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Terrorists Protected by NATO, Hizb ut-Tahrir as the Conveyor Belt for
Terrorists & Much More!
Considering
this it is self-evident that the boosting of security at state
borders was one of the measures discussed at the CSTO summit. The
arrest of three Tajik Hizb ut-Tahrir members in Russia this week
illustrates the problem further:
By
taking a closer look at one prominent former Hizb ut-Tahrir member,
we might be able to decide if the United States and its allies are
fighting a War on Terror or a ‘War
of Terror’.
Speaking
of mosques, the foundation of Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the emir
of Abu Dhabi and President of the United Arab Emirates, is currently
completing its mosque in Kazakhstan:
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May, 2013
The
Great Game Round-Up brings you the latest newsworthy developments
regarding Central Asia and the Caucasus region.
This
week the presidents of the Collective Security Treaty Organization
(CSTO) member states Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan
met in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek. Armenia and Belarus did not attend
the one-day summit, which focused on issues concerning Central Asia.
ISAF’s withdrawal from Afghanistan next year was at the top of the
summit’s agenda and the presidents discussed measures to prevent
further deterioration of the security situation in the region. CSTO
Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha explained the specific plans
[emphasis mine]:
Bordyuzha
said the measures discussed included boosting security at
state borders, modernizing the CSTO joint rapid-reaction forces, and
joint efforts against extremism and illegal drug trafficking.
The
leaders of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) have
agreed to reinforce the organization’s military capability and step
up control at the Tajikistan-Afghanistan border ahead of the
withdrawal of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) from
Afghanistan next year, CSTO General Secretary Nikolai Bordyuzha said
on Tuesday.
The
leaders of the CSTO, a Russia-led intergovernmental military alliance
of former Soviet states, also discussed the need to supply the CSTO
rapid response force with modern weapons and deepen
cooperation between the member states’ special services in
combating extremism.
…
President
Putin emphasized the importance of the fight against drug trafficking
and Afghan heroin, which is a major
concern for
Russia. Especially a close cooperation with Kyrgyzstan will be
necessary to counter the threat:
Kyrgyzstan’s
decision to cancel the Manas Transit Center deal with the United
States is probably the most significant step in the ‘War on Drugs’.
At the very least it will give Russia and other countries the
opportunity to acquire a larger share of the global drug trade, which
is currently run
by NATO.
The Manas air base plays a central role in NATO’s drug network
because it is the key transit
hub for Afghan heroin.
Additionally the base is used by Washington to conduct covert
meetings with top terrorists, as James Corbett explained in
a previous BFP EyeOpener Report:
“But
as important as the base is to the Kyrgyz people, the true nature of
Manas remains an open question. For years, it has been at the center
of a string of allegations revolving around drug-running, terrorism
and stage-managed revolutions. One of the most surprising revelations
to emerge from Manas centered around the story of Abdolmalek
Rigi, the former leader of the Jundullah terrorist organization who
was captured by Iran onboard a flight from the United Arab Emirates
to Kyrgyzstan.
Jundullah
is a Pakistani tribal militant group that concerns itself with plight
of Sunni Muslims in the predominantly Shiite Iran. Despite
widely-acknowledged links to al-Qaeda, the CIA has been funding the
group for years as a proxy force to commit attacks inside Iran, where
it is believed to have killed and injured over 500 civilians since
2003. As Rigi himself told his Iranian captors, his story
included the air base at Manas, which he claims the US uses to
conduct covert meetings with people like himself.”
…
With
the U.S. being forced out of Kyrgyzstan, Moscow seizes the chance to
increase its economic and military presence
in the Central Asian country. Meanwhile, the security situation in
Russia is deteriorating. A few weeks ago Russian
analysts cautioned against
the rapid spreading of radical Islamism and the potential danger for
Siberia. This warning was probably justified:
The
Russian government hopes that imposing harsher
sentences will serve as a deterrent. But this won’t be the ultimate
solution, especially if certain countries continue to foment unrest
and instability [emphasis mine]:
“We
expect the ongoing armed conflicts, in particular in Syria as well as
the effects of the ‘Arab Spring’ to lead to an inflow of
militants, who are now acquiring practical experience, via illegal
migration channels,” he told a hearing at the Federation Council,
the upper house of the Russian parliament.
“It
has been established beyond any doubt that the special
services of foreign states are using illegal migration channels to
conduct intelligence and ‘subversive’ activity to the detriment
of Russian security,”
Roshchupkin said, but did not elaborate.
…
Hizb
ut-Tahrir: Conveyor belt for terrorists?
Considering
this it is self-evident that the boosting of security at state
borders was one of the measures discussed at the CSTO summit. The
arrest of three Tajik Hizb ut-Tahrir members in Russia this week
illustrates the problem further:
“Investigators
discovered evidence that the three members of the cell (all citizens
of Tajikistan) had committed intentional acts directly aimed at the
procurement and preparation of means and weapons to carry out a
series of terrorist attacks,” the Interior Ministry said in a
statement.
Russian
police said the group actively recruited members in the Nizhny
Novgorod region to commit acts against the state in order to
establish an Islamic caliphate. “Due to circumstances beyond the
terrorists’ control,” the three detained members were unable to
carry out the planned attacks, police said.
…
Hizb
ut-Tahrir publicly
claims to oppose violence and is not designated as a terrorist
organization by the EU or the U.S., which should not be an indication
anyway given the recent example of the MKO.
Nevertheless, HT poses a significant threat because as Zeyno
Baran pointed
out [emphasis
mine]:
“HT
is not itself a terrorist organization, but it can usefully be
thought of as a conveyor belt for terrorists. It
indoctrinates individuals with radical ideology, priming them for
recruitment by more extreme organizations where they can take part in
actual operations. By
combining fascist rhetoric, Leninist strategy, and Western
sloganeering with Wahhabi theology, HT has made itself into a very
real and potent threat that is extremely difficult for liberal
societies to counter.”
…
Therefore
the party is banned among others in Germany, Russia, Pakistan,
Bangladesh and many Arab countries. Recently Hizb ut-Tahrir has been
increasing its activites in Russia:
As
well as in certain Central Asian counties:
The
southern edge of Jalal-Abad Province is part of the Fergana Valley,
which could soon become the
terrorism hotspot in Central Asia, and it is one of Kyrgyzstan’s
many provinces where USAID was involved in opening “improved”
registration and passport offices.
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terrorists protected by NATO
By
taking a closer look at one prominent former Hizb ut-Tahrir member,
we might be able to decide if the United States and its allies are
fighting a War on Terror or a ‘War
of Terror’.
No,
I am not referring to alleged 9/11 al-Qaeda mastermind and former HT
member Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The life of Omar
Bakri Muhammad,
the man who was instrumental in developing Hizb ut-Tahrir in Britain,
is every bit as remarkable. Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed recently
published a very important piece about Bakri and I encourage you to
read the full article [emphasis mine]:
In
1996, Omar Bakri founded Al Muhajiroun with Anjem Choudary. According
to John Loftus, a former US Army Intelligence Officer and Justice
Department prosecutor, three senior Al Muhajiroun figures at the time
– Bakri, Abu Hamza, and Haroon Rashid Aswat – had been
recruited by MI6 that year to facilitate Islamist activities in the
Balkans.
In
2000, Bakri admitted to training British Muslims to fight as
jihadists inPalestine, Kashmir, Chechnya or
South Lebanon. Recruits were “learning firearms and explosives use,
surveillance and other skills” and “would be expected to join a
jihad being waged in one country or another”. That year, he
boasted: “The British government knows who we are. MI5 has
interrogated us many times. I think now we have something called
public immunity. There is nothing left. You can label us … put us
behind bars, but it’s not going to work.” Labour Party MP Andrew
Dismore told parliament the following year about a month after 9/11
that Bakri’s private security firm, Sakina Security Services,
“sends people overseas for jihad training with live arms and
ammunition”, including training camps “in Pakistan and
Afghanistan”, and even at “many different sites in the United
Kingdom”. Hundreds of Britons were being funneled through such
training only to return to the UK advocating that Whitehall and
Downing Street be attacked as “legitimate targets”. Though Sakina
was raided by police and shut down, Bakri and Hamza
were not even arrested, let alone charged or prosecuted.
And
last year, Bakri boasted, “I’m involved with training the
mujahideen [fighters] in camps on the Syrian borders and also on the
Palestine side.” The trainees included four British
Islamists “with professional backgrounds” who would go on to join
the war in Syria. Bakri also claimed to have trained “many
fighters”, including people from Germany and France, since arriving
in Lebanon.
…
Given
Omar Bakri’s close cooperation with the British intelligence
services it shouldn’t be a surprise that his activities are closely
aligned with NATO foreign policy objectives. Instead of serving time
in prison, Bakri is currently in Lebanonpraising the
‘courage’ of his former disciple Michael Adebolajo and organizing
the local al-Qaeda chapter’s jihad against Hezbollah. Omar Bakri
Muhammad is another Islamist militant leader in a long list of
protected terrorists including former CIA
asset Sheikh Omar
Abdel-Rahman and
of course al-Qaeda’s current leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, who
is working directly
for U.S./NATO.
Just
like Omar Bakri, Zawahiri was heavily involved in operations in the
Balkans in the 1990s and his activities showed up a lot in the FBI
‘Gladio B’ counterintelligence investigations during this time.
While working with the Turkish arm of NATO and with NATO, Ayman
al-Zawahiri travelled frequently to Turkey, Bulgaria and Azerbaijan.
Now famous
meetings of
Zawahiri with U.S. military and intelligence officials took place in
the U.S. embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan. Pakistan and Saudi Arabia
supported these operations which were overseen and directed by
the United States. At one meeting in Baku there were also two
high-level Saudi officials present. One of them was in charge of the
Saudi intelligence office in the U.S. and the other person held a
high-ranking position at the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia in
Washington. Several bin Laden family members, who participated in the
Gladio B operations, worked directly with Saudi Arabia’s U.S.
embassy and with another familiar face, Fethullah
Gülen.
The bin Ladens regularly attended official openings of mosques
financed supposedly by Saudis and Imam Gülen at the direction of the
United States and NATO. As previously mentioned,
the Islamization of Central Asia and the Caucasus region is a key
part of the Pentagon’s Gladio B operations.
GCC
countries eye Central Asia & the Caucasus
Speaking
of mosques, the foundation of Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the emir
of Abu Dhabi and President of the United Arab Emirates, is currently
completing its mosque in Kazakhstan:
An
official source reported to Emirates News Agency (WAM) that the
mosque is considered the largest in the region, and can accommodate
up to 6,000 worshippers.
…
In
2010 the Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation built a hospital
in the Syrian city of Homs.
The very same city is now playing a central role in the proxy war in
Syria and has been referred
to as
the “Capital of the revolution”.
Qatar
is also heavily interested in cooperation with
Kazakhstan and suggestsopening
a direct flight between Doha and Astana or Almaty. Another paragon of
democracy, Saudi Arabia, is not only involved in
Central Asia but is also increasing its activities at Russian borders
in the Caucasus:
Garayev
said Azerbaijan was interested in further boosting relations with
Saudi Arabia. Abdullah Al-Kassiri highlighted close
relations between Azerbaijan and Saudi Arabia.
…
The
close relations between Azerbaijan and the medieval House of Saud are
vital to facilitate Pentagon-backed destabilization operations in the
region and should be cause for concern in the Kremlin. Russia’s
North Caucasus will probably make more headlines similar to these:
And
it is doubtful if Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov’s dream to
eliminate Islamic insurgent leader Doku Umarov will come true in the
near future. But maybe Steven Seagal can help him accomplish this
goal:
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