Dollars for Terror The United States and Islam
Dollars for Terror The United States and Islam Richard Labévière Translated by Martin DeMers
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[email protected] Originally published as Les Dollars de la Terreur, Les Etats-Unis et les Islamistes © Éditions Bernard Grasset, 1999. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 00-008415 Labévière, Richard. [Dollars de la terreur. English] Dollars for Terror: The United States and Islam / by Richard Labévière; translated by Martin DeMers. p. cm. ISBN 1-892941-06-6 (alk. paper) 1. Terrorism—Government policy—United States. 2. Terrorism— Kenya—Nairobi. 3. Terrorism—Tanzania—Dar-es-Salaam. 4. Bin Ladin, Osama, 1957- 5. Terrorism—Islamic countries—Finance. 6. Taliban—Finance. I. Title. HV6432 .L3313 2000 303.6'25'0882971—dc21
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PROLOGUE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION The Cold War Continues. . .
5
Preface
13
Chapter I The Nairobi and Dar es Salaam Attacks
17
Chapter II An American Friend at the Palace of Nations
29
Chapter III Islamism Versus Arab Nationalism
43
Chapter IV The Mercenaries of Globalization
53
Chapter V
63
The CIA’s “Afghans” and Their Networks Chapter VI
99
Osama bin Laden, Our Man in Kandahar Chapter VII
121
The Muslim Brothers’ Holy (and Financial) War
1
Dollars for Terror Chapter VIII
161
Is There a Pilot Onboard the U.S. Aircraft? Chapter IX
181
Making Good Use of “Low-Intensity Conflicts” Chapter X
191
The Privatization of U. S. Foreign Policy Chapter XI
203
Islamism and Zionism: Complementary Enemies Chapter XII
211
Iran, the Great Satan’s Alibi Chapter XIII
231
Why Saudi Arabia Finances Islamism Chapter XIV
255
The Taleban, Mercenaries of the American Oil Companies Chapter XV
287
Behind the Luxor Massacre, bin Laden’s “Afghans” Chapter XVI
309
Islamist Deal-Making and Organized Crime Chapter XVII
349
Afghanistan and Sudan are the Wrong Targets Chapter XVIII
375
Islamism as Confrontation Conclusion
383
The CIA at the Negotiating Table
2
MAPS 1)
The Eurasian Chessboard
49
2) Bin Laden’s Network
109
3) Organizational Chart of Dar Al Maal Al Islami (DMI)
243
4) Contemporary Central Asia
269
5) Oil and Gas Pipelines around the Caspian Sea
279
6) The Philippines
319
7) The Network of the “New” Afghans
336
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Dollars for Terror
4
PROLOGUE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION
The Cold War Continues. . .
What’s happened since the bloody bombings of the American embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in August, 1998? Frankly, not much. At least