Qaedat-al-Jihad's Secret Russian Connection
By Sean Osborne Military Affairs and Senior Analyst The Northeast Intelligence Network According to an AFP report of 16 July, 2005 a Russian ex-FSB secret agent, Alexander Litvinenko, who defected to the west in the year 2000, claimed in an interview with a Polish newspaper on that same day that Qaedat-al-Jihad No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri was trained as a covert agent by the Russian Federal Security Service ( FSB, the former Soviet KGB). Stated Litvinenko, "Ayman al-Zawahiri trained at a Federal Security Service base in Dagestan in 1998. He was then transferred to Afghanistan where he became Osama Bin Ladin's deputy. [al-Zawahiri] was working in that section at the time and I can confirm the fact Zawahiri was not the only link between the FSB and Al-Qa'ida". This is not the first time this information had been made open-source. In fact, I know of two or three sources and associated sources that reported this previously and were fairly ignored by mainstream media, if not dismissed outright. This report is corroboration of the previous reports and an assessment of the open-source intelligence they contain. Respected commentator and analyst JR Nyquist reported this information in July of 2002 when he wrote an article entitled <http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2002/0716.htm> "Ayman al-Zawahiri's Russian Adventure". In the article Nyquist cites a July 2, 2002 Wall Street Journal report by Andrew Higgins, Andres and Alan Cullison, entitled "Saga of Dr. Zawahiri Illuminates Roots of al Qaeda Terror: Secret, Failed Trip to Chechnya Turned Key Plotter's Focus To America and bin Laden: Sojourn in a Russian Prison." The above link to Nyquist's article is a MUST read. It makes the case that al-Zawahiri's Russian adventure occurred in late 1996 and early 1997, which occurred before the year cited by Litvinenko. We now come to a second referenced open-source which is a 1999 book by Yossef Bodansky entitled "Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America". Bin Laden's first declaration of war on America was a document bearing his signature which is dated August 23, 1996. It can be read in its entirety <http://www.outpost-of-freedom.com/opf980830a.htm> HERE. Clearly the text of this document illustrates that Osama bin Laden had a pre-existing hatred of America, the West and Israel. However, holding for the moment that Litvinenko's date might be in error, a significant increase of anti-American vitriol from bin Laden and Qaedat-al-Jihad becomes evident in February of 1998 when the Fatwa to kill all American's and our allies wherever found was announced and is concurrent with Ayman al-Zawahiri's joining up with bin laden in Afghanistan, and preceded the events of September 11, 2001. This second fatwa can be read in its entirety <http://www.ict.org.il/articles/fatwah.htm> HERE. It is an interesting realization that the Russian FSB/KGB intelligence service had a direct influence of the tactical and operational military objectives of the Al Qaeda organization in the organizations second highest authority - Ayman al-Zawahiri. This probably constitutes a form of relatively effective remote control of Al Qaeda by a world power also ostensibly itself at war with Islamo-facist Salafism in Chechnya and the southern Caucasus region of Russia and central Asia. We are constantly reminded by our political leaders that the Global War on terror (GWOT) is against radical Islam. In fact, we may be in this GWOT against a radical Islam guided by marionette strings emanating from and whose terminus lies within bowels of Moscow, Russia and the Russian intelligence services, the FSB/KGB and GRU. Following the events of September 11, 2001 and the subsequent launch of U.S. and Allied military actions in southwest Asia two secondary fatwa's were issued by Qaeda-al-Jihad in rapid succession over a six month period between June and December 2002. These are the now infamous nuclear and "American Hiroshima" fatwa's I have been referencing recently as issued by Qaedat-al-Jihad spokespersons Suleiman Abu Gheith and Abu Shihab al-Kandahari. We also have a statement from Ayman al-Zawahiri which I must repeat at this time due to its immediate relevance to this open source intelligence assessment. Zawahiri is on record saying: "We sent our people to Moscow, to Tashkent, to other Central Asian states, and they negotiated, and we purchased some suitcase [tactical nuclear] bombs." I must now return to the very specific information found in Yossef Bodansky's book reference in the paragraph above. What it says is the following as recently re-reported by analyst Ryan Mauro: "Using ties to the Chechen mafia and militant groups, at a cost of $30 million and two tons of opium, he bought up many nuclear weapons (possibly over 20) from Russia, the Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, and began trying to hire former Spetsnaz operatives who were trained in maintaining and using the nukes." The full text of Ryan's report can be seen <http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/mauro.asp> HERE . The bottom line of this assessment is this. We in this Constitutional Republic are engaged in an existential war for our national survival. Believe it or not we are in the same boat as Israel, our destinies are inextricably linked and the same enemies are at both our gates and within the interior of our nations. The actions, or lack thereof, taken in the immediate near future will determine whether America has any viable future at all. The purpose of this assessment is to advise you to seek the truth and to request your support to defend this nation from all enemies foreign or domestic. Our progeny deserve nothing less. CCopyright Sean Osborne, Northeast Intelligence Network. Permission for reposting is granted provided the author and the Northeast Intelligence Network are properly cited. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? 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