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BOSTON 9/11 TRUTH: “Chechen Connection”, CIA,Al Qaeda and the Boston Marathon Bombings
By Michel Chossudovsky
About the author:
Michel Chossudovsky is an award-winning
author, Professor of Economics (emeritus) at the University of Ottawa,
Founder and Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG),
Montreal and Editor of the globalresearch.ca website. He is the author
of The Globalization of Poverty and The New World Order (2003) and
America’s “War on Terrorism”(2005). His most recent book is entitled
Towards a World War III Scenario: The Dangers of Nuclear War (2011). He
is also a contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. His writings
have been published in more than twenty languages. He can be reached at
crgeditor@yahoo.com
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Nine thousand heavily armed police including SWAT teams were deployed
in a manhunt to capture a 19 year old student at U-Mass, after his
brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the alleged Boston Marathon terror mastermind
was shot dead by police allegedly after a car chase and shoot out with
police.
Prior to the conduct of a police investigation, the 19 year old
student has already been designated as “guilty”. The fundamental legal
principle of “innocence until proven guilty” has been scrapped. In the
words of President Obama (a graduate of Harvard Law School), the Boston
19 year old student is “guilty” of heinous crimes (without evidence
and prior to being charged in a court of law):
“Whatever hateful agenda drove these men [suspects] to such heinous acts
will not, cannot, prevail. Whatever they thought they could achieve,
they’ve already failed…. Why did young men who grew up and studied here
as part of our communities and our country resort to such violence?”
(emphasis added)
Coupled
with the alleged anthrax and ricin letters in Washington D.C. which
mysteriously surfaced in the immediate wake of the Boston tragedy, both
Washington and the media have underscored the Tsarnaev brothers tenuous
ties to Chechnya’s militant jihadist insurgency.
According to the Wall Street Journal, quoting expert scholarly opinion:
”...the Chechen [family] background is maybe a part of what leads them [the two suspects] to do what they do,”
said Lorenzo Vidino, an expert on Chechen militants at the Center for
Security Studies in Zurich.” … A profile on the Russian
social-networking site Vkontakte that appears to belong to Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev includes a propaganda clip rallying jihadists to go to Syria to
fight alongside rebels there, citing sayings from the Prophet Muhammad.
[Amply documented, it just so happens that the jihadist foreign
fighters in Syria are recruited by the US and its allies] (Wall Street
Journal, op cit.)
What is implied is that even if the suspects
are not tied to a Muslim extremist network, their embedded cultural
heritage and Muslim “background” incites them –quite naturally– to
commit acts of violence. How does this concept –which routinely
associates Muslims with terrorism– repeated ad nauseam in the Western
news chain, affect the human mindset?
While the identity and motives of the suspects
are currently being examined by police investigators, the Tsarnaev
brothers have already been categorized –without supporting evidence– as
“Radical Muslims”.
Across the land, Muslims are being smeared and demonized. A new wave of Islamophobia has been set in motion.
The Creation of A New Legend: “The Chechen Connection”
A new legend is unfolding: “The Chechen Connection” is threatening America. Islamism homegrown in the Russian Federation is now being “exported to America”.
Plastered on news tabloids across the United States, the April 15
Boston Marathon bombings on Patriots’ Day are relentlessly compared to
September 11, 2001.
According to
the Council of Foreign Relations:
Law enforcement agencies at all levels
have made advances in surveillance and policing since the September 11,
2001 attacks, but security risks persist. Many counterterrorism experts call for a renewed focus on the ability of the United States to weather and recover from such incidents… (emphasis added)
Is the Boston tragedy being used by Washington to usher in a new wave
of police state measures directed against different categories of
“domestic terrorists?
Is this catastrophic event being applied to foster public reaction against Muslims?
Is it being used to build acceptance of America’s holy crusade
–initiated during the Bush administration– directed against a number of
Muslim countries, which allegedly “harbor Islamic terrorists”?
According to the powerful Council of Foreign Relations (which exerts a
pervasive influence on both the White House and the State Department),
the Boston bombings once again “raise the specter of terrorism on U.S.
soil, highlighting the vulnerabilities of a free and open society”.
(Ibid)
Counter terrorism and Martial Law –implying the suspension of civil
liberties– rather than civilian law enforcement are the proposed
solutions. In the words of Secretary of State John Kerry, ‘‘I think it’s
fair to say this entire week we’ve been in pretty direct confrontation
with evil.’’
The unfolding mass media consensus (including that of Hollywood) is
that America is once again under attack. This time, however, the alleged
perpetrators are “Muslim terrorists” not from Afghanistan or Saudi
Arabia but from the Russian Federation:
“The Chechen Connection” has become embedded in a new media consensus. The American Homeland is potentially threatened by Muslim terrorists from the Russian Federation, who have links to Al Qaeda.
There is also a foreign policy agenda behind
the bombings. The White House has hinted that if the “Chechen brothers”
had links to radical Islam, the administration “could expand
intelligence-gathering efforts overseas, as well as widen surveillance
and screening measures in the United States.”
Moreover, the new terrorist narrative now involves jihadists from the Russian Federation rather than from the Middle East.
There are geopolitical implications. Will the
Chechen Connection be used by the administration as a renewed pretext
for pressuring Moscow? What kind of media propaganda is likely to
emerge?
Al Qaeda and the CIA
The American public is misled. The media reports carefully overlook
the historical origins of the Chechnya jihadist movement and its
pervasive links to US intelligence.
The fact of the matter is that the jihadist movement is a creation of
US intelligence, which has also led to the development of “political
Islam”. While the role of the CIA in support of the Islamic jihad
(including most Al Qaeda affiliated organizations) is amply documented,
there is also evidence that the FBI has covertly equipped and incited
would be terrorists within the US. (See James Corbett
, The Boston Bombings in Context: How the FBI Fosters, Funds and Equips American Terrorists, Global Research April 17, 2013)
The CIA’s agenda starting in the late 1970s was to recruit and train
jihadist “freedom fighters” (Mujahideen) to wage “a war of liberation”
directed against the pro-Soviet secular government of Afghanistan.
Ronald Reagan meets Afghan Jihadist Commanders at the White House in 1985 (Reagan Archives)
The “Islamic Jihad” (or holy war against the Soviets) became an
integral part of the CIA’s intelligence ploy. It 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 travelled 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.”(Steve Coll, The
Washington Post, July 19, 1992.)
Mujahideen from a large number of Muslim countries were recruited by
the CIA. Jihadists from the Muslim republics (and autonomous regions) of
the Soviet Union were also recruited.(For further analysis see Michael
Chossudovsky,
Al Qaeda and the “War on Terrorism”, Global Research, January 20, 2008)
Al Qaeda and the Chechnya Jihad
Chechnya is an autonomous region of the Russian Federation.
Among the recruits for specialized training in the early 1990s was the leader of the Chechnya rebellion
Shamil Basayev who –in the immediate wake of the Cold War– led Chechnya’s first secessionist war against Russia.
During his training in Afghanistan, Shamil Basayev linked up with
Saudi born veteran Mujahideen Commander “Al Khattab” who had fought as a
volunteer in Afghanistan. Barely a few months after Basayev’s return to
Grozny, Khattab was invited (early 1995) to set up an army base in
Chechnya for the training of Mujahideen fighters. According to the BBC,
Khattab’s posting to Chechnya had been “arranged through the
Saudi-Arabian based [International] Islamic Relief Organisation, a
militant religious organisation, funded by mosques and rich individuals
which channeled funds into Chechnya”.(BBC, 29 September 1999).
The evidence suggests that Shamil Basayev had links to US
intelligence as of the late 1980s. He was involved in the 1991 coup
d’Etat which led to the break-up of the Soviet Union. He was
subsequently involved in Chechnya’s unilateral declaration of
independence from the Russian Federation in November 1991. In 1992, he
led an insurgency against Armenian fighters in the enclave of
Nagorno-Karabakh. He was also involved in Abkhazia, the largely Muslim
breakaway region of Georgia.
The first Chechnya war (1994-1996) was waged in the immediate wake of
the collapse of the Soviet Union. It was part of a US covert operation
to destabilize the Russian Federation. The Second Chechnya war was waged
in 1999-2000.
Broadly speaking the same guerrilla terrorist tactics
applied in Afghanistan were implemented in Chechnya.
According to Yossef Bodansky, director of the U.S. Congress’ Task
Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, the insurgency in
Chechnya had been planned during a secret summit of HizbAllah
International held in 1996 in Mogadishu, Somalia. (Levon Sevunts, “Who’s
Calling The Shots? Chechen conflict finds Islamic roots in Afghanistan
and Pakistan”, The Gazette, Montreal, 26 October 1999.)
It’s obvious that the involvement of
Pakistan’s ISI in Chechnya “goes far beyond supplying the Chechens with
weapons and expertise: The ISI and its radical Islamic proxies are
actually calling the shots in this war.”(Ibid)
The ISI is in permanent liaison with the CIA. What this statement
signifies is that US intelligence using Pakistan’s Inter Services
Intelligence (ISI) as a go-between was calling the shots in the Chechnya
war.
Russia’s main pipeline route transits through Chechnya and Dagestan.
Despite Washington’s condemnation of “Islamic terrorism”, the
beneficiaries of the wars in Chechnya were the Anglo-American oil
conglomerates which were vying for complete control over oil resources
and pipeline corridors out of the Caspian Sea basin.
The two main Chechen rebel armies (which at the time were led by the
(late) Commander Shamil Basayev and Emir Khattab), estimated at 35,000
strong, were supported by CIA and its Pakistani counterpart the ISI,
which played a key role in organizing and training the Chechen rebel
army:
“[In 1994] the Pakistani Inter
Services Intelligence [in liaison with the CIA] arranged for Basayev and
his trusted lieutenants to undergo intensive Islamic indoctrination and
training in guerrilla warfare in the Khost province of Afghanistan at
Amir Muawia camp, set up in the early 1980s by the CIA and ISI
and run by famous Afghani warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. In July 1994,
upon graduating from Amir Muawia, Basayev was transferred to
Markaz-i-Dawar camp in Pakistan to undergo training in advanced
guerrilla tactics. In Pakistan, Basayev met the highest ranking
Pakistani military and intelligence officers: Minister of Defence
General Aftab Shahban Mirani, Minister of Interior General Naserullah
Babar, and the head of the ISI branch in charge of supporting Islamic
causes, General Javed Ashraf (all now retired). High-level connections
soon proved very useful to Basayev.” (Ibid, emphasis added)
Following his training and indoctrination stint, Basayev was assigned
to lead the assault against Russian federal troops in the first Chechen
war in 1995. His organization had also developed extensive links to
criminal syndicates in Moscow as well as ties to Albanian organized
crime and the KLA. (Vitaly Romanov and Viktor Yadukha, “Chechen Front
Moves To Kosovo”, Segodnia, Moscow, 23 Feb 2000)
The Chechen insurgency modeled on the CIA sponsored jihad in
Afghanistan has also served as a model for several US-NATO sponsored
military interventions, including Bosnia (1992-1995), Kosovo (1999),
Libya (2011), Syria (2011- ).
Chechen Rebels: US Covert Operation to Destabilize the Russian Federation
The 1994-1996 Chechen war, instigated by the main rebel movements
against Moscow, served to undermine secular state institutions. The
adoption of Islamic law in the largely secular Muslim societies of the
former Soviet Union served US strategic interests in the region.
A parallel system of local government, controlled by the Islamic
militia, had been implanted in many localities in Chechnya. In some of
the small towns and villages, Islamic Sharia courts were established
under a reign of political terror.
Financial aid from Saudi Arabia and the
Gulf States to the rebel armies was conditional upon the installation of
the Sharia courts, despite strong opposition of the civilian
population. The Principal Judge and Ameer of the Sharia courts in
Chechnya was Sheikh Abu Umar, who “came to Chechnya in 1995 and joined
the ranks of the Mujahideen there under the leadership of
Ibn-ul-Khattab. … He set about teaching Islam with the correct Aqeedah
to the Chechen Mujahideen, many of whom held incorrect and distorted
beliefs about Islam.” (
Global Muslim News, December 1997).
The Wahabi movement from Saudi Arabia was not only attempting to
overrun civilian State institutions in Dagestan and Chechnya, it was
also seeking to displace the traditional Sufi Muslim leaders. In fact,
the resistance to the Islamic rebels and foreign fighters in Dagestan
was based on the alliance of the (secular) local governments with the
Sufi sheiks:
“These [Wahabi] groups consist of a very
tiny but well-financed and well-armed minority. They propose with these
attacks the creation of terror in the hearts of the masses. … By
creating anarchy and lawlessness, these groups can enforce their own
harsh, intolerant brand of Islam. … Such groups do not represent the
common view of Islam, held by the vast majority of Muslims and Islamic
scholars, for whom Islam exemplifies the paragon of civilization and
perfected morality. They represent what is nothing less than a movement
to anarchy under an Islamic label. … Their intention is not so much to
create an Islamic state, but to create a state of confusion in which
they are able to thrive.( Mateen Siddiqui, “Differentiating Islam from
Militant ‘Islamists’” San Francisco Chronicle, 21 September 1999)
The second Chechnya war was launched by Vladimir Putin in 1999, with a
view to consolidating the role of the central government and defeating
the US sponsored Chechen terrorists against the Russian Federation.
“False Flags”
The
19 year old suspect is being used as a patsy. He was not even born in
Chechnya. While he and his brother had no connection to the jihadist
movement, the US media is carefully crafting a “Chechen Connection”
pointing to an inherent behavioral pattern associated with Muslims:
The brothers spent 10 years in the U.S.
during a formative period of their lives, exhibiting normal behavior for
first-generation immigrants, said Mitchell Silber, a former
intelligence official in the New York Police Department. “The question
is,
what catalyzed the change? Was it Chechen nationalism? Did
it start with Chechen nationalism and somehow migrate to a pan-Islamist
jihad cause?” (
Renewed Fears About Homegrown Terror Threat,” WSJ April 20, 2013)
There is evidence, however, from the testimony of family members that
the Tsarnaev brothers were on the radar of the FBI for several years
prior to the Boston bombings and were the object of recurrent threats
and harassment. Confirmed by the Wall Street Journal,
the FBI had “interviewed” Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011. (Ibid)
What is abundantly clear is that the US government is not committed to fighting terrorists.
Quite the opposite. US intelligence has been recruiting and grooming
terrorists for more than thirty years, while at same time upholding the
absurd notion that these terrorists, who are bona fide CIA “intelligence
assets”, constitute a threat to the American Homeland. These alleged
threats by “An Outside Enemy” are part of a propaganda ploy behind the
“Global War on Terrorism” (GWOT).
What is the Truth?
The development of an Islamist terrorist militia in different
countries around the World is part of an intricate US intelligence
project.
While the Tsarnaev brothers are casually accused without evidence of
having links to Chechen terrorists, the important question is
who is behind the Chechen terrorists?
In an utterly twisted logic, the protagonists of the ‘Global War on
Terrorism” directed against Muslims are the de facto architects of
“Islamic terrorism.”
The “Global War on Terrorism” Mindset
The “war on terrorism” mindset builds a consensus: millions of
Americans are led to believe that a militarized police apparatus is
required to protect democracy. Little do they realize that the US
government is the main source of terrorism both nationally and
internationally.
The corporate media is Washington’s propaganda arm, which consists in portraying Muslims as a threat to national security.
At this juncture in our history, at the crossroads of global economic
and social crisis, the Boston bombings play a central role. They
justify the Homeland Security State.
The evolving US Police State is thereby upheld as a means to
protecting civil liberties. Under the guise of counter-terrorism,
extrajudicial killings, the suspension of habeas corpus and torture are
rightfully considered as a means to upholding the US Constitution.
At the same time, the terrorists –created and supported by the CIA–
are used to participate in “False Flag” terrorist acts with a view to
justifying the conduct of a global military crusade against Muslim
countries, which so happen to be major oil producing economies.
“Massive Casualty Producing Events”
Former CENTCOM Commander, General Tommy Franks, who led the invasion
of Iraq in 2003, had outlined a scenario of what he described as “a
massive casualty producing event” on American soil, (a Second 9/11) .
Implied in General Franks statement was
the notion and belief
that civilian deaths were necessary to raise awareness and muster
public support for the “global war on terrorism”.
“[A] terrorist, massive,
casualty-producing event [will occur] somewhere in the Western world –
it may be in the United States of America – that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country
in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event.”
(General Tommy Franks Interview, Cigar Aficionado, December 2003,
emphasis added)
While the Boston bombings are of an entirely different nature to the
“catastrophic event” alluded to by General Tommy Franks, the
administration appears, nonetheless, to be committed to the logic of
“militarizing our country” as a means to “protecting democracy.”
The Boston events are already being used to galvanize public support
for an extended domestic based counter-terrorism apparatus. The latter
would be implemented alongside extrajudicial assassinations against
so-called “homegrown self radicalized terrorists”:
“U.S. counterterrorism policy has since 2001 focused largely on killing terrorists overseas or preventing them from getting into the U.S.
But the Boston bombings show how the diffusion of terrorist tactics
easily transcends borders. Countering small groups of individuals inside
the U.S. can be a bedeviling assignment.
Bruce Riedel, director of the
Intelligence Project at the Brookings Institution, a nonpartisan
Washington think tank, said the Boston attack was likely a harbinger.
“We are likely to see this as the future face of terrorist threats to
the United States,” he said, adding that the case of a small
number of radicalized participants who have lived in the U.S. and
execute a plot is “the counterterrorist community’s worst nightmare,
homegrown, self-radicalizing terrorism that learns its skill set off the
Internet.” (WSJ, April 20, op cit)
The “terrorist massive casualty-producing event” was upheld by General Franks as a crucial political turning point.
Do the Boston Bombings constitute a point of transition, a watershed
which ultimately contributes to the gradual suspension of
constitutional government?
ORDER DIRECTLY FROM GLOBAL RESEARCH
America’s “War on Terrorism”
by Michel Chossudovsky
In this new and expanded
edition of Michel Chossudovsky’s 2002 best seller, the author blows away
the smokescreen put up by the mainstream media, that 9/11 was an attack
on America by “Islamic terrorists”. Through meticulous research, the
author uncovers a military-intelligence ploy behind the September 11
attacks, and the cover-up and complicity of key members of the Bush
Administration.
The expanded edition, which includes
twelve new chapters focuses on the use of 9/11 as a pretext for the
invasion and illegal occupation of Iraq, the militarization of justice
and law enforcement and the repeal of democracy.
According to Chossudovsky, the “war on
terrorism” is a complete fabrication based on the illusion that one man,
Osama bin Laden, outwitted the $40 billion-a-year American intelligence
apparatus. The “war on terrorism” is a war of conquest. Globalization
is the final march to the “New World Order”, dominated by Wall Street
and the U.S. military-industrial complex.
September 11, 2001 provides
a justification for waging a war without borders. Washington’s
agenda consists in extending the frontiers of the American Empire to
facilitate complete U.S. corporate control, while installing within
America the institutions of the Homeland Security State.
