From The Australian. Stop the phony war on terror! Failure to call out the big lie, the war on terror, now threatens to plunge the world deeper into the very war promised on the PNAC website. The one Cheney says will not end in our lifetimes. ... Saudi Arabia could be next. Here is the cover story revealed from down under. How long will it be till we act based on the "evidence" below?
Saudi secret service 'riddled' with al-Qa'ida
From The Times
July 06, 2004
SAUDI Arabia's intelligence agencies are so infiltrated by al-Qa'ida sympathisers that the kingdom's counter-terrorist campaign is failing and militant operations are spreading into neighbouring states, senior Arab and Western officials have warned.
The main Saudi intelligence organisation responsible for combating al-Qa'ida at the Interior Ministry is riddled with agents linked to the militants, the officials say.
"Their staff is 80 per cent sympathetic to al-Qa'ida," one senior Arab source said.
"All Saudi intelligence agencies are compromised. To fight al-Qa'ida they will need to start from scratch. I'm not hopeful the Saudis will win this one."
The level of penetration in the security forces is highlighted by the number of former police and military men on the Interior Ministry's list of the 26 most-wanted terrorists. They include Othman al-Amri, a former sergeant, who was No21 on the list and handed himself in last week as part of a royal amnesty, and Saleh al-Oufi, the leader of an al-Qa'ida cell, who is a former police officer.
Saudi Arabia has been shaken by a series of terrorist attacks over the past year that have targeted foreign workers. Now there is evidence the campaign of suicide bombings, kidnappings and shootings is spreading from the kingdom to neighbouring countries, where many expatriates have moved for safety.
The Pentagon is preparing to evacuate 650 non-essential personnel and families from Bahrain, where the US Fifth Fleet is based.
The US embassy in Manama has urged all US citizens to consider leaving Bahrain because of "information" that extremists are planning attacks against US and other Western interests.
"I'm most concerned about Bahrain. If I was a Bahraini, I would worry," said a senior Arab official from one of Saudi Arabia's neighbours.
"After that, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates are also vulnerable."
Evidence has emerged that Saudi Arabia is al-Qa'ida's main regional hub for recruiting, training, funding and arming its militant cells.
Several Saudi volunteers who slipped across the border into Iraq have been killed fighting US forces in the Iraqi city of Fallujah.
Militants on both sides of the border have adopted identical tactics, such as suicide bombings, beheading Western hostages and dragging victims behind cars.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,10053683%5E2703,00.html
Please read:
There are not many certainties in this business. Saudi Defense Minister Prince Sultan swears in public that Saudi Arabia "is not a target for al-Qaeda", but he is nevertheless holding seven al-Qaeda suspects, six Saudis and a Sudanese. European intelligence sources are convinced that al-Qaeda's Pakistani operation is thriving - with help from crucial Inter-Services Intelligence sectors, tribal leaders and wealthy, extremely discreet Saudi and Pakistani donors. Suspected "dirty bomber" Jose Padilla, alias Abdullah al-Muhajir, an American citizen, took a bomb-making course in an al-Qaeda safe house in Lahore and met key al-Qaeda operatives in Karachi last March. In America, where the FBI has been notoriously ineffective, the White House is forced to admit on the record that the country is as vulnerable now as it was on the morning of September 11.
Exactly one year ago, from July 4 to July 14, Osama bin Laden was undergoing medical treatment at the American Hospital in Dubai. He arrived by plane from Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan (daily flights either with PIA or Emirates Airlines). He met many wealthy Saudi princes and businessmen. He was also visited by the local CIA chief. He could have been arrested on the spot - and there would be no excuses for a war against terrorism. He was not arrested. The rest, of course, is history - with an al-Qaeda hand in the screenplay.
http://atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/DG13Ak02.html
Don't let them wage a jihad on the truth. The whole story of Al-Qa'Ida and Osama bin Laden is a CIA creation. This is Historical fact plain and simple. Bin laden's and Al-Qa'Ida's plan for world domination is a CIA legend.
In 1979 "the largest covert operation in the history of the CIA" was launched in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in support of the pro-Communist government of Babrak Kamal.2:
With the active encouragement of the CIA and Pakistan's ISI [Inter Services Intelligence], who wanted to turn the Afghan jihad into a global war waged by all Muslim states against the Soviet Union, some 35,000 Muslim radicals from 40 Islamic countries joined Afghanistan's fight between 1982 and 1992. Tens of thousands more came to study in Pakistani madrasahs. Eventually more than 100,000 foreign Muslim radicals were directly influenced by the Afghan jihad.3
The Islamic "jihad" was supported by the United States and Saudi Arabia with a significant part of the funding generated from the Golden Crescent drug trade:
In March 1985, President Reagan signed National Security Decision Directive 166,...[which] authorize[d] stepped-up covert military aid to the mujahideen, and it made clear that the secret Afghan war had a new goal: to defeat Soviet troops in Afghanistan through covert action and encourage a Soviet withdrawal. The new covert U.S. assistance began with a dramatic increase in arms supplies -- a steady rise to 65,000 tons annually by 1987, ... as well as a "ceaseless stream" of CIA and Pentagon specialists who traveled to the secret headquarters of Pakistan's ISI on the main road near Rawalpindi, Pakistan. There the CIA specialists met with Pakistani intelligence officers to help plan operations for the Afghan rebels.4
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) using Pakistan's military Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) played a key role in training the Mujahideen. In turn, the CIA sponsored guerrilla training was integrated with the teachings of Islam:
Predominant themes were that Islam was a complete socio-political ideology, that holy Islam was being violated by the atheistic Soviet troops, and that the Islamic people of Afghanistan should reassert their independence by overthrowing the leftist Afghan regime propped up by Moscow.5
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO109C.html
This is an excellent analysis of the Saudis did it theory by Mark Rabinowitz of oilempire.us.