Al Qaidah

Except it's not true, even the name is wrong - a deliberate misspelling of Al Qaidah, a town in the central highlands of Yemen that's named after a military base setup there in 1174 AD. I only know about Al Qaidah town because I’ve been there, on Friday 26 September 1997, the last day of a business trip to nearby Taiz. While on route to the airport I was taken to an unscheduled meeting in a secluded valley one mile south east of Al Qaidah, as shown in the video below. That meeting was my recruitment interview for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s terrorist network who my customer was hosting in their Taiz headquarters compound. My brief visit to Al Qaidah in 1997 is the basis for my assertions today, that the entire narrative around Al Qaeda is wrong - all of it. Mine’s an informed theory supported by facts and firsthand experience - I hope you'll give it a few minutes of your time.

1986-88 Indonesia’s Jemaah Islamiyah Leader
“Sungkar first inspired Hambali to share the vision of establishing a radical Islamist regime in Southeast Asia,then furthered Hambali's instruction in jihad by sending him to Afghanistan in 1986. After undergoing training at Rasul Sayyaf's Sada camp (where KSM would later train), Hambali fought against the Soviets; he eventually returned to Malaysia after 18 months in Afghanistan. By 1998, Hambali would assume responsibility for the Malaysia/Singapore region within Sungkar's newly formed terrorist organization, the Jamaah Islamiyah.” (2004 9/11 Commission Report page 150/151)

1987-92 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
“KSM plunged into the anti-Soviet Afghan jihad soon after graduating from college. Visiting Pakistan for the first time in early 1987, he traveled to Peshawar, where his brother Zahid introduced him to the famous Afghan mujahid Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, head of the Islamic Union Party. Sayyaf became KSM’s mentor and provided KSM with military training at Sayyaf’s Sada camp… Between 1988 and 1992, KSM helped run a nongovernmental organization in Peshawar and Jalalabad; sponsored by Sayyaf, it was designed to aid young Afghan mujahideen.” (2004 9/11 Commission Report page 146/147)

1994 Manila - the Bojinka Plot

After the WTC bombing Ramzi Yousef settled in 1994 Manila with a small terrorist cell, planning attacks and preparing sophisticated bombs. Yousef had taught Abu Sayyaf bomb making in 1991 so again all this activity was linked to Sayyaf’s Insurgent Organization. There was a bin Laden link in the Philippines – Osama’s brother-in-law Jamal Khalifa. The brother-in-laws served together in the 1980s Afghan Jihad but as that drew to a close Khalifa left for the Philippines in 1987, actively recruiting fighters and providing financing for Abu Sayyaf. Conversely Osama returned home as soon as the last Soviet left Afghanistan. The Bojinka plot to bomb a dozen trans-Pacific airliners was busted, but not before Sayyaf’s Insurgent Organization had bombed a cinema for practice and killed a random Japanese businessman on their first test bombing of a plane - Philippine Airlines Flight 434.

4 December 1997 Beirut - the Clearest 9/11 Warning Ignored

Within twenty-four hours of retiring from the CIA, officer Robert Baer flew to Beirut to continue his spy craft for a new boss, someone he only describes as a ‘friend back in Washington’. Baer made contact with and became a close confidant of a dissident Qatari prince who warned him about 1993 WTC bomb accused Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's:

"plans to hijack airplanes and use them as weapons"

Baer told two people: a CIA friend and a New York Times journalist. The next time that dissident Qatari prince left Beirut the Qatari air force intercepted his private plane above the Mediterranean, renditioned and jailed him for ten years.

7 August 1998 Africa - the US Embassy Bombings

I believe I can link KSM to the US embassy bombings in Kenya & Tanzania because twelve months earlier I met KSM and his two Pakistani chemical engineers in Yemen, in a factory supplied with TNT component chemicals via the US State Department in Washington, as detailed here. According to the 9/11 Congressional Inquiry ( page 313), shortly after the bombing a foreign government sent the CIA a list of individuals who flew into Nairobi before the attack. The CIA recognizes that one of the names was an alias for KSM. Again, as Sayyaf was KSM’s boss, I attribute this attack to Sayyaf’s Insurgent Organization too.

9 September 2001 Afghanistan - the Assassination of Ahmad Shah Massoud

This photo shows 1980s Mujahideen commander Ahmad Shah Massoud in the European Parliament in April 2001 warning Western leaders that extremists were intent on attacking the United States on a massive scale (9/11). Two days before the attacks he’d tried to warn us about, Massoud was murdered by two assassins posing as journalists. Those assassins were vouched for and sent by Abdul Rasul Sayyaf – they were part of Sayyaf’s Insurgent Organization. Massoud would have been the West’s natural ally in Afghanistan and I believe Sayyaf had him killed for that reason. Sayyaf was shaping the battlefield for the invasion he hoped to provoke with the 9/11 attacks.

11 September 2001 America - the 9/11 Attacks

Once again Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is the primary link between Sayyaf’s Insurgent Organization and 9/11. But there’s one gem of Intel that links him even closer – the 9/11 hijackers last message sent to Ramzi bin al Shibh three weeks before the attacks (around the same time Sayyaf gained access to Massoud for the assassins). That message said:

“The first semester commences in three weeks. Two high schools and two universities.
This summer will surely be hot. Nineteen certificates for private education and four exams.
Regards to the professor. Goodbye.” - Abdul Rasul Sayyaf is the Professor in this message.

Given the evidence above, Sayyaf’s role in Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s terrorist spree and the establishment of Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah is undeniable - and my lists are far from complete. The most glaring proof of Sayyaf’s role in 9/11 are his multiple mentions in the 9/11 Commission report and yet Sayyaf has never been detained and tried. The opposite happened. In October 2001 CIA officer Gary Schroen visited Sayyaf in Afghanistan and despite knowing his strong anti-American sentiments and against many other Northern Alliance leaders' advice, he still put Sayyaf on the US payroll with a $100,000 retainer paid in cash. I believe that was the CIA’s first contact with Sayyaf and is why I say Hillary Clinton was wrong to say America backed them in the anti-Soviet Jihad. As the 1985 CIA assessment said, Sayyaf was very specifically the Arab’s man in 1980s Afghanistan. Sayyaf did become a close US / NATO ally after 9/11 – running for president in 2014 and remaining active through proxies like Minister of Defence Asadullah Khalid. The image below shows Sayyaf's mentions in the 9/11 Commission report and a photo of him shaking hands with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in 2019 Kabul.

Osama bin Laden and the End of the Afghan Jihad

Like Christian Holy Wars, Islamic Jihads have strict criteria and rules. Most factions respected the 1987 Mujahideen / Soviet ceasefire. I believe OBL respected it and began organizing the resettlement of his followers in Yemen in anticipation of peace. At the subsequent April 1988 Geneva Accords the Soviets announced their full withdrawal by February 1989 and that’s why at the Peshawar meeting in August 1988 OBL was so precise in saying:

“…within six months of Al Qaidah 314 brothers will be trained and ready”

- he'd already arranged the resettlement by Al Qaidah town of the Arab Mujahideen serving him. And OBL did leave Afghanistan six months later, very soon after the February 1989 Soviet withdrawal. The Jihad was over and OBL refused to partake in a civil war. Other quotes from the Peshawar meeting re-emphasize the Mujahideen's internal division in 1988, centering on the Maktab Al Khadamat (a Mujahideen volunteers' Services Bureau in Peshawar):

OBL returned home to Arabia taking all the civil engineering machinery he’d used to build trenches and tunnels back with him, showing a clear break with the forces continuing the battle in Afghanistan. The evidence that OBL demobilized and resettled his Jihadi band of brothers is very compelling. Top Yemeni General Ali Mohsen (President Saleh’s brother-in-law) helped OBL mobilize many of those Arab-Jihadis and a third of the estimated 10,000 Arab volunteers were Yemeni. General Mohsen visited OBL in Afghanistan and OBL visited him in Yemen – they were partners in this enterprise and had a duty to help demobilize those they’d helped deploy to Afghanistan. There’s a record of a visit OBL made to Yemen in 1987, the same year a ceasefire had been agreed with the Soviets and that’s when I think OBL arranged a sanctuary for his Jihadi veterans near Al Qaidah town. Why Al Qaidah? OBL was half Yemeni so had strong connections there already. His Yemeni mentor during the 1980s Jihad (Sheikh Abdul-Majeed al-Zindani) came from the same Ibb governorate as Al Qaidah town, as did his fifth wife (Amal al-Sadah, married in 2000). Then there’s the town’s massive historical significance – established by an army sent by Saladin, the Sultan of Egypt and Syria who evicted the European Crusaders from Jerusalem in 1187 under very generous terms, making him highly respected among Muslims, Jews and Christians to this day. There’s no way OBL did not know of Al Qaidah town. Press reports saying OBL gave General Mohsen $20-million to resettle his Arab Mujahideen veterans in Yemen add weight to my claim, but the testimony of former Yemen Prime Minister Abd al-Karim al-Iryani seals it. He said:

“Yes, these jihadis have helped us during the [1994] secessionist war, and yes, we decided
that they must be absorbed into the government system afterwards and not let loose to cause trouble.”

America backed north Yemen in the 1994 civil war, making that the most likely time when the CIA worked with those Jihadis. That CIA / Jihadi collaboration in 1990s Yemen isn’t speculation; it’s detailed by CIA contractor / Special Forces legend Billy Waugh in his 2004 autobiography:

“I worked right there with these al-Qaeda operatives and heard these arguments
[about the badness of US policy] firsthand many times, especially during an assignment in Yemen.”

Even without the Al Qaeda / Al Qaidah coincidence or my personal experience there in 1997 I believe the evidence is overwhelming that OBL resettled his band-of-brothers in Yemen at the end of the Afghan Jihad. Taking in to account the name coincidence and my experiences my informed theory gains even more traction. I imagine the next eighteen months were very happy for those victorious Jihadi heroes – with lots of weddings and chances to tell their war stories. Then Iraq invaded Kuwait on 2 August 1990.

OBL & KSM's Transition to International Terrorists

1990/91 OBL’s first planned military action after his Afghan Jihad was to offer the services of his veteran brothers to the King of Saudi Arabia to help evict Iraq from Kuwait in 1990. It should have been a natural choice – the same Jihadis who helped defeat the Soviet Union now serving the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques. But the King rejected OBL’s offer and instead showed deference to American commanders leading to a massive US military presence in Arabia. OBL’s angry reaction to that personal insult and cultural sacrilege caused the Saudi King to banish him, sending him into exile in Sudan.

1992 If it hadn’t always been his intention, I suspect early 1992 marked Khalid Sheikh Mohammed becoming fully committed to attacking the USA. Just a month after OBL left Afghanistan KSM suffered a traumatic defeat (I’ve read he watched his brother die slowly after he stepped on a landmine) at the March 1989 battle for Jalalabad. He then watched the Afghan Jihad descend into civil war. Then America effectively occupied Arabia in 1990/91 followed by the Algerian civil war and Bosnian conflict breaking out in January and April of 1992. KSM was already involved with regional insurgent groups like Abu Sayyaf but I suspect those other conflicts were what prompted him to plan the 1993 WTC bombing. His nephew Ramzi Yousef arrived in New York in September 1992 ready to commence their first attack targeting the USA. This is why I say the entity known as Al Qaeda didn’t grow out of the 1980s Afghan Jihad – it spawned from Saudi acting subserviently to the USA in 1990/91 and the injustices of the 1992 Algerian and Bosnian conflicts, plus the ongoing injustices against the Palestinians.

30 May 1993 Three months after members of Sayyaf's Insurgent Organisation (with support from Qatar) tried to murder 250,000 people by bombing and collapsing the WTC, a very odd story was released by the AFP news agency. Citing an anonymous source it claimed Ossama ibn Laden had an international insurgent organisation called Al Ka’ida and was running training camps in Afghanistan. I believe this story was entirely fabricated by Western Intelligence assets determined to frame OBL for KSM / Sayyaf’s terrorist attacks. They must have known about the Jihad veterans’ sanctuary by Al Qaidah town and by using the misspelt name out of context they were exerting pressure on OBL to distance himself from Ibb governorate to protect the Al Qaidah sanctuary. I doubt it’s a coincidence that twelve months later CIA operator Billy Waugh was working with ‘Al Qaeda operatives’ in 1994 Yemen.

The 30 May 1993 AFP story:"Jordanian Militants Train in Afghanistan to Confront Regime”
Citing a Jordanian militant, AFP said he’d been “trained by Al-Ka’ida, a secret organisation that is financed by a wealthy Saudi businessman who owns a construction firm in Jeddah, Ossama ibn Laden.”

6 December 1993 In his first ever Western media interview Osama bin Laden made every effort to distance himself from ongoing conflicts, prompting the story title “Anti-Soviet warrior puts his army on the road to peace”. I guess that was his response to the accusations starting to be made against him in the media. It’s very likely some of OBL’s band-of-brothers did go to fight in the Bosnian and Algerian conflicts but I doubt that was at OBL’s direction – they were free entities acting of their own accord. I take OBL at his word here – in 1993 he was still trying to build roads to peace and prosperity.

4 February 1994 In the first of a series of terrorist attacks against Osama bin Laden, three gunmen attack the mosque he usually attends. OBL wasn’t there but the attackers still massacred sixteen worshippers and wounded twenty more. The next day the gunmen fired on OBL’s office and his home. The attacks became more brutal and blatant but appear in method to be intended to harass him rather than kill him. These attacks coincided with US pressure on Sudan and after another gun attack on his home in November 1995 OBL moved to Afghanistan. This is when I believe OBL decided to endorse the existing insurgency organization – Sayyaf’s. OBL wasn't their leader, director or financier - he was a man made stateless and seeking refuge from relentless attacks. It was Abdul Rasul Sayyaf who offered OBL sanctuary in Afghanistan.

OBL left Sudan in May 1996 following six years of media lies and being spied on, and two years of terrorist attacks against him. He flew via Qatar to a sanctuary in Afghanistan by invitation of Abdul Rasul Sayyaf who was part of the Northern Alliance, engaged in a civil war against the Taliban. But Sayyaf was still able to palm his guest off to the Taliban and thereby placed international responsibility for OBL on his enemy. Only now, in August 1996, did Bin Laden start issuing threats and calling for attacks against the United States. But he was a spokesman for others, not remotely qualified to declare a Jihad or issue a Fatwa himelf. And that was after six years of his being targeted by media lies and horriffic terrorist attacks in Sudan, activity he may have attributed to the old American who jogged past him in the street that day in Khartoum, close enough to have stabbed him with a pen - CIA contractor Billy Waugh. OBL was not in command of 9/11 attacks either, as per his statements on 16 and 28 September 2001:

"The U.S. government has consistently blamed me for being behind every occasion its enemies attack it.
I would like to assure the world that I did not plan the recent attacks...
I have been living in the Islamic emirate of Afghanistan and following its leaders' rules.
The current leader does not allow me to exercise such operations."
"I have already said that I am not involved in the September 11 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."

Unable to avoid blame Osama bin Laden did subsequently endorse the 9/11 attacks, on 7 October 2001. That was the same day the USA launched its attacks on Afghanistan despite the Taliban government's efforts to negotiate OBL's handover to US / international jurisdiction. OBL also admitted his statements had inspired the attacks, saying:

"They have done this because of our words - we have previously incited and roused them to action in self-defense,
defense of our brothers and sons in Palestine, and in order to free our holy sanctuaries. And if inciting for these reasons
is terrorism, and if killing those that kill our sons is terrorism, then let history witness that we are terrorists."

I'm not denying OBL called for attacks on the USA and, after initially condemning the murder of innocents, endorsed 9/11 after the fact. I am trying to show he was not in the chain-of-command that ordered or directed the attacks - that was Abdul Rasul Sayyaf's Insurgent Organisation, with the assistance of the Hayel Saeed Anam Group in Yemen, the government of Qatar and, I believe, the British Crown.

The British Crown, CIA and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

I’ve detailed Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s support from Sayyaf, Qatar and the HSA Group above. The easiest way to show the British Crown’s link to KSM is by explaining who sent me to furnish his front company – my Queen’s Award winning employer JM Heaford Ltd – my parents’ company.

My father won three Queen’s Awards for Export Achievement in his lifetime - in 1977, 1987 and 1995. The last award came a year after he’d sold his first machine to the HSA Group in 1994 Yemen, so whatever he was doing was endorsed and rewarded by the highest echelon of the British state – the Crown. The HSA Group was no stranger to the British Establishment either, having a London office (Longulf Trading), hundreds of millions of pounds invested here (Cepac Limited) and one of their directors being an honorary vice-president of the British Yemeni society. His fellow members in that London club are mostly English Cambridge University graduates, oil company executives and diplomats – all prime MI6 candidates. In December 2019 I discovered evidence that my parents’ US sales agent Dave Dean was linked to CIA contractor Billy Waugh via their Vietnam service. I reported my discovery on twitter and Dean killed himself on 8 January 2020, a direct result of my tweets linking him to Waugh, Al Qaeda and my visit to KSM’s front company. I then realised the true extent of my father’s role in sending me to Yemen – my father was an MI6 agent most of his career – an industrial British spy with the cover of having a legitimate engineering export company. I’ve speculated on my father’s introduction to and activities for Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service in my report about Dave Dean. I suspect Dean will have been involved in the August 1996 sourcing of TNT component chemicals via the US Embassy Yemen and State Department Washington too. His agency Dean Printing Systems specialized in electronics, chemical and machinery associated with the printing industry.

This is my evidence of the British Crown’s alliances with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s Yemeni hosts and his British suppliers – the HSA Group and JM Heaford Limited. It is not speculation or theory – the Queen’s Awards and business links are factual. It is of note that I was sent to spend a week in KSM’s front company three months after I’d given my first warning of a hijacked plane being used as a missile to strike the WTC to a customer in Canada. I unwittingly shared the same warning with KSM’s terror cell after the two Pakistani chemical engineers asked me about visiting New York as tourists, as I’ve detailed here.

CIA contractor Billy Waugh made no secret he worked with Al Qaeda operators in 1990s Yemen - he detailed how they were intent on striking the USA in his 2004 autobiography (quoted right). That likely happened during the 1994 Yemen civil war, in between his extensive surveillance of OBL in Sudan conducted around the same time. And I can link Waugh's activities to my 1997 visit to Yemen. The machine I was installing had been purchased at an industry exhibition in Chicago, a sale setup by our US sales agent David Dean. I can link Waugh and Dean through their Vietnam service. That link may sound wild and speculative until you know this - Dean committed suicide on 8 January 2020, very soon after I'd made these allegations publicly. After finding information linking their Vietnam service in December 2019 I began tweeting about it, identifying but not naming Dean. On the 6 January I tweeted 'More info on the US sales agent who I believe was a CIA contractor (same career history as Billy Waugh) coming soon'. Two days later Dean hired a boat on Lake Hartwell, Georgia and motored out for ten minutes before jumping into the icy cold water, likely holding the boat's anchor. His body was recovered two days later, on the 10th.

The 9/11 Military Commission

Possibly my most interesting validation came from the 9/11 court in Guantanamo Bay in March 2018. My visit to the valley by Al Qaidah town was in 1997 but it wasn’t until November 2017 that I found the name of the town on Google maps. Four months later Dan Futrell, a US military investigator working for the 9/11 Military Commission, emailed me saying they were 'very interested in my insights and knowledge' and proposing to send a team of investigators to Manchester to interview me, as per his email below. The adjacent image is of a New York Times article written by one of Futrell's colleagues in December 2017, human rights attorney Alka Pradhan. In it Pradhan dismisses any link between Al Qaeda and Al Qaidah town, raising many questions about Futrell contacting me in March 2018 and saying they were 'very interested in my insight and knowledge'. And there's another twist, or maybe just a coincidence: Amy Zittritsch, my Pentagon liaison, was a CSRA contractor. CSRA is a subsiduary of General Dynamics whose other subsiduary, the British army Foxhound vehicle manufacturer, I reported on their £400-million procurement corruption in 2017! The Foxhound desert patrol vehicle was signed in to service during my 2012 Helmand tour despite the fact it kept failing hot weather trials.

Contrary Reports

In 2013 Johanna Hortolani of the Reprieve UK human rights NGO published a report that asserts there’s no link between Al Qaeda and Al Qaidah. She doesn’t say how or who made that assertion, just that Emad Hassan (the Yemeni Guantanamo detainee Reprieve UK were representing) had been detained because he told interrogators that he knew about Al Qaidah, suggesting the interrogators were too thick to differentiate between a terrorist group and a supposedly unrelated town of the same name. Reprieve UK repeated the claim of a ‘translation error’ when Emad Hassan was released in 2015 but when I brought the Truth about Al Qaidah to their attention in 2019, they deleted that report and republished it omitting the assertion that Al Qaeda and Al Qaidah are unrelated. Johanna Hortolani’s 2013 report is still available to read here. US attorney Alka Pradhan was one of Johanna Hortolani’s co-workers in 2013, representing Emad Hassan for Reprieve UK. Johanna Hortolani’s original 2013 claim (I can’t find any previous reference to Emad Hassan and Al Qaidah town, but would be happy to be corrected) was repeated in 2014 by the Morning Star Online, who interestingly used both Hortolani’s misspelling and the correct spelling (with an apostrophe) of the town’s name: “During his interrogation he was asked if he knew al-Qaida, replying: "Yes, I know al-Qa'idah well," referring to a village near his home in Yemen rather than the terror group”. Equally interesting is the Guardian newspaper reported the same story about Emad Hassan on the same day as the Morning Star, but omitted any mention of Al Qaidah town.