Dollars For Terror: The Us And Islam

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Are the United States and their Saudi allies sponsoring and financing the radical Islamists? Labeviere uncovers the money-laundering, organized crime, and the interlocking world of business and politics. The central nerve of Islam, he states, is not religion -- it is money...

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Dollars for Terror The United States and Islam Dollars for Terror The United States and Islam Richard Labévière Translated by Martin DeMers Algora Publishing New York Algora Publishing, New York © 2000 by Algora Publishing All rights reserved. Published 2000. Printed in the United States of America ISBN: 1-892941-06-6 [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 Algora Publishing wishes to express its appreciation for the assistance given by the Government of France through the Ministry of Culture in support of the preparation of this translation. New York www.algora.com 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 3 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
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