AmericanZionist2004
4th March 2004, 02:30
A long article but every bit as informative.
Originally posted by "Jewish Press"
Al Qaeda`s Neo-Nazi Connections
Posted 2/25/2004
By William Grim
On the surface there would seem to be little to
unite the Aryan racialists of the neo-Nazi
movement with the terrorists of radical Islam.
To the neo-Nazis, Muslims are almost all
members of ``inferior`` races; and to the Islamic
terrorists, the neo-Nazis are almost without
exception either atheists or members of fringe
quasi-Christian sects.
But the reality is that there has been close
cooperation between Muslim extremists and
Fascists ever since the founding of the Nazi
movement in the 1920`s. For all of their
differences, Muslim extremists and Nazis have
always been united by a common group of
beliefs and goals: hatred of Judaism (and
conventional Christianity), hatred of
democracy, and a desire for the destruction of
Israel and the United States.
A little background is in order. During
World War II the rabidly anti-Semitic Grand
Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin Al-Husseini,
pledged his unequivocal support to Adolf Hitler
and the National Socialist movement. The
Grand Mufti was put on the Nazi payroll in
1937 after he met with Adolf Eichmann in
Palestine. In fact, when the Grand Mufti had to
flee the Middle East in 1941 after the failure of
the pro-Nazi coup in Iraq, he was welcomed to
Berlin by Hitler and provided with high-power
transmitters in order to broadcast pro-Nazi
propaganda to the Middle East.
The Grand Mufti also organized an all-
Muslim unit of the SS for Hitler and was
instrumental in forming the pro-Nazi Muslim
Hanschar brigades in Yugoslavia. After the
war and his conviction for war crimes by the
Nuremberg Tribunal, the Grand Mufti fled to
Egypt where, as part of the ODESSA network
of former SS operatives, he maintained close
ties to former high-ranking Nazis who were
now engaged in gun-running operations to
Arab countries fighting the fledgling State of
Israel.
One such ex-Nazi gunrunner was Major
General Otto Ernst Remer (1912-1997), known
as the ``Godfather of the neo-Nazi movement.``
Remer had a major part in thwarting the
Generals` Plot against Hitler in July 1944.
Hitler rewarded Remer by putting him in
charge of his protection detail. In the chaos of
the immediate post-war period, Remer escaped
de-Nazification and returned to Germany.
In 1949 Remer and his associates founded
the Sozialistische Reichspartei in Lower
Saxony, but the party was banned in 1952 as a
neo-Nazi political organization. Remer then
settled in Egypt where he began his close
friendship with the Grand Mufti and also
became security adviser to Gamal Abdel
Nasser.
Remer, along with his associate Alois
Bunning (who was Eichmann`s assistant in the
SS), operated his gunrunning company, the
Orient Trading Company, out of Damascus for
many years. In the 1980`s, when the statute of
limitations expired for the crimes he was
alleged to have committed, Remer retired and
returned to Germany where he became a close
adviser to Michael Kuehnen, the most
important neo-Nazi leader of the postwar
period in Germany.
It should be pointed out that National
Socialism had a profound impact on the
political philosophies of many radical Islamic
political organization, particularly the Muslim
Brotherhood (founded in Egypt in 1928),
Nasser`s Young Egypt movement, the Social
Nationalist Party of Syria founded by Anton
Sa`ada, and the Ba`ath Party of Iraq. One of the
main leaders of the 1941 pro-Nazi coup in Iraq
was Khairallah Tulfah, the uncle and guardian
of Saddam Hussein. When Saddam failed in
his attempt to assassinate the Iraqi leader
Abdel Karim Qassim in 1959, he fled to Egypt
where he was given protection by Grand Mufti-
protégé Nasser and ODESSA-connected former
Nazis. The rest, as they say, is history.
The Third Position
The rise of Al Qaeda and the explosion of
neo-Nazi activity in Germany and elsewhere
coincided with the breakup of the USSR in the
early 1990`s and the political vacuum created
by the absence of the former Soviet behemoth.
Neo-Nazis in both Europe and the United
States began making overtures to Islamic
terrorists and even to Louis Farrakhan`s
Nation of Islam movement. The resulting
admixture of Nazi and Islamicist ideologies is
something that is termed the ``Third Position.``
Simply put, adherents of the ``Third
Position`` oppose both communism and
capitalism, the latter category subsuming
Israel, the United States and all other
democratic countries which are believed to be
under the control of ``International Jewry.`` To
this end, the socialist portion of Nazi beliefs is
emphasized (as opposed to Hitler`s reliance on
corporatism), but the core belief in anti-
Semitism is left unaltered. Like the original
Nazis, the Third Positioners are eager to form
alliances with Muslim (and black) extremists
who share their anti-Semitic beliefs.
In Germany, the neo-Nazi leader Gottfried
Kuessel has maintained close ties to
Farrakhan`s Black Muslims, and Karl-Heinz
Hoffmann, thought to have been involved in
the murder of Jewish publisher Shlomo Levin
as well as the Oktoberfest bombing of
September 26, 1980, in which 13 persons were
killed and over 200 injured, has long
maintained ties with Arafat`s PLO and even
moved his paramilitary training camp to
Lebanon in 1980 with PLO assistance.
In France, the neo-Nazi leader Robert
Faurisson maintains close ties with Ahmed
Rami, the former broadcaster of the now-
defunct Radio Islam, a viciously anti-Semitic
station that operated out of Stockholm for a
number of years. And for some time, Sweden`s
neo-Nazis have provided skinheads for use as
Rami`s bodyguards.
Much of the coordination of neo-
Nazi/Muslim terrorist activities is done in the
United States. Since overt Nazi activity is
outlawed in Germany and many other
European countries, neo-Nazis and Islamic
extremists have taken advantage of America`s
First Amendment protection of almost all
political activity. In fact, the headquarters
today of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche
Arbeiterrpartei is in Lincoln, Nebraska. The
Internet and electronic banking make
communication and the transfer of funds
instantaneous. Even when the transfer of
funds needs to be done in person, American
law permits every individual to enter or leave
the country with $10,000 in cash or negotiable
securities without reporting it.
The First Gulf War in 1991 was a
catalyzing event in the development of neo-
Nazi and Islamic terrorist relations. Early in
1991, the German neo-Nazi leader Michael
Kuehnen contacted the Iraqi Embassy in Bonn
and offered to train and equip a squadron of
neo-Nazi mercenaries to assist Saddam in the
coming war against the alliance led by the
United States. Indeed, when Kuehnen was
arrested for the last time by German police in
April of 1991 (Kuehnen died shortly afterwards
of AIDS), included among the documents found
in his apartment was a copy of a draft treaty
between the ``Anti-Zionist League`` and the
``Government of Iraq.``
Another German neo-Nazi leader, Heinz
Reisz, appearing live on Hessian state
television on January 25, 1991, gained a great
deal of notoriety by proclaiming, ``Long live the
fight for Saddam Hussein, long live his people,
long live their leader, God save the Arab
people.``
Although upwards of as many as 500 neo-
Nazi mercenaries, formed into a so-called
Freedom Corps, were sent to Iraq in 1991, their
military effect was negligible at best.
Eyewitness accounts say that most of the
mercenaries did little other than parade
around Baghdad in SS uniforms. The members
of the ``Freedom Corps`` fled Iraq after the first
night of Alliance bombing. Regardless of the
ignominious military performance of the neo-
Nazis in Iraq in 1991, this was an important
event because it led to greater ties and
cooperation among American right-wing
extremists, European neo-Nazis and Islamic
terrorists.
Oklahoma City
Domestic terrorism in the United States
also rose greatly in the aftermath of the first
Gulf War. Timothy McVeigh, himself a veteran
of that conflict, stunned the world by his
bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in
1995 in Oklahoma City. But the evidence
suggests that the neo-Nazi/Islamic terrorist
network played a significant role in this act of
terrorism.
First, the choice of a terrorist target in
Oklahoma is very telling. Although Oklahoma
is a conservative southern state that has a
reputation for patriotism and sends an
unusually high percentage of its young people
into the military, it is also one of the bastions
of the neo-Nazi movement in the United States.
In 1991, the Oklahoma Klan leader Dennis
Mahon led a rally in support of Saddam
Hussein in Tulsa. And Oklahoma is also home
to Elohim City, a neo-Nazi paramilitary
compound that has served as a training ground
for right-wing extremists for the past thirty
years. Groups associated with Elohim City
have included The Order, Covenant Sword and
Arm, White Aryan Resistance and the Aryan
Republican Army. The latter group included
Timothy McVeigh among its members.
Extremists residing at Elohim City
received military-style training from a number
of sources. One of the trainers there was
Andreas Carl Strassmeir of Germany, a neo-
Nazi and the son of Guenter Strassmeir, a chief
aide of disgraced former German chancellor
Helmut Kohl. The elder Strassmeir is widely
regarded as the architect of Kohl`s
reunification plan that merged the former East
Germany with the Federal Republic in
1991.And Guenter`s father was one of the
original members of the Nazi Party in the early
1920`s.
Andreas Strassmeir is important to this
story because he not only became a close friend
and confidant of Timothy McVeigh, but also
because he is regarded by many investigators
as John Doe #2, the unknown person assisting
McVeigh and Terry Nichols at the scene of the
Oklahoma City bombing who was seen by a
number of eyewitnesses.
In addition to training various neo-Nazi
and militia groups, Strassmeir was involved in
a number of very curious activities. According
to an FBI report dated May 10, 1995,
``Additional documents reveal that at one time
Strassmeir was attempting to purchase a 747
aircraft from Lufthansa; however, the reason
for the purchase is not reflected in the
documents.``
In 1995 it would not have been
unreasonable for an FBI investigator to give
Strassmeir`s attempted purchase of a Boeing
747 mere passing notice. In light of 9/11,
however, Strassmeir`s aborted airliner
purchase gives one pause and raises the real
possibility that 9/11 type attacks were being
planned as far back as 1995 by insiders in the
neo-Nazi/Islamic terrorist network. (And flying
a privately owned jet or one operated by remote
control would save the problem of hijacking
airliners en route.) Strassmeir left the United
States shortly after the bombing and currently
resides in Berlin.
Mutual Enemies, Mutual Interests
The many points of contact between the
neo-Nazis and the Islamic terrorists and their
mutual targets of large public buildings
demonstrate what I would like to term the
``Strangers on a Train`` scenario of current
terrorist activity. In the Alfred Hitchcock movie
of that name, two men unknown to each other
meet on a train and start talking. Each needs
to dispose of a person. They agree to kill each
other`s intended victim, thereby eliminating
the element of motive from the ensuing police
investigations. In a similar manner, evidence of
late tends to support the idea that Al Qaeda is
farming out terrorist work -- which is why
American investigators have been so interested
in the remote area of South America where
Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay border each
other.
It is there that wealthy German ex-Nazis,
Islamic terrorists, Basque and IRA terrorists
on the lam as well as narco-terrorists are
known to be in steady contact. The possibilities
for Mafia-style terrorist ``contracts`` are
virtually unlimited.
It may come as something of a surprise to
some when they realize just how well funded
the various neo-Nazi organizations are.
Authorities have known for years that a Swiss
banker by the name of Francois Genoud has
been funding neo-Nazi activities throughout
the world. Genoud first gained prominence as
the financial adviser to the Grand Mufti of
Jerusalem. He is alleged to have funded neo-
Nazi activities through the use of confiscated
Jewish funds that were deposited in Swiss
banks by the Nazis. Genoud funded the legal
defense of Eichmann during his trial in 1961.
And most chilling of all, Genoud was closely
associated with the Palestinian terrorists who
murdered Israeli athletes at the Munich
Olympics in 1972.
Another Swiss financier of neo-Nazi and
Islamic terror is Ahmed Huber, (nee Albert
Huber), a former journalist who converted to
Islam. Swiss authorities raided Huber`s
suburban home outside of Berne on November
8, 2001, when U.S. officials identified him as
one of the chief financial operators for Al
Qaeda. Huber had been very active with the Al
Taqwa (literally ``Fear of God``) international
banking group, an Islamic terrorist front
organization that had been funding the
activities of Hamas and other Muslim
extremists. According to a report released by
Germany`s Bundesamt fuer Verfassungsschutz
(``Office for the Protection of the
Constitution``), Huber ``sees himself as a
mediator between Islam and right-wing
groups.``
Huber and others of his ilk have found
that Holocaust denial organizations provide
the ideal venues for coordinating the efforts of
the neo-Nazis and the Islamic terrorists.
Indeed, Holocaust denial is the one area in
which the beliefs of the neo-Nazis and Islamic
terrorists coincide completely. And given the
levels of post-9/11 security, international
Holocaust denial conferences now have greater
importance for planning and coordination
among the neo-Nazi/Islamic terrorist networks.
This is due to the unfortunate fact that
Holocaust denial organizations have the patina
of scholarly respectability. Groups such as the
Santa Barbara, California-based Institute for
Historical Review produce glossy quasi-
academic-style journals complete with
footnotes and bibliography and well-designed
and user-friendly websites. Holocaust denial
groups sponsor international meetings that
allow representatives of neo-Nazi and Islamic
terrorist groups to meet because they narrowly
fall within guidelines in most Western
countries allowing for the free exchange of
``ideas.`` And with the current embrace of anti-
Semitism by most leftist academics (in addition
to their traditional anti-Americanism), there is
now often very little difference between the
symposia sponsored by officially recognized
Middle Eastern Studies organizations in
America and Europe and those organized by
Holocaust denial groups.
While American forces continue to identify
and destroy Al Qaeda`s ability to conduct
terrorist activities on its own, we must become
more vigilant to the increasing possibility of
``terror by hire`` as neo-Nazi and other right-
wing extremists step up to fill the void.
The next 9/11-style terrorist attack may
not be attempted by a keffiya-wearing Arab
terrorist spouting quotations from the Koran,
but by an IRA terrorist whose services were
purchased by a left-wing European intellectual
attending a Middle Eastern Studies caucus of
some leftist academic group during an annual
conference in Omaha or Chicago or San
Francisco.
William Grim is an American writer living
in Germany. He can be contacted at
[email protected] Read more by and
about him at williamegrim.tripod.com.
Link to Article (http://jewishpress.com/news_article.asp?article=3433)
Originally posted by "Jewish Press"
Al Qaeda`s Neo-Nazi Connections
Posted 2/25/2004
By William Grim
On the surface there would seem to be little to
unite the Aryan racialists of the neo-Nazi
movement with the terrorists of radical Islam.
To the neo-Nazis, Muslims are almost all
members of ``inferior`` races; and to the Islamic
terrorists, the neo-Nazis are almost without
exception either atheists or members of fringe
quasi-Christian sects.
But the reality is that there has been close
cooperation between Muslim extremists and
Fascists ever since the founding of the Nazi
movement in the 1920`s. For all of their
differences, Muslim extremists and Nazis have
always been united by a common group of
beliefs and goals: hatred of Judaism (and
conventional Christianity), hatred of
democracy, and a desire for the destruction of
Israel and the United States.
A little background is in order. During
World War II the rabidly anti-Semitic Grand
Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin Al-Husseini,
pledged his unequivocal support to Adolf Hitler
and the National Socialist movement. The
Grand Mufti was put on the Nazi payroll in
1937 after he met with Adolf Eichmann in
Palestine. In fact, when the Grand Mufti had to
flee the Middle East in 1941 after the failure of
the pro-Nazi coup in Iraq, he was welcomed to
Berlin by Hitler and provided with high-power
transmitters in order to broadcast pro-Nazi
propaganda to the Middle East.
The Grand Mufti also organized an all-
Muslim unit of the SS for Hitler and was
instrumental in forming the pro-Nazi Muslim
Hanschar brigades in Yugoslavia. After the
war and his conviction for war crimes by the
Nuremberg Tribunal, the Grand Mufti fled to
Egypt where, as part of the ODESSA network
of former SS operatives, he maintained close
ties to former high-ranking Nazis who were
now engaged in gun-running operations to
Arab countries fighting the fledgling State of
Israel.
One such ex-Nazi gunrunner was Major
General Otto Ernst Remer (1912-1997), known
as the ``Godfather of the neo-Nazi movement.``
Remer had a major part in thwarting the
Generals` Plot against Hitler in July 1944.
Hitler rewarded Remer by putting him in
charge of his protection detail. In the chaos of
the immediate post-war period, Remer escaped
de-Nazification and returned to Germany.
In 1949 Remer and his associates founded
the Sozialistische Reichspartei in Lower
Saxony, but the party was banned in 1952 as a
neo-Nazi political organization. Remer then
settled in Egypt where he began his close
friendship with the Grand Mufti and also
became security adviser to Gamal Abdel
Nasser.
Remer, along with his associate Alois
Bunning (who was Eichmann`s assistant in the
SS), operated his gunrunning company, the
Orient Trading Company, out of Damascus for
many years. In the 1980`s, when the statute of
limitations expired for the crimes he was
alleged to have committed, Remer retired and
returned to Germany where he became a close
adviser to Michael Kuehnen, the most
important neo-Nazi leader of the postwar
period in Germany.
It should be pointed out that National
Socialism had a profound impact on the
political philosophies of many radical Islamic
political organization, particularly the Muslim
Brotherhood (founded in Egypt in 1928),
Nasser`s Young Egypt movement, the Social
Nationalist Party of Syria founded by Anton
Sa`ada, and the Ba`ath Party of Iraq. One of the
main leaders of the 1941 pro-Nazi coup in Iraq
was Khairallah Tulfah, the uncle and guardian
of Saddam Hussein. When Saddam failed in
his attempt to assassinate the Iraqi leader
Abdel Karim Qassim in 1959, he fled to Egypt
where he was given protection by Grand Mufti-
protégé Nasser and ODESSA-connected former
Nazis. The rest, as they say, is history.
The Third Position
The rise of Al Qaeda and the explosion of
neo-Nazi activity in Germany and elsewhere
coincided with the breakup of the USSR in the
early 1990`s and the political vacuum created
by the absence of the former Soviet behemoth.
Neo-Nazis in both Europe and the United
States began making overtures to Islamic
terrorists and even to Louis Farrakhan`s
Nation of Islam movement. The resulting
admixture of Nazi and Islamicist ideologies is
something that is termed the ``Third Position.``
Simply put, adherents of the ``Third
Position`` oppose both communism and
capitalism, the latter category subsuming
Israel, the United States and all other
democratic countries which are believed to be
under the control of ``International Jewry.`` To
this end, the socialist portion of Nazi beliefs is
emphasized (as opposed to Hitler`s reliance on
corporatism), but the core belief in anti-
Semitism is left unaltered. Like the original
Nazis, the Third Positioners are eager to form
alliances with Muslim (and black) extremists
who share their anti-Semitic beliefs.
In Germany, the neo-Nazi leader Gottfried
Kuessel has maintained close ties to
Farrakhan`s Black Muslims, and Karl-Heinz
Hoffmann, thought to have been involved in
the murder of Jewish publisher Shlomo Levin
as well as the Oktoberfest bombing of
September 26, 1980, in which 13 persons were
killed and over 200 injured, has long
maintained ties with Arafat`s PLO and even
moved his paramilitary training camp to
Lebanon in 1980 with PLO assistance.
In France, the neo-Nazi leader Robert
Faurisson maintains close ties with Ahmed
Rami, the former broadcaster of the now-
defunct Radio Islam, a viciously anti-Semitic
station that operated out of Stockholm for a
number of years. And for some time, Sweden`s
neo-Nazis have provided skinheads for use as
Rami`s bodyguards.
Much of the coordination of neo-
Nazi/Muslim terrorist activities is done in the
United States. Since overt Nazi activity is
outlawed in Germany and many other
European countries, neo-Nazis and Islamic
extremists have taken advantage of America`s
First Amendment protection of almost all
political activity. In fact, the headquarters
today of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche
Arbeiterrpartei is in Lincoln, Nebraska. The
Internet and electronic banking make
communication and the transfer of funds
instantaneous. Even when the transfer of
funds needs to be done in person, American
law permits every individual to enter or leave
the country with $10,000 in cash or negotiable
securities without reporting it.
The First Gulf War in 1991 was a
catalyzing event in the development of neo-
Nazi and Islamic terrorist relations. Early in
1991, the German neo-Nazi leader Michael
Kuehnen contacted the Iraqi Embassy in Bonn
and offered to train and equip a squadron of
neo-Nazi mercenaries to assist Saddam in the
coming war against the alliance led by the
United States. Indeed, when Kuehnen was
arrested for the last time by German police in
April of 1991 (Kuehnen died shortly afterwards
of AIDS), included among the documents found
in his apartment was a copy of a draft treaty
between the ``Anti-Zionist League`` and the
``Government of Iraq.``
Another German neo-Nazi leader, Heinz
Reisz, appearing live on Hessian state
television on January 25, 1991, gained a great
deal of notoriety by proclaiming, ``Long live the
fight for Saddam Hussein, long live his people,
long live their leader, God save the Arab
people.``
Although upwards of as many as 500 neo-
Nazi mercenaries, formed into a so-called
Freedom Corps, were sent to Iraq in 1991, their
military effect was negligible at best.
Eyewitness accounts say that most of the
mercenaries did little other than parade
around Baghdad in SS uniforms. The members
of the ``Freedom Corps`` fled Iraq after the first
night of Alliance bombing. Regardless of the
ignominious military performance of the neo-
Nazis in Iraq in 1991, this was an important
event because it led to greater ties and
cooperation among American right-wing
extremists, European neo-Nazis and Islamic
terrorists.
Oklahoma City
Domestic terrorism in the United States
also rose greatly in the aftermath of the first
Gulf War. Timothy McVeigh, himself a veteran
of that conflict, stunned the world by his
bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in
1995 in Oklahoma City. But the evidence
suggests that the neo-Nazi/Islamic terrorist
network played a significant role in this act of
terrorism.
First, the choice of a terrorist target in
Oklahoma is very telling. Although Oklahoma
is a conservative southern state that has a
reputation for patriotism and sends an
unusually high percentage of its young people
into the military, it is also one of the bastions
of the neo-Nazi movement in the United States.
In 1991, the Oklahoma Klan leader Dennis
Mahon led a rally in support of Saddam
Hussein in Tulsa. And Oklahoma is also home
to Elohim City, a neo-Nazi paramilitary
compound that has served as a training ground
for right-wing extremists for the past thirty
years. Groups associated with Elohim City
have included The Order, Covenant Sword and
Arm, White Aryan Resistance and the Aryan
Republican Army. The latter group included
Timothy McVeigh among its members.
Extremists residing at Elohim City
received military-style training from a number
of sources. One of the trainers there was
Andreas Carl Strassmeir of Germany, a neo-
Nazi and the son of Guenter Strassmeir, a chief
aide of disgraced former German chancellor
Helmut Kohl. The elder Strassmeir is widely
regarded as the architect of Kohl`s
reunification plan that merged the former East
Germany with the Federal Republic in
1991.And Guenter`s father was one of the
original members of the Nazi Party in the early
1920`s.
Andreas Strassmeir is important to this
story because he not only became a close friend
and confidant of Timothy McVeigh, but also
because he is regarded by many investigators
as John Doe #2, the unknown person assisting
McVeigh and Terry Nichols at the scene of the
Oklahoma City bombing who was seen by a
number of eyewitnesses.
In addition to training various neo-Nazi
and militia groups, Strassmeir was involved in
a number of very curious activities. According
to an FBI report dated May 10, 1995,
``Additional documents reveal that at one time
Strassmeir was attempting to purchase a 747
aircraft from Lufthansa; however, the reason
for the purchase is not reflected in the
documents.``
In 1995 it would not have been
unreasonable for an FBI investigator to give
Strassmeir`s attempted purchase of a Boeing
747 mere passing notice. In light of 9/11,
however, Strassmeir`s aborted airliner
purchase gives one pause and raises the real
possibility that 9/11 type attacks were being
planned as far back as 1995 by insiders in the
neo-Nazi/Islamic terrorist network. (And flying
a privately owned jet or one operated by remote
control would save the problem of hijacking
airliners en route.) Strassmeir left the United
States shortly after the bombing and currently
resides in Berlin.
Mutual Enemies, Mutual Interests
The many points of contact between the
neo-Nazis and the Islamic terrorists and their
mutual targets of large public buildings
demonstrate what I would like to term the
``Strangers on a Train`` scenario of current
terrorist activity. In the Alfred Hitchcock movie
of that name, two men unknown to each other
meet on a train and start talking. Each needs
to dispose of a person. They agree to kill each
other`s intended victim, thereby eliminating
the element of motive from the ensuing police
investigations. In a similar manner, evidence of
late tends to support the idea that Al Qaeda is
farming out terrorist work -- which is why
American investigators have been so interested
in the remote area of South America where
Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay border each
other.
It is there that wealthy German ex-Nazis,
Islamic terrorists, Basque and IRA terrorists
on the lam as well as narco-terrorists are
known to be in steady contact. The possibilities
for Mafia-style terrorist ``contracts`` are
virtually unlimited.
It may come as something of a surprise to
some when they realize just how well funded
the various neo-Nazi organizations are.
Authorities have known for years that a Swiss
banker by the name of Francois Genoud has
been funding neo-Nazi activities throughout
the world. Genoud first gained prominence as
the financial adviser to the Grand Mufti of
Jerusalem. He is alleged to have funded neo-
Nazi activities through the use of confiscated
Jewish funds that were deposited in Swiss
banks by the Nazis. Genoud funded the legal
defense of Eichmann during his trial in 1961.
And most chilling of all, Genoud was closely
associated with the Palestinian terrorists who
murdered Israeli athletes at the Munich
Olympics in 1972.
Another Swiss financier of neo-Nazi and
Islamic terror is Ahmed Huber, (nee Albert
Huber), a former journalist who converted to
Islam. Swiss authorities raided Huber`s
suburban home outside of Berne on November
8, 2001, when U.S. officials identified him as
one of the chief financial operators for Al
Qaeda. Huber had been very active with the Al
Taqwa (literally ``Fear of God``) international
banking group, an Islamic terrorist front
organization that had been funding the
activities of Hamas and other Muslim
extremists. According to a report released by
Germany`s Bundesamt fuer Verfassungsschutz
(``Office for the Protection of the
Constitution``), Huber ``sees himself as a
mediator between Islam and right-wing
groups.``
Huber and others of his ilk have found
that Holocaust denial organizations provide
the ideal venues for coordinating the efforts of
the neo-Nazis and the Islamic terrorists.
Indeed, Holocaust denial is the one area in
which the beliefs of the neo-Nazis and Islamic
terrorists coincide completely. And given the
levels of post-9/11 security, international
Holocaust denial conferences now have greater
importance for planning and coordination
among the neo-Nazi/Islamic terrorist networks.
This is due to the unfortunate fact that
Holocaust denial organizations have the patina
of scholarly respectability. Groups such as the
Santa Barbara, California-based Institute for
Historical Review produce glossy quasi-
academic-style journals complete with
footnotes and bibliography and well-designed
and user-friendly websites. Holocaust denial
groups sponsor international meetings that
allow representatives of neo-Nazi and Islamic
terrorist groups to meet because they narrowly
fall within guidelines in most Western
countries allowing for the free exchange of
``ideas.`` And with the current embrace of anti-
Semitism by most leftist academics (in addition
to their traditional anti-Americanism), there is
now often very little difference between the
symposia sponsored by officially recognized
Middle Eastern Studies organizations in
America and Europe and those organized by
Holocaust denial groups.
While American forces continue to identify
and destroy Al Qaeda`s ability to conduct
terrorist activities on its own, we must become
more vigilant to the increasing possibility of
``terror by hire`` as neo-Nazi and other right-
wing extremists step up to fill the void.
The next 9/11-style terrorist attack may
not be attempted by a keffiya-wearing Arab
terrorist spouting quotations from the Koran,
but by an IRA terrorist whose services were
purchased by a left-wing European intellectual
attending a Middle Eastern Studies caucus of
some leftist academic group during an annual
conference in Omaha or Chicago or San
Francisco.
William Grim is an American writer living
in Germany. He can be contacted at
[email protected] Read more by and
about him at williamegrim.tripod.com.
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