussein's country that Bin Laden had provoked with the 9/11 attack. During Hussein's trial and execution by a U.S.-backed court, America's reputation was particularly devastated by the fact that the United States was complicit in virtually every major crime for which Saddam and his subordinates faced indictment, from torturing prisoners to aggressive war with Iran to mass murder of Iraqi civilians to building and using chemical and biological weapons. e) The eventual grisly execution of Hussein by a vengeful jailhouse of Shiite partisan victims of his criminal Sunni regime was a tribute to the brutal fascist reign immortalized in the image of his corpse hanging from an iron scaffold. f) Hussein began his ill-fated reign as Iraq's head of state by seizing power in a coup d' etat during the incipient regional Islamic political revolution. His power was soon bolstered by a war pact he forged with the leading Western power, America, to wage war on the anti-U.S. Iranian regime in return for American financial, military and political support. Hussein rose within the reactionary wing of the Islamic revolution by espousing the political doctrine of secular fascism on the foundation of combating infiltration by foreign enemies of the state, particularly communist revolutionaries (as well as Israelis and Iranians), through uncompromising national security measures. Ironically, Hussein made common use of terrorist tactics to facilitate his political rise to become Iraq's prime minister. g) Following Hussein's infamous use of chemical weapons in his first military invasion of a foreign country as Iraq's head of state, the United Nations was unable to penalize the fascist aggressor for this gross violation of international law largely because of opposition by the American administration (pursuant to Reagan's pledge to provide political cover for the U.S. proxy war against Iran). h) Riding unchecked by international law, the savage warmonger Hussein marched onward in his quest for world domination to launch another war and quickly stumble into a series of humiliating military losses in both Iran and Kuwait. Hussein's consecutive defeats in his invasions of two far weaker nations vividly portrayed a laughable bid at world domination by a bumbling Caesar-pretender seemingly destined for a cataclysmic fall from power within the gathering storm of the imminent world war. The start of THE ALLIED LIBERATION OF EUROPE FROM THE EMPIRE OF: NAPOLEON AND HITLER a) In late Year 25, the Allies began a two-year, multi-front counter-invasion of Europe to liberate the continent from the tyrannical empire of Napoleon / Hitler. This turning point in the world war was marked by decisive Allied victories over Napoleon's / Hitler's army in both the western and eastern European fronts, the latter of which was the largest conventional (non-urban) battle of the three-year conflict. b) In response to the massive counter-invasion, in Year 25 the nation of Napoleon's / Hitler's chief ally abandoned its war pact with him and sided with the invading Allies, dramatically weakening Napoleon's / Hitler's ability to repel the invasion. c) In early Year 26, the counter-invasion escalated when a successful Allied invasion of France opened a central front of the world war that ensured the collapse of Napoleon's / Hitler's European empire by the spring of Year 27. a) In late 1813, the Allies began a two-year, multi-front counter-invasion of Europe to liberate the continent from Napoleon's tyrannical empire. This turning point in the World War of 1812 was marked by decisive Allied victories over Napoleon's army in both the western and eastern European fronts. In late 1813, the Allies achieved stunning victories over Napoleon's army in both the Peninsular War on the western front and the Battle of Nations on the eastern front, the largest conventional (non-urban) battle of the three-year conflict. b) In response to the massive counter-invasion, in 1813 Napoleon's chief ally Austria abandoned its war pact with him and sided with the invading Allies, dramatically weakening Napoleon's ability to raise a large enough army to repel the invasion. c) In early 1814, the counter-invasion escalated when a successful Allied invasion of Napoleonic France opened a central front of the world war, forcing Napoleon's first abdication and ensuring the collapse of Napoleon's European empire following the Battle of Waterloo in the spring of 1815. a) In late 1943, the Allies began a two-year, multi-front counter-invasion of Europe to liberate the continent from Hitler's tyrannical empire. This turning point in the world war was marked by decisive Allied victories over Hitler's army in both the western and eastern European fronts. In late 1943, the Allies achieved stunning victories over Hitler's army in both the invasion of Italy on the western front and the Battle of Kursk on the eastern front, the latter of which was the largest conventional (non-urban) battle of the three-year conflict. Also in 1943, the counter-invasion was marked by a large escalation in the Allied aerial bombing campaign of Germany, producing the world's first manmade firestorm in Hamburg, Germany. b) In response to the massive counter-invasion, in 1943 Hitler's chief ally Italy abandoned its war pact with him and sided with the invading Allies, opening a dreaded two-front invasion of Hitler's European empire that the war-depleted Nazi military could not repel. c) In early 1944, the counter-invasion escalated when the successful Allied D-Day invasion of France opened a central front of the world war that ensured the collapse of Hitler's European empire by the spring of 1945. Year 26 NAPOLEON'S FIRST ABDICATION AND THE BOMB PLOT TO KILL HITLER a) In Year 26, the last bastion of internal resistance to Napoleon's / Hitler's rule responded to the dire war situation by launching a coup d' etat to overthrow his regime permanently. b) Though damaging, Napoleon / Hitler miraculously survived the coup and reestablished power, continuing the world war until the following year. a) In 1814, the last bastion of internal resistance to Napoleon's rule, the senior Parisian politicians led by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, responded to the Allied invasion of France by launching a political coup d' etat to overthrow Napoleon's regime permanently. Napoleon was forced to abdicate his imperial throne and enter imprisonment on the island of Elba. b) Though damaging, Napoleon miraculously survived the coup by escaping imprisonment, reestablishing power and continuing the world war with one last military campaign that ended with his defeat at Waterloo the following year. a) In 1944, the last bastion of internal resistance to Hitler's rule was the covert opposition within the German military leadership founded by the former head of the German army's intelligence division, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris. In the wake of the Allied D-Day invasion, this group of German army officers responded to the dire war situation of two rapidly advancing Allied invasion fronts by launching a military coup d' etat to overthrow Hitler's regime permanently and negotiate a surrender to the Allies. Detonating a bomb next to Hitler and a number of his military staff, the plotters hoped to assassinate Hitler, disrupt communications between his headquarters and the Nazi capital, and use army forces stationed in Berlin to immobilize the SS internal security forces and capture the top Nazi leaders. b) Though damaging, Hitler miraculously survived the bomb-blast coup and quickly reestablished power, continuing the world war until the Allied capture of Berlin the following year. Year 27 THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO AND THE BATTLE OF BERLIN a) In the spring of Year 27, a massive Allied army surrounded and defeated Napoleon / Hitler in the European conflict's final battle and established a military occupation in his capital city. This epic climactic battle marked the end of his world war, empire and regime, as well as his country's 27-year-old revolution. b) Along with Napoleon's / Hitler's defeat, in Year 27 the end of the world war was distinguished by America's separate victory in its own theatre of the war. a) In the spring of 1815, the massive Allied army surrounded and defeated Napoleon in the European conflict's final battle, the Battle of Waterloo, and established a military occupation of his capital city Paris. This epic climactic battle marked the end of his world war, French Empire and Bonaparte regime, as well as France's 27-year-old revolution. b) Along with Napoleon's defeat, in 1815 the end of the World War of 1812 was marked by America's separate victory in its own theatre of the war against the British in North America at the Battle of New Orleans. a) In the spring of 1945, the massive Allied army surrounded and defeated Hitler in the European conflict's final battle, the Battle of Berlin, and established a military occupation of his capital city Berlin. This epic climactic battle marked the end of his world war, German empire, Nazi regime and ended Germany's 27-year-old revolution. b) Along with Hitler's defeat, in 1945 the end of WWII was marked by America's separate victory in its own theatre of the war against the Japanese in the Pacific. THE FALL OF: NAPOLEON, HITLER AND BIN LADEN? In the spring of Year 27, the political-military career of Napoleon / Hitler / Bin Laden ended when he fell from power. In the spring of 1815, Napoleon's political-military career ended when he fell from power as the French emperor and was permanently imprisoned on the island of St. Helena. In the spring of 1945, the Hitler's political-military career ended when he fell from power as Germany's emperor and committed suicide. Did Bin Laden's career end in 2005 when his top deputy, Ayman alZawahiri, usurped command of the Al Qaeda's terrorist empire? For the first time since the start of his global media campaign in the mid-1990's, Al Qaeda allowed a full year to pass without releasing a message from Bin Laden in 2005. Was this a sign of his removal from power? Was Zawahiri's apparent alteration in Al Qaeda's public relations strategy in 2006 to replace Bin Laden as its most supreme symbolic leader with the Taliban's leader Mullah Omar an alteration in Bin Laden's central objective to portray the Muslim Messiah of Apocalypse mythology? The creation of: THE CONCERT OF EUROPE AND THE UNITED NATIONS a) In the spring of Year 27, Napoleon's / Hitler's defeated nation accepted an unconditional surrender to the Allies. Later that year, the victorious coalition promulgated a restorative treaty to end the world war and preserve international peace within the context of a new world government. b) Also established in Year 27, this congress of nations began its mission to maintain global stability by restoring legitimate pre- Napoleon / Hitler European governments and defining national spheres of influence. c) In the wake of the most cataclysmic human rights violations in modern history, including Napoleon's / Hitler's aggressive warfare and mass implementation of slavery in conquered territories, the new world government needed to establish an ethical foundation for its rule. In addition to outlawing aggressive war on member-nations, this new, wiser world order distinguished the moral legitimacy of its own rule with the institution of a landmark human rights accord in Year 27. a) In the spring of 1815, Napoleon's defeated France accepted an unconditional surrender to the Allies. Later that year, the victorious coalition promulgated the restorative Treaty of Paris to end the World War of 1812 and preserve international peace within the context of the new world government named the Concert of Europe. b) Also established in 1815, this congress of nations began its mission to maintain global stability by restoring legitimate pre- Napoleonic European governments and defining national spheres of influence. c) In the wake of the most cataclysmic human rights violations in modern history, including Napoleon's aggressive warfare and mass implementation of slavery, the Concert of Europe needed to establish an ethical foundation for its rule. In addition to outlawing aggressive war inside Europe, this new, wiser world order distinguished the moral legitimacy of its own rule with the formal condemnation of slavery in 1815, a landmark human rights accord that initiated the modern abolitionist movement. a) In the spring of 1945, Hitler's defeated Germany accepted an unconditional surrender to the Allies. Later that year, the victorious coalition promulgated the restorative Potsdam Agreement to end WWII and preserve international peace within the context of the new world government named the United Nations. b) Also established in 1945, this congress of nations began its mission to maintain global stability by restoring legitimate pre- Hitler European governments and defining national spheres of influence. This new world order functioned in the backdrop of the Cold War stalemate between America and the Soviet Union, also begun in 1945. c) In the wake of the most cataclysmic human rights violations in modern history, including Hitler's aggressive warfare and mass implementation of genocidal slavery in conquered territories, the United Nations needed to establish an ethical foundation for its rule. In addition to outlawing aggressive war globally, this new, wiser world order distinguished the moral legitimacy of its own rule with the establishment in 1945 of the World Court to prosecute the newly termed high crime, "crime against humanity", a landmark human rights accord that initiated the modern human rights movement. The start of THE "NEW WORLD ORDER" COUNTERREVOLUTION TO THE 3-YEAR-OLD WORLD WAR OF: NAPOLEON, HITLER AND BIN LADEN a) Geopolitical Revolution: In Year 27, one of the great geopolitical revolutions of the modern age began, with fronts in America, Europe and the Middle East. After three years of world war, the victorious belligerents launched this revolution to reorganize international spheres of influence in a bid at stabilized global governance. b) Once again, Napoleon's / Hitler's / Bin Laden's nation was an epicenter of a major geopolitical revolution. This climactic revolution marked a dramatic reversal in the momentum of both the 3-year-old world war and the continuing Year 1 revolutionary movement that began Napoleon's / Hitler's / Bin Laden's career. a) In 1815, the beginning of the Post-Napoleonic Revolution was marked by the establishment of the new world order of the American Monroe doctrine (officially promulgated years later) and the Concert of Europe. Following the conclusion of the 3-year-old World War of 1812, the victor-nations launched this revolution to reorganize international spheres of influence in a bid at stabilized global governance. In the Middle East, the solidification of the European alliance against the Ottoman Empire initiated an age of perennial Western encroachment in the region that would erode and destroy Ottoman influence by WWI. In a major symbolic milestone for the age-old conflict between the Western and Islamic worlds, the Concert of Europe would soon liberate from Muslim rule the Greece cradle of Western civilization. b) Once again, France was an epicenter of a major geopolitical revolution. This climactic revolution marked a dramatic reversal in the momentum of both the 3year-old world war and the continuing 1789 French revolutionary movement that began Napoleon's career. a) In 1945, the beginning of the Post-WWII Revolution was marked by the establishment of the new world order of the United Nations and the Cold War. Following the conclusion of the 3-year-old WWII, the victor-nations launched this revolution to reorganize international spheres of influence in a bid at stabilized global governance led by the two superpowers. In the Middle East, the division of the world into the two Cold War camps combined with the beginning of the post-Holocaust Israel foundation to spread the Post-WWII Revolution throughout the region. This revolution included the 1945 creation of the pivotal American-Saudi alliance, the exchange of U.S. military support in return for cheap Saudi oil that sustained America's petrol-driven empire and helped to precipitate the modern American war against Islamic terrorism. This 1945 regional revolution was also marked the Arab Nationalist Revolution, including 1) the establishment of the League of Arab States, and 2) the beginning of the Baath party's Arab fascist revolution, which would climax half a century later in Saddam Hussein's Iraqi dictatorship. b) Once again, Germany was an epicenter of a major geopolitical revolution. This climactic revolution marked a dramatic reversal in the momentum of both the 3year-old world war and the continuing 1919 German revolutionary movement that began Hitler's career. a) In 2005, the beginning of the "Clash of Civilizations" polarization counterrevolution to the American-led Global War on Islamic Terrorism was marked by a broad radicalization of the governments in America, Israel, Russia and throughout the Middle East. After three years of world war, the expansion of a seemingly imperial American war was preempted by the crystallization of an anti-American revolution, signaling the failure of the American public relations war against Al Qaeda, the rise of radical Islamic governments and the public reemergence of Al Qaeda. In the context of America's unfinished 9/11 War and the United Nations' failure to restrain American aggression, this political counterbalance to American military might represented a bid at stabilized global conflict. In America, this polarization revolution was triggered by the radicalization of American government with the inception of the second Bush term, highlighted by the start of a covert American war against Iran in June of 2005 and the initiation of the Bush Administration's diplomatic prelude to the official start of the Iran war. Also in 2005, the global revelation of the Bush Administration's lies and imperial motives that provoked the Iraq War (including the infamous Downing Street Memos) combined with inception of an Iraqi civil war to cripple America's international reputation. In the context of the American public's election-endorsement of the Bush Administration's blatantly imperial post-9/11 New World Order, the beginning of an even more belligerent American presidential term precipitated America's loss in the public relations war against Al Qaeda. In Israel, this polarization revolution was triggered by the radicalization of the Israeli government with the inception of Ariel Sharon's "disengagement" policy, marked by the Israeli exodus from Palestinian territories (including a total evacuation from the Gaza Strip and a partial withdrawal from West Bank) in prelude to an expansion of the Israeli war on the Palestinian government and Lebanese Hezbollah. In Russia, this polarization revolution was triggered by the radicalization of the Russian government in response to the continuation of Bush's antiRussian presidency, marked by an increase in antagonism towards Russia by the Cold War hawks in White House, including the deployment of the controversial American anti-missile system around Russia and the political opposition to Russian assistance for Iran's nuclear industry. The resultant increased belligerency of the Russian government, including increased usage of oil and gas supplies as an economic weapon and increased development of Russia's nuclear arsenal, threatened a new Cold War and fractured the alliance of the two superpowers in the war against Al Qaeda. In Europe, Al Qaeda's first attack on Europe's leadership coupled with Islamist riots in France to crystallize the clash of Western and Islamic civilizations. In the Middle East, the rising tide of anti-American sentiment was manifested in milestone democratic elections throughout the region that led to the election of Islamic terrorist groups to ruling national governments and dramatically increased the political influence of radical Islam, including the elections of: the Muslim brotherhood in Egypt, Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in the Palestinian territories (concluded in the opening days of 2006), and President Ahmadinejad in Iran. Additionally, the creation of governments in Afghanistan and Iraq constitutionally based on Islamic law (Sharia) signaled the spread of radical Islamic government. In addition to democratic victories, radical Islam dramatically shifted the momentum of the war against the United States in the Middle East in 2005 with a galvanization of the Al Qaeda-led insurgencies against the two American occupations. In Afghanistan, the beginning of the ongoing Taliban resurgence reversed widespread jubilation over the recent inauguration of Afghanistan's first democratically elected government, now threatened with Taliban control of a majority of the countryside. Similarly in Iraq, the inception of a civil war combined with the dramatic escalation of Iraq's Zarqawi-led insurgency to reverse the widespread jubilation over Iraq's first democratic elections. More powerfully than any purely political developments, these military reversals fueled the radicalization of the Middle East in 2005. Within the stateless empire of Al Qaeda, the anti-American revolution triggered Al Qaeda's high command's public reemergence as a command control center for the global terrorist empire based in Pakistan, marked by its unobscured association to the London bombings. Following Al Qaeda's apparent success in provoking a clash of civilizations, the high command's public reemergence signals its intention to resume its overt military offensive against the United States after allowing anti-American sentiment to rise for four years. b) Once again, Afghanistan was an epicenter of a major geopolitical revolution. This climactic revolution marked a dramatic reversal in the momentum of both the 3-year-old world war and the continuing 1979 Islamic revolutionary movement that began Bin Laden's career. CONCLUSION The parallel career chronology of world-war provocateurs constitutes an epic historical coincidence. Statistical theory itself seems challenged by the earthshaking consequences of the highlighted events and the miraculous improbability that such a highly unique 27-year career could be repeated in this precise and rigidly sequential manner. The causes and consequences of this great mystery warrant investigation not merely to satisfy human curiosity but to probe a prospective boon to America’s ideological war against Al Qaeda. Most urgently, what does Osama bin Laden's historical alignment with Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolf Hitler reveal about the scale of his threat and the nature of his intentions? Threat? Is stateless nuclear terrorism the next revolution in blitzkrieg warfare? Does Al Qaeda’s military capability as a global nuclear power immune to nuclear counterattack anoint Bin Laden as a worthy successor to the military juggernauts Napoleon and Hitler? Is such powerful status also represented by Al Qaeda’s ability to withstand for eight years the superpower’s post-9/11 counterattack while waging an unprecedented global terrorist campaign in the meantime? The high command aside, do the tens of millions of supporters behind Al Qaeda’s global insurgency constitute an existential threat to America? Intentions? In 1799 Napoleon waged war on the infamous plain of Armageddon in an apocalyptic bid to create the modern state of Israel. Years later, Napoleon presented himself as the Messiah of Judeo-Christian apocalyptic mythology and then provoked a world war to conquer civilization on this basis. During the next coming of a world-war provocateur, Hitler portrayed himself as his culture’s Messiah and then launched a war that culminated in his bid to enact the Nordic vision of the Apocalypse (Valhalla) in 1945 Berlin. Is Bin Laden another suicidal megalomaniac who provoked a world war in a bid to trigger the Apocalypse and portray himself as the awaited Messiah who conquers humanity and creates paradise on Earth? Will Bin Laden’s ideologically based empire lose its public support, and eventually its existence, if its leader is widely vilified as a self-serving, mass-murdering Messiah pretender akin to Hitler? Return to Table of Contents References Note: The large body of facts included in this comparative historical analysis involves famous events in world history that do not require bibliographical citations. The below references have been provided for those few events in this examination that are more obscure. i The Road to Al Qaeda by Montasser al-Zayyat, 2004; http://intelwire.egoplex.com/2006_09_27_exclusives.html ii The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright, 2006, pgs. 88,92,146-7. iii The Road to Al Qaeda by Montasser al-Zayyat, 2004, p.65-66, 69. iv www.cnn.com/2002/world/europe/10/26/binladen.will/index.html v The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright, 2006, p. 173. vi Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll, 2004, p. 87-88, 153, 155, 212; http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/interviews/bearden.html vii Napoleon and the Awakening of Europe by Felix Markham, 1975, p.42-3, 53, 91-95. viii Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll, 2004, p. 203-204; http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/interviews/bearden.html ix U.S. FUNDING CUTS TO AFGHANISTAN: Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror by Richard Clarke, 2004, p.52-52; Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll, 2004, p. 216,220,227,233-235, 264; http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/interviews/bearden.html ; U.S. INDIFFERENCE TO STABILIZING AFGHANISTAN: Ghost Wars by Steve Coll, p. 196, 208-210, 217. x www.traveldocs.com/af/economy.htm xi Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll, 2004, p. 216. xii Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll, 2004, p. 233. xiii Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll, 2004, p. 203,211-212. xiv Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll, 2004, p. 203-204. xv Much of this information about the establishment of Al Qaeda's international empire in 1994 is available in the: The 9/11 Commission Report, electronic version (Microsoft Reader format), p. 189, 294. Also see The New Jackals by Simon Reeve, 1999. xvi The 9/11 Commission Report, electronic version (Microsoft Reader format), p. 654, 668-669.