World War III Started 9/11

Mossad Chief Efraim Halevy recently appeared before the NATO Alliance Council in Brussels on June 28, 2002. As the head of Israel’s intelligence agency, Halevy knows what he is talking about. He has lived among the elite of the world’s intelligence services and at the very heart and pulse of this extraordinary enterprise. To the council he commented, “On September 11 the die was cast, and the true character of the new war was revealed to the eyes of all. This is a war in which the sides are not only countries but also terrorist groups, that operate almost with impunity. It is a war which does not have clear fighting lines; it is a war that is being waged against free societies, with weapons and strategies we have not known until now. It is a war which does not adhere to the rules of war, or the international legal norms…

“My appeal to you today, is that the attempts to differentiate and dis­tinguish between colors and targets of Islamic terror are quickly losing their relevancy. Why? First, because of the extent and the intensity of these terror actions. They are no longer lim­ited to specific areas in the world. Hamburg, Milan, Brussels, London, Miami, Koala Lampur — this is only a random list of large cities in which terrorists are living, and in which they are slowly making their plans and pre­paring their operations. Secondly, the operation of suicides in New York, Washington, or Jerusalem, is the manifestation of a ‘modus operandi’ that is motivated not only by professional efficacy, but by it being per­fectly fitted ideologically and religiously. Therefore the method has at­tained transcendental, supernatural meaning.”

Mr. Halevy talked about “The Mothers of the Martyrs” and painted graphic word pictures of mothers escorting their children on their final paths as they go to a lofty and desir­able death as homicide bombers. He spoke of “violent radical Islam” hav­ing been, until recently, a minority stream within Islam, “but if the vio­lent minority groups are not re­strained, and in many cases, com­pletely eliminated — then the statement ‘nothing succeeds like success’ is liable to symbolize the terrible threat to the basic fabric of the member countries of NATO in which Muslim communities are growing and de­veloping, in numbers and in influence, while preserving their identity and culture.”

Reforms are window dressing

Reforms, according to Halevy, are only in a “display window.” The re­gime in Iran is currently prominent in the continuing supply of weapons and capability to groups in Lebanon and others while their presence is growing within the Palestinian Authority. Iraq is trying to involve itself more and more in the destiny of the Palestinian Authority by means of distributing funds to families of the bombers. The traditional ties between Chairman Arafat and Saddam Hussein remain in place despite all the posturing in the Mideast.

Even more significant was the message that Arafat relayed to his people in a policy speech given to the Palestinian legislative body on May 15. After he paid lip service to his critics, in his carefully worded and ambivalent call for halting suicide attacks, he told his audience that they had to remember the “Hudeiba Treaty,” which he defined as “a minor treaty.” He reminded his supporters that this treaty was signed between the prophet Muhamed and the tribe of Kuraish. It was signed at a time when Muhamed was in an inferior position in the battle field, and the understanding prevailed that this was the only way to prevent a loss, until the conditions of war changed, and Muhamed would have the upper hand. When this happened, Muhamed had the obligation to break the treaty and attack his enemy. And so Muhamed acted. On May 15, Arafat announced to his people that this was his strat­egy — to sign an agreement with the purpose of breaking it, at the moment when circumstances allowed it.

Islam at war

This position is now being publicly debated by many in the know about world politics and realities. A conservative Middle East analyst, Emanuel A. Winston, had this to say, July 31, 2002:

“Islam is virtually at war with the non-Muslim world and cannot be ca­joled, bribed or diplomatically twisted to accept the West. In Islam, Christians and Jews are considered a low people called ‘Dhimmis,’ people of the Book (the Bible) who can live with Muslims as long as their status is kept lowly. Many laws in Islamic countries were established to create that reality. But Islam accuses the Jews and

Christians of worshiping the ‘Wrong God.’ That must be changed, accord­ing to the mandates of the Koran and Mohammed’s injunctions.”

The heart and soul of Islam today seems to be Saudi Arabia.

A briefing given in July to a top Pentagon advisory board described Saudi Arabia as an enemy of the United States. “The kernel of evil, the prime mover, the most dangerous opponent,” is how the report describes Saudi Arabia, according to a recent article in the Washington Post. The briefing recommended that U.S. officials tell the Saudis to either stop backing terrorism, or face seizure of its oil fields and its financial assets invested in the United States. “The Saudis are active at every level of the terror chain, from planners to finan­ciers, from cadre to foot-soldier, from ideologist to cheerleader,” according to the report, which was presented on July 10 to the Defense Policy Board, a group of prominent intellectuals and former senior officials who advise the Pentagon on defense policy. Another excerpt: “Saudi Arabia supports our enemies and attacks our allies.”

In Saudi Arabia there is a massive change taking place within the ruling powers of the country. The long ruling House of Saud is quickly losing ground to the powerful Wahhabi party often referred to as Islamists. Founded in the mid 18th century, it called for a renewal of the Muslim spirit, with moral cleansing and removal of all innovations to Islam. The movement has played an important role in the funding and founding of Saudi Arabia. Wahhabism is known for its conservative regulations and militancy which are allowed to impact all aspects of life. It is also dedicated to world domination.

This influential group is rapidly taking control of the government and policies of the country, and has been largely responsible for the promotion of the al-Qaeda forces in Afghanistan. Financed by oil wealth and allowed freedom to operate in defiance of the ruling families of Saudi Arabia, this fanatical Islamic body is swiftly extending its reach into all western countries — especially the United States. The new enemies are now within as well as without.

In a special report in National Insight on the News, May 8, 2002, J. Michael Waller writes: “The Saudis are outspending the former Soviet Union in their worldwide influence operations, and much of that money has been spent in the United States, intelligence officials claim. At one point in the 1990’s, some $1.85 billion was funneled through a single reputed Saudi front group in Northern Virginia, the SAAR Foundation, to fund Islamist activity, according to SAAR documents reviewed by Insight. Raided by federal agents for suspected terrorist money laundering and now closed, the SAAR Foundation was part of a network of Wahhabi-sponsored political front groups, mosques, charities, educational foundations, youth and student organizations, investment firms and holding companies. Many currently are under fed­eral investigation as part of the Trea­sury Department’s Operation Green Quest to track down alleged terrorist money.”

Faiz Rehman, communications director of the American Muslim Coun­cil stated, June 27, 2002: “The center of gravity of the Muslim world is shifting to this country (America).” Another ominous statement was recently made by Abdurahman Al amoudi of the same group: “I think if we are outside this country, we can say oh, `Allah, destroy America.’ But once we are here, our mission in this country is to change it. There is no way for Muslims to be violent in America, no way. We have other means to do it. You can be violent anywhere else but in America.”

There can be no doubt about the immediate future of the world. The previously quoted article by Emanuel A. Winston sums it up: “We are at war with Islam and the Muslim Arab world — by their declaration — but, we don’t seem to know it. All over the globe radical Islamists are attack­ing their host governments, demand­ing special treatment and when stron­ger, they expect the world’s nations to adopt the religion and laws of Is­lam. That is their goal of world domi­nation.”

The West’s response

The world is at war. It is not a con­ventional war as we have always known war. It is perhaps even more frightening and deadly than that — it is a religious war. They are the most bloody and fearsome. It is Islam against the West. It is Islam against all other worldly authority. It can only end either in the vanquishing of the West or the defeat of Islam. This is clearly the Apocalyptic war that will bring about the end of the world as we know it. There has never been a time in history when the world has been so clearly focused, when ideo­logical lines have been drawn so clearly and when so much has been at stake.

There is a massive geopolitical shift taking place in response to all this. It is developing on two major fronts and is often referred to as the “Bush Doctrine.” It can be summarized in two ways. First, the Bush administration is determined to estab­lish a western style democracy in the “so called” Palestinian territories. Second, the structure of Iraq has to be re-arranged with the oil factor being shifted from Saudi Arabia to Iraq. This, according to the U.S. administration, will provide a useful containment of Islam by depriving the Sau­dis of much needed oil wealth while neutralizing a growing international threat in Iraq. Then, peace and stability will return by the transformation of Islamic governance, nation by na­tion, to the western democratic model. We refer again to Debka-Net-Weekly, August 4, 2002.

“Our most credible sources confirm that the campaign is secretly marching forward—precisely accord­ing to the game plan Bush conceived and promised the American people in the speeches he delivered in September, October, and November 2001. He said then that parts of the war on global terror would go forward in secret and never be known.

“Since Sharon has wholly embraced the Bush approach to the war on terror, DEBKAfile can disclose no more than that proactive military initiatives are in progress around Israel’s frontiers — some of them dangerous as in every war. These steps are ini­tial and risk-laden, but they are in­tended to culminate in the construction of a new conceptual geo-strate­gic edifice for the Middle East as a whole.

“The reconstruction of Palestinian instruments of governance and security is a key factor in this project… The importance the Bush administration attaches to its Palestinian project goes far beyond the Palestinian arena; it is America’s first experiment in building a modern democracy for a Middle East Muslim society. If the experiment works, it may prove applicable for the autonomous Kurdish, Shi’ite and Turkomen regions America hopes to set up in Iraq — or even, in the best case, radiate farther afield to transform the lives of additional ethnic majorities in the region and affect even the most hidebound Arab regimes.”

The U.S. has already begun this enterprise by building a huge underground air base in the Shi’ite city of Herat in eastern Afghanistan — to be the largest facility of its kind in that part of the world — removing the need for similar bases in the now compromised Saudi Arabia. Bases are be­ing readied in Qatar and Oman which will provide the U.S. with a commanding position in relation to Pakistan, India and the western fringes of China. Other links in this chain are air and naval facilities at Assab and Dahlak in the Eritrean archipelago and in Tiblisi, Georgia, as well as those already located on Yemen’s Socotra Islands and in the Red Sea port town of Hodeidah (as reported in Debka­ Net-Weekly, July 23, 2002).

Islam is now being contained. The war has been joined. None of us can possibly believe that Muslims will sit quietly by and allow this all to happen. None of us can possibly believe that the Western powers will sit passively and allow their financial and imperial interests to be compromised by militant Islam. They, of course, will not allow it. The only possible outcome is the advent of World War III.