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Rick Rescorla was the director of security for the financial services firm Morgan Stanley at the World Trade Center. After serving a number of years in the British Army, he entered the Vietnam and rose to the rank of colonel in the Army before entering the private sector, where he worked in corporate security. He later moved to New Jersey in 1985, and joined Dean Witter Reynolds at their offices at the World Trade Center in Manhattan where he was employed as head of security. He would at times defer to his American friend from Northern Rhodesia, Daniel Hill, who was trained in counterterrorism, in 1990 Rescorla asked him to visit the World Trade Center to assess its security. Following the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Rescorla invited Hill to New York, where he hired him as a security consultant in order to analyze the building's security. Rescorla was in the North Tower on September 11th 2001 and when the Port Authority announced that people return to their offices, he grabbed his bullhorn, walkie-talkie, and cell phone, and began systematically ordering the roughly 2,700 Morgan Stanley employees in the South Tower to evacuate. Rescorla died when the North Tower had collapsed at 9:59am.

Robert G. Wright Jr. is an FBI agent who has criticized the FBI's counterterrorist activities in the 1990s, when he worked in the Chicago division on terrorists with links to the Middle East, especially on the issue of money laundering. Specifically, he worked on project Vulgar Betrayal, the single largest counter-intelligence operation pre 9/11, which allegedly implicated Yasin al-Qadi. Qadi is multi-millionaire from Jeddah and trained as an architect in Chicago, Illinois. He is also said to have personally met with Osama Bin Laden in Chicago in 1979 and was said to have links with Hamas. The program also investigated the The Holy Land Foundation charity which was secretly financing Hamas suicide bombings. He later wrote a detailed book which the FBI prevented him from publishing with threats of criminal prosecution. He complained that "FBI management intentionally and repeatedly thwarted and obstructed my attempts to launch a more comprehensive investigation to identify and neutralize terrorists."

When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the Islamic world began to offer their services into the conflict thru a recruitment office located in Peshawar, Pakistan called the "Maktab al-Khidamat". The Pakistan ISI would begin funneling military and financial aid to some of the most notorious warlords such as Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Abdul Rasul Sayyaf and Ahmad Shah Massoud. The United States intelligence arm, the Central Intelligence Agency, were in the middle of the battle themselves thru the ISI under a covert operation. Operation Cyclone. Where over 600 million dollars went to numerous warlords and their organizations, and indirectly into the pockets of the Pakistan office under Osama Bin Laden and Abdullah Azzam. After the Soviets retreat in 1989, the country spiraled into a civil war between the clans. The blood feuds began and the Pakistan ISI was fully involved and were influential in making the Taliban the lead in the country for defensive purposes.

In this video, i go over the main objectives and training methods for five of the most covert, intelligence and counter-intelligence units operating in part within the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). Some of these courses involve rigorous and technical training which specifies not just in signals intelligence, but also psychological operations, technological advancements as well as espionage. The units i mention are the Unit 8200, Unit 81, Talpiot Program, Havatzalot Program and the Mista'arvim.

In 1996 Israel would hold it's most important election for Prime Minister since 1977 when Menachem Begin, founder of the Likud Party won. Now the Likud Party regained it's influence back in the Israeli elections, this time the official was Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu was running against the favorite, Shimon Peres. Peres succeeded Yitzhak Rabin as party leader prior to the 1977 elections when Rabin stepped down in the wake of a foreign currency scandal involving his wife. This time Peres was expecting to lead the Labor Party against the rising nationalist sect, the Likud. In the months prior to the elections, a series of bombings attributed to the Palestinian Liberation Organization sent protests and angered many in the Haredi neighborhood, where Peres once gained favor there. Peres was also well liked by the Arab population. On May 29th 1996, Netanyahu won by the slimmest of margins, narrowingly defeating Peres 50.5% to 49.5% of the votes. It would also pose a change in American politics as well, as the neoconservative faction that birthed under the Reagan administration which slowly rose thru the government ranks during Clinton. Foreign policy regarding the Middle East began being shaped in Israel-US offices where documents like the "Clean Break Strategy" were outlining future plans to control Arab countries. By 2000, the Likud-Neoconservatives began fulfilling the agendas of their previous foreign policy goals.

Sayyid Imam al-Sharif , also known as Dr.Fadl, was a former prominent emir of Al-Jihad (Egyptian Islamic Jihad) based in Cairo. He had been introduced to Ayman al-Zawahiri while both attamed Cairo University. But due to theological differences, both men would disagree about the nature of jihad against the secular Arab government in the country. After the assassination of Egyptian President, Anwar Sadat in 1980, Dr.Fadl travelled to Peshawar, Pakistan, where he would work as a surgeon at the Red Crescent. When al-Zawahiri was released from prism he had again joined up with al-Sharif. It was here al-Sharif would write the single, most important book for the Salafist Jihadist movement. His book "al-'Umda fi I'dad al-'Udda" ("The Essentials of Making Ready for Jihad) became the blueprint for jihadist groups past and present. Sometime in the early 1990, Al-Zawahiri and Al-Sharif fell out over questions of strategy and tactics. Al-Sharif opposed Islamic Jihad's joining another Islamist group, al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, in its terror campaign against Egyptian government and foreign tourists in Egypt saying, "this is senseless activity that will bring no benefit." After surrendering in Egypt and serving a life sentence al-Sharif had turned against the Salafist Jihadist movement and has written extensively against the Jihadist terrorist campaigns claiming they do not represent the words or deeds of the Prophet Muhammad.

In this video, i give a full definition of what constitutes "Salafi-Jihadism", it's history and what influences it has in the current period within the jihadi organizations. The proponents of this ideology and their histories are also venerated by the adherents of this school of thought which is openly condemned by a majority of Sumi and Shia scholars and Muslims worldwide. Salafi jihadism or jihadist-Salafism is a transnational, hybrid religious-political ideology based on the Sunni sect of Islamism, seeking a global caliphate, advocacy for "physical" (military) jihadism and Salafi concepts of returning to what adherents believe to be "true Islam". I define these precepts from a number of different sources online and from my own perisomal studies into the matter and why it is relevant in the spectrum of understanding terrorist incidents like September 11th 2001.

Benjamin (Baruch) Goldstein was born in Brooklyn, New York City in 1956. During his elementary years he would attend a yeshiva and in his adult years became aware of an Israeli Zionist radical, known as Rabbi Meir Kahane who founded the right wing organization, the Jewish Defense League. Goldstein knew Kahane well from radio broadcasts proclaiming his prejudices towards Arab’s and believing Israel should be a Jewish home state specifically designed for Jews only. Goldstein did whatever he could to help the organization out. By 1983, he immigrated to Israel. There he would live in a home near Hebron in a town called Kiryat Arba. During the mid 1980’s, Baruch Goldstein would service in the Israeli Army as it’s head medical officer. In 1990, Kahane was assassinated, amd would leave a profoundly altering effect om Goldstein's life from there om. Crushed by his 'Kahane's death, he vowed to avenge it, tenfold. On February 25, 1994, the day of Purim, Goldtsiem would wear his military uniform and enter the The Cave of the Patriarchs. The site is considered the second holiest site in all of the Jewish world, after the Temple Mount. It is located south of the West Bank in Hebron. Known to Muslims as the “Sanctuary if Abraham”. Approximately over 800 people attended the holy sanctuary when Goldstein opened fire on the large mass of humanity,. When it was famished 29 people, mainly Arabs were killed and over 125 were wounded. Goldstein was killed by the ensuing angry mob. Many survivors would later claim, that Goldstein wasn't alone during the shooting and that other Israeli soldiers had participated.

On September 11th 2001, it is alleged by airline records, eyewitnesses and the phone calls made on American Airlines Flight 77, that 5-6 men boarded and hijacked the flight and then commandeered it into the West wall of the Pentagon killing all 58 people on board. However the story told about this particular incident has more to do with the 9/11 Commission and the FBI covering up the fact that there may have been six hijackers on board and that two of the 9/11 hijackers tried to enter the airport tarmac the night before. Why were these anomalies covered up by federal investigators? In this video i will go over the facts and the anomalies regarding the Pentagon attack including how the CIA kept hidden, from the FBI and State Department, about two Al Qaeda operatives inside the United States, who just so happened to had been involved with the hijacking of Flight 77.

The current Iranian-Israel conflict dates back to the period of Ruhollah Khomeini, the former Supreme Leader of Iran. After the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty, which was supported by the United States, Iran under Khomeini saw the popular rise of the Muslims which called for a revolution against the Zionist-Western influences in the country and in the region. Meanwhile, the Gulf Arab states led by Saudi Arabia, have recently teamed up with Israel in the hopes of eliminating their common enemy in Iran. In this video i give a short history regarding what led to the proxy conflict between the neighboring country's, including the covert operations that led to formations of terrorist organizations and assassinations of leading scientists in Iran to curtail their nuclear program.

Minoru Yamasaki was an American architect, best known for designing the original World Trade Center in New York City. Many of his buildings feature superficial details inspired by the pointed arches of Gothic architecture, and make use of extremely narrow vertical windows. This narrow-windowed style arose from his own personal fear of heights. Yamasaki was granted a contract to design the King Fahd Dhahran Air Terminal in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. By 1961 the project ended and gave Yamasaki a notable reputation within the Saudi Kingdom. In 1971 Yamasaki would design a structure which would be in the honor of the Saudi Kingdom. The design was called the Sphere, it was to mimic the Grand Mosque of Mecca, Masjid al-Haram, in which The Sphere stood at the place of the Kaaba. After the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001 on the World Trade Center towers and their collapse, the only structure which was able to be recovered was Yamasaki's Sphere.

Latest news: United States: The FBI released hundreds of pages of newly declassified documents Wednesday about its long effort to explore connections between the Saudi government and the September 11th attacks. The newest release of documents comes on the heels of mounting pressure from lawyers representing the 9/11 victims families who pressured the Biden administration on ordering the widespread declassification of information collected during the U.S. investigation of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Long before last month’s release of a 2016 FBI report about Operation Encore, the bureau’s probe into possible Saudi complicity in 9/11, top Trump administration officials swore under “penalty of perjury” that information in the report was a “state secret” whose public release was likely to cause “significant harm to the national security.”

On November 17th 1997, it is alleged that six members of the al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya (an Egyptian militant group) entered the gates that lead to the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut located in Deir el-Bahari, an archaeological site and major tourist attraction across the Nile from Luxor, Egypt. After killing two of the guards located at the gates entrance, numerous survivors testified that men dressed as security personnel had the tourists trapped inside the temple. The killing went on systematically for 45 minutes, during which many bodies, especially of women, were mutilated with machetes. All of six men who carried out the carnage were either killed by security personnel or committed suicide by hand grenade in the hills. When it was over, 62 people were killed, with 26 surviving the attacks, the worst terrorist attack ever in Egypt. Exiled leaders of al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya were laier said to have attempted to undermine the organization's July 1997 "Nonviolence Initiative", to devastate the Egyptian economy and provoke the government into repression that would strengthen support for anti-government forces.

A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm is a policy document that was prepared in 1996 by a study group led by Richard Perle (The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies) for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The report explained a new approach to solving Israel's security problems in the Middle East with an emphasis on "Western values. By advocating for an aggressive new policy including the removal of Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq and the containment of Syria by engaging in proxy warfare. Certain parts of the report have indeed come to fruition, which has led media pundits to claim the Iraq-Syria wars are based on the guidelines of the Neocon report. In this video, i outline what is based in the report as well as give my thoughts on the matter.

The Pan Arab nationalist Movement was formed in 1951 by George Habash a Left wing secularist, whom also funded the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) a secularist, Marxist organization which had ties to the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China. The Nationalist Movement was revolutionary and Pan-Arabist. It placed emphasis on the formation of a nationally conscious intellectual elite which would play a vanguard role in a revolution of Arab consciousness. This movement would seek to enlighten the Arab state and give deference to Western Imperialism. By 1952 however, the Colonial and Commonwealth Relations Office produced a document, entitled “The Problem of Nationalism” a branch of the British Foreign Office. This document was to help safeguard Great Britain as a world power particularly in the economic and strategic fields against the inherent dangers of Arab Nationalism.

According to author Mahmood Mamdani, in his book, "Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: A Political Perspective on Culture and Terrorism" A covert intelligence group which consisted of some of the most powerful men in the Arab world came to existence thru documents recovered after the fall of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (The Shah of Iran) in 1979. "The existence of the club came to light after the 1979 Iranian Revolution when Mohamed Heikal, a highly respected Egyptian journalist and onetime advisor to President Nasser, was given permission by the new Khomeini government to go through the deposed Shah's archives. Heikal came upon an agreement setting up a formal association, dated September 1, 1976, and signed by the heads of several intelligence agencies, all strategic allies of the United States in the Cold War." The secret organization was known as the "Safari Club". It ran clandestine operations around Africa at a time when the United States Congress had limited the power of the CIA and which also had connection with the Bank of Credit And Commerce (BCCI). The BCCI served to launder money, particularly for Saudi Arabia and the United States—whose CIA director in 1976, George H. W. Bush, had a personal account. BCCI also served as an intelligence gathering mechanism by virtue of its extensive contacts with underground organizations worldwide.

Cofer Black is an American former CIA officer who served as director of the Counterterrorism Center in the years surrounding the September 11th attacks, and was later appointed Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the State Department by President George W. Bush, serving until his resignation in 2004. Prior to his roles combating terrorism, Black served across the globe in a variety of roles with the Directorate of Operations at the CIA. It was reported that Black while at the CTC and the Bin Laden Issue Station, did not share important intelligence reports about two Al Qaeda operatives living inside the United States to the FBI. After the attacks of September 11th 2001, Black was present during a high level meeting with members of the "war council", a restricted group of the National Security Council, chaired by President Bush at Camp David on September 15, 2001. During the meeting Black was said to have conducted a speech in which he outlined a plan to attack Al Qaeda, to which he memorably replied to the President, "When we're through with them they will have flies walking across their eyeballs." Black retired from the CIA after 26 years of service in 2008.

In the summer months months of 2001, Tom Wilshire, the former deputy Chief of the CIA's Bin Laden Issue Station, is detailed with the FBI to help with its counterterrorism work regarding Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. However, Wilshire, unbeknownst to his FBI counterparts, was the sole reason why an important cable was not shared with the FBI. Information regarding two known Al Qaeda operatives who were linked to the USS Cole attacks in 2000, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazi, which involved photographs of their passports that also had dual US visas. This information was shared and known to over 50 CIA case officers at the Bin Laden Issue Station and at the Counterterrorism Center. . Later, when it became known to the FBI detailed at the CIA station, it was Wilshire who denied the FBI to share it outside of the station. Later, both al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi entered the United States, this too was also known to Wilshire back in January of 2000, and once again, did not share this with the Justice department or the State department. Leading to the inclination over whether Tom Wilshire was a mole or asset to the FBI's counterterrorism unit in Washington DC

Samir Saleh Abdullah, otherwise known as Ibn al-Khattab, was a former emir of the Arab Mujahideen in two Chechen wars and who led numerous battalions against Russian forces and acted as an intermediary financier between foreign Muslim funding sources and the local fighters. Mansour Al-Suwailem, the eldest brother to Samir, states that the name Ibn al-Khattab is derived from Samir’s appreciation for Umar Ibn al-Khattab (Umar) one of the earliest companion’s of the Prophet Muhammad in the Quran. Ibm Khattab is also said to have links to Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, as there are reports that some members of the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks have travelled to Chechnya such as Khalid al-Mihdhar, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Zacarias Moussaoui. Ibm Khattab died on March 20th 2002 following exposure to a poisoned letter delivered via a courier who had been recruited by Russia's Federal Security Service.

Since winning it's independence from France, Algeria under president Houari Boumediene, witnessed a revival of the country's military strength. But Boumediene's government was vastly corrupt, which led to the demoralization of the lower class and soon the country began an economic collapse. With major uprisings from the people, amd with a new president, Chadli Bendjedid, the nationalist National Liberation Front (FLM) took over with French support. However the constitution changed, with one important revision. Future elections will involve multiple parties. Two men would start their own political wing, Ali Belhadj and Abbassi Madani, the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS). in December 1991, when the new and enormously popular Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) party appeared poised to defeat the ruling National Liberation Front (FLN) party in the national parliamentary elections. The elections were canceled after the first round and the military effectively took control of the government, forcing pro-reform president Chadli Bendjedid from office. After the FIS was banned and thousands of its members arrested, Islamist guerrillas rapidly emerged and began an armed campaign against the government and its supporters. After the FIS dissolved, other more militant groups took its place, which led to some of the most brutal massacres during the war's 11 years period.

Colin Luther Powell was an American politician, diplomat and four-star general who served as the 65th United States Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005 under US president, George W. Bush. He also served as as the 12th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, while he oversaw 28 crises, including the invasion of Panama in 1989 and Operation Desert Storm in the Persian Gulf War against Iraq in 1990–1991. On October 18, 2021, Powell, who was being treated for multiple myeloma, but died at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center of complications from COVID-19 at the age of 84. Powell however will forever be remembered as the man who went before the United Nations Security Counsel on February 5th 2003 and produced misleading and outright false intelligence reports claiming Iraq had manufactured chemical and biological weapons' of mass destruction. His reports, along with the false reports from CIA Director George Tenet, were the primary and sole reasons for the US led invasion of Iraq on March 20th 2003. However, UN Chief Inspector Hans Blix, on February 14th 2003, presented a report to the Security Council. Blix gave an update of the situation in Iraq, and he stated that the Iraqis were now more proactive in their cooperation. He also rebutted some of the arguments proposed by Powell. It obviously wasn't enough to stop the US coalition from its invasion of Iraq. It is reported from the Lancet report in it's 2006 study, it has been estimated that about 600,000 Iraqis were killed in the first 40 months of war and occupation in Iraq, along with 54,000 non-violent but still war-related deaths. Where other reports show a catastrophic estimate of 2.4 million Iraqi deaths since the 2003 invasion.

The systematic class warfare that besieged Egypt's middle and lower classes led to numerous revolutions. By 1922, Egypt had won it's independence from Great Britain, but for the Egyptians, they still witnessed their massive influence. A small group of university students would begin a movement, that would instill Islam back into the working class, it's universities and government. They are known as "Ikhwan al-Muslimeen" or the Muslim Brotherhood. Led by it's founder, Hassan al-Banna, they would revitalize the mistreated under its' ruling elite under King Farouk. However, as Egypt began a reformation under Pan Arabism which was promoted by Egyptian president Gamel Abdel Nasser. It would lead the nation wrought with institutional warfare, between the growing socialist elite and it's religious population. This would end with Nasser's death in 1970, and Anwar Sadat's ascension which ended the persecution of the Brotherhood and the religious institutions who had by now became more virulent in their doctrines. By 1977, the egyptian fundamentalists wanted a country ruled by a Quran and Sunnah. Thus they began to outline a doctrine that would influence future radical islamist groups which are still existent to the present day. A doctrine that would fragment away from the brotherhood who were modernizing into a political organization. These groups would such as Egyptian Islamic Jihad and Gamma Islamiyah would be known as "takfiris". Or those who apostatize other Muslims.

Witnesses testified about the Bush Administration’s detention and interrogation program for prisoners and enemy combatants. This was the first hearing on the topic since the release of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel’s (OLC) memos on the subject which authorized techniques many analysts considered torture. (5-13-2009)

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, heard oral argument in U.S. v. Moussaoui. The Court would decide if Zacarias Moussaoui should have his conviction overturned. Zacarias Moussaoui pleaded guilty in 2005 to six terrorism conspiracy counts. He admitted that he plotted with al-Qaeda terrorists to fly airplanes into U.S. buildings that led to the September 11, 2001, attacks. His attorneys are arguing that court-imposed secrecy undermined Mr. Moussaoui’s ability to present an adequate defense and that his guilty plea was invalid because he was denied evidence potentially helpful to his case and restricted in choosing his own counsel. He was deprived of his constitutional rights because he was confused about the charges and did not know that other al-Qaeda members had given information to interrogators that could have cleared him. If the conviction is overturned, Mr. Moussaoui’s attorneys would seek to win a new trial. (9-25-2009)

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, heard oral argument in U.S. v. Moussaoui. The Court would decide if Zacarias Moussaoui should have his conviction overturned. Zacarias Moussaoui pleaded guilty in 2005 to six terrorism conspiracy counts. He admitted that he plotted with al-Qaeda terrorists to fly airplanes into U.S. buildings that led to the September 11, 2001, attacks. His attorneys are arguing that court-imposed secrecy undermined Mr. Moussaoui’s ability to present an adequate defense. He was deprived of his constitutional rights because he was confused about the charges and did not know that other al-Qaeda members had given information to interrogators that could have cleared him. If the conviction is overturned, Mr. Moussaoui’s attorneys would seek to win a new trial. (1-26-2009)