BEFORE YOU VOTE ON JUNE 2009 READ WHAT
FOLLOWS:
Revealed: The secret report
that shows how the Nazis planned a Fourth
Reich ...in the EU
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VOTE!]
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LABOUR-LIBERAL-CONSERVATIVE PARTIES AS THEY
ARE ACTIVE PARTICIPANTS IN THE RISE OF THE
FOURTH REICH SINCE 1973]
By
Adam Lebor
Last updated at 10:30 PM on 09th May 2009
The paper
is aged and fragile, the typewritten letters
slowly fading. But US Military Intelligence
report EW-Pa 128 is as chilling now as the
day it was written in November 1944.
The document, also known
as the Red House Report, is a detailed
account of a secret meeting at the Maison
Rouge Hotel in Strasbourg on August 10,
1944. There, Nazi officials ordered an elite
group of German industrialists to plan for
Germany's post-war recovery, prepare for
the Nazis' return to power and work for a
'strong German empire'. In other words: the
Fourth Reich.
Plotters: SS chief Heinrich Himmler with
Max Faust, engineer with Nazi-backed
company I. G. Farben
The
three-page, closely typed report, marked
'Secret', copied to British officials and
sent by air pouch to Cordell Hull, the US
Secretary of State, detailed how the
industrialists were to work with the Nazi
Party to rebuild Germany's economy by
sending money through Switzerland.
They would set up a
network of secret front companies abroad.
They would wait until conditions were right.
And then they would take over Germany again.
The industrialists
included representatives of Volkswagen,
Krupp and Messerschmitt. Officials from the
Navy and Ministry of Armaments were also at
the meeting and, with incredible foresight,
they decided together that the Fourth German
Reich, unlike its predecessor, would be an
economic rather than a military empire - but
not just German.
The Red House Report,
which was unearthed from US intelligence
files, was the inspiration for my thriller
The Budapest Protocol.
The book opens in 1944 as
the Red Army advances on the besieged city,
then jumps to the present day, during the
election campaign for the first president of
Europe. The European Union superstate is
revealed as a front for a sinister
conspiracy, one rooted in the last days of
the Second World War.
But as I researched and
wrote the novel, I realised that some of the
Red House Report had become fact.
Nazi Germany did export
massive amounts of capital through neutral
countries. German businesses did set up a
network of front companies abroad. The
German economy did soon recover after 1945.
The Third Reich was
defeated militarily, but powerful Nazi-era
bankers, industrialists and civil servants,
reborn as democrats, soon prospered in the
new West Germany. There they worked for a
new cause: European economic and political
integration.
Is it possible that the
Fourth Reich those Nazi industrialists
foresaw has, in some part at least, come to
pass?
The Red House Report was
written by a French spy who was at the
meeting in Strasbourg in 1944 - and it
paints an extraordinary picture.
The industrialists
gathered at the Maison Rouge Hotel waited
expectantly as SS Obergruppenfuhrer Dr
Scheid began the meeting. Scheid held one of
the highest ranks in the SS, equivalent to
Lieutenant General. He cut an imposing
figure in his tailored grey-green uniform
and high, peaked cap with silver braiding.
Guards were posted outside and the room had
been searched for microphones.
Death camp: Auschwitz, where tens of
thousands of slave labourers died
working in a factory run by German firm
I. G. Farben
There was a
sharp intake of breath as he began to speak.
German industry must realise that the war
cannot be won, he declared. 'It must take
steps in preparation for a post-war
commercial campaign.' Such defeatist talk
was treasonous - enough to earn a visit to
the Gestapo's cellars, followed by a one-way
trip to a concentration camp.
But Scheid had been given
special licence to speak the truth – the
future of the Reich was at stake. He ordered
the industrialists to 'make contacts and
alliances with foreign firms, but this must
be done individually and without attracting
any suspicion'.
The industrialists were to
borrow substantial sums from foreign
countries after the war.
They were especially to
exploit the finances of those German firms
that had already been used as fronts for
economic penetration abroad, said Scheid,
citing the American partners of the steel
giant Krupp as well as Zeiss, Leica and the
Hamburg-America Line shipping company.
But as most of the
industrialists left the meeting, a handful
were beckoned into another smaller
gathering, presided over by Dr Bosse of the
Armaments Ministry. There were secrets to be
shared with the elite of the elite.
Bosse explained how, even
though the Nazi Party had informed the
industrialists that the war was lost,
resistance against the Allies would continue
until a guarantee of German unity could be
obtained. He then laid out the secret
three-stage strategy for the Fourth Reich.
In stage one, the
industrialists were to 'prepare themselves
to finance the Nazi Party, which would be
forced to go underground as a Maquis', using
the term for the French resistance.
Stage two would see the
government allocating large sums to German
industrialists to establish a 'secure
post-war foundation in foreign countries',
while 'existing financial reserves must be
placed at the disposal of the party so that
a strong German empire can be created after
the defeat'.
In stage three, German
businesses would set up a 'sleeper' network
of agents abroad through front companies,
which were to be covers for military
research and intelligence, until the Nazis
returned to power.
'The existence of these is
to be known only by very few people in each
industry and by chiefs of the Nazi Party,'
Bosse announced.
'Each office will have a
liaison agent with the party. As soon as the
party becomes strong enough to re-establish
its control over Germany, the industrialists
will be paid for their effort and
co-operation by concessions and orders.'
Extraordinary
revelations: The 1944 Red House Report,
detailing 'plans of German
industrialists to engage in underground
activity'
The exported funds were to
be channelled through two banks in Zurich,
or via agencies in Switzerland which bought
property in Switzerland for German concerns,
for a five per cent commission.
The Nazis had been
covertly sending funds through neutral
countries for years.
Swiss banks, in particular
the Swiss National Bank, accepted gold
looted from the treasuries of Nazi-occupied
countries. They accepted assets and property
titles taken from Jewish businessmen in
Germany and occupied countries, and supplied
the foreign currency that the Nazis needed
to buy vital war materials.
Swiss economic
collaboration with the Nazis had been
closely monitored by Allied intelligence.
The Red House Report's
author notes: 'Previously, exports of
capital by German industrialists to neutral
countries had to be accomplished rather
surreptitiously and by means of special
influence.
'Now the Nazi Party stands
behind the industrialists and urges them to
save themselves by getting funds outside
Germany and at the same time advance the
party's plans for its post-war operations.'
The order to export
foreign capital was technically illegal in
Nazi Germany, but by the summer of 1944 the
law did not matter.
More than two months after
D-Day, the Nazis were being squeezed by the
Allies from the west and the Soviets from
the east. Hitler had been badly wounded in
an assassination attempt. The Nazi
leadership was nervous, fractious and
quarrelling.
During the war years the
SS had built up a gigantic economic empire,
based on plunder and murder, and they
planned to keep it.
A meeting such as that at
the Maison Rouge would need the protection
of the SS, according to Dr Adam Tooze of
Cambridge University, author of Wages of
Destruction: The Making And Breaking Of The
Nazi Economy.
He says: 'By 1944 any
discussion of post-war planning was banned.
It was extremely dangerous to do that in
public. But the SS was thinking in the
long-term. If you are trying to establish a
workable coalition after the war, the only
safe place to do it is under the auspices of
the apparatus of terror.'
Shrewd SS leaders such as
Otto Ohlendorf were already thinking ahead.
As commander of
Einsatzgruppe D, which operated on the
Eastern Front between 1941 and 1942,
Ohlendorf was responsible for the murder of
90,000 men, women and children.
A highly educated,
intelligent lawyer and economist, Ohlendorf
showed great concern for the psychological
welfare of his extermination squad's gunmen:
he ordered that several of them should fire
simultaneously at their victims, so as to
avoid any feelings of personal
responsibility.
By the winter of 1943 he
was transferred to the Ministry of
Economics. Ohlendorf's ostensible job was
focusing on export trade, but his real
priority was preserving the SS's massive
pan-European economic empire after Germany's
defeat.
Ohlendorf, who was later
hanged at Nuremberg, took particular
interest in the work of a German economist
called Ludwig Erhard. Erhard had written a
lengthy manuscript on the transition to a
post-war economy after Germany's defeat.
This was dangerous, especially as his name
had been mentioned in connection with
resistance groups.
But Ohlendorf, who was
also chief of the SD, the Nazi domestic
security service, protected Erhard as he
agreed with his views on stabilising the
post-war German economy. Ohlendorf himself
was protected by Heinrich Himmler, the chief
of the SS.
Ohlendorf and Erhard
feared a bout of hyper-inflation, such as
the one that had destroyed the German
economy in the Twenties. Such a catastrophe
would render the SS's economic empire almost
worthless.
The two men agreed that
the post-war priority was rapid monetary
stabilisation through a stable currency
unit, but they realised this would have to
be enforced by a friendly occupying power,
as no post-war German state would have
enough legitimacy to introduce a currency
that would have any value.
That unit would become the
Deutschmark, which was introduced in 1948.
It was an astonishing success and it
kick-started the German economy. With a
stable currency, Germany was once again an
attractive trading partner.
The German industrial
conglomerates could rapidly rebuild their
economic empires across Europe.
War had been
extraordinarily profitable for the German
economy. By 1948 - despite six years of
conflict, Allied bombing and post-war
reparations payments - the capital stock of
assets such as equipment and buildings was
larger than in 1936, thanks mainly to the
armaments boom.
Erhard pondered how German
industry could expand its reach across the
shattered European continent. The answer was
through supranationalism - the voluntary
surrender of national sovereignty to an
international body.
Germany and France were
the drivers behind the European Coal and
Steel Community (ECSC), the precursor to the
European Union. The ECSC was the first
supranational organisation, established in
April 1951 by six European states. It
created a common market for coal and steel
which it regulated. This set a vital
precedent for the steady erosion of national
sovereignty, a process that continues today.
But before the common
market could be set up, the Nazi
industrialists had to be pardoned, and Nazi
bankers and officials reintegrated. In 1957,
John J. McCloy, the American High
Commissioner for Germany, issued an amnesty
for industrialists convicted of war crimes.
The two most powerful Nazi
industrialists, Alfried Krupp of Krupp
Industries and Friedrich Flick, whose Flick
Group eventually owned a 40 per cent stake
in Daimler-Benz, were released from prison
after serving barely three years.
Krupp and Flick had been
central figures in the Nazi economy. Their
companies used slave labourers like cattle,
to be worked to death.
The Krupp company soon
became one of Europe's leading industrial
combines.
The Flick Group also
quickly built up a new pan-European business
empire. Friedrich Flick remained unrepentant
about his wartime record and refused to pay
a single Deutschmark in compensation until
his death in July 1972 at the age of 90,
when he left a fortune of more than
$1billion, the equivalent of £400million at
the time.
'For many leading
industrial figures close to the Nazi regime,
Europe became a cover for pursuing German
national interests after the defeat of
Hitler,' says historian Dr Michael
Pinto-Duschinsky, an adviser to Jewish
former slave labourers.
'The continuity of the
economy of Germany and the economies of
post-war Europe is striking. Some of the
leading figures in the Nazi economy became
leading builders of the European Union.'
Numerous household names
had exploited slave and forced labourers
including BMW, Siemens and Volkswagen, which
produced munitions and the V1 rocket.
Slave labour was an
integral part of the Nazi war machine. Many
concentration camps were attached to
dedicated factories where company officials
worked hand-in-hand with the SS officers
overseeing the camps.
Like Krupp and Flick,
Hermann Abs, post-war Germany's most
powerful banker, had prospered in the Third
Reich. Dapper, elegant and diplomatic, Abs
joined the board of Deutsche Bank, Germany's
biggest bank, in 1937. As the Nazi empire
expanded, Deutsche Bank enthusiastically 'Aryanised'
Austrian and Czechoslovak banks that were
owned by Jews.
By 1942, Abs held 40
directorships, a quarter of which were in
countries occupied by the Nazis. Many of
these Aryanised companies used slave labour
and by 1943 Deutsche Bank's wealth had
quadrupled.
Abs also sat on the
supervisory board of I.G. Farben, as
Deutsche Bank's representative. I.G. Farben
was one of Nazi Germany's most powerful
companies, formed out of a union of BASF,
Bayer, Hoechst and subsidiaries in the
Twenties.
It was so deeply entwined
with the SS and the Nazis that it ran its
own slave labour camp at Auschwitz, known as
Auschwitz III, where tens of thousands of
Jews and other prisoners died producing
artificial rubber.
When they could work no
longer, or were verbraucht (used up) in the
Nazis' chilling term, they were moved to
Birkenau. There they were gassed using
Zyklon B, the patent for which was owned by
I.G. Farben.
But like all good
businessmen, I.G. Farben's bosses hedged
their bets.
During the war the company
had financed Ludwig Erhard's research. After
the war, 24 I.G. Farben executives were
indicted for war crimes over Auschwitz III -
but only twelve of the 24 were found guilty
and sentenced to prison terms ranging from
one-and-a-half to eight years. I.G. Farben
got away with mass murder.
Abs was one of the most
important figures in Germany's post-war
reconstruction. It was largely thanks to him
that, just as the Red House Report exhorted,
a 'strong German empire' was indeed rebuilt,
one which formed the basis of today's
European Union.
Abs was put in charge of
allocating Marshall Aid - reconstruction
funds - to German industry. By 1948 he was
effectively managing Germany's economic
recovery.
Crucially, Abs was also a
member of the European League for Economic
Co-operation, an elite intellectual pressure
group set up in 1946. The league was
dedicated to the establishment of a common
market, the precursor of the European Union.
Its members included
industrialists and financiers and it
developed policies that are strikingly
familiar today - on monetary integration and
common transport, energy and welfare
systems.
When Konrad Adenauer, the
first Chancellor of West Germany, took power
in 1949, Abs was his most important
financial adviser.
Behind the scenes Abs was
working hard for Deutsche Bank to be allowed
to reconstitute itself after
decentralisation. In 1957 he succeeded and
he returned to his former employer.
That same year the six
members of the ECSC signed the Treaty of
Rome, which set up the European Economic
Community. The treaty further liberalised
trade and established increasingly powerful
supranational institutions including the
European Parliament and European Commission.
Like Abs, Ludwig Erhard
flourished in post-war Germany. Adenauer
made Erhard Germany's first post-war
economics minister. In 1963 Erhard succeeded
Adenauer as Chancellor for three years.
But the German economic
miracle – so vital to the idea of a new
Europe - was built on mass murder. The
number of slave and forced labourers who
died while employed by German companies in
the Nazi era was 2,700,000.
Some sporadic compensation
payments were made but German industry
agreed a conclusive, global settlement only
in 2000, with a £3billion compensation fund.
There was no admission of legal liability
and the individual compensation was paltry.
A slave labourer would
receive 15,000 Deutschmarks (about £5,000),
a forced labourer 5,000 (about £1,600). Any
claimant accepting the deal had to undertake
not to launch any further legal action.
To put this sum of money
into perspective, in 2001 Volkswagen alone
made profits of £1.8billion.
Next month, 27 European
Union member states vote in the biggest
transnational election in history. Europe
now enjoys peace and stability. Germany is a
democracy, once again home to a substantial
Jewish community. The Holocaust is seared
into national memory.
But the Red House Report
is a bridge from a sunny present to a dark
past. Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda
chief, once said: 'In 50 years' time nobody
will think of nation states.'
For now, the nation state
endures. But these three typewritten pages
are a reminder that today's drive towards a
European federal state is inexorably tangled
up with the plans of the SS and German
industrialists for a
Fourth Reich - an
economic rather than military imperium.
• The Budapest Protocol, Adam LeBor's
thriller inspired by the Red House Report,
is published by Reportage Press.
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August 1st, 2009 at 5:38 am
All you need to do is read the interview Bin Laden gave to UMMAT on Sept 28, 2001:
UMMAT: You have been accused of involvement in the attacks in New York and Washington. What do you want to say about this? If you are not involved, who might be?
USAMA BIN LADEN: In the name of Allah (God), the most beneficent, the most merciful. Praise be to Allah, Who is the creator of the whole universe and Who made the Earth as an abode for peace, for the whole humankind. Allah is the Sustainer, who sent Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) for our guidance. I am thankful to the Ummat Group of Publications, which gave me the opportunity to convey my viewpoint to the people, particularly the valiant and momin (true Muslim) people of Pakistan who refused to believe the lies of the demon (Pakistani military dictator General Pervez Musharraf).
I have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States. As a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie. I had no knowledge of these attacks, nor do I consider the killing of innocent women, children and other humans as an appreciable act. Islam strictly forbids causing harm to innocent women, children and other people. Such a practice is forbidden even in the course of a battle. It is the United States, which is perpetrating every maltreatment on women, children and common people of other faiths, particularly the followers of Islam. All that is going on in Palestine for the last 11 months is sufficient to call the wrath of God upon the United States and Israel. There is also a warning for those Muslim countries, which witnessed all these as a silent spectator. What had earlier been done to the innocent people of Iraq, Chechnya and Bosnia? Only one conclusion could be derived from the indifference of the United States and the West to these acts of terror and the patronage of the tyrants by these powers that America is an anti-Islamic power and it is patronizing the anti-Islamic forces. Its friendship with the Muslim countries is just a show, rather deceit. By enticing or intimidating these countries, the United States is forcing them to play a role of its choice. Put a glance all around and you will see that the slaves of the United States are either rulers or enemies of Muslims.
The U.S. has no friends, nor does it want to keep any because the prerequisite of friendship is to come to the level of the friend or consider him at par with you. America does not want to see anyone equal to it. It expects slavery from others. Therefore, other countries are either its slaves or subordinates. However, our case is different. We have pledged slavery to God Almighty alone and after this pledge there is no possibility to become the slave of someone else. If we do that it will be disregardful to both our Sustainer and his fellow beings. Most of the world nations upholding their freedom are the religious ones, which are the enemies of the United States, or the U.S. itself considers them as its enemies.
The countries which do not agree to become the U.S. slaves are China, Iran, Libya, Cuba, Syria [Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iraq, Sudan, Indonesia, Malaysia] and Russia. Whoever committed the act of 11 September are not the friends of the American people. I have already said that we are against the American system, not against its people, whereas in these attacks, the common American people have been killed. According to my information, the death toll is much higher than what the U.S. Government has stated. But the Bush Administration does not want the panic to spread. The United States should try to trace the perpetrators of these attacks within itself; the people who are a part of the U.S. system, but are dissenting against it. Or those who are working for some other system; persons who want to make the present century as a century of conflict between Islam and Christianity so that their own civilization, nation, country, or ideology could survive. They can be anyone, from Russia to Israel and from India to Serbia. In the U.S. itself, there are dozens of well-organized and well-equipped groups, which are capable of causing a large-scale destruction. Then you cannot forget the American-Jews, who are annoyed with President Bush ever since the elections in Florida and want to avenge him.
Then there are intelligence agencies in the U.S., which require billions of dollars worth of funds from the Congress and the government every year. This [funding issue] was not a big problem till the existence of the former Soviet Union but after that the budget of these agencies has been in danger. They needed an enemy. So, they first started propaganda against Usama and Taleban and then this incident happened. You see, the Bush Administration approved a budget of 40 billion dollars. Where will this huge amount go? It will be provided to the same agencies, which need huge funds and want to exert their importance. Now they will spend the money for their expansion and for increasing their importance. I will give you an example. Drug smugglers from all over the world are in contact with the U.S. secret agencies. These agencies do not want to eradicate narcotics cultivation and trafficking because their importance will be diminished. The people in the U.S. Drug Enforcement Department are encouraging drug trade so that they could show performance and get millions of dollars worth of budget. General Noriega was made a drug baron by the CIA and, in need, he was made a scapegoat. In the same way, whether it is President Bush or any other U.S. President, they cannot bring Israel to justice for its human rights abuses or to hold it accountable for such crimes. What is this? Is it not that there exists a government within the government in the United Sates? That secret government must be asked as to who carried out the attacks.
UMMAT: A number of world countries have joined the call of the United States for launching attacks on Afghanistan. These also include a number of Muslim countries. Will Al-Qa’idah declare a jihad against these Islamic countries as well?
USAMA BIN LADEN: I must say that my duty is just to awaken the Muslims; to tell them as to what is good for them and what is not. What does Islam say and what do the enemies of Islam want. Al-Qa’idah was set up to wage a jihad against infidelity, particularly to counter the onslaught of the infidel countries against the Islamic states. Jihad is the sixth undeclared pillar of Islam. [The first five being the basic holy words of Islam ("There is no god but God and Muhammad is the messenger of God"), prayers, fasting (in Ramadan), pilgrimage to Mecca and giving alms (zakat).] Every anti-Islamic person is afraid of jihad. Al-Qa’idah wants to keep jihad alive and active and make it a part of the daily life of the Muslims. It wants to give it the status of worship. We are not against any Islamic country. We do not consider a war against an Islamic country as jihad. We are in favour of armed jihad only against those infidel governments, which are killing innocent Muslim men, women and children just because they are Muslims. Supporting the U.S. act is the need of some Muslim countries and the compulsion of others. However, they should think as to what will remain of their religious and moral position if they support the attack of the Christians and the Jews on a Muslim country like Afghanistan. The orders of Islamic Shariah [jurisprudence] for such individuals, organizations and countries are clear and all the scholars of the Muslim brotherhood are unanimous on them. We will do the same, which is being ordered by the Ameer-ul-Momeneen [the commander of the faithful] Muhammad Omar [leader of the Taleban] and the Islamic scholars. The hearts of the people of Muslim countries are beating with the call of jihad. We are grateful to them.
UMMAT: The losses caused in the attacks in New York and Washington have proved that giving an economic blow to the U.S. is not too difficult. U.S. experts admit that a few more such attacks can bring down the American economy. Why is Al-Qa’idah not targeting their economic pillars?
USAMA BIN LADEN: I have already said that we are not hostile to the United States. We are against the [U.S. Government] system, which makes other nations slaves of the United States, or forces them to mortgage their political and economic freedom. This system is totally in the control of the American Jews, whose first priority is Israel, not the United States. It is clear that the American people are themselves the slaves of the Jews and are forced to live according to the principles and laws laid down by them. So the punishment should reach Israel. In fact, it is Israel, which is giving a blood bath to innocent Muslims and the U.S. is not uttering a single word.
UMMAT: Why is harm not caused to the enemies of Islam through other means, apart from the armed struggle? For instance, urging the Muslims to boycott Western products, banks, shipping lines and TV channels.
USAMA BIN LADEN: The first thing is that Western products could only be boycotted when the Muslim fraternity is fully awakened and organized. Secondly, the Muslim companies should become self-sufficient in producing goods equal to the products of Western companies. Economic boycott of the West is not possible unless economic self-sufficiency is attained and substitute products are brought out. You see that wealth is scattered all across the Muslim World but not a single TV channel has been acquired which can preach Islamic injunctions according to modern requirements and attain an international influence. Muslim traders and philanthropists should make it a point that if the weapon of public opinion is to be used, it is to be kept in the hand. Today’s world is of public opinion and the fates of nations are determined through its pressure. Once the tools for building public opinion are obtained, everything that you asked for can be done.
UMMAT: The entire propaganda about your struggle has so far been made by the Western media. But no information is being received from your sources about the network of Al-Qa’idah and its jihadi successes. Would you comment?
USAMA BIN LADEN: In fact, the Western media is left with nothing else. It has no other theme to survive for a long time. Then we have many other things to do. The struggle for jihad and the successes are for the sake of Allah and not to annoy His bondsmen. Our silence is our real propaganda. Rejections, explanations, or corrigendum only waste your time and through them, the enemy wants you to engage in things which are not of use to you. These things are pulling you away from your cause. The Western media is unleashing such a baseless propaganda, which makes us surprise but it reflects on what is in their hearts and gradually they themselves become captive of this propaganda. They become afraid of it and begin to cause harm to themselves. Terror is the most dreaded weapon in modern age and the Western media is mercilessly using it against its own people. It can add fear and helplessness in the psyche of the people of Europe and the United States. It means that what the enemies of the United States cannot do, its media is doing that. You can understand as to what will be the performance of the nation in a war, which suffers from fear and helplessness.
UMMAT: What will be the impact of the freeze of Al-Qa’idah accounts by the U.S.?
USAMA BIN LADEN: God opens up ways for those who work for Him. Freezing of accounts will not make any difference for Al-Qa’idah or other jihad groups. With the grace of Allah, Al-Qa’idah has more than three alternative financial systems, which are all separate and totally independent from each other. This system is operating under the patronage of those who love jihad. What to say of the United States, even the combined world cannot budge these people from their path. These people are not in hundreds but in thousands and millions. Al-Qa’idah comprises of such modern educated youths who are aware of the cracks inside the Western financial system as they are aware of the lines in their hands. These are the very flaws of the Western fiscal system, which are becoming a noose for it and this system could not recuperate in spite of the passage of so many days.
UMMAT: Are there other safe areas other than Afghanistan, where you can continue jihad?
USAMA BIN LADEN: There are areas in all parts of the world where strong jihadi forces are present, from Indonesia to Algeria, from Kabul to Chechnya, from Bosnia to Sudan, and from Burma to Kashmir. Then it is not the problem of my person. I am a helpless fellowman of God, constantly in the fear of my accountability before God. It is not the question of Usama but of Islam and, in Islam too, of jihad. Thanks to God, those waging a jihad can walk today with their heads raised. Jihad was still present when there was no Usama and it will remain as such even when Usama is no longer there. Allah opens up ways and creates loves in the hearts of people for those who walk on the path of Allah with their lives, property and children. Believe it, through jihad, a man gets everything he desires. And the biggest desire of a Muslim is the life after death. Martyrdom is the shortest way of attaining an eternal life.
UMMAT: What do you say about the Pakistan Government policy on Afghanistan attack?
USAMA BIN LADEN: We are thankful to the Momin and valiant people of Pakistan who erected a blockade in front of the evil forces and stood in the first file of battle. Pakistan is a great hope for the Islamic brotherhood. Its people are awakened, organized and rich in the spirit of faith. They backed Afghanistan in its war against the Soviet Union and extended every help to the mojahedeen (freedom fighters) and the Afghan people. Then these are very Pakistanis who are standing shoulder by shoulder with the Taleban. If such people emerge in just two countries, the domination of the West will diminish in a matter of days. Our hearts beat with Pakistan and, God forbid, if a difficult time comes we will protect it with our blood. Pakistan is sacred for us like a place of worship. We are the people of jihad and fighting for the defense of Pakistan is the best of all jihads to us. It does not matter for us as to who reforms Pakistan. The important thing is that the spirit of jihad is alive and stronger in the hearts of the Pakistani people.
Source: Ummat, Urdu-language daily newspaper based in Karachi, Pakistan -
Friday, 28 September 2001 – pages 1, 7.
Source: BBC Monitoring Service.
Source: http://www.khilafah.com/
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Sui Juris Reply:
August 1st, 2009 at 5:39 am
Here is the most important part of that interview:
In the same way, whether it is President Bush or any other U.S. President, they cannot bring Israel to justice for its human rights abuses or to hold it accountable for such crimes. What is this? Is it not that there exists a government within the government in the United Sates? That secret government must be asked as to who carried out the attacks.
-Bin Laden Sept 28, 2001