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September 29, 2001

By Jon Christian Ryter
Copyright 2001 - All Rights Reserved
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The world from which Antichrist will likely appear before the end of this decade is pictured above. Interestingly, it is this world—a world of immense oil wealth and intense personal poverty, combined with the emerging nations in the Asian subcontinent, including China, which has now gained control of the United Nations at the expense of the United States, and is using the United Nations to promulgate an agenda of racism, bigotry and hatred of the infidels who stand in the way of the creation of a global Islamic paradise which will be devoid of Jews...and in which America will no longer exist as a political, military, or economic power since the Islamic terrorists who are determined to recreate Babylon the Great believe that it has been the United States and its vast financial resources and military arsenal that causes the demise of the Ottoman Empire during in the opening days of the 20th century. With the creation of the Balfour Resolution which was approved by the League of Nations in 1920, the British carved a homeland for the Jews in Palestine. Because of the Holocaust, the United Nations created the State of Israel, giving the Jews a portion of the land they possessed before the Assyrian captivity in 930 BC.

The ancient hatred which has existed between the followers of Mohammed and the descendants of Isaac and Jacob is due to religious fervor, not economic or political unrest. The Islamic determination to destroy the Jews (the Jihad) as well as those who protect, aid, or shelter them, is rooted in the Qu’ran (Koran). The Holy War (the Jihad) between the Arab world and the Jews is based entirely on the lost inheritances of Ishmael and Esau, the firstborn sons of Abraham and Isaac. It is a feud that has lasted as long as the Bible has existed in written form. It is a feud that will continue until the conclusion of the Battle of Armageddon when Jesus Christ will return and establish His kingdom on Earth for 1,000 years.

To Bin Laden, it’s a Jihad; To Bush, it’s simply about terrorism

Osama bin Laden called upon Muslims throughout the world to join his struggle against the United States—his Holy War; declaring that the United States had initiated a modern-day “Crusade” against Islam, and all Muslim nations had to unite against the infidels who were determined to destroy the Muslim faith.

Bin Laden, whom the Afghan Taliban originally claimed had mysteriously vanished, provided a video statement to Qatar’s Al-Jazerra satellite television channel, declaring that: “We are steadfast on the path of Jihad with the heroic, faithful Afghan people.” (Of course, bin Laden failed to inform the world TV audience that, as a people the Afghans—most of whom are desperately trying to get out of the country before American bombs and guided missiles arrive—aren’t quite as gungho as bin Laden on the notion of becoming heroic cannon fodder, since it will be the civilian population not the military (which is too deeply entrenched in caves in the northern mountains to suffer too many casualties), who will be expected to do all the dying.

Bin Laden, who is (in this matter) the hireling of Saddam Hussein (who also talks “the Jihad talk” but refuses to “walk the suicide walk”) as long as there are young religious fanatics who can be convinced that they will spend eternity with Allah if they die killing their enemies (even if those “enemies” are women and little children). bin Laden called on the Afghans to become “martyrs,” allowing themselves to be massacred by American missiles and bombs in order to shift global public opinion against the modern “Crusaders.”

As the Afghan Taliban called on Muslims throughout the world to launch a holy war against the infidels led by the United States, Russia, China and Iran pushed the United States to submit its “evidence” against bin Laden to the UN before taking any action.

President George Bush, under pressure from the Arab world to prove bin Laden’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt to the jury of public opinion before moving militarily. That of course, would allow the anti-Jewish globalist spinmeisters to caustically refute whatever evidence was presented as nothing more than a Jewish-American plot to destroy Islam. (And, even though Secretary of State Colin Powell had decided to present the evidence accumulated by the FBI and CIA linking bin Laden to the international media, Powell was overruled by Bush who declared that the evidence America has uncovered linking bin Laden [and very likely Saddam Hussein] has been classified as top secret and will not be released to the media—national or international.)

In every speech Bush has made since September 11, he has been forced to walk on burning embers, stressing repeatedly—even though bin Laden insists that it is—that what is going on is not a war against Islam. Bush diplomatically insisted it is a war against terrorism. And, from an American perspective, it is. However to anyone—on either side of this vast religious divide—the words are synonymous and everyone knows it. Muslim clerics (particularly the countless dozens who are constantly being paraded on network TV), insist that Islam is a religion that teaches only peace, love and harmony with one’s fellow man, Afghan Muslim clerics recently arrested two American girls for talking about Jesus Christ (a crime punishable by death in Afghanistan). In reality, the only peace that Islam promises is between Muslims and other Muslims. Islam promises anything but peace to the Jews and to any other infidel that helps a Jew or trespasses on Muslim land—something bin Laden insists the United States did during the Gulf War. Even though the Gulf War was fought exclusively because one Arab state [Iraq] attacked another Arab state [Kuwait], Iraq managed to convert it into a “Holy War” by attacking Israel. The Qu’ran [Koran] made it almost impossible for George H. W. Bush, Secretary of State James Baker, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell to hold the fragile coalition together because the Qu’ran demands that when one Islamic nation attacks the Jews, every Islamic nation must aide them.

The difference between the Sunni and the Shi’ite

It is important to note that there is as much of a distinction between peaceful and militant Muslims here and around the world as there is between peaceful and militant “right-wingers” in the United States; or between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland.

In the case of the Muslim faith, the degree of radical extremism appears to depend on whether the individual is a Sunni or a Shi’ite. While the Arab world appears to be almost evenly divided between Sunni and Shi’ite philosophies, the Shi’ites are fanatic extremists who interpret the Ou’ran [Koran] so militantly that they will not be content until fires rage in the United States from New York to Los Angeles—and in Israel from Judah to Dan.

Eleven of the 19 terrorists who commandeered United Airlines Flight 93 and Flight 175, and American Airlines Flight 11 and Flight 77 were actually Sunni Muslims from Saudi Arabia who were attracted to the Shi’ite militancy of Osama bin Laden. Saddam Hussein—as you might have guessed—is a Shi’ite. Hussein, like most Shi’ites, has attacked the Sunni minorities within their nations because of their differing views on the Qu’ran [Koran]. This was the problem in Iran when Iranian Shah Muhammed Riza Pahlavi was deposed (with the aid of the Carter Administration in a coup engineered in part by Carter’s Council on Foreign Relations advisor Madeleine Albright—who also engineered the Panama Canal giveaway) by Shi’ite cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Khomeini, who owed his control over Iran to Carter, bit the hand which fed him by storming the American Embassy in Tehran and taking over 300 Americans hostage, holding them throughout the balance of Carter’s term and releasing them at 12:15 p.m. on January 20, 1981—at the moment Ronald Reagan was sworn in as the 40th President of the United States.

The frustration, mistrust and outward displays of hate or animosity that a good many Americans feel towards Muslims at this moment in time is due in part because few Americans realize there is a major difference between the theological philosophies of Sunni and Shi’ite Muslims. Just as Protestants in Northern Ireland indiscriminately kill Catholics, and Catholics kill Protestants, Shi’ite Muslims in Iran, Iraq and Syria have just as indiscriminately killed Sunni Muslims for their more passive views of tolerance not only towards America, but the Jews as well. Iran’s ten-year civil war was a war waged between Sunni and Shi’ite philosophies. The Shi’ites won. The Afghan Taliban is Shi’ite but most of the Afghan people are Sunni. The Pakistanis, on the other hand, are Shi’ites and it is for this reason that it was hard for the Bush Administration to gain the support of the Pakistani government since they were more closely politically aligned with the Taliban, and more philosophically aligned with Osama bin Laden.

Osama Bin Laden...Poor man for hire

While America is convinced that Osama bin Laden not only planned and executed the World Trade Center tragedy, they are equally convinced from the news stories they’ve read, that bin Laden is a Saudi millionaire worth some $300 million who coughed up the $2+ million dollars needed to finance the successful coordination of the attack. We know that Osama bin Laden comes from wealthy Saudi family whose construction empire, at the time of his father’s death, was worth an estimated $5 billion; and that bin Laden inherited approximately $300 million.

All true.

However, when bin Laden’s theological views changed, he became an embarrassment not only to his pro-western family but the Saudi government as well. His citizenship was revoked and he was expelled from Saudi Arabia. When he was expelled, the Saudi government seized all of his assets in any Saudi bank. In addition, they froze every bin Laden asset found in any of the “friendly” banks on the Arabian peninsula. While bin Laden may have had deposits in Syria or Iraq that the Saudis could not reach, most of his wealth was successfully seized. The bulk of his financial resources, which were found in Sudan, were seized in 1997. Bin Laden was virtually bankrupt. On his own, bin Laden could not have financed the World Trade Center tragedy. However, bin Laden has gained the respect not only of most of Islamic terrorists in the world (including Khadafy, Assad and Saddam), he has has become a magnet for funding from those who, for whatever reason, hate the United States or are anti-semitic.

Bin Laden is no dummy in the financial world. He has a considerable amount of business acumen. It is likely his knowledge of the stock market which was utilized to play the futures market, betting on airline stocks and several other high tech stocks to nose dive when three 757s crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Had the remaining suspected targets that the FBI has now discovered would likely have been hit had the government not grounded all aircraft nationwide, it is quite likely that the stock market would have crashed rather than nose-dived for a few days since the impact would have bankrupted every airline in the United States and quite possibly every insurance company in America (including their re-insurers and the banks which backed them).

While living in “exile” in Khartoum bin Laden established a formidable holding company called Wadi al-A-quq which “owned” a construction company called al Hirja. Owning a construction company allowed bin Laden to buy unlimited amounts of explosives without attracting attention to himself in the international community. As his newly acquired “wealth” grew once again, bin Laden’s influence with the Sudanese government grew.

But it appears that bin Laden’s new wealth did not come from building skyscrapers in the sand, or from soft drink royalties (since all of those royalties have been seized by the Saudi government). The myth of bin Laden’s personal wealth is deliberately distorted by the Islamic community to keep people from wondering where bin Laden’s money is coming from. It might prove to be very embarrassing to some of America’s very high profile “friends” in the Mideast and in the financial centers of London if the world was to realize that bin Laden is virtually bankrupt, and that the money he uses to export terrorism comes from donations from those who publicly condemn terrorism as they insist that the Qu’ran (Koran) is a holy book that disdains killing and promotes peace, love and harmony. Bin Laden’s supporters, Sunni as well as Shi’ite, privately fill his coffers in order to further the global objective of the Muslims—the annihilation of Israel and the destruction of America (which they view as the only economic, political and military threat standing between them and an Islamic world).

The Global Investigation of bin Laden funding

Wadi al-A-quq served as a conduit through which dollars donated from the supporters of international terrorism through the Islamic “underground” banking system called the “hawala” were transferred by telephone from wealthy Muslim moneylenders to bin Laden’s holding company.

Unlike traditional banks, there are no written transactions—and no records of those who were supporting bin Laden’s terrorist attacks against America.

Under investigation at this moment are several Islamic charities in Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. It appears that many of those who have professed to the United States government be against Islamic terrorism in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, have donated millions of dollars per month to bin Laden’s A-Qaeda movement, knowing this money would be used against the United States.

According to the Financial Times of London, Jamal Ahmed al-Fadl, the self-styled paymaster of Al-Qaeda (who disbursed “payroll” funds to the hundreds of terrorist recruiters worldwide who are on bin Laden’s active payroll, recruiting religious fanatics who will be willing to commit suicide while committing terrorist acts), who testified against bin Laden’s associates connected with the first World Trade Center bombing, Al Qadea held accounts at Barclays Bank of London as well as several unnamed banks in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Cyprus and Dubai. In addition, funds for the September 11 attack also came from banks in the United Arab Emirates, Germany and Panama. But England still remains the largest conduit for “hawala” money.

The Barclays account was closed and the funds moved in 1992 to avoid seizure. Most of the contributions coming through the “hawala” were initially deposited in London banks, then transferred to Sudan banks which was viewed as safe. In 1992 the Sudanese pound weakened dramatically against the dollar and bin Laden lost over 60% of his “international buying power.” When the Sudanese pound began to collapse, al-Fadl wanted to move bin Laden’s funds from Sudan and back to England, but bin Laden refused, telling al-Fadl that “...our agenda is bigger than business.” Bin Laden explained that because the Sudanese government was helping them, they could not desert Sudan. Their fortune was tied to Sudan until Bill Clinton’s “Wag the Dog” war against terrorism, and Clinton’s missile attack on a Sudanese aspirin factory forced the Sudanese government to evict him.

The Guilty Parties

It goes without saying that even though the CIA and the NSA recognized Saddam Hussein’s “tactical imprint” all over the organizational structure of the September 11 attack on America (comparing, in great detail, the tactical similarities between that attack and others instigated and carried out by Saddam), it was bin Laden-trained and inspired loyalists who carried out the attack. Therefore, circumstantial evidence clearly convicts both men. Saddam planned the event and bin Laden—everyone’s terrorist general—carried it out. In addition to them, and a third man mentioned below, there were several other “conspirators” involved in the September 11 catastrophe. In point of fact, there were far more conspirators than there were victims. The victims of this disaster total less than 7,000 souls—most of whose bodies will never be recovered. The number of co-conspirators remains unknown—and their names and identities will likewise never be uncovered. They are peaceful Muslims worldwide who innocently support a handful of Muslim charities (many of which are merely “fronts” to filter money to terrorist organizations). Many are hardworking American and European Muslims who may or may not conceal their anti-Jewish sentiments, and knowing support anti-Jewish terrorists by contributing a portion of their hard-earned paychecks through the “hawala” to the “freedom fighters of Islam.” While much of this money ends up with the Hamas, the Hezbollah, the Islamic Jihad, the Palestinian Liberation Front and other Mideast terrorist groups whose focus is largely centered on the destruction of Jerusalem, it is these contributions which have largely financed Osama bin Laden since 1997.

A well-planned strategy

It is beginning to become clear that the hijacking of several American airliners at the same time and using them as “guided missiles” to destroy key American targets or major portions of the American infrastructure such as dams, bridges or crowded freeway interchanges during rush hour was not a spur of the moment plan. It was an event that very likely went on the Iraqi drawing boards at the end of the Gulf War. Saddam, who is recognized by his peers in the Mideast as an excellent military strategist, planned the event and the timing of the event. In Saddam’s mind, with precision planning and execution, it would be possible to hijack as many as 50 to 100 airliners within minutes of one another.

Knowing that American pilots are instructed to surrender their airplanes to terrorists without a fight, suicide pilots could simply take over the cockpit and use the airliner as an instrument of mass destruction within any urban center in the United States since, even if the U.S. Air Force was told to shoot down their own commercial airliners to keep them from hitting their assigned “targets,” there would still be enough collateral damage on the ground, not to mention dead passengers, for the mission to viewed as a success.

Saddam’s fingerprints are all over the planning and execution of the September 11 attack. And, likely, what made the September 11 attack most satisfying to Saddam is the fact that the son of his old nemesis, George H.W. Bush, was the current President of the United States. (It is likely, in fact, that over the past year or so as bin Laden got even more “trained” pilots, the scope of the event grew in size until, on September 11, it appears that bin Laden may have had over 100 trained pilots—which means (with 4 or 5 terrorists per “suicide crew”) the potential existed of hijacking as many as 20 airliners that day.

The Third Man

But, there was a third man involved. His name is Bashar Assad. Since the death of his father, Syrian dictator Hafez Assad, he has been the “President” (i.e., dictator) of Syria. To the world community, he will likely remain invisible since there is absolutely no physical evidence, circumstantial or otherwise, to indict him. During the first week in September, plans devised by this man to make Jerusalem an international city under the control of Muslim nations around Israel, fell apart due to one other man: George W. Bush.

While the author cannot prove his involvement, I remain convinced that he orchestrated a terrorist event that was already planned but not scheduled, to happen on September 11 because he blamed the United States for the failure of Operation Jerusalem—his well-orchestrated plan to have Israel labeled as the only racist nation in the world by the United Nations through the UN Convention on Racism. Had Israel had been successfully branded by the UN as a racist nation, it is likely that Assad would have succeeded in having Jerusalem named an “international city” controlled by a UN-appointed committee from that region. It goes without saying that the bulk of the committee members would likely be Muslims. One suspects that there would likely be a token “Christian” on the committee, but it’s an equally safe bet that the “Christian” would very likely be pro-Muslim. However, the United States and Israel walked out of the meeting and it collapsed. Efforts on the part of the Muslim majority on the UN Convention Against Racism could not accomplish their goal without the United States.

The Saddam-Assad Link

When Hafez Assad died, Syria was broke. Syria is cash-starved. Syria, like Iran, Iraq, China and the former Soviet Union spent too much of its gross national product for far too many years on armaments, ignoring the needs of its own people.

Iraq, a quasi-enemy of Syria is broke, too. But unlike Syria, which taxed its citizens too much for too long, Iraq has sufficient wealth in oil. Iraq’s problem is that they are not allowed to sell their oil on the open market due to UN sanctions. Iraqi oil is being piped into Turkey where it is sold as Turkish oil. Limited amounts of Iraqi oil are also peddled through Jordan—a UN infraction that is ignored by the United States because of relationship between America and Jordan and because of the need of Jordan not to antagonize Iraq too much.

No sooner was Hafez Assad’s funeral off the front pages of the world’s newspapers, when Syrian Prime Minister Mohammed Mustafa Miro meeting with Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan. On January 31, 2001 Syria and Iraq signed an economic cooperation treaty. Syria became the latest conduit to peddle Iraqi crude.

On top of that meeting, the CIA and NSA learned that Mahar Assad, the brother of Syria’s new president, was secretly dispatched by his brother to meet with Saddam Hussein to negotiate the final terms of a military alliance between Syria and Iraq.

Clearly Saddam Hussein and Bashar Assad see a shifting of power in the Mideast—with a greatly a greatly diminished role not only for Israel but Saudi Arabia as well. But, for that to happen, the economic, financial and military backbone of the “Great Satan,” the United States, has to be broken first. America has experienced the first of several major terrorist attacks.
“Operation Airliner” is over. Saddam and Assad know that stringent security measures will prevent anyone from repeating this type of attack on America. But, they have studied the weaknesses of America. Wherever our national security is lax, and wherever vigilance does not exist, we can expect the terrorists to strike. It is time to close the doors to the borders of America...and lock them.