The Darkened Hour

21 years after the terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington DC, the United States government had announced it assassinated the elusive Egyptian radical cleric and emir of Al Qaeda, Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, on July 31st 2022. According to a senior administration official who said "The United States conducted a counterterrorism operation against a significant Al Qaeda target in Afghanistan." That target was living in Kabul City, Afghanistan. However, just how definitive is this report? And what evidence does the US government have to share with the public that it indeed killed the elder statements of the Salafist terrorist orgznaition. Will we ever be privy to such evidence or will we be left to speculate his death just as we have with the assassination of Osama Bin Laden in 2011. Ayman al-Zawahiri had a very illuminating background both in Egypt and in the United States., His influence regarding radical fundamentalism in both countries cannot be understated. In this episode, Richard Cox and Adam Fitzgerald talk about the man, the myth and the legend behind al-Zawahiri. His background into the forming the Egyptian radical group, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, what political motivations they had and what his influence was on Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. We also talk about the history of terrorist attacks after al-Zawahiri had joined Al Qaeda and what this meant for both al-Zawahiri and Al Qaeda's direction into war with the West in the future. We also discuss the myth that al-Zawahiri had also died in 2015, and also a report just last year which announced he died by poisoning. Were the stories fact or fiction. Wether or not they were true, one thing is certain. Al Qaeda as an international threat can no longer be used as justification for the "war on terror", will the United States go looking for a new enemy? We discuss all this and more!

In 1996, Osama Bin Laden's brother in law, Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, has started funding a militant group in Yemen called "The Islamic Army Of Aden", named after the port city Aden. By mid 1998, the group starts operations and making political statements and carries about kidnappings and assaults on local law enforcement, similar to what was transpiring in the Philippines, in which Khalifa also runs small businesses and funds the Islamic militant group affiliated with Bin Laden, Abu Sayyaf. US Intelligence however, are quite familiarized with what is happening in Yemen, as the NSA and CIA have begun monitoring an Al Qaeda safehouse located in the Yemen capitol, Sana'a. The house owned by a Bin Laden associate, Ahmed al-Hada, is also sometimes frequented by the son-in-law and future 9/11 hijacker, Khalid al-Mihdhar, whom is married to his daughter. The US monitors the house through bugs planted inside and through spy satellites to monitor people leaving and entering it. A high ranking Al Qaeda facilitator and financial courier, Walid bin Attash (Khallad), travels to Yemen and meets with Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri as they begin preparations to attack US naval ships in the port of Aden. The plan is to attack the USS Sullivans which is part of an Al Qaeda international terrorist plot known as the "Millenium Bombing Plot", but the operation fails. On October 12, 2000 the USS Cole is bombed by martyrs from the Islamic Army Of Aden. Meanwhile, US intelligence services such as NSA had begun signals operations on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda back in 1992 or 1996 (depending on who you ask), while CIA had begun human intelligence operations in Yemen in 1996. How is it certain terrorist operations were stopped, according to them, yet certain terrorist operations were successful.

John Kiriakou is a former CIA officer, former senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and former counterterrorism consultant for ABC News. He was responsible for the capture in Pakistan in 2002 of Abu Zubaydah, then believed to be the third-ranking official in al-Qaeda. In 2007, Kiriakou blew the whistle on the CIA’s torture program, telling ABC News that the CIA tortured prisoners, that torture was official U.S. government policy, and that the policy had been approved by then-President George W. Bush. He became the sixth whistleblower indicted by the Obama administration under the Espionage Act. In 2012, Kiriakou was honored with the Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage, an award given to individuals who “advance truth and justice despite the personal risk it creates,” and by the inclusion of his portrait in artist Robert Shetterly’s series Americans Who Tell the Truth, which features notable truth-tellers throughout American history. He was later named “Peacemaker of the Year” by the Peace and Justice Center of Sonoma County, California. He won the PEN Center USA’s prestigious First Amendment Award in 2015 and is the author of The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA’s War on Terror. While also authoring other books such as "The Convenient Terrorist: Two Whistleblowers' Stories of Torture, Terror, Secret Wars, and CIA Lies" "Surveillance and Surveillance Detection: A CIA Insider's Guide" and "Doing Time Like a Spy: How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison". Kiriakou spoke about how his college professor, Jerrold Post, was actually a CIA case officer and recruited him into the agency. How Kiriakou became involved with the CIA's arab fundamentalist squad, his time at the Bin Laden Issue Station, the raid and capture of Abu Zubaydah, his whistleblowing of CIA's torture program and his subsequent arrest and release. Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA's War on Terror: https://www.amazon.com/Reluctant-Spy-Secret-Life-Terror/dp/1616086289/ref=sr_1_6?qid=1658452695&refinements=p_27%3AJohn+Kiriakou&s=books&sr=1-6&text=John+Kiriakou John Kiriakou (Consortium News Articles): https://consortiumnews.com/tag/john-kiriakou/

Shayna Steinger, was a US visa official working in the Jeddah, Saudi Arabia US consular office, who issued visas to 12 of the 19 hijackers blamed for the attacks of September 11th 2001. The 9/11 Commission Report does not mention her by name, but states that a single official gave visas to 11 of the hijackers - though other information included in the report suggests that the correct number should be 12, a figure Steinger herself has reportedly confirmed. However, Steinger gave verbal testimony to the State Department Inspector General in 2002, in which she stated that it did not matter that all the hijackers’ visa applications were incomplete, because Saudis were eligible for visas anyway thru the "Visa Express Program". She also stated that she did not interview most of the hijackers she issued visas to and, even if she had interviewed them, she would probably have issued them with visas regardless. She also claims that the Jeddah office was understaffed and overwhelmed with applicants. Yet she was met with criticisms from inside the consular office by her coworkers who said she was irresoluble in allowing many of the applications, which went without review, that shouldn't have been approved. There were even rumors that Steinger herself was affiliated with the Central Intelligence Agency at some level. This incident is similar to what happened during the Afghan-Soviet war where a former US consular official, J,Michael Springmann, denied applications that were incomplete but overruled and approved by another consular official, Stephanie Smith, who happened to also be a CIA official. In this episode i explore the months leading up to the 9/11 attacks and what was happening inside the Jeddah consular office. Shayna Steinger interview with State Department Inspector General report: file:///C:/Users/adamf/Downloads/18074784-Memo-of-State-Department-IG-Interview-of-Consular-Officer-Who-Issued-11-Visas-to-9-11-Hijackers.pdf Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked The World – An Insider’s View: http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2016/02/02/visas-for-al-qaeda-cia-handouts-that-rocked-the-world-and-8211-an-insider-s-view.html

Adam Taylor has been researching the events of September 11th since August of 2007. From 2010 to 2014 he contributed to the blog "Debunking the Debunkers of the 9/11 Truth Movement". He has also contributed technical articles to sites such as AE911Truth.org and ScientificMethod911.org. He is the author of the AE911Truth multi-part essay "Debunking the Real 9/11 Myths: Why Popular Mechanics Can't Face Up to Reality." More recently he's published a paper on the collapse of the Twin Towers in the April edition of the International Journal of Engineering and Techniques. We spoke on the scientific anomalies surrounding World Trade Center Towers 1, 2 and 7, and what he thinks, along with the scientific data from various engineers and scientists have come up with, happened at Ground Zero on September 11th 2001. We also talk about the past, present and future of the 9/11 Truth Movement and the fringe conspiracy theorists have done to hurt it's public image. Adam Taylor's Blog: http://adamtaylor42.blogspot.com/ Debunking the Real 9/11 Myths: Why Popular Mechanics Can't Face Up to Reality: https://www.ae911truth.org/evidence/technical-articles/articles-by-ae911truth/436-debunking-the-real-9-11-myths-series Scientific Method 9/11: http://www.scientificmethod911.org/authors/taylor_author.html

The Energy of Empire series by Richard Cox touches on the history of imperialism and questions wether we live in the age of empire still, or have we "evolved" past this age? Yet the United States currently the world empire, seemingly have not "evolved". Richard Cox questions the American political motivations, under the administrations of William McKinley to Theodore Roosevelt, where he suggests the age of the American empire came to fruition. In this episode, my first returning guest, and co-host of The Darkened Hour, Richard Cox, goes into full detail behind the US imperialist machine and how it extended from the Pacific Island to Southeast Asia. Many specifics were covered which included, Lorrin Thurston, who also led the Annexation Club, US President Theodore Roosevelt's "Rough Riders" contingent invasion of Cuba, Roosevelt's invasion of Puerto Rico, US President Carter using the CIA to arm the "Contras" battle against the Sandinistas in Nicaragua which led to the Iran-Contra Affair under US President Reagan and Cecil Rhodes being funded by the Rothschild family to purchase diamond mines in South Africa. Energy Of Empire Series (Odysee): https://odysee.com/TheEnergyofEmpire1TheBlackIronPrison:f845b0ed41360c6570b3614129cc912c3185ee25?lid=c914573393afcaef760d13b848b19224a5f4ee57 Energy Of Empire Series (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0YH74POth8&list=PLpISWTfiuVAoqV0IprwzMD4CzWhTdYElh Deep Space Consciousness Website: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-deep-state-consciousness-podcast/id1338867921

Ed Brotherton served in the United States Air Force in the mid 90's. He served with the 60th Security Police Squadron at Travis AFB. He was a member of the Travis Air Face base Emergency Services Team and participated in Operation Sea Signal Joint Task Force 160 providing humanitarian relief for thousands of Haitian and Cuban Refugees. Since leaving the military Ed has taken an interest in legislative history with an emphasis on the two great political philosophies... The Power of the Purse and The Power of the Sword. Today we will be talking about the Power of the Sword. We spoke about the the general misconception of the Constitutional militia, the actual definitions of what the Constitutional militia actually is and also how the 9/11 Truth Movement faces a conundrum over their belief that a "new investigation" can happen, but with who? We spoke about a multitude of other areas including how there is a current erosion of the Constitution by the US Federal government and why it is happening.

Mark Fallon government service spans more than three decades, and includes serving as the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) Deputy Assistant Director for Counterterrorism, NCIS Chief of Counterintelligence Operations for the Europe, Africa and Middle East Division, and as a Senior Executive in the Department of Homeland Security, as the Assistant Director for Training of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC). Following the attacks of September 11th, Mark was the Deputy Commander of the military task force established to bring terrorists to justice before Military Commissions in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He previously served as the NCIS Commander of the USS Cole (DDG-67) Task Force, overseeing the investigation of the terrorist attack on the ship in Aden, Yemen, and worked on the investigation and prosecution of Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman (“the Blind Sheik”). Mark is the author of “Unjustifiable Means: The Inside Story of How the CIA, Pentagon and US Government Conspired to Torture,” and a contributing author and co-editor of “Interrogation and Torture: Integrating Efficacy with Law and Morality.” In this today's episode, Mark Fallon, former tactical commander of the USS Cole bombing, who also helped to prosecute the radical Egyptian cleric Omar Abdel Rahman (Blind Sheikh) for his role in the Landmarks Bombing Plot. He also was Deputy Commander of the military task force where he assisted in bringing Al Qaeda and their affiliates to face the military commissions in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Fallon was an ardent opponent of the "enhanced interrogation techniques" which were employed by CIA contractors James Mitchell and Bruce Jessens, which was authorized by the Bush White House, especially Department of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Fallon speaks about his involvement with prosecuting known radical arab fundamnetlist and how he became embroiled in a heated controversy at Guantanamo Bay as he was one of the first people to speak out against the US government approved torture methods. Unjustifiable Means: The Inside Story of How the CIA, Pentagon and US Government Conspired to Torture: https://www.amazon.com/Unjustifiable-Means-Pentagon-Government-Conspired/dp/1942872798

After years of Egyptian state repression on it's most fervent Islamist sects such as Gamma Islamiyyah and Egyptian Islamic Jihad, the followers of one notable Gamma Islamiyah leader, Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, saw fit to exact revenge on the Hosni Mubarak led Egyptian government in attacking it's tourism industry. The Luxor massacre was the killing of 62 people, mostly tourists, on 17 November 1997, at Deir el-Bahari, an archaeological site and major tourist attraction across the Nile from Luxor, Egypt. The massacre would end up having a reverberating effects, not just on Egyptian society, but for the world over. As many countries leaders were outraged over the barbaric terrorist attack, which saw mass arrests and torture of those affiliated with the group involved. This however would be a revisitation of what took place during many decades prior, as the Egyptian State Security Investigation Services (SSI) also arrested and torture many of those who were involved with the assassination of Anwar Sadat, the country's president in 1980. Out from the torturous experiences came many of those who were involved in some of the most notable terrorist attacks the world had ever seen, such as the 1993 WTC Bombing and the 1995 Landmarks Plot as well as the Luxor Massacre.

In this episode we follow up our previous talk about the Ukrainian uprisings of the last 30 years which led to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to begin covert operations that involved far-right separatist groups who began spying on Soviet influences in the region. Myself and Richard Cox, speak about Operation Aerodynamic, and Mykola Lebed and the nefarious connection with the CIA and how the agency connects with these violent nationalist orgaznaition to use them to suppress Russian influence in the "disputed" territories of Luhansk and Donetsk which led to NATO to expand far eastward. The topic of CIA led coup d'état's and how the United States facilitates civil unrest in Central America and Middle East thru-ought the last 75 years, while international orgaznaition such as NATO act as the instigator in certain instances such as what had happened in Yugoslavia and currently in Ukraine. Meanwhile the Biden administration continues to send billions of dollars to assist in the Ukrainian conflict, similar to what the CIA and State Department did thru "Operation Cyclone", funding the rabid Mujahedeen fighters who later became our enemies in the war on terrorism. Operation Aerodynamic: https://cryptome.org/2016/01/cia-ua-aerodynamic.pdf

In today's episode, i interview my co-host of The Darkened Hour, Richard Cox. We speak on Richard's first book, available on Amazon, "Contemplating Conspiracy: Excursions Into Undiluted Madness" . The book covers the elements of fringe conspiracies and realism. Richard's experience into the realm of fringe conspiracy, becoming introduced with known British sports announcer who later delved into the extreme forms of conspiracy, David Icke. Thru Icke, Richard investigates the "secret world" which lead him to understand that between the fringes and the worldly narrative lies a truth which can be known to everyone. They just have to take that first step. Richard Cox runs his own website that speaks on multiple topics such as conspiracy theories, spirituality, anarchism and geopolitics. Deep State Consciousness: https://www.deepstateconsciousness.com/ Contemplating Conspiracy: Excursions Into Undiluted Madness: https://www.amazon.com/Contemplating-Conspiracy-Excursions-Undiluted-Madness-ebook/dp/B09WNDZCP3

Adam Fitzgerald, and co-host, Richard Cox speak about the latest 510 page cache of declassified documents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (PENTTBOM) into Saudi financing of two Al Qaeda operatives living inside the United States in the year 2000. After the terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001, FBI officials, as well as 9/11 Commission panelists, interviewed Saudis such as Omary al-Bayoumi, Osama Basnan and Fahad al-Thumairy who all denied knowing two Al Qaeda operatives who were involved with the hijacking of American Airlines Flight 77, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi. In today's podcast, we go over the documents which now show their statements to be misleading and even outright false. Not only did al-bayoumi know al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi, but he was a Saudi government official being paid a government salary whose kin also seem to have known certain 9/11 hijackers as well. For the first time, a definite connection between the Saudi government and the 9/11 attacks are revealed! So why isn't the public and media talking about it? We discuss this in full! The Declassified FBI files: https://vault.fbi.gov/9-11-attacks-investigation-and-related-materials/9-11-material-released-in-response-to-executive-order-14040/documents-responsive-to-executive-order-14040-2-c-part-4/view

Nick Fielding is a journalist and author. He has worked for the Sunday Times, the Mail on Sunday and the Independent. At the Mail on Sunday he broke the story of the renegade MI5 officer David Shayler, and for the Sunday Times he covered the story of Richard Tomlinson, a MI6 whistleblower (Fielding is the author of the introduction to Tomlinson's book The Big Breach). He was launch editor for the online magazine, China Outlook, and he writes the Circling the Lions Den blog about Afghanistan. He is the author, together with Yosri Fouda, of Masterminds of Terror, which contains the only interviews ever given by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co-conspirator Ramzi Binalshibh. Fouda would spend the next two days talking with Mohammad and al-Shibh, where they would also be recorded on video, detailing the orchestrating of the "blessed Tuesday" terrorist attacks and how they used flight manuals, security lapses at airports to coordinate with the hijackings of the planes used in the attacks of the World Trade Center and Pentagon on September 11th 2001. Fielding reveals how the interview took place, the security measures ensured by Al Qaeda, the interview and the immediate responses from the public when Al Jazeera published the story. Masterminds of Terror: The Truth Behind the Most Devastating Terrorist Attack the World Has Ever Seen: https://www.amazon.com/Masterminds-Terror-Behind-Devastating-Terrorist/dp/1559707089

In this special episode, Richard Cox and Adam Fitzgerald, speak on the Ukrainian-Russian crisis. Richard opens up the dialogue by explaining the Holodomor Genocide, which was a famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. From there, we speak on the Orange Revolution which took place in Ukraine from late November 2004 to January 2005, in the immediate aftermath of the run-off vote of the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, which was claimed to be marred by massive corruption, voter intimidation and electoral fraud, in which Viktor Yushchenko won. In the years proceeding this was rife with protests in the Ukrainian capitol, Kiev, where ultra-right wing separatists, such as the neo-nazi group, Azov Battalion, are covertly trained by the Central Intelligence Agency to repel the Russian military in the disputed territories, Donetsk and Luhansk. The United States, NATO expansionism of Eastern Europe, CIA covert operations with neo-nazi groups, as well as foreign interference and the hypocrisy from political pundits who are creating a divisive atmosphere. The conflict portrayed by the legacy media shows it as evil verses good, yet there are multiple variables at play where there are no "good" sides.

In todays episode, The Taliban and the war for Afghanistan. When the Soviet Union negotiated a retreat out of Afghanistan in 1979, it was Pakistan who mediated the talks. However, the civil war between the Afghan factions, most notably, the Northern Alliance under Ahmed Shah Massoud, the leftover communists and the Taliban with Mohammad "Mullah" Omar began as the fight for control of the country left many tens of thousands dead. The Taliban were led by Mullah Omar, who received weapons left behind by the Soviets in trucks, who in turn, quickly took control of most of the South of the country due to the weapons left behind. It was the notorious Pakistan ISI which led the Taliban to receive the weapons as well as getting funding by Saudi sympathizers and allegedly the CIA. Also, opium traders began to work with the ISI and Taliban, in allowing for the drug trade to exist, uninterrupted, by the Pakistan authorities and intelligence. Soon the drug trade extended to a Saudi, Osama Bin Laden, who by this time began to work alongside the Taliban, and assist their conflict against the Northern Alliance by 1996. An American pipeline company, Unocal, began offering their plans to involve the Taliban, to construct a transnational pipeline. However, the plan fails when the Taliban finds that their cut of the profits weren't what they expected. The deal was off, and the CIA began conducting intelligence operations against, Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, after the 1998 US East Africa Embassy bombings. The Taliban were then labeled a terrorist orgaznaition while pressure Saudi intelligence tried to negotiate with the Taliban High Council to hand over Bin Laden to Saudi courts. Fearing he would be handed over to the West, they declined. Al Qaeda would deal a blow to the Norther Alliance on September 9th 2001, as they sent two men acting as journalists to assassinate Massoud with a bomb hidden inside a camera. Two days later, the United States would be attacked, just three weeks later, the United States would respond with a military invasion of the country which saw the decimation of the Taliban.

James Schwartz is a senior fellow with the Program on Crisis Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and teaches in the Executive Education programs including, Leadership in Crises, the General and Flag Officer Homeland Security Executive Seminar, and Leadership in Homeland Security. Schwartz is a member of the International Association of Fire Chiefs Committee on Terrorism and Homeland Security which he chaired from 2008 until August 2014. He previously served on the Advisory Council for the Interagency Threat Assessment and Coordination Group (ITACG) and subsequently the Joint Countererrorism Assessment Team (JCAT) at the National Counter Terrorism Center. He also served on the Homeland Security Science and Technology Advisory Committee and was a member of the Advisory Committee for the Department of Homeland Security’s first Quadrennial Review in 2010. Jim Schwartz retired in 2021 after serving five years as the Deputy County Manager for public safety and technology in Arlington, Virginia. Prior to that he served in the Arlington County Fire Department for 32 years, the last eleven as Chief of Department. The Arlington County Fire Department was the lead agency for the response to the September 11, 2001 attack at the Pentagon. Chief Schwartz led the unified command effort for the Pentagon incident. Arlington After Action Report: https://911digitalarchive.org/collections/show/51Arlington After Action Report Firefight: Inside The Battle To Save The Pentagon: https://www.amazon.com/Firefight-Inside-Battle-Save-Pentagon/dp/0891419055

After the September 11th terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington D.C, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) headed a multi-operational attack on Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban in Afghanistan. The CIA's hunt for Bin Laden however predated the attacks upon the nation, according to news articles and documented intelligence reports, the agency were monitoring the embittered Saudi for many years while Bin Laden resided in the Sudan after he was forcibly expelled by the Saudis Bin Laden had built training camps and plotted against US military in Somalia with help from Al Qaeda.. US President Bill Clinton pressured Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, to expel Bin Laden. Meanwhile, CIA and Pentagon officials were often discussing about a capture or kill operation of Bin Laden. The Clinton Administration however, declined to ever commit to anything. By 1996, Bin Laden was welcomed back into Afghanistan, after Sudanese president al-Bashit had expelled him from the country,. Bin Laden then began terrorist operations against the United States which started with two US embassy beings bombed in Kenya and Tanzania killing over 480 people. After the attacks of September 11th, the CIA then began constructing a covert operation which involved the CIA's National Clandestine Service's (NCS) Special Activities Division and 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne). The operation was also known as the "Battle of Tora Bora" which lasted 11 days. CIA case officers Gary Schroen and later, Gary Berntsen would lead the operation from Namghar Province, which had major success in eliminating large numbers of Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters, With Bin Laden and about 400 Al Qaeda fighters trapped against the White Mountains north of the country, Bin Laden, as he did in the Sudan, escaped death.

In this episode i discuss how the Salafi/Wahhabi ideology which had manifested into a reactive, political Islamic response to Western foreign policy which is often dictated thru Israeli-Gulf lobbyists and their agendas for the Middle East. The responses from terrorist groups led by the Salafi such as the 1983 Beirut barracks bombings, 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and most infamously the September 11th 2001 attacks are often visited on the United States. Yet the West continues to show unwavering support to the Saudi Kingdom which propagates the Wahhabi-Salafi faith. I also quote from those who wage ‘defensive jihad”, which comes from a preemptive or offensive attack, commissioned from by a political authority. These people ill be commonly know as "takfiri", or those who condemn other Muslims as apostates. In this case that authority comes from “uncommission” self appointed caliphs (rulers), not recognized overall by the ruling Islamic “ulema” or from the grand imam of the Al-Azhar Mosque and Al-Azhar University. The episode will delve into how the psychological mindsets of the more nefarious Salafi-Wahhabi individuals in world history and how they operate such as Ibn Taymiyyah, Ibn Hanbal, to Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahab, Hassan al-Banna, Sayyid Qutb to Ayman al-Zawahiri, Muhmmad Abd al-Salam Faraj, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and Osama Bin Laden In short, the essence of true Islam has been "corrupted", while being completely abrogated, by those i mention above in regards to the spiritual meanings from Muhammad and the purity of Dawah (inviting one to Islam). How does the West finally put an end to Salafi terrorism, while at the same time, revitalizes it with their disastrous foreign policy which undermines the Arab world?

The Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and after the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 was the the official name of the inquiry conducted by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence into the activities of the U.S. Intelligence Community in connection with the September 11, 2001 attacks. The selected co-chairs to lead the inquiry were Senator Bob Graham chair of the Select Committee on Intelligence, and Representative Porter Goss, chair of the House Intelligence Committee. The Committee lasted ten months which focused on the domestic intelligence services and their capacity to counter terrorist activities. The panel had 16 members of Congress involved, but one panelist had stood out than most, in regards to intelligence sharing and the malfeasance involved. However, one member of the committee stood out from the rest, as his demanding inquiries were met with perjury, and outright denial. Carl Levin, a Democratic senator from Michigan was selected to take part when the committee formed in 2002. He was also the chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee from 2001 to 2003 and again from 2007 to 2015 while also a member of the Select Committee on Intelligence. Levin passed away on July 29th 2021. Levin's authoritative voice, steely demeanor and authentic inquiries witnessed the Director of the Central Intelligence, George Tenet, commit an act of perjury, Director of the CIA's Counterterrorist Center, Cofer Black, mislead in his statements and former Chief of the Bin Laden Issue Station, Tom Wilshire, stammer in his response. In this episode, i will play specific excerpts from the Joint Inquiry regarding Senator Levin's interviews with a number of intelligence officials, some who were hidden behind security screens to protect their identities as i give additional commentary thru ought.

In this episode, Richard Cox and myself talk about the story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi and the film based on his life and time while imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay Prison in Cuba, "The Mauritanian". Slahi was accused of being involved with Al Qaeda and also being the conduit between members of the "Hamburg Cell" at Al Quds mosque in Germany who were allegedly involved with the September 11th 2001 attacks, and Al Qaeda. However, after his lawyer, Nancy Hollander, agreed to take on his case, all the charges against Slahi were made under extraordinary duress under the Central Intelligence Agency "enhanced interrogation techniques" which were defined as torture. Slahi even detailed his experiences while at Guantanamo Bay, which would later be made into a book "Guantánamo Diary" which was released in 2015. The discussion also details the abhorrent practices. Salahi was subjected to isolation, temperature extremes, beatings and sexual humiliation by military interrogators. In one incident, he was blindfolded and taken out to sea for a mock execution. Lt. Col Stuart Couch refused to prosecute Salahi in a Military Commission in 2003. He said that "Salahi's incriminating statements—the core of the government's case—had been taken through torture, rendering them inadmissible under U.S. and international law." Slahi was released without a single charge on October 17th 2016. The Mauritanian: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00QQPJY0A/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Coleen Rowley had served as a Special Agent with the FBI and was assigned to the Omaha, Nebraska and Jackson, Mississippi divisions. Beginning in 1984, she spent six years working in the New York City field office on investigations involving Italian organized crime and Sicilian heroin. During this time she served three temporary assignments in the U.S. embassy in Paris and the consulate in Montreal. In 1990, she was transferred to the FBI's Minneapolis field office, where she became Chief Division Counsel. Her career with the FBI spanned 24 years. In 2002, Rowley wrote a memo to FBI Director Robert Mueller, detailing the mishandling of the intelligence her office had gathered, and later that year testified before the Senate. In 2006 she ran as a Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party candidate for Congress in Minnesota's 2nd congressional district. In this interview, Rowley speaks about the Italian Mafia "Pizza Connection" case, Bojinka Plot, Khobar Towers Bombing and how Minneapolis FBI supervisors at the Radical Fundamentalist Unit curtailed the Zacarias Moussaoui case by not authorizing a FISA warrant to search Moussaoui's personal belongings such as his laptop.

Robbie Martin is a journalist and filmmaker. He writes for the magazine White Fungus and Oakland-based news website Media Roots founded by his sister Abby Martin whom he also co-hosts a regular podcast with. He is the behind the documentaries American Bisque, American Anthrax and A Very Heavy Agenda. Robbie has made appearances on Buzzsaw TV, KPFA’s ‘Project Censored’, Russia Today, The Corbett Report, Brasscheck TV, Ring of Fire TV, Behind The Headline on FreeSpeech TV, Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Radio and has been interviewed by La Figaro, the BBC, Neural Magazine and the San Francisco Chronicle. In today's episode, Robbie speaks in depth about the 2001 Anthrax Attacks, the political influences of the Robert Kagan Family, the Neoconservative movement under the Bush administration and the Israeli Art Student ring which spied on US Authorities and Intelligence, specifically in Florida, where incidentally the members of the Hamburg Cell who were involved with the hijackings of September 11th 2001, had also lived. Media Roots Radio: https://mediaroots.org/ A Very Heavy Agenda: https://averyheavyagenda.com/

Julie Sirrs is a former Middle East analyst for the Defense Intelligence Agency (1992-1999). An ardent student of Afghanistan culture, she began by visiting the war torn country after graduating from Georgetown University. After college, she joined the Defense Intelligence Agency. Her analytic experience of Afghanistan and the Taliban was valuable to the DIA and in 1998 she went back to Afghanistan to meet Northern Alliance commanders (Ahmad Shah Massoud) whom were fighting against the Taliban for control of the country. Sirrs said she notified her supervisor of her trip, but her presence in Afghanistan caused a bureaucratic fight involving the State Department, C.I.A. and D.I.A. In this interview we talk about her experience with the DIA, her involvement with Afghanistan, the intelligence services indecision to back the Northern Alliance and being one of the last people to speak with Ahmad Shah Massoud alive. Sirrs is currently a Shareholder with Boone Karlberg a law firm based in Montana.

Co-host of The Darkened Hour, Richard Cox, returns to interview Adam Fitzgerald regarding the current state of Afghanistan and the United States military withdrawal of the capitol Kabul in recent weeks leading the Taliban to take complete control of the country. We delve into the history of what precipitated the US invasion in the first place which led to various points starting with the Unocal Pipeline deal with the Taliban, the civil war between Northern Alliance and the Taliban and Al Qaeda training camps in Kandahar. We also talk about the recent book Adam Fitzgerald had read, "Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda" authored by Gary Berntsen. Berntsen was the lead commander of the CIA operation code named, "Jawbreaker" , which also involved the Northern Alliance, Eastern Alliance and US Special forces who had surrounded Osama Bin Laden and approximately 450 Al Qaeda fighters in Tora Bora which saw Bin Laden & Al Qaeda fighters escape into Pakistan. We end the discussion giving our overall thoughts regarding the history of the US-Afghanistan conflict.

Dan Christensen is the founder and lead investigative reporter of the Florida Bulldog. He is also an award-winning former investigative reporter for The Miami Herald and Daily Business Review. We talk about his ground breakling stories regarding the Saudi lawsuits in the Southern district of New York City, Operation Encore, an FBI investigation involving Musaed al-Jarrah, Fahad al-Thumairy and Omar al-Bayoumi, Abdulaziz al-Hijji a former sarasota native who met with 9/11 hijackers Mohammed Atta and Marwan al-Shehi in the days leading up to the attacks, Adnan Gushnair El Shukrijumah a high level Al Qaeda operative who lived in Florida and also had contacts with some of the 9/11 operatives, and the recent deposition of former US-Saudi ambassador, Bandar Bin Sultan, refusing to answer any questions about his knowledge regarding the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks. Florida Bulldog website: https://www.floridabulldog.org/

In the late evening hours of September 11th 2001, those in the highest levels of the federal government were gathering as much intelligence as they possible could to piece together just exactly what happened and who was responsible for the attacks earlier in the day. The Central Intelligence Agency and the Counter-terrorism unit were alarmed that their initial suspects who were being tracked by members of the special unit, the Bin Laden Issue Station" were responsible for the hijackings of four planes three of which intentionally crashed into the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon. George Tenet, CIA Director, was given the flight manifests which reinforced his worst nightmares. Meanwhile a more nefarious unit was beginning to use the terrorist attacks to justify previous outlines, made many years prior by a very selective group called the neoconservatives. They were also called, The Vulcans, named after the Roman god of fire. They were Richard Armitage, Robert Blackwill, Stephen Hadley, Richard Perle, Dov S. Zakheim, Robert Zoellick and Paul Wolfowitz and Condoleezza Rice. It was here they began to justify not just a military invasion of Afghanistan, but also against Iraq. It caused a split within the intelligence agencies who being forced to find anything linking the terrorist attacks by Al Qaeda to Iraq. The FBI and NSA were not able to find anything to link the two, which left Bush to give the responsibility to Tenet. The CIA began using enhanced interrogation techniques which was in it's simple definition, torture, on captured detainees from Afghanistan. They produced false intelligence but confessions none the less which was used to militarily invade Iraq. In this episode i outline the planning stages of the neoconservative unit in the many years prior to the September 11th attacks, and after.

Lawrence Wilkerson, a retired United States Army Colonel and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell who has also served as the associate director under the Director for Policy Planning, talks with us about the past, present and future of the United States foreign policy in the Middle East. The Neoconservative, Israeli and Saudi influence on American politics and his thoughts on the Middle East past and present. The topics Wilkerson speaks at length are numerous which encompass, the office of special plans created by Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith. The powerful tentacles of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the Saudi Kingdom's Bandar Bin Sultan and the oil magnates billion dollar industries which corrupted many from the halls of congress, Colin Powell's speech at the United Nations Security Counsel in 2003 which was reformatted by the Central Intelligence Agency, the influence of Leo Strauss and Paul Nitze regarding the Bush neocons, The Guantanamo Bay detainee tortures, and the Libya conflict perpetrated by the Obama administration under the direct influence of Hillary Clinton and Samantha Power. War is Not About Truth, Justice and the American Way: Col. Lawrence Wilkerson on The Real News book: https://www.amazon.com/War-About-Truth-Justice-American/dp/1515113213/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=lawrence+wilkerson&qid=1627045903&s=books&sr=1-1

A journalist whose career spanned over three decades, Terry McDermott, author of Perfect Soldiers: The 9/11 Hijackers—Who They Were, Why They Did It, and, The Hunt for KSM: Inside the Pursuit and Takedown of the Real 9/11 Mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (co-authored with Josh Meyer) is invited to speak about both books today. McDermott covers a wide range of issues relating to what was being planned and known before the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks and we also speak about what happened immediately afterwards. His book Perfect Soldiers, is the only book in existence which covers specifically on the hijackers backgrounds and profiles. Our conversation also touches various subjects such as the 1979 Afghan-Soviet War, 1993 WTC Bombing and Bojinka plot. We also cover the Guantanamo Bay military trial and the CIA torture of captured detainees and whether their admissions can be valid before the military tribunal. Perfect Soldiers: The 9/11 Hijackers—Who They Were, Why They Did It: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0014H327G/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 The Hunt for KSM: Inside the Pursuit and Takedown of the Real 9/11 Mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed : https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0071534XC/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i2

Kenneth Williams is a retired 35 year veteran from the Federal Bureau of Investigation out of Phoenix who worked in counter-terrorism on foreign and domestic issues that included being involved with two major terrorist attacks on the United States, The Oklahoma City Alfred Murrah bombing and the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks. Williams conducted a covert operation involving an informant who went by the name Henry Ellen, a Phoenix based businessman who was also a Muslim convert and later went by the name, Abu Yousef. He was able to obtain information about suspicious activities by individuals who had contacts with known terrorist cells operating inside the United States, specifically involving Omar Abdel Rahman a radical Egyptian cleric based out of Brooklyn and New Jersey. This information was used to construct a memorandum which would be released to the FBI nationwide, known as the Phoenix Memo. The memo focused on Zakaria Soubra, a Lebanese flight student in Prescott, Arizona, and his connection with a terror group in Chechnya that had ties to al-Qaeda. Williams alerted his suspicions about radical militants training at flight schools in Arizona and elsewhere in the United States in the memorandum which was sent to numerous cities nationwide. However the report was not read by his superiors until after the September 11th terrorist attacks. He would later testify before the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate regarding terrorism matters and cooperated with the 9/11 Commission. He is also currently assisting the 9/11 victims families in their civil suit against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, even after defying the order of the FBI not to for fear of compromising US-Saudi relations.

When United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into an open field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania on September 11th 2001, nobody in Somerset County imagined that this horrific incident would be thoughtlessly expressed by the minds of fringe conspiracy theorists who would entertain, repeatedly, irrational theories that would undermine current federal and local investigators looking at foreign intervention and financial assistance into the cooperators of this crime. Or by the federal government who made sure to use the FBI to omit certain information that may be relevant to what took place before and during the hijacking. In time these outlandish theories, which still persist today, have made the crime that took place here seem like a distant cousin of sorts. The victims and their loved ones deserve much better than what is being told by either federal investigators who omit certain information pertaining to this incident, or by irresponsibly unhinged conspiracy theorists. In this episode i will give a historical outline of the actual anomalies that took place before, during and after the crash of Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. For more information on Assem al-Jarrah read my article: https://adamfitzgerald-5924.medium.com/assem-jarrah-out-from-the-ashes-of-flight-93-e2bb2b70d63e J. Michael Springmann & Bonnie Faulkner interview transcript: http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2016/02/02/visas-for-al-qaeda-cia-handouts-that-rocked-the-world-and-8211-an-insider-s-view.html Article regarding cell phone use on board airliners: https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/The-real-reason-you-can-t-use-cell-phones-on-2896133.php Flight 93 passengers personal effects return back to families: https://old.post-gazette.com/headlines/20011230flight931230p3.asp#:~:text=But%20searchers%20also%20gathered%20surprisingly,effects%20salvaged%20from%20the%20site. CIA potential recruitment of Mohammad Haydar Zammar and Marmoun Darkanzali: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2002-11-17-0211170296-story.html

In this episode, I lend my thoughts about what precipitated the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington D.C. In a special edition three hour discussion where I cover many specific areas. They include the Afghan-Soviet War, The Rise of Islamic/Salafi Movement, Osama Bin Laden, Israel-Arab-US Foreign relations, The Paul Wolfowitz Doctrine, The Rise of Neoconservatism, The 1993 WTC Bombing, Bojinka Plot, AIPAC Influence On US Politics 1998 East Africa Bombings, The 2000 Millennium Plot, Nabil al-Marabh, Josie Hadas, Omar Abdel Rahman, Abdullah Azzam, Ramzi Yousef, Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Benjamin Netanyahu, Paul Wolfowitz, James R. Bath, George W. Bush, The Bin Laden Issue Station, Able Danger, Operation Cyclone, Timber Sycamore, Urban Moving Systems, The Maktab al-Khidamat (Afghan Services Bureau) and the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks.

In todays episode we cover the life of one of Islam's most venerated and enigmatic scholars of the century. Abdullah Yusuf Azzam was a Palestinian Islamic scholar, author and credited as being the founder of modern day defensive jihad, or "aljihad aldifaeiu" (aldifayou) in the Arabic. In the Quran there are three types of jihad, the jihad against yourself, the jihad against Satan — which are called the greater jihads — and the jihad against an open enemy — known as the lesser jihad. The jihad Azzam had implemented in the madrassas in Pakistan and to the young mujahid in the afghan services bureau also called the Maktab al-Khidamat will be carefully elucidated in todays episode for it would help shape to create the radical fundamentalist's we have witnessed in the modern period, like Al Qaeda, Aby Sayyaf, and Islamic State. Much of today's podcast is derived from Dr. Thomas Hegghammer's book on Abdullah Azzam. Thomas Hegghammer' book: The Caravan: Abdallah Azzam and the Rise of Global Jihad: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B082PZ9CXN/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0

In 1996, a classified military planning effort led by the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) constructed a covert meta-data collection operation code named, Able Danger. They employed the US Army's Land Information Warfare Activities Division as the data-miners needed to collect 'open source' information to track terrorist cells inside the United States. Erik Kleinsmith, Army Major and the Chief of Intelligence of the Land Information Warfare Activity (LIWA), was selected to take part of this highly classified unit. The data mining software would be provided by Raytheon Company and Orion Scientific, which helped execute the sophisticated data mining software packages. By 2000, the LIWA team managed to collect 2.5 terabytes of information showing 2 of 3 terrorist cells inside the United States, that included, one cell operated by Omar Abdel Rahman (Landmarks Plot) and Mohammed Atta (9/11 Planes Operation). However, Kleinsmith was ordered by United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM) lawyers to destroy all the data the LIWA had amassed, which identified 20 suspects, some, who were involved with the terrorist attack on the USS Cole and in the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks. He would later give testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2005, regarding the covert Able Danger program and what the unit were able to uncover. In today's episode, Major Erik Kleinsmith talks with us about how he became part of the unit, what it entailed, and how SOCOM lawyers and the Department of Defense obstructed members of LIWA from sharing their intelligence with anyone outside of the US Army by ordering them to destroy it all completely. Intelligence Operations: Understanding Data, Tools, People, and Processes (First Edition): https://titles.cognella.com/intelligence-operations-9781516523580 Able Danger And Intelligence Sharing: https://www.c-span.org/video/?188974-1/danger-intelligence-sharing

In 1932, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud granted permission for the American oil company, Standard Oil, to begin drilling for oil in Bahrain. The vast oil reserves which exported billions of barrels annually, would provide the Kingdom with American military protection from it's Arab and non-Arabic neighbors. However the hegemony in the region would suddenly come under intense conflict, as Israel would declare independence in 1948. Both Israel and Saudi Arabia would begin a race for American geopolitical influence which started under the Woodrow Wilson administration. Over the next 40 years tens of millions have been donated to Washington lobbyists, billions in oil exports and millions from rich Saudi businessmen which would continually pressure American foreign policy to favor the Saudi Royal Family. The Lobby began to take hold during the energy crisis between 1973-1979, which the Saudis finally realized their potential to use their leverage of threatening to switch sides to the Soviets, in order to exert more political clout in Congress. To speak more precisely on the matter of Saudi Arabia's influence in American politics, is Dr. Mitchell Bard, the Executive Director of the nonprofit American–Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, and the director of the Jewish Virtual Library. He is the author of the book "The Arab Lobby: The Invisible Alliance That Undermines America's Interests in the Middle East". In this episode Dr. Bard gives us a descriptive history about how the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia became a country without any legitimate influence, to one with an enormous amount of financial and political clout in Washington D.C which began in the early 20th century. The Arab Lobby (Mitchell Bard): https://www.amazon.com/Arab-Lobby-Invisible-Undermines-Interests/dp/0061725978

The "28 pages" are located in the final summary of the Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and after the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 (JIS), conducted by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Entitled "Part IV: Finding, Discussion and Narrative Regarding Certain Sensitive National Security Matters", they refer to possible financial support of prominant Saudi businessmen and intelligence operatives and those who were involved with the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks. When the report was finalized in July 2003, the Bush administration sought to redact the pages, but in 2016 under the Obama administration, it was fully declassified partly due to continued pressure from Senator Bob Graham, who was co-chair of the Joint House Inquiry. 28 pages.org is a website which shows updated reports and information relating to the JIS report and other documents and files relating to Saudi links to the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks, Brian McGlinchey, who operates the website also is an independent journalist at Stark Realities. We also talk about other Saudi incidents that went investigated by the FBI but were partly "covered up" due in part from the continued pressure from the Bush Administration which had close ties to the Saudi Royal Family and Bin Laden family going back decades. 28Pages,org website: https://28pages.org/the-declassified-28-pages/ Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey: https://starkrealities.substack.com/

In 1996 the Defense Intelligence Agency and US Special Operations Command, under Joint Chiefs of Staff General Hugh Shelton and General Peter Schoomaker (Special Operations Command), constructed a covert signals intelligence program, code named, Able Danger. This unit would involve members of the Land Information Warfare Activities division with some of the most highly skilled tech analysts in the country. One of the members of this program, Major Anthony Shaffer, was already a highly decorated Army counter-intelligence officer, and was selected to the Able Danger unit. The operation involved data-mining which would later uncover two of three al-Qaeda active cells. The 'Brooklyn cell' linked to "Blind Sheik" Omar Abdel-Rahman, the other headed by Mohamed Atta along with three others linked to the 9/11 attacks. However the program ran into resistance from SOCOM lawyers and Department of defense officials who determined that Atta and the cell were US persons and ordered that most of the Able Danger data destroyed. In 2003, while in Afghanistan fighting against the Taliban, Shaffer would give an interview to 9/11 Commission Director Phillip Zelikow, detailing the Able Danger program and what it compiled. When Shaffer returned to the United States he was shocked to learn that the Department of Defense had suspended his security clearance and levied "false allegations" against him. The Army Trial Defense Services heard his case and cleared him of the charges against him. Shaffer's story is told in full here in todays episode. Operation Dark Heart: Spycraft and Special Ops on the Frontlines of Afghanistan -- and The Path to Victory: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003P9XJX8/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0 London Center for Policy Research: https://www.londoncenter.org/

Mark Rossini served as an FBI representative to the CIA’s Counter-terrorist Center (CTC) at CIA Headquarters and he was one of the founding executives of the National Counter-terrorism Center (NCTC). He was then situated in the 1997 NYC joint terrorism task force where he served under the I-48 counter terrorism unit which investigated Hezbollah, which was the unit next to the legendary I-49 unit which was the team investigating Al Qaeda. In January 1999, Rossini was tasked to replace Dan Coleman at the CIA's Bin Laden Issue Station, code named, Alec Station. The Bin Laden Issue Station was under the management of it's station chief Michael Scheuer, which allowed multiple agencies to work within the unit. However the CIA was quite strict about who they shared data with. Rossini would become an important figure in an explosive act of CIA malfeasance when in January 2000 a cable came in which showed two high level Al Qaeda operatives, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi were coming to the United States after attending an Al Qaeda Summit Meeting In Malaysia. known to be involved in the 1998 East Africa Embassy bombings , this cable which showed the passport and US visa of the men was read by Rossini's FBI counterpart, Doug Miller, who began immediately drafting a cable to warn FBI headquarters. The Miller cable was then sent to, Alec Station's Deputy Chief, Tom Wilshire for approval to be shared with the FBI. Wilshire told CIA case officer, Michael Anne Casey, to hold off on sending. With the cable in 'limbo", Rossini inquired to Casey about why the information was being withheld. To which Casey replied ‘Look, the next attack is going to happen in Southeast Asia — it’s not the bureau’s jurisdiction. When we want the FBI to know about it, we’ll let them know. But the next bin Laden attack’s going to happen in Southeast Asia." This damning information which would have sent the FBI to closely watch the two men was never shared. According to Rossini, this would have helped to stop part of the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks from happening. Rossini gives his thoughts about his experiences at Alec Station, his relationship with John O'Neill and his personal views about a new investigation including upcoming testimony in the Guantanamo Bay trial of Khalid sheikh Muhammad, the alleged 9/11 mastermind. Mark Rossini file: file:///C:/Users/adamf/Downloads/Mark%20Rossini%20File.pdf

In 1922, Egypt had gained it's independence from British Colonials rule and the Ottoman Empire was next. The country led by it's despot ruler, King Farouq, had begun to falter thru the leader's hedonism and affluent expenses which led most of Egyptian society living below the poverty level. Hassan al-Banna, a schoolteacher, began to organize a group of fellow Islamic scholars, it was called the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928. The goal of al-Banna and the group was simple. Usurp British colonel rule from Egypt and establish a sharia based government led by the Quran and sunnah. By 1952, a coup de tat commenced by the Free Officers Movement led by Muhamad Neguib and Gamel Abdel Nasser. Nasser would become Egypt's second president, one that lasted just 14 years. The Brotherhood suffered under his tenure-ship. One influential figure from the Brotherhood would have a responding effect thru the Arab world, Sayyid Qutb who authored some works that would be influential in radical Islamic fundamentalism even to the present day, With Nasser's passing in 1970, Anwar Sadat became the third Egyptian president and was rather opposite in handling the Islamists. The Brotherhood, whom many were jailed under Nasser, were released. More radical splinter groups were born, opposed to the Brotherhood's wish to work with the secular Egyptian government. These radical groups wanted to live up to Sayyid Qutb's ideology of an Islamic caliphate by removing the secular Arab government and institute a religious one. By orchestrating to assassinate Anwar Sadat himself and force the loyalists out and institute an Islamic government. By 1981, Sadat was killed by members of the Egyptian army who were loyal to Al-Jihad and Gamma Islammiyah the splinter groups. The plan for the Islamic radicalization of Egyptian government however failed. it would take years for the Muslim Brotherhood to rebound and become a legitimate part of Egyptian politics but in 2012, it finally achieved the goal of Hassan al-Banna.

In this special episode of The Darkened Hour, we interview Scott Horton. Scott is the director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, the author of “Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan” and “Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism” And since 2003 has conducted over 5,400 interviews, and is host of Antiwar Radio on KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles which had won The Austin Chronicle's Best of Austin award in 2007 for "Best Iraq War Coverage." We spoke at length about certain events depicted in the chapters of his latest book, Enough Already: Time To End the War On Terrorism. Horton speaks about the disastrous effects of American Imperialism in the Middle East which has led to numerous Arab countries to become sectarian Jihadist battleground which has given the reason for the "war on terrorism" to continue while using covert operations thru the CIA to arm and train them at the same time. Scott Horton's Book: https://www.amazon.com/Enough-Already-Time-End-Terrorism/dp/1733647341​ The libertarian Institute: https://libertarianinstitute.org/

In this episode, we discuss the profile of alleged 9/11 ringleader and pilot of American Airlines Flight 11, Mohamed Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta otherwise known as Mohamed Atta. Who was this young Egyptian? Was he the shy young man who studied engineering in Egypt and Germany? Or was he the radical Islamic fundamnetlist claimed by the FBI and 9/11 Commission Report. According to family and friends from his native Cairo, he was a soft spoken young man who concentrated solely on his studies and hardly dated. He was also never taught any religious studies, according to his father, Mohamed El Amir Awad El Sayed, a prominent lawyer. Which raises suspicions over why Atta would choose to become affiliated with one of the most notorious radically driven mosques in the city of Hamburg, Germany, Al Quds. Who was then groomed and supported by known Syrian-German Al Qaeda contacts whom were being closely monitored by the Central Intelligence Agency and the German Intelligence branch, BFV. Atta would then travel to the United States and indulge in drinking and moonlighting with women which contradicted his Wahhabi held beliefs and also his shy persona depicted by his family and friends. While ultimately becoming involved with a hijacking martyrdom operation which saw the attacks in New York City and Washington D.C. on September 11th 2001. Leading everyone who Atta became personally involved with over the years to question his alleged personal involvement with such an operation. So who just was this Mohamed Atta? Student? Religious fanatic? Terrorist hijacker? Intelligence asset? DJ Thermal Detonator: https://www.youtube.com/c/TrutherShirts/playlists Der Spigel article regarding the release of Mounir El Motassadeq: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45862560

For years prior to the September 11th terrorist attacks, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had begun a campaign against Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. Capture or kill the Saudi financier of terrorism. Meanwhile the National Security Agency (NSA) had began monitoring the Al Qaeda's connection hub in Sanaa Yemen, while foreign intelligence from Saudi Arabia and Israel were involved with monitoring Al Qaeda operatives inside the United States. All without the knowledge of those from the Justice Department, the State Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation. The CIA which led the operation under it's virtual station located in Langley, Virginia called the Bin Laden Issue Station (Alec Station), had amassed massive amounts of data from CIA stations in the Arab region, in which entailed important and sensitive data regarding certain members of the Hamburg Cell and two Saudi's, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi. Meanwhile the NSA also amassed 10 years worth of signals intelligence that started with the monitor of Bin Laden's satellite phone in 1992, and the tapping of the Yemen Hub in 1996. What was entailed in those cables at Alec Station? What was learned from the NSA regarding the Yemen Hub? Why was this information ignored altogether in 2 congressional inquiries and from the public at large?

Since the British mandate (Balfour Declaration) along with Zionist influences inside the United States, Israel, has made a seemingly rapid impact not just in building a country governed by nationalist Jews, but also heavily influencing the American political and media apparatuses as well. In the 21st century, the rate of Israeli espionage rivals and even outclasses even the Soviet Union's former communist dictatorship, as well as the Chinese communist entities who have integrated inside the host United States. However, it is Israel whom we label an ally, that commits the most egregious acts of counter-intelligence and espionage conducted against the nation's highest levels of government, which include the President of the United States. From Johnathan Pollard to the Drug Ring of 1998, and the moving front companies whom tracked Al Qaeda operatives who were later involved in the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks, the problem of subverting these illegal Israeli Mossad operations inside the country, is an arduous task.

Balochistan, Pakistan is the home to two of the world's most notorious terrorists, both whom would leave an everlasting impact on the fabric of society as we know it by constructing two of the largest terrorists incidents in our nation's history. The 1993 World Trade Center Bombing and the 2001 Terrorist attacks of September 11th. They would be known by their regular "nom de guerre", but their actual names are Abdul Basit Karim (Ramzi Yousef) and Khalid Sheikh Muhammad. Muhammad, Karim's uncle born in different locations but united in Baluchistan's tight knit Islamic upbringing, where they both would start out as electrical engineering students and later crafted thru Afghanistan's terrorist training camps and their vitriol for the West.

In this episode of The Darkened Hour, the intelligence services and their investigation into a young Saudi who was an integral part of the Soviet withdrawal of Afghanistan in 1979. As Bin Laden was expelled from his home country of Saudi Arabia, he and along with his Arab mujahid along with Egyptian members of the Islamic Jihad, relocated to Sudan. The NSA thru a separate investigation of a Hamas operative in New York City became aware of a satellite phone which was delivered to Khartoum. This phone was an unencrypted device which the FBI informed the NSA about. By 1993, the NSA had collected the data and recorded all the calls. One number in particular was raising the interests of the analysts at NSA. It was traced back to a house in the country of Yemen, where it's capitol, Sana'a was the location. It belonged to an associate of BIn Laden's from Afghanistan, Ahmed al-Hada.. This became the conduit for Bin Laden's Al Qaeda group which now relocated back to Afghanistan in 1996. The NSA shared with the CIA about the house in Yemen, where the agency started monitoring the movements of those coming and going from this house between 1996-2001. With the NSA listening to Bin Laden's satellite phones between, 1992-1998, and the phone in Yemen, and the CIA conducting human intelligence of the Yemen house, what exactly did the intelligence produce over the years? More importantly, what didn't they share?

In this episode of the Darkened Hour, Adam Fitzgerald interviews, historian and analyst of the September 11th 2001 attacks, Nelson Martins who also goes by DJ Thermal Detonator. A careful and prominent researcher, Nelson encompasses many subjects relating to the event such as U.S Foreign Policy and the domestic and foreign intelligence services. We talk about many other terrorist events leading up to the attacks, which include, The 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 bombing, 1993 WTC Bombing, 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing, Bojinka Plot and the 2001 September 11th attacks. We also elaborate on the problems of the fanatical conspiracy theories which blanket the actual anomalies that took place in September 11th 2001 and how this hurts the majority of the 9/11 Truth Movement. Nelson Martins Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thermaldetonator/posts Nelson Martins YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TrutherShirts Nelson Martins Wordpress: https://911skepticsvstruth.wordpress.com/ Nelson Martins Twitter: https://twitter.com/DJThermalD

For the religious ulema of the Islamic world in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, the ideology known as Pan Arabism, or "Nasserism" (Named after Egyptian President Abdel Gamel Nasser) was a direct threat to it's existence and a liability for the Islamic world as a whole. Religious extremists from Saudi Arabia and Egypt began taking an aggressive stance against the secular ideology, which was to blame for the embarrassing defeat suffered to Muslims worldwide, during the "6 Day Arab War" against it's main adversary, Israel. In this episode, Adam Fitzgerald, talks about how the Pan Arab nations in the Middle East saw an exponential rise in Islamic Fundamentalism known as "Wahhabism" during the early 70's to the present day, and how it effected the world.

American Airlines Flight 77 crashing into the Pentagon on September 11th 2001, and the subsequent investigation that followed, have caused some to question the "validity" of the incident. Adam Fitzgerald goes thru the day's events with actual anomalies that happened pre and post 9/11 which were not properly investigated nor reported by the legacy media while dispelling the more questionable conspiracy theories that have arisen from it causing the 9/11 Truth Movement to become fragmented.

In a follow-up to the episode on Zacarias Moussaoui, Adam interviews Mitchel Gray, author of 'I Heard you were going on Jihad - How a Minnesota FBI agent may have prevented a second wave of attacks before 9/11'. Mr. Gray is an Iraq War veteran who provided valuable information to the counter-intelligence agencies after 9/11. An Arabic speaker, Mr. Gray is also an attorney and adjunct professor of oil and gas who lectures on energy security issues. Adam talks with Mitchell about his encountering radical Islamic groups inside the USA, as well as the detailed information he compiled on 20th hijacker, Zacarias Moussaoui.

Adam recently wrote an extensive comment on a podcast discussing the validity of 9/11 conspiracy theories. The hosts invited him on to give his views on what's wheat and what's chaff when it comes to 9/11 theories. Check out their podcast here https://anchor.fm/matt0271

Psychotherapist Fran Shure joins us to discuss her series, ‘Why Good People Become Silent - or Worse - About 9/11’. Drawing on her knowledge of psychology, Fran explains why people may find it uncomfortable to even entertain ideas which threaten their existing world-view, and what we can all do to watch for this tendency in ourselves. We then go on to discuss the psychopathic mindset and how people can come to engage in evil acts. Read Fran’s series here