Al Qaeda is Al Qaidah Town’s Namesake
by Anthony C Heaford --- @mancunianquiet on twitter --- 22 October 2025
Al Qaeda is a Western Deep State construct created with a planted news report on 30 May 1993. Their intention was to frame Osama bin Laden and the Taliban for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s Wahhabi funded terrorist spree that started with the World Trade Center bombing 26 February 1993 (KSM wired money from Qatar to the bombers and advised them over the phone). That Agence France-Presse AFP report read:
"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.”
Al Qaidah is a town in Yemen named after a military base established there by Saladin's brother in 1174. It's in Ibb governorate in the central highlands, a very strategic location controlling access to the mountain passes. Ibb governorate is also the home of Osama bin Laden's mentor, Sheikh Abdul-Majeed al-Zindani, and his fifth wife Amal al-Sadah (married in 2000). Those links between Al Qaidah and OBL are not a coincidence, or the only connection. One third of the Arab Mujahideen who fought the Soviets in Afghanistan were Yemeni, assisted by Yemeni General Ali Mohsen - an ally and friend of OBL in the 1980s. General Mohsen visited OBL in Afghanistan and I believe helped him demobilize those Arab Mujahideen. It is widely reported that OBL gave Mohsen $20-million for that specific task and I have very strong first hand evidence that some of those Mujahideen were given sanctuary in a beautiful valley one mile southeast of Al Qaidah town.
My evidence is from 26 September 1997, on the last day of a business trip to Taiz city and while being driven to Sanaa for my return flight. Twenty minutes into the journey the customer’s general manager Mohamed announced, “I’m taking you to a meeting”. I protested vehemently, saying any further delay would mean me missing my flight, but Mohamed dismissed my concern by saying, “The plane will wait for you”. A minute later Mohamed turned right off the main road and into a narrow gap between some buildings. We emerged on a dust track with cliffs to our left and open fields to our right. After five minutes driving we arrived at a collection of buildings in the aforementioned valley, as shown in the adjacent image and the video below that also frames the reason for our detour - this was my recruitment interview with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's terrorist cell - and its outcome.
My Theory on Al Qaeda’s Invention
Why would the Deep State (Western Intelligence agencies) invent a terrorist group and use a misspelling of Al Qaidah? As stated above, my theory is they were trying to frame Osama bin Laden for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s Wahhabi funded terrorist spree, and introducing the name ‘Al Kaida’ would unnerve, implicate and to a degree control OBL. But why would those Intel agencies also want to protect KSM, who they knew had supported the 1993 WTC bombers from Qatar? KSM’s boss was not OBL – it was a Wahhabi Arab funded Afghan professor called Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, The Professor. At the end of the Afghan Jihad there’d been a falling out between the foreign Mujahideen based in Peshawar Pakistan – it’s mentioned several times in the notes taken at the August 1988 meeting chaired by OBL in Peshawar. That falling out was why OBL left Afghanistan within weeks after the Soviet withdrawal in 1989, even taking all his heavy construction machinery with him. OBL’s Jihad was over but KSM’s was just beginning; he’d just arrived in fact, in 1987 (as detailed in the quotes from the 2004 9/11 Commission report pictured right), having been a student in the USA till 1986.
The fact that KSM's boss Abdul Rasul Sayyaf was put on the CIA payroll by Gary Schroen in October 2001 and remains a US and NATO ally to this day illustrates perfectly why they framed OBL for KSM's terror spree - they wanted it to happen! OBL had become a threat to the Arab monarchies after shaming them with his offer to expel Iraqi forces from Kuwait in 1990. Instead those monarchs invited the American and British militaries to liberate Kuwait, and Saudi expelled OBL in 1991. But even from exile in Sudan OBL tried to counter the disinformation being spread about him with his first Western media interview in December 1993, when he stressed he was 'building roads to peace' in Sudan. He did start issuing threats against Saudi in August 1995, but that was only after Saudi had revoked his citizenship, frozen his assets and there had been at least three assassination attempts against him. It appears to me OBL was driven to join a terrorist campaign that was already well underway under Abdul Rasul Sayyaf’s direction.
Supporting Evidence
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.
Conclusion
I've no doubt of Al Qaidah town's links to the terrorist entity known as Al Qaeda because I've been there, thirty minutes after being introduced to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in Taiz - my task now is to convince a wider audience. I hope this redrafted report is a step closer to that - this is big and blatant enough to topple those corrupt Intel agencies who invented Al Kaida in 1993 to frame OBL for KSM's terror spree.