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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 17 The Nairobi and Dar es Salaam Attacks Chapter II 29 An American Friend at the Palace of Nations Chapter III 43 Islamism Versus Arab Nationalism Chapter IV 53 The Mercenaries of Globalization 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 em- bassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in August, 1998? Frankly, not much. At least 263 were killed and 5,000 more were wounded; the re- taliatory bombing of a chemical plant in Sudan and of logistics and training bases in Afghanistan two weeks later had little effect. How could such counterattacks address the terrorist actions of an interna- tional nebula with strong ties to many countries? Fifteen people were indicted; only five of them are currently in American prisons. The FBI investigation is still underway. The State Department has offered a $5 million reward to any person having information leading to the capture of Osama bin Laden or any other suspect. But fundamentally, the State Department is not exerting any real pressure on the Taleban to “catch” the Saudi billionaire who is happily whiling away his days in Afghanistan. More pro-Islamist than ever, the CIA still plays down the criminal misdeeds of its former agent and maintains the same supportive policy toward the Islamists and against Russia and China. The Saudi secret service, too, hardly seems eager to neutralize (much less arrest) its old acquaintance bin Laden, who bank-rolled the “holy war.” Saudi Arabia, through its “Wahhabi asso- ciations”1 and other armed religious fanatic organizations, is making its influence felt more than ever throughout the Arab-Muslim world (and especially in South Africa and Central Asia). In short, the objective alli- ance, the convergence of strategic and economic interests between the 5
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